Mark Zuckerberg's new toy is a parasite. Please don't fall into his latest trap. So says an article in SF Gate. Zuck is late to the Siri/HomePod/Alexa/Echo AI personal assistant arena. But I personally would never trust a Meta product to be my personal assistant.
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Muse Spark, on the other hand, is something I'd be interested in. I see that it's already available on Ollama, Together AI and Fireworks AI. Very cool. It's getting to easier to use frontier model class compute while not sending your data (and ideas) to the frontier companies.
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DeLorean may have a flying car in the air before Tesla does. That would be cool. And I'm sure it won't be made of the signature stainless steel – way too heavy. Tesla doesn't seem to be interested in making flying cars anyway, so it's good that someone else is interested.
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Why AI is not all bad news for most mathematicians. He's talking about teachers, not research mathematicians. If you're not worried about a frontier model stealing your novel idea or research project, you're good. If all you do is teaching and just dealing with stuff that's already known. Then frontier AI won't be interested in your work anyway.
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The 'leap second' is no more. How a minor time adjustment became a major problem. Leap seconds were too much of a hassle to make adjustments for. So now scientists will let the discrepancy accumulate until the discrepancy between actual time and the earth's rotation is about an hour off. Then there will be a correction. But this won't take place for a very long time. We haven't had to adjust with a leap second since 2016, and its expected that things will stay this way for centuries.
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What is Jev good for? Here's an article that confirms what I've suspected. But it doesn't seem like a big deal, considering all the fuss that's being made.
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Even under general anesthesia, the human brain can analyze language, recognize different types of words, and predict what comes next in a story, according to a surprising discovery by Baylor researchers.
Oncology workforce ‘at breaking point’. Well, in Australia anyway. They have enough doctors, but no positions to put them in. I don't understand. In America, they would just get hired by whatever private group needed extra manpower, and wanted to grow their group. This must be another downside of government regulated healthcare. In America, oncologists are getting older and are retiring, and so we may see a shortage of oncologists in the near future. Already I'm seeing more foreign oncologists filling the ranks.
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Where did San Francisco's homeless go? This is more of a demo of a data presentation software. I'm not certain of the underlying stats, but an accompanying article stated that SF decided to build more shelters, and they actively made it difficult for those who wanted to set up camp in the streets – something that Portland and Seattle don't do. But they also note that a sizeable portion of their homeless are unaccounted for. I wonder if they went north to Portland and Seattle, where they can be allowed to take over the streets. SF's gain – our loss.
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