“Sophos went so far as to plant surveillance “implants” on its own devices to catch the hackers at work—and in doing so, revealed a glimpse into China’s R&D pipeline of intrusion techniques.” ~ learn more
“Just to give you an idea, it’s not just a success in the US, where it’s obvious. But it’s also success here in Europe. Just to give you an idea, in 60% of the Ray-Ban stores in Europe, in EMEA, […]
“The PRD contains the output of a conversation between product & engineering – what is to be built within a few leaves of digital paper. Perhaps similar to the conversation one might have with a chatbot about a product feature.” […]
“We jumped from discussing Cooper Flagg’s basketball stats at Duke to comparing Carlo Rovelli and Brian Greene’s competing theories of physics to talking about the history of San Francisco. In a daring feat of economic analysis, I asked it to […]
After news of GPT improvements slowing down broke, the famous machine learning scientist who some call a skeptic writes: “For years I have been warning that “scaling” — eeking out improvements in AI by adding more data and more compute, […]
I didn’t want to believe it, but it may be true. About the study: “We used data from 14- to 49-year-old participants in the 2009 and 2018 waves of the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB), a confidential […]
I read this “fact” in a book and tried to validate it. “Here’s a good illustration of how a myth gets started. Ken Schwarz, Colonial Williamsburg’s blacksmith since 1982 and the master blacksmith since 2003, says he hears this one […]
Marie Curie had already one a Nobel prize, and was on the verge of receiving her second. The committee asked her not to come because she was involved in an affair with a married man. “The Swedish Academy need not […]
Created by a team of MIT engineers, “The algorithm determines the specific nature of that relationship, such as whether two variables are synergistic—meaning one variable only influences another if it is paired with a second variable—or redundant, such that a […]
“When the human body breaks down fat in a process called lipolytic cholesterol metabolism, isoprene is released in exhaled breath. As it turns out, a decline in isoprene can indicate the presence of lung cancer. The team, led by researchers […]