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Card Against Humanity sues Elon Musk for $15 million.

“We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump’s very stupid wall. Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire⸺Elon Musk⸺snuck up […]

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How humans wrestle against rivers.

“They naturally move, and this can have serious consequences for humans and politics, to the point of getting presidents killed. Today, we’re going to go deeper to understand why rivers move, how humans have tried to wrangle them, and what […]

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Steve Ballmer talks through the US federal budget.

“He discusses taxes, mandatory and discretionary spending, the federal deficit, as well as spending on Medicare, veterans, social security, and more. Get the data straight from the source, so that you can have the information you need ahead of the […]

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Buy, borrow, die – explained.

I knew games like this existed, yet I am still in shock at how this one works. “Actual “buy, borrow, die” planning is enormously complicated. If that weren’t the case, the ultrawealthy wouldn’t have to pay private wealth attorneys like […]

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What is a liminal space?

Reddit users explain it to imaginary 5 year olds. “Liminal spaces are often familiar (looking) spaces that you associate a certain function and/or setting with, but you whitness [sic] them in a new or unfamiliar context. A city devoid of […]

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The fun scale.

The difference between Type I and Type II fund. “Everybody likes fun. And fun, like anything, can be nuanced; not all fun is created equal.” ~ learn more

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Robot table tennis.

“This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur human-level performance in competitive table tennis. “ ~ learn more

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Can one get a deterministic output from an LLM?

Not really. “The response itself depends on the amount of layers offloaded onto the GPU, and your drivers. Basically you can only get the same output with the exact same input with exactly the same setup, that’s consistent, but change […]