Google unveils Willow, a quantum computing chip.
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Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete.
It's more like that many years for a standard computer to confirm the computation. What Google really announced was a breakthrough in an error correction benchmark, using their new chip. But people in the field think it's a big deal, so I guess it is.
AI slop is invading Oregon's journalism. Well, it's just one small rag in Ashland. And to be fair, there's been worse human-generated slop in Portland.
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The cumulative incidence of depression, anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, and somatoform disorders, sleep disorders, and sexual disorders at three months following COVID-19 vaccination were higher in the vaccination group than no vaccination group. However, schizophrenia and bipolar disorders showed lower cumulative incidence in the vaccination group than in the non-vaccinated group.
MacBook Pro 2026 won't have a notch. It'll have an M5 chip and OLED displays, and a 16.3 in screen. A long time to wait, though.
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James Webb Telescope is making the universe more confusing. Astronomers thought they had those Cepheid variables all figured out, but not so. That's why we keep exploring.
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Claude AI is good but is running into production issues. As a coding assistant, it's great for small stuff and is very polite and gracious. But for more complicated stuff, it repeats mistakes that you've told it about. Sounds like a limit in its conversational buffer.
o1 now has a Pro version that costs $200 /month to get access. It's quite impressive from the reports.
Patrick Soon-Shiong wants the LA Times to incorporate an AI-based bias meter. Naturally, some people think it's laughable. He'll probably take it down because so much of their reporting will turn out to be biased. They just don't want you to know. Bias meters should be in the browser, not offered by the news media. How can we trust them? I'll select my own meter, thank you.
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Wow, El Salvador struck it rich with bitcoin, now it has discovered $3 trillion on gold deposits. Talk about National Treasure. I think electing Bukele was the country's first lucky move. I hope he turns the country into a Singapore of the Western Hemisphere.
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