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In case anyone would like to read the text of the statement behind [2] instead of the editorialized headline, it’s here: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-10-18/pdf/2023-…

Total EU defense spending is around $450M USD. The US defense budget, prior to 2027, is about $950M USD. Are you saying the US could have all those social policies for $500M USD?

Whenever somebody makes a benchmark, people complain that the benchmark results are meaningless because they’re gamed. I don’t know why those same people don’t understand that grad…

Google stupidly positioned their service as if it was a separate console you had to buy games for, which then couldn’t be played anywhere else. The successful streaming services se…

> The purpose of a federal government should be to grant rights, not restrictions. If the federal government is about granting rights, does that imply the default state is “no righ…

> Good gaijin are welcomed, bad ones need to leave. This is always the rhetoric in anti-immigration movements. You may find that the definitions of “good” and “bad” vary wildly.

> A lot of people are missing the fact that the Steam Frame is Valve's attempt at staking a position in the wide-open and malleable VR space. It is their third attempt.

> which would help reinforce the idea that what we sacrifice as the price of scientific knowledge, is absolute knowledge. I don’t think it is possible to have absolute knowledge of…

I enjoyed it! Admittedly, I went in with extremely low expectations. It was fun, though, and I liked the visuals and the music. The plot was … something.

The link says: > Some teams in the Google Cloud org just laid off all UX researchers below L6 That’s not all UX researchers below L6 in the entire company. It doesn’t even sound li…

The notion of “PhD-level research” is too vague to be useful anyways. Is it equivalent to a preprint, a poster, a workshop paper, a conference paper, a journal submission, or a boo…

> buying an EV does not actually reduce emissions like magic, unless the owner drives that car for a looooong time. Like 10-15+ years. I find this timeframe surprising. I did some …

It makes sense if you view the HOV lane primarily as a way to reduce emissions, not traffic. This is also why e.g. single-rider motorcycles are often allowed to use HOV lanes as we…

> Google spends something around 30 billion dollars a year to be the default search engine across many platforms. You can spend the same amount and tomorrow your search engine will…

The rejection message doesn’t seem to be accurate. I tried “happy person” as a prompt in AI Studio and it generated a happy human without any complaints. It’s possible that they re…

If you look at the side-by-side [1], it looks pretty plagiarized to me. They changed the words a bit but the overall plot and themes are essentially identical. [1] https://viruscom…

> Trump won the majority vote in an election that brought out a huge amount of voters compared to previous elections, and Republicans won every other government body. For the curio…

Their methodology seems reasonable to me. To clarify, they look at the probability a model will produce a verbatim 50-token excerpt given the preceding 50 tokens. They evaluate thi…

> I learned a while back that Google Maps was moved from maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that when people gave location permission to Maps, Google Search could also use that …

> In the spirit of good science and as a happy taxpayer for the cause of these organizations, we should still be open to their scrutiny. A simple question we should ask, after all …

My hypothesis: it is about control. Education level is correlated with voting preference [0]. US universities are funded in large part by scientific research grants. Cutting fundin…

I suspect you have to choose the right numbers but not the right order. That makes the numbers work out.

Medium is a publishing/hosting platform for authors. This Medium account is (or purports to be) the official account of the Stanford alumni magazine.

> it'd hardly be prudent for the world's largest software company NOT to have it's own SOTA AI models. If I recall correctly, Microsoft’s agreement with OpenAI gives them full lice…

You can submit a blank ballot. Since the ballot is secret, compulsory voting merely verifies that you got a ballot and submitted it, not that you filled it out correctly/completely…