25 January 2025

Funny!  Newly-discovered asteroid 2018 CN41 turns out to be the Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space in 2018. It's now in the asteroid belt. 

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Why is everyone freaking out about DeepSeek R1? Because it's smaller, less expensive, and performs just as well or better than OpenAI's models. Sure, the Chinese copy, but when it comes to tech, they can copy very well.  Here's a more detailed discussion.
So this is why o3-mini had to be free.

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Yann LeCun thinks that by five years, we're going to be talking about archiectures that go beyond transformers. He predicts that dependence on LLMs will fall by the wayside. I can't keep up.

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What can we say about diet and cancer? Turns out, not much. We just have some clues, but the effects of this or that food is not large. A low-carb (low-sugar) diet with plenty of vegetables is probably a safe guideline to follow.

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Oregon is losing jobs (unemployment rate is now up to 4.1%) while the rest of the nation is seeing job growth. People who are serious about business don't want to move to Oregon, where taxes, crime, drug abuse, and homelessness are high, while you can enjoy less and less of the city.

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