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I like this vibro-knife “demo” by Neil Blompkamp’s Oats Studios: https://youtu.be/zaeFgSR_DMU

> And for another, in the process of seeking to maximize its gain from technologies discovered in its labs, the University of Chicago now does more than participate in licensing. I…

The guy is just walking us through the process of analyzing the dataset. He’s not really making any conclusions at this point - it’s like a technical tutorial for journalists.

Bloomberg recently did an excellent series on just this issue (including insurers of last resort in different states). The first part: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-home-…

Bruce Sterling’s “Heavy Weather” describes (offhandedly) a post-agricultural ecosystem where only herbicide/cold/heat-resistant weeds remain. People then breed genetically-engineer…

It elevates Google itself. “It’s a place where people like Jeff and Sanjay work!” Not saying that was the main motivation for producing the article and definitely not trying to que…

He didn’t generate the music himself, and likely worked with others on setting up the bots (the article mentions co-conspirators). On the song generation: > This led Smith to pivot…

But comments go out of date, and the compiler doesn’t check them against the implementation. To document + enforce the intended functionality, use tests.

It’s also surprising that BBC, a government-funded media outlet, is showing ads. Either the government funding isn’t enough or they are trying to recoup some of those costs by show…

> add a deterministic offset to each user/session window so that no large group of rate limits can expire at the same time Did you mean non-deterministic (like jitter)?

No paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/it-s-a-money-loser...

This is exactly the premise of Bruce Sterling’s novel “Heavy Weather”.

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Yes, if they’re unwilling to show a small detail like this due to sanctions that the Russian government supposedly would rain on them in retribution, one wonders what else they’re …

Here’s a recent quote from Scott Aaronson: > In truth, anything that a QC can calculate, a classical computer can calculate as well, given exponentially more time: for example, by …