Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? I saw this article about the attention process, which is at the heart of the transformer model, which powers LLMs. Yes, Vaswani and colleagues published their famous attention paper about their latest refinement, which turned out to be the one that really worked. But lost to most are the contributions of those who came up with the original transformer idea: Dzymitry Bahdanau and Minh-Thang Luong. If not for these guys, we wouldn't have had transformers yet, and LLMs wouldn't be a thing, and there wouldn't be OpenAI or Anthropic, and a lot of the derivative AI tech we're seeing.
Encora Therapeutics has a tremor suppressing device that you can strap on your wrist to reduce tremors. It helps with Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.
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How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models. This is something I came to realize working with AI coding assistants. Don't think of them as human coders. Make them attempt the impossible. You might be surprised.
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Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society. This epitomizes the folly of emulating Europe in developing policy. They don't always account for reality.
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TurboScribe is another free scribe, but this one transcribes videos, too. Why not – voice is voice. In the past, you could make money releasing apps like this. With vibe coding, apps like these are an afternoon's work.
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Science Corporation is testing a chip that implants to the retina and can restore vision. The CEO used to head up Neuralink.
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Searchlify seems like a Magellan for the Mac. I miss Magellan – it was a fantastic app in its day. I'll give this a try and see how well it works. I like that it has a query interface and that it's free.
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Google is poisoning their search results page to thwart SERP apps. This is crap. Google should just provide great search results. With Bing being quite good now, I don't know why people still think Google is king.
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Wow, oncologists are having to do side-gigs now. This service is free now, but I'm sure that if he finds it popular, he will start charging. Then he'll quit his job and do this full time. But he must not be too busy to find time to do this while doing his regular job.
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Chinese chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies thinks it can make memory chips better than the Korean companies. So this is why the chip stocks have been tanking! Well, competition is good, and I imagine the Korean companies and Micron are developing improvements, too.
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U.S. doctors are aging, raising concerns about patient safety. I personally don't think it's chronological age that should determine a doctor's competency. There are other factors that determine patient safety, and I worry more about those things. Medical care is being commoditized now, as doctors are employees instead of practice owners. They don't have as much of a reputation to defend.
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Who wants to go to downtown Portland? Human remains found in a garbage bag in downtown Portland near the Waterfront. Bring back Bud Clark. Even Vera Katz, already.
Even Seattle Times can't hide it: Columbia Bank says WA taxes factored into Arizona expansion plan.
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