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> Since John Hammond "spared no expense", it is fair to say he picked 1GiB version at $3,598 a piece. That would give them 7 GiB of storage for a 2026 equivalent of $33,223.70. In …

I use USB to teach students about European Union regulatory policies, because this is one obvious standard they all can connect to. (Pun intended). Throughout the years they were c…

> This couldn't have happened 10 years ago. I agree. Something similar could have happened 30 years ago, and it did, see Transport Tycoon (or a lot of early games). But from 2000 t…

I see "AI and R" in three perspectives: First, usage: Using R for our undergrads in time of LLMs is brilliant. ChatGPT slops out working code for their needs. Not pretty but works …

Things lost to time: The Minolta Dimage A1 had contacts for detecting when gripped, so it could ready itself without any button pressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta_Dimag…

Confounders are included and therefore controlled for, and causality can be assumed since the DV is an event/hazard. This is also the reason you end up with the seemingly high aver…

Why is Nvidia so central to LLMs? Because they embraced ML a decade ago. Apple did as well, machine learning is central to so many things in the iPhone. Its not so surprising then,…

Its been years since I felt urged to congratulate someone for their "webdesign", but this is really good. No boring glossy landing picture, but a distinct claim, and the the before…

Kidnapper is likely not Deutsche Bahn but a regional subsidairy. This is an effect of privatization gone wrong, with the national service, the infrastructure, the regional services…

The reverse is kind of true: In the beginning, SVGs were not really an option since it lacked adoption across all major browsers, or more specifically its integration was very hete…

Solar sun roofs for ICEs were a thing 20 years ago. Solar was able to ventilate your car on sunny days.

Not so sure if Google "still controls 90 of web search" and if this means what it meant three years ago. Many prompts could have been a web search. The metric of interest must evol…

The article states that the purpose of this is "lost to time". I can image that by now its function is equivalent to a "brown M&M clause".

Zoom is a thing in Germany.

The early version of Google Play Music asked for your MP3s, so you could have them in the cloud for streaming. I guess they did this for a baseline of data and music and now I wond…

How is the photo quality? I love the pictures from the old 12MP sensor + Googles software, but I understand this is not in Lineage?

https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_ebb0df1b-4db3-4b3c-ad... Is this a Nokia Watch or rather a Nokia Cuff?

Most sports would profit from a deeper understanding and application of statistical inference. Or even of descriptive statistics. The fun lays in the operationalization, a step mos…

Great work, it really captures the feeling of Marble Madness. Its maybe to deep of a thought, but I really fancy the spin of the marble, something that the original was not conveyi…

There is also a German word "Frankfurt bath", when you place the shower in the kitchen, with some of these arangements still present in flats today.

My first job was to write news to teletext for German public broadcast. It required the author to compact even complex news into essentially two old tweets (I think around 300 char…

There are many concepts called stepwise regression, its so weird that statistics, as a field, are so bad in delineating concepts. I teach my students what you see in most social sc…

This is exactly the Volvo / Polestar philosophy. There is a Decoder podcast with their CEO about just this sentiment.

VW has Chinese joint ventures since decades. They already sell their "jv-EVs" in China, just not in Europe. I think in that regard, they are undecided wheter these products will me…

Read the abstract and then imagine someone or somebot would study your medical condition in similar depth. This is myutopia.