14 January 2024

Why landing on the moon is proving more difficult today than 50 years ago. "Lunar landers fell out of favor." But why? So because of this, it's harder to do testing?

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Well, OK then? Saw this posting on Reddit:
You can't afford it, and that's my problem...how? Sorry, but this was an unsecured loan. Someone took a risk giving you the loan money. You had a three year payment moratorium and you still can't pay it? Why should anyone trust you with a financial decision anymore?

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The Rich Are Different: Personality Traits of Wealthy People. Yes, they do think differently. "They deal with defeats and setbacks differently than other people — they blame themselves, not others or society at large."

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What happened to the artificial-intelligence investment boom? It's not over – there's more to come. There's a lot happening now, and it's just that Wall Street isn't really noticing. Much of it is just copycat stuff, but research is going on. Right now, we gotta see who is going to survive the vector database shakedown, and whether the best solution will successfully and seamlessly incorporate semantic search. And how to greatly reduce hallucinations and reduce the need to careful prompting to extract useful information. And last but not least, make it local and private. The best RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) hasn't been identified yet. And it has to be turnkey enough so that the average consumer can really use it. 

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Fauci now admits that there was no science behind "six feet of social distancing". I bet there was no science behind stickers on the floor, or plexiglas shields, or allowing only a set amount of people into a store. There was no clear science behind masking either, at least not for SARS-CoV2.

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