Ginger ale and tomato juice do taste better in flight. That's why I find myself ordering ginger ale and blood mary mix.
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Crazy. Spotify is no longer the music listener's dream app. What they seem to be doing is shady, and artists are suffering from it.
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The human brain's speed of thought it really slow – only 10 bits/second. Probably even slower for some people. So how could it even be called the "most powerful computer in the world"?
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Google Gemini 2.0 is being billed as an LLM that will "explicitly shows its thoughts". In other words, be an explainable AI. We'll see.
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This came out last January, and I missed it, but for some reason, it's showing up in the news now. This is about a new form of RNA, called an obelisk, discovered Andrew Fire, a Stanford researcher. It's a circular form of RNA associated with the obelin family of proteins. Fire never refers to them as a "form of life" like the popular press does. 🙄
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HuggingFace's BERT finally has a successor – ModernBERT. It's better than DeBERTaV3, which the Kagglers have been using. BERT is just too big and too slow to use without having to resort to Colab.
OpenAI also has a new model – o3, which scored higher on the ARC-AGI PUB test for artificial general intelligence.
Despite this, the GPT-5 project has nothing they're ready to be the GPT-5 LLM. Sounds like a big disappointment. But a "six-month training run can cost around half a billion dollars in
computing costs alone, based on public and private estimates of various
aspects of the training." Is this sustainable?
The hidden toll of AI – the damage being done to human labelers. Someone has to watch all the crap that people produce, and label them as harmful. It's always the people in third world countries that bear the brunt of this, and it borders on the unethical.
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We've seen reports of this before. Deoxyribose gel applied topically, seems to be effective against androgenic hair loss. Seems to be as effective as minoxidil, but is still not commercially available.
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When you get IV fluids, make sure the nurse squirts out the first 12 mL or so. Or else, you'll get an intravenous dose of microplastics.
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No more James Bond for a while. It's a standoff between the Broccoli estate and Amazon. It's just as well. The Broccoli/Wilson faction is open to a female, gay, or whatever Bond.
If we wanted someone other than what Ian Fleming envisioned, we would have watched that instead. If you want to feature someone else besides a white male Brit, start your own franchise, I say.Gregg Wilson has appeared to be more sympathetic to calls for an update to Bond, a role that’s so far been filled by white male actors. Some say a person of color in Bond’s tuxedo would better reflect the U.K.’s changing demography, and even nod to its ugly history of colonization. Take it a step further, others say, and cast a woman or a gay man.Broccoli has told friends that she doesn’t have any qualms with casting a nonwhite or gay actor, but does believe Bond should always be played by a man, and should always be played by a Brit.