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Interesting aspect is that suspicion that the threat of a potential lawsuit means the journal would not withdraw the paper. The original article is available here[0]. [0] https://w…

Aify is an addon for Thunderbird that lets you use OpenAI's API to carry out tasks on highlighted sections of text. I'm using it to automatically generate emails to estate agents p…

A rather silly project that uses a Coral.ai edgeTPU mini PCIe board to detect a monitor in a webcam feed and convert that into either mouse movements or joystick input. There's a v…

Ultimately, they need to monetize. This is just my prediction of how they will do it. And it capitalizes on the same processes as Twitch, YouTube, etc. You will be able to pay one …

Twitter doesn't care, and ultimately you would not have control over someone else buying you bluetick. Nor would that person be eligible for a refund should you deactivate your acc…

I don't think twitter will care too much. Their focus is on how to monetize and I think I've got it. Musk has admitted buying some people bluetick. Why stop at him? I predict he wi…

Here is the corresponding article. Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 Sébastien Bubeck, Varun Chandrasekaran, Ronen Eldan, Johannes Gehrke, Eri…

Windows does, you can update whenever you life. All 4 possible options are offered when you go to shutdown, including skipping the update to shutdown/reboot now. Windows does somet…

I should have left a "sequence shortened" warning. Windows 10/11 offer you 4 options when an update is pending. "Update and shutdown", "Update and reboot", "Shutdown" and "Reboot".…

The biggest problem is that Firefox updates the next time you open the app, without warning. That's not a sane decision. Sane would be to update on closing. Same way Windows offers…

I said that dictators are *willing* to make their countries poor. That is different from wilfully make them poorer without marginal gain.

> which is not an economic self own even most dictatorships are willing to make. What basis do you have for this claim? People make these claims constantly so confidently, but wher…

100% oxygen via nasal cannula, even at a barely tolerable 6L/minute. Still only results of an intake O2 concentration of But they are still at atmospheric pressures, this research …

There are many fascinating HBOT studies coming out of Israel in particular. However, we must be careful how we interpret them. One key feature of all the studies I've seen with sig…

> I guess some people aren't familiar with it and therefore see it as weird or unnatural? I think this is part of it, but there seems to be an amplifying effect where the social co…

I agree. I don't see how this is not magical thinking but the rules of arithmetic are.

Here it is https://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm#pt2 I've never thought much of it.

You might have been up against a ground start phone line.[1] Apparently, some designs gave access to the powered wired from the phone line, and grounding this would trigger the dia…

I may be wrong, but as I understand it HTTPS connections typically use an ephemeral key with the certificate used to authenticate the servers identity. So simply having the certifi…

Yup excellent if it pans out - although Kazakhs remain sceptical. But it is quite extraordinary to see parts of the government lead by Tokayev, eject an autocrat (Nazarbayev) and b…