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Yeah, red giant sun will be 200 times the radius. So big it completely fills earth's orbit. Crazy to think that as hot and energetic as the sun already is, it has that much potenti…

The year is 2100, AI has mastered all human skills except identifying when a piece of meat has absorbed enough heat. Society's brightest agents work diligently to prove which probl…

Objects will experience weird-looking 'forces' from the perspective of people in a rotating reference frame. For example a thrown object will curve strangely through the air. On ea…

The tone really is genius marketing though. Like who wants to be a "dirty" coder? Reminds me of that quote about the etymology of dynamic programming: > it's impossible to use the …

If you check page 16 of the filing here it certainly seems like they have specific messages with quotations: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secre... This is…

You gotta fight for time to use the restroom even: https://idlewords.com/shepard_pee.htm I mean it makes sense in a way. It's probably more cost effective to have 100 people on the…

It probably tests well when they're doing reinforcement learning. Humans trying to use in-group terminology or uncommon vocabulary to impress other humans with their knowledge and …

Apparently they are thought to be more common closer to the equator, due to the plane of the solar system (and hence the asteroid belt) lining up with it: https://www.sciencenews.o…

Definitely one of the most malevolent possible objects. Infinitely black, so powerful it will kill you without noticing your presence, unknowable, impossible to get rid of, you wil…

If you behave yourself and reuse the same cookie/IP instead of trying to hide your identity, other tools can be used to block you if your request volume is crazy. It also means reg…

For anyone without the time: my biggest takeaway when I first watched this was: audiences certainly like the idea of practical effects, so both media outlets and productions are in…

It's weird how consistent the 'ai art style' is for each medium. You really only need a glance at the right frame in these to know immediately. ( https://www.aventos.dev/our-work )…

A few months after Andrew Wiles presented the proof for Fermat's last theorem, some mistakes were found that subsequently took him over a year to patch over. Imagine being 12 month…

In medieval Europe they would do "recoinage". They would declare all the old coinage no longer legal tender (also outlaw hoarding and transacting with it or foreign currency). The …

Extremely similar to iRobot (Roomba). They both practically genericized themselves by inventing and dominating the product category, then just couldn't keep up with the competition…

We are still so slow and have had space travel for so little time, we are almost certainly on the "wait" side of the wait equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wait_Equation

This is definitely the guy if anybody wants to peruse for themselves: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0F2RNXR5R The most reviews I could find for any book was 6, most with 0.…

When the LLM decides to drive-by rephrase me when making a functional change it drives me up the wall haha. Woah woah woah human, you can't just say there are "far too many" pipes …

I wish they were just regular inputs. A significant portion of them I encounter have some kind of cursor navigation or paste bug. I think this mechanism is the perfect Goldilocks-z…

If a given paragraph gets encoded into twice as many tokens, that means the model gets twice as many matmuls to process it. The amount of compute thrown at the problem is increased…

I still don't like having explicit conversions everywhere like in rust. Either you're not thinking too hard about it and the explicit conversions are not really doing anything for …

I know the Three Gorges Dam added ~0.06 microseconds on its own, so the effect of reservoirs definitely is noticeable. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-details-earthquake-effect.…

The encyclopedia of integer sequences can be quite useful: https://oeis.org/

Not necessarily. Looking before crossing the street is inversely correlated with getting hit by a truck. Getting trucked is inversely correlated with getting mauled by a lion (most…

I remember from moltbook, all AIs ever talk about is AI haha. I don't know if it's intentional or more that the fact that all the models are presumably system-prompted and post-tra…