Meta is making their own AI chips, like Google, Microsoft, Apple and OpenAI. Seems to be a trend, to reduce reliance on nVIDIA. Competition is good.
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Yamaha to move U.S. headquarters from California to Georgia. And Howard Schultz is moving to south Florida from Seattle. Seeing a pattern?
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M5 Max MacBook Pro Review. It looks good. I'm not using it for gaming so I don't care about the FPS rate.
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Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans. As I've said, why would you want everything you see to go to Meta? Or the wage slaves in Kenya?
And Meta acquired Moltbook. Ugh. And all those API keys exposed in plaintext. Security disaster. This was probably one of their cheaper acquisitions. Well, OpenClaw's creator was hired by OpenAI. The two platforms are supposed to work with each other. We'll see if they continue to do so.
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Good. Apple is abandoning a clam shell type foldable phone. I think they should stick with the slab phone design. 😁
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Whoa. Longitudinal associations between cognitive ability and socioeconomic status are partially genetic in nature. Hidden within the academic sounding title is the statement that being smart has a genetic component. It's undeniable – we can all see it. But it's been academic poison to say it out loud. This study was done on twins in Germany, and not globally. So Bell Curve adherents must be cautious in making more out of it than it really says.
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Even Terence Tao has manuscripts rejected. Nothing to be ashamed about if it's just an occasional event and for a reason such as not being the right fit for the journal. His manuscripts got accepted elsewhere.
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Prompt structure is important. Here's someone who created a prompt structure for Claude Code. He calls it flompt .
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Well, it seems the IgNobel winners were more afraid of being harrassed by DHS agents than by the criddlers. Whatever. The media sure has put the fear into them. Nothing to worry about unless you don't have a proper visa.
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“Secret shoppers” tried to set up primary care appointments for someone with Medicare insurance in four cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland.
Overall, they found that 77% of the sample clinics in the four cities accepted new Medicare patients.
But there was an outlier: Portland. Just 35% of the clinics contacted in the city accepted new Medicare patients.
60% of primary care doctors are part of a large healthcare system (Providence, OHSU, Legacy). Not as many independent doctors. That's a problem.
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Crazy. Seattle may have to 'delay or defer' transportation projects to pay for anti-ICE signs. Blue City priorities.
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