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Many essential metabolic enzymes require metal ions for catalysis, structure, or substrate binding. So in some sense the dependence is still there, we just learned to take bits of …

There is a famously counterintuitive conjecture about demand and supply named "Jevon's paradox". For compute it held so far.

Incredible. Thank you for posting that. What software do you use for phone calls?

Does encrypted memory give ECC-like detection benefit, along with rowhammer protection, for cheaper cost (only additional computation), and 100% reliable?

Nobody tried planet-scale geo engineering before, as far as I understand the opinions on it's effectiveness vary.

2% of country's people working together is a successful revolution

The latest moves from google are the damning smoking gun evidence that anti monopoly court ever needs. "Do this or else". Recaptcha, gmail, google suite, android, chrome, colab and…

>Dolphin held a pleasant surprise: it could detect my iPhone when it was plugged in. This made it a snap to transfer files to and from my phone as the file manager granted full fil…

When NPU will become available in most systems, we will see learned indexes like in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01208v1 on client side. If file search indexes and such will be repla…

There are chemiseries and metabolisms out there beyond our wildest imaginations

1) 24/7 available super-competent personal assistant has tremendous value for any person who does something interesting or difficult and values personal time 2) llm-provided tax/le…

>a horror story based on real events So is it fiction? Details matter. If any of the details are not true, this makes story is waaay less interesting.

Chaos agents promote cooperation

The optimistic scenario for current ai bubble: long careful deflation, one flop at a time. The cautious scenario of llm usage in daily life: in 36 years, it is invisible and everyw…

Yes, interoperability, extensibility, composability and the tyranny of program author is a problem. JVM with runtime-loading of classes and it's once popular beans standard is one …

I am questioning, how is this news? What about the other terabyte of text influenced by bias and opinion and human nature and clearly wrong, contradicts itself or in some other way…

In general the better experience will command higher price, right. That is true, and by forcing same lowest level on everyone we are constructing artificial floor on how bad an exp…

I am not getting it. The rule makes competition in markets higher. Because dollars flow to best offers faster. And thus improve economic situation, not only in markets affected by …

Steam's anti-piracy measure is being better, convenient, adding massive value to gamers.

I'll be fired if I create my worst

I am impressed by speed of the sound goalpost movement. Few days ago Google released very competent summary generator, interpreter between 10-s of languages, gpt-3 class general pu…

Crystallized intelligence is. I am not sure about fluid intelligence.