Rare brain cell may hold key to preventing schizophrenia symptoms. Does this brain cell appear when who have a pet cat?
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Ringit could be useful. It makes your phone emit a loud ring, even though it's on silence. Could be abused, though.
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Creepy. AI tech is making mind-reading no longer science fiction.
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One of the fastest growing AI universities in the world is the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Tsinghua has produced more of the world’s 100 most-cited AI research papers than any other school, and the university generates more AI-related patents each year than MIT, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard combined. Between 2005 and the end of 2024, Tsinghua researchers filed 4,986 AI and machine-learning patents—including more than 900 last year
And they don't have to worry about DEI initiatives of pro-Palestinian protestors cancelling lectures.
OpenAI launches Codex-Max, an AI that can code on Its own for 24+ hours straight. Talk about energy consumption. Who pays for this? How many people need something like this?
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The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has achieved the first successful conversion of thorium-uranium nuclear fuel, the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced.
"This design not only improves fuel utilisation but also significantly reduces the generation of radioactive nuclear waste, which is one of the advantages of thorium-based molten salt reactors."
This is what we need here.
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Gary Marcus thinks that Yann LeCun needs to be taken down a peg. I didn't know that convolutional neural nets were actually invented by Kunihiko Fukushima in 1979-1980, and that adding backpropagation was actually invented by Wei Zhang and colleagues in 1988. All the stuff you read credits LeCun. I felt bad that he didn't get the Nobel Prize, but now I guess I don't.
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Holy crap. Portland isn't building very many luxury apartments anymore. Construction is WAY down.
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67% of Oregon voters think the state's economy is on the wrong track. I'd like to know why the rest think it is on the right track. Who in their right mind would think so?
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Homeless in the Portland area has increased by more than 60% since 2023, despite all the efforts to reduce it.
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"We've had the highest number of management positions within TriMet's personnel than we've ever had with the lowest number of employees that we've ever had."
Who rides TriMet anymore? Would anyone want to sit in those chairs? You never know what you might sit on. One of the commenters is prescient. Notice the use of the word "positions" that are being cut? It's probably a reduction of open positions rather than any union member being laid off.
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Portland wants to ban the use of AI software that landlords use to calculate setting rent. And the landlords are not happy. As usual, Portland city council see the word "AI" and goes nuts. This is not dissimilar to using a spreadsheet. Robots aren't setting the rent. It's just a deep learning protocol.
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