Fred Espenak died this month. I once went on an eclipse trip with him. Appreciate his hard work. Browsing through his eclipse canon books was awe-inspiring as a nerdy kid. He will be missed.
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Earth's Rotation Will Speed Up In July And August. I can understand slowing down, but how does it speed up? Are there invisible arms that are being retracted? The article doesn't explain this too well.
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Google was going to have a special "fact-check" tag available so that when you fact-checking someone else's misinformation, you could use it, and it would show up on a Google search. Yeah, they quickly abandoned that idea really fast. Seems that right-wing people can fact-check, too. Yeah, another idea that sounded good in the shower but failed in real life.
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What LLMs know about their users. Think twice whenever you use them to query about something, perhaps controversial or unconventional. Why should they keep your confidence?
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A new organelle has been discovered inside our cells. It's called a hemifusome, and its purpose is still unknown.
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The most successful undergraduate theses. Did you have to write a thesis for your undergraduate degree?
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How not to lose your job to AI. I find this article very naïve. We really don't know what a post-singularity economy is going to look like. Plus, the author doesn't even mention Jevon's Paradox, which will be a factor, at least in the beginning. But who really knows what kinds of jobs will be in demand?
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Yeah, people in the Pearl District are none too happy about the homeless shelter opening up in their neighborhood. But I bet very few voted for a Republican mayor in the last election, so you got what you deserve.
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All those sobering beds, and no one is using them. Did they really think people would be lining up at the door waiting to get in? Nope, we let people who have a track record of not being able to make good decisions, make the decision to get help on their own. Then wonder why no one shows up.
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Meta also wins a copyright suit against authors using their work. The golden age of writing has ended, folks.
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Work is starting on synthetic genomes. Making a human cell genome from scratch. Very Dr. Frankensteinish. What could go wrong?
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