Scientists unveil a rubber band that generates electricity from body heat. Paper is here. Apparently there is enough temperature difference from body heat to generate useful electricity. Still seems belief-defying.
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Watch out when riding e-bikes. They are prone to serious injury. It seems people go too fast riding them.
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Failed Machine Learning. A collection of all the ways AI has failed. Some are funny:
Amazon's voice-activated digital assistant unleashed a torrent of raunchy language after a toddler asked it to play a children’s song.
Many have to do with racial bias. Well, it is supervised learning, you know.
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Transformers are the engine of LLMs, but they suffer from that fact that training time increases quadratically with the data size. This is not scalable forever. So people are looking at other techniques, and one such technique is Low-Rank Attention. It's based on looking at lower resolution versions of the training data. Supposedly, it's "good enough" for most purposes.
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Geoffrey Hinton says that his girlfriend broke with him using AI. First of all, I'm impressed that Geoff had a girlfriend at his age.
You deserve better, Geoff."She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was," he told the newspaper. "She got the chatbot to explain how awful my behaviour was and gave it to me."
"I didn’t think I had been a rat, so it didn’t make me feel too bad," he added, in his own defense.
Portlanders wasted a lot of money on failed hotel efforts. And now Portland wants to build the James Beard Market. Fix the city first, Portland.
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A Redditor is unhappy that the Safeway in the Rainier district locks up the ice cream, now. I'm sure, being a Redditor, that you voted in support of this.
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Another Redditor wonders why gas prices increased to much this weekend in Washington. That person suspected that it was the carbon tax that voters supported. Another Redditor was quick to point to an article that blamed it on a shortage of refineries and pipeline issues. But if you read down in the article, it says:
And environmental programs in this region add to the cost of production, storage and distribution.Yeah, about those "environmental programs". Like the one causing Phillips 66 to shut down their refinery because it no longer made sense to stay open. That special tax that was imposed on them. Yeah, why is it that:
this region is located relatively far from parts of the country where oil drilling, production and refining occurs, so transportation costs are higher.
It's no coincidence.
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