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
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
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
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
Tether, the preferred money laundering tool of drug traffickers.
“A money laundering organization allegedly connected to large seizures of cocaine inside the United States and works with cartels in Mexico and Colombia has moved at least tens of millions of dollars using a string of front businesses, cash drop-offs, […]
big ideas
Lying for a climate crusade.
“The Consumer Product Safety Commission is on a mission that has nothing to do with safety… This was a clear-cut case of science being brandished for activism, and judging by the paper’s reception in the popular press and on social […]
under the microscope
How much faith should you put into light therapy?
I am generally slow to come around on newfangled popular wellness fads, which include infrared/red light therapy. “In this study we present the up-to-dated evidence about the effects of PBMT, i.e., low-intensity laser therapy and red and/or infrared low-intensity light-emitting […]