“To be blunt, a lot of that [LLM] hype is just some demo bullshit that would fall over the instant anyone tried to use it for a real task that their job depends on. The reality is far less glamorous: […]
When I visited Google’s campus, I wondered what was going on next door at NASA’s Ames Research Center. This article about the airship company Lighter Than Air sheds some light on it. “Built inside a giant hangar in Mountain View, […]
“If you try to kill it with a shovel, it’ll just split into two.” Despite the alarmist headline, there’s no need to have nightmares. ~ learn more
“Richard Walter is largely a poseur,” McCrary says. “What I say about Richard is he’s an expert at being an expert, at playing one and convincing people that he is.” ~ learn more
“Dozens of state attorneys general have banded together to sue a telecommunications company, alleging that the company is solely responsible for 7.5 billion calls to people on the US’s federal Do Not Call registry.” ~ learn more
“The octopus is a creature of complexity and mystery, that serves as a symbol of creativity, expansion and unpredictability. … These artists have studied the form and symbolism of these amazing sea creatures in depth — here are their individual […]
I read somewhere that writing summaries is more important than reading books. So I decided to take that author’s advice, and also his template. I recently finished reading The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World by David […]
They are funding direct-air capture, which is probably my favorite technology solution for removing carbon from the air. The problem is that it requires a lot of energy, so it’s expensive. But by both raising capital for the providers (they […]
“The remarkable decline in the US temperature-mortality relationship over the twentieth century.” Air conditioners are one of the three adaptations. This reinforces the point that climate predictions that don’t account for adaptation (probably most of them?) are missing something critical. […]
“My favored model is that schools have an iron triangle: – Parents need someone to watch their kids while they work. They often don’t want to think about it, and they are usually content as long as their kids can […]