Link. Impressive and likely quite risky journalism. Oklahoma, California and NYC (Flushing) are big players. Chinese workers coming north from Mexico?
I wonder if they operate in Vancouver. (Legalization with high tax rates)
Link. Impressive and likely quite risky journalism. Oklahoma, California and NYC (Flushing) are big players. Chinese workers coming north from Mexico?
I wonder if they operate in Vancouver. (Legalization with high tax rates)
Link. “ law firm Clare Locke has … professionalized the art of slowing down stories with legal threats and demands for preservation of documents …
… magazines, whose audiences long ago moved online and who now rely heavily on the businesses they cover…”
By far the best “why broken” article I’ve seen.
Link. “line of research that uses [very esoteric] complexity theory to study the intrinsic capabilities and limitations of language models.”
This article is also the best LLM primer I have read. Quanta is amazing.
PS. People who say we understand LLMs are wrong.
Link. Things you can only learn by doing.
Link. If your discs are inadequate exchange weight for reps.
Link. Ultimately is a question about extending guardianship-like options beyond the formally disabled.
As a lib I necessarily see it from both sides.
Link. “the logo on the hub should oriented so that it’s legible from the saddle, and the logo on the rim should be legible from the drive side of the bike”
I did not know, though most of my tires are directional so there’s no need to check the label.
Link. Meanwhile commercial real estate values have cratered.
Link. I can live with them but I’m still on Ventura.
Link. iPads last a long time.
Link. Book review “History of Liberalism”. For the libs among us.
Link. Commercial divers use chambers for weeks of compression and decompression, but hobbyist cave divers do insane things.
Typical hobbyist experiment: “His dog observed from outside the pool fence; his wife was out.”
Link. This needs more attention. It’s weird.
Link. Fun tech article on Nvidia roadmap.
Link. Elder breakpoint is probably 75+ though. Lonely people are key target, key technique is to induce anxiety.
Link. A kind of algorithm. Reminds me of the braking system of a 1930s freight train. Emergent control likely with conflicting signals.
Link. Afghanistan had a population explosion in 70s I think. Many trees cut down.
Link. 850 B.C Britain, wetland life.
Link. Don’t worry, if this ever worked we’d be at AGI and everything would be fair game.
Link. They need to get oil and gas out of the ground NOW – before value crashes. So they need to say this even if they believe the 2030 prediction.
At some point somebody blinks and pumps like mad.
Link. Nathan Sanders author. This is the best, by far, near term risk summary I’ve read. Should inform regulation. Recommended.
Link. Prominent in the Old Testament.
Link. Down’s syndrome would be good to look at. The cognitive decline there is heartbreaking.
Link. Sounds pretty nice! It’s weird to have an interesting new product from Google.
Link. Presumably a bug.
Link. Not a top secret spy tool. However there’s still possibility of a sub-group that has something different going.
Link. I remain persuaded by the original 1990s concept of the “singularity”.
Link. The American 1990s were good at the time, but even better in retrospect. Stock markets did go bonkers late in the decade though.
Link. Good review of current state including advantages of larger working memory.
We will learn within 6 months if progress is slowing.
Link. USAF is fighting the last war.
Link. Satan has always found Evangelicals easy pickings. It’s almost unsporting really.
“it’s hard to remain fiercely loyal to a figure like Mr. Trump without being changed by him”
Link. I think the images are uploaded to storage outside the photo library.
Link. Cult was hot in the 1920s! Church is still active I think. MSP has a lot of older cults.
Link. Within this context I feel like there would also a Baumol effect on labor wages.
I doubt that world will be so predictable.
Link. You need SCUBA gear.
Link. Vaccine mandates are common. He’s been promising this for a year. The NYT has never mentioned it. Sulzberger is a problem.
Link. There’s a long way to the Planck length.
“researchers … exploiting a peculiar way in which pairs of photons, particles of light, can imitate a graviton… “
Link. Recommend read.
Link. Unexpected.
Link. Some physicians active on social media are heavily invested in narratives that are possible but well supported by evidence. They use dramatic publications that are not representative and they often skew results to favor their strong beliefs. They get a lot of attention. The process of knowledge consensus in science is uglier than civilians used to think.
Link. TikTok demonstrated its power to algorithmically target children. US Representatives were impressed.
Also, the House GOP has more capable people than I had imagined.
Link. India’s corruption is institutionalized.
Link. “… app was previously reported at least 12 days ago as a scam but its still up there, #1 search result.”
I hope the EU makes applesauce.
Link. Why not both?
Link. Biden’s childhood experience with bullies is helpful here. I hope Trump continues to mock Biden’s stutter. I think it will not serve Trump well.
Link. There’s immense poverty still, but it’s not the India I saw in 1982. The world improves.
Link. When switching costs are prohibitive vendors achieve competition free zones.
Regulators should focus on reducing switching costs. Ex: Photo Library migration with lossless edits managed, metadata preserved.
Link. Essay based on a book about cartoon art. For cartoonists the big tech breakthrough was not the stylus, it was the scanner.
Link. Look for a huge construction boom as fairly new office buildings are demolished to create residential spaces and parks.
CrossFit box on 9th floor? Climbing gym in the elevator?
Link. Organizing a non-violent and persistent national campaign to salvage American democracy. We can do better than Hungary.
Or we can reelect Joe Biden. Which is much better for everyone, including conservatives.