tech, startups, internet
NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano.
Watch Jensen Huang pitch the company’s new $249 consumer AI device from the comfort of his kitchen. For real, watch it. ~ learn more
Month: January 2025
tech, startups, internet
Up to $3,500 per task.
This knocked my socks off. “The new model is good at reasoning in mathematical and programming domains. It scores really well on a particular benchmark called ARC-AGI, which is above the average human. Spend more money on it, up to […]
tech, startups, internet
Scaling test-time compute.
The new dimension of AI scaling is here. “Rather than relying on ever-larger pretraining budgets, test-time methods use dynamic inference strategies that allow models to “think longer” on harder problems. A prominent example is OpenAI’s o1 model, which shows consistent […]
fun facts
Aerial firefighting is a labor of love.
“Diving toward a burning hillside in his first season flying an air tanker for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Jeff Reynolds realized he was doing just about everything his early flight instructors warned him not to.” ~ […]
fun facts
The oldest forest in the world.
“Van Straeten is a paleobotanist at the New York State Museum, and in 2018, he and his team made a remarkable discovery right here in our region: a 385-million-year-old forest, the oldest in the world. Fossils of the forest’s root […]
fun facts
What is in fire retardants dropped from planes?
“In the United States, firefighting strategies range from the ground to the air. Aerial firefighting is one of these strategies. It involves dropping water and fire retardant from planes to slow or stop the spread of a wildfire. But what […]
fun facts
Waymo’s insurer feels really good about their safety.
“Today, we’re sharing our new cutting-edge research with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, analyzing liability claims related to collisions from 25.3 million fully autonomous miles driven by Waymo. … It demonstrates that … the Waymo Driver significantly […]
fun facts
UK beer baron keeps a collection of vacant historic pubs.
“Founded in 1758, Samuel Smith Old Brewery is one of the largest family-owned brewery and pub operations in the UK.” … and … “Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But […]
fun facts
How language shapes the way we think.
“There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community […]
on the blockchain
El Salvador plans to sell or shut its crypto wallet.
Recall that they’re the country to made Bitcoin official currency and rolled out a national wallet app to drive adoption. Now it seems they’re trading that wallet app as a condition for a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF. ~ […]