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SubEthaEdit is still around and open source. It supports Markdown side-by-side view along with numerous other languages. Excellent lightweight (26mb, native) editor, available dire…

How interesting! This discussion itself offers insight on the actual need for technical professionals to be able to logically reason through non-obvious [information] structures. I…

I fully expected that this registry is an automated system. I'm struggling to understand why this system would be offline while the FTS website is still online: https://www.ftc.gov…

By far, the easiest (open source/Mac) is with Pico AI Server with Witsy for a front end: https://picogpt.app/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pico-ai-server-llm-vlm-mlx/id6... Witsy:…

"Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)'s iGAN Laboratory led by Prof. Haiding Sun and other institutes in China recently developed a new three-ter…

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/cognitive-effects-of-lon... https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/972160 Hope this help.

Sentience and intelligence are vastly different things. As it stands, these systems have yet to make a compelling case for intelligence.

"Globalstar said it is allocating 85% of its current and future network capacity to support the services and has agreed to prioritize the services on its network." https://www.sate…

Google: what is a good batting average Answer: .300 In modern times, a season batting average of .300 or higher is considered to be excellent, and an average higher than .400 a nea…

"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -- Mark Twain I just never expected this to apply on such a massive scale.

This seems like a nonstarter until they can ensure that a hydrogen-based economy does not adversely impact the earth's ozone layer. They may build it only to shut it down as the wo…

I think they refer to the failure mode where: Nothing happened for a day or two. All the experts travel to the location to try to understand what went wrong, in situ... and THEN th…

I am fairly new to Y-Combinators Hacker News. Unfortunately, I've run head-long into this very issue on this forum. It ruins the experience. There is value in communicating figurat…

Wow. I merely identified a possible voter inflection point based on current events --and I was hoping for an insightful, or at least informed, response. For those of you who appare…

If that was indeed a fusion weapon, then North Korea may have just handed the presidency to Trump.

By necessity, entrepreneurs are self-delusional. Most are easily intelligent enough to realize how long their odds really are. Furthermore, they have the intellect to appreciate th…

I believe this article misses its own point. I'll keep it short. “I” is a lie. There is no “I”. The brain has two halves, right and left. The right side is spacial. The left side i…

The trouble with neural networks is that they're just good enough to keep us from continuing to question our assumptions about human intelligence. A thousand years ago, even Ptolem…