The Efficiency Moat: Why China Is Beating the U.S. on AI… And Everything Else. It can be painful to compare China and the U.S. in terms of construction. On the one hand, you have California and Hawaii which take forever to build high speed rail. Then you see what China can do. I know it's is an AI video, but I bet it's not too far from the truth.
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How to estimate the hypotenuse of a right triangle without having to use square roots. Doesn't work as well when a = b.
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Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom. I write far less than I used to. With AI, people will even type less than they used to.
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RSS may make a comeback because of agents. Whatever the reason, it's good that RSS is making a return. Although I've moved beyond RSS, since its rules are too strict. Sometimes they stumble on simple ampersands, sometimes not. And all that messy CDATA crap.
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Why Star Wars went so wrong. No, it's not that it felt like homework. It's because it went woke. Nobody wanted the Star Wars universe to feel like a New England liberal arts college faculty lounge. America's Other Pandemic is still smoldering, but at least it's not blazing like it was a few years ago.
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There's still a lot of fakery in AI. Filipino virtual assistants are behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill. Good ol' third-world labor. What would we do without them?
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Even their soldiers? Gen Z soldiers' plastic surgeries strain Korea's military readiness. What a strange society.
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Someone applied the Drake equations to show why it's highly improbable that he'll get a girlfriend. Rationally, this would apply to the vast majority of people. Yet here we are. (Although fertility is indeed declining.)
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Democratic city council member Rob Saka is now concerned that Mayor "Like-bye" may not have been a good choice. Really? You realized this when?
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No more Hawaii trips for Home Forward. "This is the role of a public official and not a corporate executive”.
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Seatte's building more of that tiny-home goodness. And here's what living next to one of these is like. Toilet odor! Chlorine gas! Gas masks! Irreversible knee damage! And yet, "Trudy Benjamin said she doesn’t have any problem with tiny homes."
Well, well, well. Looks like we got ourselves a real liberal, here, eh?
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The Oregonian discovers that overtime pay is out of control in Multnomah County, especially with the police.
Defund the police, they said. Because too many minorities are getting arrested, they said. And no one had the guts to oppose this.
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'We're facing layoffs': Portland homeless services at risk under budget plan. Is the Homeless Industrial Complex imploding? Looks like the non-profit scam is finally coming to and end.
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