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"Last" or "latest"? Those are rather different.

Why would you put the years in hex, except to obscure? The tracingwoodgrains report is compelling, people should listen to it.

There is the Republic of Ireland, not in UK, and Northern Ireland, in UK.

Following up on Boaz Barak's comment quoted in this article, my best local model did get the answer to the kiwi problem correct when I changed the system prompt from "You are my he…

For me the dealbreaker on Graphene was inability to record my phone conversations. I went back to Lineage.

Vision language models are blind because they lack the Cartesian Theater, which you and I have. Which you and I say we have.

Also, fraud.

Here are audio recordings from actual conversations I had with scammers trying to pull a "family member in distress" scam: http://main.interstice.com:8090/?p=49

A true control seems impossible for any "breathwork" study; anyone doing regimented breathing knows that they are doing something . And placebos work, whether you believe in them o…

Typo "signiGicant" in abstract.

"Exactly that" hardly. Reducing funding to a level of a year ago is hardly "nothing" and most states didn't even go that far.

What do you mean by "cutting state-level university funding down to nothing over the last 15 years"?

Listen to episode 157 of the excellent podcast "Blocked and Reported" before you think this is real.

(This relates to US taxes only) This very likely does not make a difference on your total tax bill, especially now that other deductions are limited (like mortgage interest). Also,…

It seems like we (good people) would want Apple to prevent these stolen, parted-out components from being used as replacement parts. Apple could prevent that, in theory through sof…

But why CJ and not JC?

Can anyone suggest what "CJer" is short for in "AA CJer"? It apparently is used to refer to Asian American pre-med type students, but I'm curious was the CJer part is.

Let's not forget the potentially large offsetting negative impacts from schooling! Violence, abusive peers and teachers, disinterested teachers and systems leading to wasted years …

Could you explain how this relates to this discussion? I understand The Tragedy of the Commons and I don't see how that concept is relevant here.

If you would like to hear the tactics and voices of some phone scammers preying on the elderly using a "bail scam", have a listen to the audio files here: http://main.interstice.co…

What do you mean by "Most privacy advocates probably do plenty of things I would be perfectly happy to see made illegal"? Can you give some examples of what you mean by things you …

I think you are very wrong about a couple of things here. According to EFF: "IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT ALL RECENT COMMERCIAL COLOR LASER PRINTERS PRINT SOME KIND OF FORENSIC TRACKING …

As mentioned in the git README (at the bottom) there is at least one Whisper port that runs natively on Android. It does not run as fast on an Android phone as on iPhone (because o…

Yes, this could serve as the conduit from the Android phone voice input to a server-based ChatGPT (using the free Konele Android app as frontend).