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It's (probably) XKCD #989 ("Cryogenics"): https://xkcd.com/989/

My team can't even evaluate Ball (as a tool for physical simulation of spherical cow-like objects): https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/issues/9 Currently, we are using Unreal Eng…

Google Chrome has a built-in reading list (go open the 3-dotted menu at the top-right corner, then click on "Bookmarks and lists" -> "Reading list")

Nobody has mentioned space-based solar power yet ( https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/otps-sbsp-re... : "Launch is the largest cost driver..."), which would the cheape…

Calculating the cost per kilogram for LEO with Starship gives me a new startup idea: small business (or even personal) interplanetary postal service. It only costs $150 per kg in t…

Great visualization, though (ironically, as one of the first Chrome experiments) the music no longer works on Chrome by default (go to site settings > sound and set it to "Allow" t…

OpenAI could either hire private testers or use AB testing on ChatGPT Plus users (for example, oftentimes, when using ChatGPT, I have to select between 2 different responses to con…

Is it something similar to beam search ( https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-generate#beam-search ) or completely different (probably is not beam search if it's changing code in the…

> One distinguishing feature of "deluxe-chat": although it gives high quality answers, it is very slow, so slow that the arena displays a warning whenever it is chosen as one of th…

Reddit may have told OpenAI to pay (probably a lot of) money to legally use Reddit content for training, which is something Reddit is doing with other AI labs ( https://www.cbsnews…

You don't (you have to use real-valued inertial 'latent weights' during training): https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02107 (there is still a reduction in memory usage though (just not 24x…

This is a related official press release (I can not find the actual source for this article): https://www.anl.gov/article/new-international-consortium-for... > The Trillion Paramet…

More new information from Swisher: > "More scoopage: sources tell me chief scientist Ilya Sutskever was at the center of this. Increasing tensions with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman…

> Being able to compress well is closely related to intelligence as explained below. While intelligence is a slippery concept, file sizes are hard numbers. Wikipedia is an extensiv…

This competition was from 2006. The consensus among AI experts (really just everyone) during the 1990s/2000s was that: - AGI could be achieved by giant GOFAI (usually expert system…

You may be thinking about [ChronoZoom]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChronoZoom ) ; unfortunately that is from Microsoft Research, not Google.

Seems like even the servers are going offline - opened this on my phone - then after 30 minutes I was going to read this on my desktop but the website is now down. Wayback Machine …

Update: The livestream now has a timer (and is back up)

How about adding a arXiv Atom feed viewer for LK-99? It should be easy to implement: https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:LK+AND+9... is the Atom feed I am using to …

Andrew McCalip (co-founder of Cosine Additive) has been working on a project on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip ) to replicate the experimental results of the LK-99 pap…

This is the patent of the superconductor: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2023027536A1/en?oq=WO202... No company listed. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36869088

> I really need someone to bring me down a notch. This is too exciting! It's on arXiv, which is a preprint journal, which means it has no peer-review; and is therefore generally le…

This, or cryptographic signing (like what the C2PA suggests) of all real digital media on the Earth are the only ways to maintain consensus reality ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…