Good for them! Paul Mitchell, the hair product company is joining the exodus out of California to Texas. When will the Dems learn?
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In China, the preference for male babies is now seeing the dire consequences. If you look at the usual dating apps, the market is slim for Asian males, unfortunately. I suspect that many of these Chinese males face a life of bachelorhood. The solution? Be filthy rich! That works across all languages and cultures.
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The only state where gas costs most this year than last year is Washington state. Figures.
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Did you know that until just recently, it was legal to send biological samples to another country, have them genetically modify it and then send it back to the U.S.? Wow, I could see some bad actors having fun with that. Well, no more. The world is no longer an innocent place, unfortunately.
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Microsoft is going to lay off more people in July, mainly salespeople. Remember the days when working for Microsoft made you wealthy? Yeah, good times.
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I've seen recommendations to switch to glass water bottles to reduce exposure to microplastics. Turns out that you get exposed to more microplastics when you use glass bottles. At least those with a plastic cap. So what do you do? They recommend "blowing the caps with air, then rinsing them with water and alcohol, which reduced contamination by 60%". Yeah, right.
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Andrej Karpathy has some interesting ideas on how software is changing. It's Software 3.0. It's AI as a utility like electricity.
I read this recently:
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"When ChatGPT went down for several hours last week, everyday users, students with exams, and office workers posted in despair: “If it doesn't come back soon my boss is gonna start asking why I havent done anything all day,” one person commented on Downdetector, a website that tracks internet outages. "
An infusion of stem cells that differentiate into insulin-producing islet cells can cure diabetes mellitus type I. The trade-off is that you have to be on immunosuppressants.
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Might look into this. You can stack Mac Minis to create your own ML cluster. Very interesting. I might check it out. I'm reading mixed reviews, with some saying that it really doesn't make that much of a difference. I suspect that there needs to be more work done to make setting this up more useful, but Apple has a way to make their hardware sought after.
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Whole Foods is moving out of Capitol Hill in Seattle. Riots have consequences. The BLM/Antifa crowd learn that they can't have nice things. And neither can the people that live around there.
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Anthropic's top models will "lie, cheat and steal" to achieve their goals. So what is their secret sauce to developing these bad boys? Claude 3.5 Sonnet is so polite and courteous, you'd never think it's younger siblings would be so..conniving.
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People are upset over the quality of AI products and the loss of human jobs. Here comes the pushback from the public. And AI is still at the early stages. Pretty soon, humans will be so dependent on AI (at least the ones that have to create things and produce stuff) that it'll be too late.
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New physics theory posits that time has 3 dimensions. And space is a secondary effect. This comes out of University of Fairbanks, Alaska, so who knows? I'll have to wait until someone more knowledgeable weighs in. At least it got published in a peer reviewed journal.
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Man, I hope no one buys Perplexity. Certainly not Meta. Apple would be OK, but I think they'd ruin it somehow. Probably buy it and kill it, like Dark Sky. I like it as it is. Stay independent, please.
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