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Weird. I bought a used car in Canada last week, and paid about two thirds by check, and the rest in cash, with a bit also on a credit card, just to collect points. Cash is still go…

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You need to use other methods to increase the return. Start a home business, and deduct the office expenses. Rent out a room or a basement and collect income this way. Also, you ha…

I was at a startup where they showed the hardware sales funnel with NO customers anywhere except some "possibles" at the very top of the funnel. After a couple of months of this, t…

It does seem to have the tsundere model nailed down pretty well. I encountered a fair number of errors trying to generate a response in the beginning. After a bit, the dialog start…

Ted Chiang is a really smart guy, obviously benefitting greatly from his Asian genes, but he seems to have a deliberate blind spot in his essay specifically regarding family cultur…

Methinks the man doth complain too much.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present example #1. Detroit.

https://archive.is/GGuCt

It's totally hilarious, how organizations are training large language models and calling them "intelligent". These overgrown & overstuffed stochastic parrots are just toys to amuse…

It's pretty clear the only solution going forward is more inflation. Almost certainly the Fed inflation targets will be raised from 2% to 3% or even 4%. Inflation socializes the co…

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These are BS patents, since they magically somehow couple the eletromagnetic force to gravitation, which has NEVER been observed at the energy levels we are capable of generating w…

Musk is being cautious. Starlink terminals on the ground work fine in Ukraine. What has been disabled are mobile terminals mounted on drones that would be used for attacks on Russi…

We obviously need a new test. The new benchmark for large language models should be "Truth" with a numeric score defined as -Log( Percentage_of_Lies_Told ). This way, a perfectly t…

I would use VHDL-2008, but freely admit, it's more difficult and complex than Verilog. My reason for this choice is that you can do physical design in VHDL, since attributes are pa…

you've hit upon a thorny problem. water testing services only test for obvious things like heavy metals, leaving organic contamination (i.e. drugs, industrial chemicals, etc) prett…

High energy radiation breaks organic bonds all over the place, resulting in changes in color, taste, and nutrition, not to mention carcinogenic tendencies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih…

Hackers that are seeking banking passwords will sometimes monitor hacked devices for months, until they can convert stolen credentials to cash by buying crypto. The real question i…

Nah, I tried it, and it failed to generate usable code. The level of sophistication and understanding is an inch deep. It will need serious retraining in specialist subjects to be …

https://archive.ph/HgdJM

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I actually joined Twitter, because I wanted to have a front row seat to the story as it unfolds. Twitter was never that interesting before, but now it's a madhouse of humor, reveng…

I was never interested in Twitter before, but under Musk, it's become hilariously entertaining. If Musk can add functionality, like payments, crypto, markets, etc, I can see myself…

Probably a near earth asteroid, orbiting between Mercury and the Earth's orbit. So what?