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NYTimes article a few years ago on how car insurance companies were using such data. Tracking sudden stoos, driving at night, driving faster than 80 mph, etc.

Relatively few industry keynotes have Nobel Prize Winner presenter. Hassabis was promoting the Gemini Scientists Assistant.

Same issue in Firefox.

The precession circle is 144 arc degrees sin 23.5. In an 80 year lifespan precession would move the rotation pole about .44 arc degrees or the diameter of the full moon. Any long l…

RPN interpreters require very little core memory. So they were popular with computers where core memory was under ten kilobytes. But its horrible for software engineering with mult…

Frame buffer memory was still incredibly expensive in 1980. Our labs 512 x 512 x 8bit table lookup color buffer cost $30,000 in 1980. Mac's 512 x 384 x 8bit buffer in 1984 had to f…

Reminds of "fugi film": the standard development make the colors brighter than reallife. The customers liked that better, even if less accurate.

Of course. You was formal while thou was informal.

The larger language models now employ a trillion parameters. This is faster when memory and computing is tighter, not distributed. Cerebus's million core super-wafer addresses this…

My state has flat tax rate of federal taxable income (after deductions). Most years its free online filing and typing 5 or 6 numbers. Takes five minutes. The tax softwares dont lik…

I eat chicken regularly.

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Steam power was more of toy for the Romans. Some made dioramas with statues of the gods moved by steam.

Aristotle described propositional logic.

I liked the guy using an AI to train another AI. He is just maximizing his income.

The new run has six candidate GW events the first week. Three are high confidence.

Astrophysicists use a similar algorithm to build giant particle evolution models of galaxies and cosmology. It would be computationally prohibitive to compute the gravitational or …

More recently it would be self-professed gays. A frat might feel the gay might come on to them, or brand the entire frat as gay. The other similarity is there is at least one predo…

I took a course from him 49 years ago.

The physical human brain has 86 billion neurons with up to 10,000 connections each. However they are somewhat structured (e.g. the seven layers of the cerebral cortex segregated in…

The physical human brain has 86 billion neurons with up to 10,000 connections each. However they are somewhat structured, e.g. the seven layers of the cerebral cortex, reducing the…

I suggest the human-mammal mind readily adapts to new sense modes. Driving a car or riding a bicycle feels like an extension of the body after you mastered it. A grid of bump actua…

And Xanadu. That had built in editing and bidirectional hyperlink. Never really took off. In many cases the free open source product beat the commercial product.

Deposit banks were banned from crossing state lines and investing in equities markets after the Great Depression. These limitations were removed in the 1990s.

Round 2 of the 2023 bank crises might be commercial real estate loans like the 1980s crises. Some downtowns are still 40% vacant. This more a consequence of covid than bad bank beh…