Plug-in hybrids (PHEV) seemed like a good idea, but they're turning out to be disappointments. The EV batteries need to have their ranges extended, for sure.
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For a company with great engineers, Anthropic is getting a lot of negativity. They're dropping their signature safety pledge amid a heated AI race. "Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others."
Yeah, people have talked about this. Upscaling LLMs to be larger hasn't improved performance very much anymore, as it did with earlier models. But they have gotten more power-hungry.
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Large AI models have no problem going nuclear. In simulated War Games top LLMs recommended using nukes 95 percent of the time. And just because we won't use LLMs to control our nuclear arsenal doesn't mean that another country won't.
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Quantum computing has made breaking encryption 10 times easier. What will this mean for crypto?
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Copper is like oil now. If it's too cheap, it's not worth mining for. Seems like market forces should take care of that.
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Manim for the browser. Someone ported Manim to javascript so you don't need to run it in Python. Great!
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Can listening to 40Hz sound for an hour enhance clearing of β-amyloid plaques? It might, if you're a rhesus monkey. But I wonder how this works.
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This is scary. A near miss. I remember when this incident took place. It's like the Soviet submarine captain who saved the world and yet he died in obscurity. An obscure Microsoft nerd saved the world for a massive major security Internet breach that would have resulted in major financial and military harm if executed. We came so close to disaster. It also exposes how vulnerable systems are. Andres Freund will probably not win a medal for what he did, and from what I can tell, Lasse Collin still maintains XZ as before. Hope he's been able to solve his burnout situation.
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100V per drop: New perovskite cell converts rain and sunshine to electricity. New solar panels that use perovskite can also convert ran droplets into electricity. This might make solar panel more feasible, especially in places like the Pacific Northwest.
Because places like Portland need clear strategies to meet their lofty climate action goals. Wishful thinking isn't enough.
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People who threaten public officials could face prison time under a bill the Oregon Senate passed 18-11 Tuesday. Oregon lawmakers want to make themselves special people, where just threatening them is a felony. How nice. Unlike the rest of us, which have to go through regular channels when we get threatened. And I'm sure they will get to determine what is considered a threat or not. No Kings!
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Home Forward is running out of money. Yup, Portland's real estate values are heading south, and there is much less NGO money than before. Reminds me of this cartoon I came across recently:
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