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Also this is why I like dark mode in everything. They're much less noticeable.

also jet engine discovered penicillin

Also post war Europe had to rebuild, the US didn't - and lots of scientists headed west.

Library and Archival management systems Lots of written work pre 1582 that needs to be accurately catalogued. Source: I used to work on one of the first computerised library manage…

Yep - it's a game changer on the Pendolino trains I get to work as they tilt going around corners. Most people seem to be fine, but for me, it was impossible to get some work done …

I thought Mythos was rumored to be around 10tn parameters? Kimi k3 is 2.8tn.

Her youtube shorts are also good bite-sized explainers. The one on why "ghost" traffic jams occur was illuminating.

On SFO to LHR flights I tend to eat in the lounge, down a shot of Dream Water and just sleep until LHR. Sadly the Virgin arrivals lounge closes by the time you get through immigrat…

You're telling me. I had a drive go bad in my 4 year old home-built NAS a few weeks ago, and it cost 2x what it originally did to buy the same capacity drive, and that was going to…

It is - but again, voluntarily.

Chat Control 1.0 is essentially the existing derogation that allowed cloud providers and messaging apps to do what they do in the rest of the world - voluntarily scan shared media …

Yes - this allowed companies like Google, Facebook, Snapchat etc to do what they already do (voluntarily) in the US and other territories - scan unencrypted user-uploaded or shared…

IIRC they used to catch a lot of child groomers by scanning messages.

I've flown upper deck on a 747 in Business (BA Club World). It felt like a private jet up there, very cool. And that's even with the awful club world seats where you had to step ov…

You're focussing on inference ... is it not more likely that A100's are being used for training/fine tuning?

Because they have the skills necessary to help bring custom designed ASICs to fruition. Google uses them for their TPU's, Meta uses them for their custom ASICs as well.

> but GLM-5.2 coming 11 weeks later, scores 48%, about on par with GPT 5.5. What's next ?! It depends how good the US labs get at stopping distillation of their models.

I mean - that looks like a pretty easy CSS fix to play around with in developer tools, and I'm not even a frontend person. Maybe a few minutes max?

I worked on Child Safety for a time at Meta ... I'm guessing all of the people working on that will be exempted, lest they train the model on actual CSAM.

I wonder if the decent wade depth (500mm/20") of the i-pace's they use was input as a constraint.

Which makes sense - the british called it flattening the curve. No matter how well funded your health service, it doesn't have enough beds, staff or supplies (like ventilators) for…

Perhaps fairer to say post germ-theory pandemic. During Spanish Flu it was in its infancy. During the black death it was all about miasma. Also, the window for spread with the abil…

This was one of the reasons why, when looking for an EV, I went with the Kia EV6. All of the buttons on the steering wheel are physical buttons, the heated seats, steering wheel he…

I'd need to read the actual paper, but isn't poor sleep also correlated with "shrinkage" in the brain? And when you have a baby, sleep is one of those things that you don't typical…