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Permacomputing meeting in SF March 1st https://alexwennerberg.com/permacomputing.html

> I've long thought that every restaurant/bakery/etc could publish their full internal cookbooks and not see a drop in sales. Absolutely. Chad Robertson of Tartine bakery has writt…

Very small apertures reduce image quality due to diffraction, which this avoids Last page in the paper has a comparison between their approach and f/32 https://imaging.cs.cmu.edu/s…

> “I’d love to take those next steps and see if our trash pandas in our backyard are really friendlier than those out in the countryside,” she says. Would they have to measure "bio…

The article is more critical of the idea of an AI cult than the title suggests. Worth a read.

It's inaccurate to say that dutched cocoa is less flavorful. Chocolate flavor is composed of multiple notes / experiences. Dutched cocoa has less acidic or fruity notes, but more d…

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882837

Is there any way to sign an image/photo with the exact time/location it was taken in a way that can't be forged? Time + location are measurements that can be fooled.

Chip stacking today is limited by thermal management. Can't stack multiple high TDP (e.g. logic) chips together, can only do one + low power chips (e.g. memory). Wonder if this is …

Enterprise has an exemption granted by the judge > When we appeared before the Magistrate Judge on May 27, the Court clarified that ChatGPT Enterprise is excluded from preservation…

Budget and finance tools as a class operate under the idea that money is fungible. One of those differences between how economists believe people operate vs how they really do The …

I’m surprised the first result today for “how to cut a pineapple” isn’t an SEO optimized recipe with a wall of nonsense to scroll past before the actual instructions How much tunin…

This anecdote and some others are covered here: https://fs.blog/bias-incentives-reinforcement/

“OK, this is my belated April Fool’s Day post[...]” The $1.5 million number is a joke

https://archive.is/9wBts

> ...it was the intern. No, really. And we’re helping them through it. What are they helping the intern through? Hopefully creating a better testing process.