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It says, "involving chewing gum made from lablab beans (bean gum)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lablab -- Taiwanese researchers found that a carbohydrate-binding protein (i.e. a …

Relevant: A San Francisco company is advertising humanoid robot housecleaning services[1]. However those 'bots require local supervision and a human controller watching through its…

I've done, and still do, regular blogging. I have a domain, and everything I post is mine. However it can't be "indieweb" because I used Wordpress. Hence my current blog is depende…

Says, not inflation-adjusted. With reason; adjusting those 1960-1980 prices for inflation would make the graph a lot taller. Pricing "per GB" before 1990 is unrealistic, though; no…

Per Wikipedia, it "is a colorless, odorless, non-flammable, and non-toxic gas." When used as a contrast agent for ultrasound, it "has been used to examine the vascularity of tumour…

Ken Shirrif recently published a survey of the "system/4 pi" family of which this is a member: https://www.righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-computer-history.htm...

From the Conclusion section of the PDF[1], "Multimodal AI systems are increasingly deployed on the assumption that their benchmark performance reflects genuine visual understanding…

HTML/CSS components were not available to Guido in 1988. It was in 1989 that Tim Berners-Lee defined the first version of HTML[0] and CSS was proposed five years later[1]. In 1988 …

Not that hard if you are in young to middle years and have any job experience. I asked Perplexity "If an American citizen, a trained engineer with some experience, desired to work …

Set aside the effect within Wikipedia and consider the larger picture, millions of people generating text with LLMs and at least some of that text being accepted as correct by mill…

wotsit do?

Actually more fun is the "henge near me" page[1] which lets you test alignment on a map of a chosen city. Very nice interactive use of Google Maps, flipping red alignment bars on a…

agree, I feel dumb but don't see subtle issue. Also when copy/pasting into Python to try it, I got an error because \“ is in fact U+201C not an ASCII quote. (Surely that's not the …

Questions while watching the video. Calendar is central, but I use a Google calendar which is important to me. Connect it? Seems like a "dlog" is a calendar entry. So is my "journa…

None of the sliders sound anything at all like my tinnitus, which is a very high complex hiss, maybe up around 6-9Khz? and steady, or varying slowly in volume. But no beeps or boop…

Another nice quote, > The next logical step is to invent a way to scale linearly with the number of constraints. “That is the North Star for all this research,” she said. But it wo…

Some quite random claims here, can anyone provide citations? > GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can ev…

> three Scottish brothers have set a new world record by completing the first and fastest unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean... > The previous record of 159 days had been set…

Refer to David Brooks' opinion piece in today's NYT, about Republican Nihilism. He claims there is a spirit of "burn it all down". Seems to be seconded by several comments in this …

Based only on the headings and titles of the charts on the first few pages? I smell an AI writing. I mean, do these titles sound like an intelligent human wrote them? "Charts paint…

The address given for the Byte Shop, "1063 El Camino Real in Mountain View", is ambiguous. It needs to specify either 1063 EAST El Camino Real or 1063 WEST El Camino Real, two quit…

Well I just had to try it on Claude 4.0, I mean somebody has to, right? and it did a clean, if rather terse, breakdown, concluding with: Caesar's last breath: ~0.5 liters (typical …

Compare to Claude Projects? https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects

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