“The XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, launched in 2021, set out to tackle one of humanity’s biggest challenges: how to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ocean at meaningful, scalable levels. … Planetary’s approach restores the ocean’s natural ability to […]
“Restaurants awarded the honour are more likely to close, research finds…” ~ learn more
“People diagnosed with depression experienced a 51% average reduction in symptoms, leading to clinically significant improvements in mood and overall well-being, the researchers report. Participants with generalized anxiety reported an average reduction in symptoms of 31%, with many shifting from […]
This TED Talk is over 10 years old, which makes me wonder if we can find people who were influenced by it 10 years ago and ask how they’re doing now? “Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for […]
The technical details explaining NotebookLM. Remember when this automatic podcast generator took the world by storm? Old news, I know (haha: October 30, 2024). Yet the technical details to its development are instructive. ~ learn more
MCP is a powerful new tool for software builders. Reading this post from a security expert should make builders and users a bit more nervous about it. “In just the past few weeks, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly […]
How do you get a dumb LLM to do your bidding? You have to write a very good system prompt! Nobody wants theirs exposed as it’s intellectual property, but it seems that they inevitably leak because LLMs are inevitably jailbroken. […]
“You might find yourself “feeling the AGI” as well. Or maybe not. Maybe the AI failed you, even when you gave it the exact same prompt I used. If so, you just encountered the jagged frontier. My co-authors and I […]
I boldly claimed during a dinner this week that in our lifetime human drivers on roads will be illegal. I stand by that prediction. “Pittsburgh-based Aurora is expected to send its first driverless truck on the stretch of highway between […]
“Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded. So I chucked it into […]