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Very napkin math shows that annual energy consumption from fossil fuels is 500 exajoules. Every day the earth receives 15,000 exajoules in solar energy. So to cover double the ener…

I agree that it's not easy, but we could in theory use solar energy, which is abundant and cheap. I.e. We can use different energy than the one we got out of the fossil fuels we bu…

It depends - if you are looking to raise potentially billions of dollars, showing that you are contributing at SOTA level in GenAI through papers could be a good strategy.

GPT-5.6 Terra just showed up in Codex for me.

But haven't you heard, software is solved? "Make this OS and ecosystem more efficient. Make no mistakes."

So? Computers are the dream machine, we should strive to do better than physical reality, not mimic it.

An early stage iPhone app has you covered for typing ;) https://www.type-n-walk.com/

At the same time, there's some commonality for what words mean in different contexts. For example, even though we all have our own experiences with the concept of "dog", there's a …

But mining costs are (cost of equipment+cost of electricity)/total coins mined, so can miners not end up in a situation where they need to keep mining to pay off equipment despite …

Synthesizers! I like it because it's tactile and immediate, and you're not glued to a screen, but can create fun-sounding beats. Nowadays there are nice, cheapish groove boxes that…

One of the biggest recent indie hits, Balatro, was made in Löve! I really like it, the developer experience is so smooth for beginners, just drag a zip onto the exe and it starts. …

I think this is a very important debate, and I think the author here adds a lot to this discussion! I mostly agree with it, but wanted to point out a few areas where I do not fully…

Also check out "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" by Roald Dahl for another eerily accurate scifi description of LLMs written in 1954: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fictio…

Depends on cost IMO - if I could buy a Kimi K2.5 chip for a couple of hundred dollars today I would probably do it.

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

I am in support. In general he was really good with names I thought, they always had an otherwordly flair while being clear to pronounce. Skaffen-Amtiskaw, Anaplian, Elethiomel...

Hmmm this looks like a really nice option! Any issues with deliverability?

ChatGPT: Would you like me to show you one simple trick to improve prompt adherence?

It really reminds me of the movie Memento - it has to constantly put notes down to remember who it is and what it should do after waking up without memory every n minutes.

Agreed! For the longest time, I feel like for most "regular" people (mostly used for web browsing, communication and light gaming) the choice between windows and Mac has mostly com…

Humans can't stop using deadly violence against police officers in city simulation

I do wonder if there are tasks where 16k garbage words/s are more useful than 200 good words per second. Does anyone have any ideas? Data extraction perhaps?

Thank you for sharing this, relevant context...

Careful though, this test explicitly only tests the charge and discharge capabilities of the battery, not whether it's a solid state battery or not. According to ChatGPT, these res…

Presumably most people also do not use their full quota when using the official client, whereas third-party clients could be set up to start back up every 5 hours to use 100% of th…