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Nuclear plants can run with those hyperboloid cooling towers as the sink for waste heat. They are just a lot more expensive to build, run and maintain compared to using river water…

The OpenAI model that broke out of its sandbox and hacked HuggingFace was running without guardrails. To quote the OpenAI post[1]: These deployment safeguards were intentionally no…

This post does not mention safety at all. What's to stop bad actors from fine tuning open weights to run fully automated genius-level scams personally targeting basically everybody…

I wonder what would happen if you give the model access to edit the conversation history itself? Would it try to fix the "glitches"?

> I don't see it happening. Isn't it already happening with Cerebras? It's mentioned at the end of OpenAI's GPT 5.6 announcement: " We're also launching GPT‑5.6 Sol on Cerebras at …

> why the EU doesn’t develop something like RuPay We used to have Europay, which competed with Visa and MasterCard. But it merged with MasterCard in 2002.

The UX problem is elsewhere I think. Many users probably don't realize that the agent's context window is limited, and that clever compaction is happening regularly to make it seem…

Once you realize how much more efficient solar panels are (compared to plants) at capturing energy from the sun, the next logical question is: could it make sense to synthesize foo…

You don't even need to double the tokens. Tokens are mapped to vectors right at the input of the LLM, so one of the numbers in that vector could be reserved to represent something …

The coal price has a tendency to spike during an energy crisis. The market is more volatile than crude oil. For example, check what happened in 2022. https://tradingeconomics.com/c…

It seems the S&P 500 indices only take the free-float shares into account when calculating weights: S&P DJI’s market cap-weighted indices are float-adjusted – the number of shares …

As far as I know, glyphs are determined by the font and rendering engine. They're not in the Unicode standard.

I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the trade-off made by evolution is about saving energy? In that case it shouldn't be a problem to boost the innate immune system, as long as …

There is not going to be any shortage of plastics in the medium term. Shale oil and gas production in the US produces vast quantities of ethane as a byproduct. This ethane is crack…

Thanks! I didn't know it was a known phenomenon. Now I know what to google. My tinnitus is fortunately not super loud; it's only noticeable when it's relatively quiet, or I'm block…

I can play a pure sine wave tone with a tone generator app, and dial the frequency up until it precisely matches my tinnitus. I originally did this just to determine that frequency…

Those "Thumping great Unix boxes" (or indeed even integrated circuits) didn't exist before the sixties. So it seems that technological revolutions do occur from time to time.

EV batteries degrade nowhere near that fast. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-battery-life-80-percent-capa...

As far as I understand, the "entity list" you are referring to is part of the "Export Administration Regulations", so it restricts sales from the US to restricted entities, not the…