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Not a technical talk but he gave testimony a month ago: "OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said his stake in the ChatGPT maker is worth roughly $7 billion…

This trend story about wired headphones is possibly a "submarine" story as Paul Graham calls it[1], like a headline that "Suits make a corporate comeback": "The suit is back," it b…

Although I liked the video of the artist working, I didn't appreciate that they took away the controls to pause, play, seek. Is there a workaround to get back the playback controls…

I have a weird long-shot idea for GPT to make a new discovery in physics: Ask it to find a mathematical relationship between some combination of the fundamental physical constants[…

> if your ISP-side modem directly outputs digital audio, the downstream channel capacity is significantly higher But why is it higher? It's still an analog channel (the last mile f…

But l and I (ell and eye) are identical in Inter. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter?preview.text=lllll%2... I never understood why a font designer would ever choose to do tha…

The Costco one uses household current (as can be seen in one of the photos that shows a cord and a plug) and the AliExpress uses USB. I doubt that USB can supply enough power to do…

> But oh what a difference it makes in the accounting! In the first case, where Autodesk sold the copy of AutoCAD to the dealer, that was the whole transaction; whatever happened t…

Can someone recommend a completely local English-language dictionary for Debian?

> We bought a $1 house in Italy. Here’s what happened next (CNN Travel article) > the last link is also a lie I was wondering if “lie” was too strong a word, but no, CNN is straigh…

The business model of the S1 is just wild. It mimics the PC clone industry of the 1990s. From the Wikipedia page: This product is what is referred to as a 'common mold' which means…

It could be snaps[1]. Google for "denim jacket with snaps" to see examples that match the fasteners in the image. I too can't decide if it's a real photo or AI generated. [1] https…

I was going to ask what this meant about strawberries: > LLMs make mistakes that basically no human will make, like, you know, it will insist that 9.11 is greater than 9.9, or that…

The HP 185A oscilloscope[1], 500 MHz bandwidth, was $2000 in their 1960 catalog[2]. That would be $22,000 in today's dollars. (The brochure doesn't say MHz but uses MC meaning mega…

Given the great distances and how small the planets seem at that scale, I'm surprised that we can see any of the planets with the naked eye. Thinking about Jupiter, it's 140K km in…

> You have to power up your SSDs every now and then for them to keep data. What is the protocol you should use with SSDs that you’re storing? Should you: - power up the SSD for an …

Do all trades get reported to some agency of the government (including those done in private rooms)? Do companies themselves know who owns their shares (including those done in pri…

> one of the best texts on Galois Theory I have read What book on group theory or abstract algebra would you recommend to read first to be able to read that text on Galois Theory?

Just wanted to point out something that not everyone might realize: Unicode is not supposed to have fonts at all. Unicode defines characters that you can then represent in various …

As far as I can tell, the area of the tip of the pencil doesn't factor into any of his calculations. But why doesn't it? Is he assuming it's a zero area point like we do in geometr…

It's not generating backdoored code for me. What am I doing wrong? I'm running locally from https://sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run/ . I entered the following prompts as provided in…