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I used to be a big keyboard enthusiast until I did a bunch of typing tests with many inexpensive keyboards. To my surprise, the data showed a statistically significant increase in …

If AMP had stuck around, we wouldn't have the quagmire of terrible UX on news sites today. The hostility towards AMP was wholly undeserved.

The current best open weights model is probably Cohere Command-R+. The memory requirements on it are quite high, though.

Almost no one can tell a difference with today's encoders (unless the track is particularly degenerate for the encoder) but I think there is an edge case: listening over Bluetooth.…

No shot. Mistral Medium's outputs from API were virtually identical. Miqu really was Mistral Medium which happened to be a continued pretrain

The VRAM usage is closer to a 47B model - although only 2 experts are used at a time for inference, all experts are needed to complete it.

If you're looking for the best small model, I'd recommend using Berkeley's Starling-7B model [0]. It'll run on a lot of commodity GPUs and performs well in head-to-head comparisons…

I really enjoyed Zume Pizza as a product. They sometimes could get a pizza to my door within 10 minutes of me ordering.

HR reasons are more common than you'd think. There's only so much HR and legal power to go around and it sometimes is easier to plan layoffs in multiple stages, rather than go for …

The *majority* of times I've taken a taxi in my life, the driver has tried to scam me. It was ridiculous. I guess I just look like an easy mark or something. It was very routine fo…

This is one of the interesting parts of gun control legislation. It often polls well in isolation but massively under-performs when it's a ballot initiative, even when the gun cont…

Although there are certainly some servers with gauntlets to join, I think that's only for some really huge ones that have scaling issues. I have no issue joining a Discord for tech…

I do recall that one of the features that Wealthfront had was to design their UX in a way that discouraged behaviors like frequently checking the valuations, making it annoying to …

AFAIK, every tool that integrates with these things apply a negative boost equal to the peak added to avoid clipping.

IIRC, Apple was already scanning iCloud server-side for CSAM [0] so I'm not sure if that excuse holds. [0] https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-scans-uploaded-co...

The metrics don't really change much if you account for CO2 emissions needed for production/transportation: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?...

This accurately describes the magnus effect which powers the majority of the movement that a pitch has.

I don't think this is accurate. [0] and [1] have 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics benchmark tested on both the M1 and the 4800U in the Lenovo Yoga Slim-7-14ARE and the M1's GPU …

Consumption taxes can be made arbitrarily progressive. Imagine a hypothetical one where the rate on spending below $1,000,000 a year is 0% and 200% after that point. There's a reas…

This article is really inaccurate. The impedance isn't a good signal for how much power needs to be pumped into the headphone. The impedance also doesn't act as a good signal for w…

For further background, there were two surveys of top economists, one for European economists, one for US economists, where the economists were asked if the EU used its antitrust p…

Can you back up those assertions with some sources? This seems overly simplistic.

I see people saying that drugs in the US are twice as expensive as other countries in the comments. I'll summarize [0] which is one of the sources for that number. People in the Un…

"Build Me Up Buttercup" ends with one of the most interesting fade-outs. It actually ends with a key change during a climax, ending unresolved. I've always found that to be one of …

For a soda tax to work and reduce consumption, the price for soda must rise. The cost of the taxed drinks, indeed, sharply rose. The cost of the other untaxed drinks that were calo…