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Is that the same thing as "The Singularity"? If so, why the name change? The name "singularity" is useful, at least, because of the analogy to a break in the model after which pred…

In my opinion, the coolest thing in NotebookLM is the podcast-episode-generator. Each one sounds like two people having a conversation. It's fun to listen to a podcast episode abou…

Fuchsia ended up in some Google products, such as Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max, and Google's smart speakers, thermostats and displays. But Fuchsia won't be in the Googlebook because ther…

On second thought, I think it's not for K12 after all.

Yes, you are probably right.

Now that I look closer at the Googlebook, I think you are right.

I think it's a successor to the Chromebook. In the vast majority of modern K-12 public schools, the school district owns the hardware, not the students.

I guess it will be running Google's new operating system (a "modern OS designed for Intelligence") that combines elements of Android and ChromeOS. Edit: Probably Android at the cor…

Aw, c'mon man, they're just doin their job, ya know? Chill out.

I can relate because my dad is 84 and he really struggles with simple things like entering a password to sign in to Gmail. He forgets what he did last time and so I'm back to expla…

Even the article in Science is based, mostly, on an article by Branch et al. published in the journal Earth System Dynamics : https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-109-2024

Maybe bring a (printed) book, brochure, flyer, or treatise on the nocturnal behaviours of silkworms?

"OpenCode Go" (a subscription) lets you use lots of hosted open-weights frontier AI models, such as GLM-5 (currently right up there in the frontier model leaderboards) for $10 per …

And no doubt on next week's episode of everyone's favorite podcast-within-a-podcast...

I've used it to create little one-off tools that I needed for some specific tasks, without any care whether it's "of substance" or "investable." In the past, I might have Googled a…

The plaid trim on the official uniform definitely gives it a Scottish aesthetic.

For me in Canada today, Kagi is showing nanoclaw.wrongtld as the third text link, after two different GitHub repos (why two? I didn't have time to sort that out). I clicked the thi…

Wow, very cool video... and from 2015!

You wouldn't use an LLM to solve a big Linear Programming problem, because it would cost way more than using the Simplex Method, and you'd be worried that it might be wrong.

Is it named Coolwulf? The home page doesn't say its name anywhere.

Apparently the formal specification of OpenNHP was submitted as an IETF Internet-Draft in January: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-opennhp-saag-nhp/

The number of snacks in the basket is a random variable with a Poisson distribution.