AI models that consider user’s feeling are more likely to make errors. Well that makes sense. When you use supervised fine-tuning, you alter the model's original weights that it has learned, making it forget some things it used to know, in the process of taking on new training. AI models are not humans and shouldn't be forced to have "feelings". That's what humans are for. Even when human judges govern by "rule of feelings" instead of "rule of law" mistakes are often made, too.
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Saudi Arabia ranks 2nd globally in data center market attractiveness. Imagine that. Saudi Arabia, a country with hardly any water, can host datacenters. Oregon better find out how they do it. (Hint: the answer is that the Saudis use closed-loop dry coolers or air-cooled chillers, rather than depend on evaporative cooling, like the kind of datacenters that Oregon seems to be offered.)
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Holy crap! An open-weights Chinese model just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a programming challenge. I knew Kimi-K2 was good but better than Claude 4.7 Opus? That's crazy. I'll have to try Kimi-K2 next time.
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How Silicon Valley’s Brightest Parents Broke Their Own School. Someone created a bespoke school for Silicon Valley's brightest.
Tessellations set out to offer an alternative to the cutthroat competition rampant in many schools. It provided nature programs, emotional development and flexible curricula that gave teachers freedom in what they taught and how they taught it.
But the Silicon Valley ethos of its leaders and parents clashed with that gentler vision.
And now the school is having difficulty and some prominent parents are pulling their kids out in dissatisfaction. The mistake they made was asking rich parents for money to fund the school. When you do that, the parents want control. And that means the school has less control. It became a turf war, and the school is losing. What a lesson! From the comments:
"With my amazing psychic ability, I can predict any article involving California will have the word "lawsuit" in it somewhere."
Yup.
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Oregon leaders decry federal court order limiting abortion pill access. Tina Kotek and the Dems are upset because federal law is preventing mifepristone to be made available to any woman just after a telemedicine consultation. Dan Rayfield says: "Mifepristone is a safe, FDA-approved drug..." Yeah it is safer than, say, chemotherapy, but there are concerns with that drug that compels me to say that the Dems should stay out of this. For one thing, mifepristone causes menstrual bleeding which can be heavy, and it does not stop ectopic pregnancy. If a woman has an undiagnosed bleeding disorder and bleeds too much, what will she do? Just go to the ED? And there are drug interactions and hypokalemia is a potential side-effect. It is recommended that the serum potassium be 4.0 mEq/L before taking the medication, but a telemedicine doc isn't going to check for this as well as for the ectopic pregnancy. It is also recommended that a woman check in with her doctor in 7 to 14 days after taking the drug, but how many will actually do that. If there is excessive bleeding, or infection (which can happen) to whom will the woman turn? Probably not the telemedicine doctor. This sounds like cutting corners with responsible healthcare just to make activists happy, and Dem politicians should just butt out. Seriously.
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Transgenic mice have been developed that can produce monoclonal antibodies targeting EBV gp350 and gp42. This will be amazing if it can be turned into treatment for the Epstein-Barr Virus. This virus is pretty ubiquitous and is linked to many bad things. There is no antiviral medication against it so far. Hopefully this goes somewhere.
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I’ve Been a Public School Teacher for 20 Years. Trust Me: Homeschool Your Kids. Yeah, I totally get it. Public schools (especially in Oregon) are largely just expensive baby sitting. Teachers will strike for more pay and benefits. They'll strike for George Floyd and BLM, and "No Kings". Kids risk getting beaten up now. Teachers, gay and straight, satisfy their kink on students. Public school is not what it used to be.
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Say bye-bye to them, Mayor Katie! Seattle AI founder looks to leave as taxes rise: ‘Everybody that I know … is in the process of leaving’.
"Seattle used to be a place where you were excited to build something, where it was celebrated, where you could imagine creating something from nothing and that you could manifest that," Proudman said.
"And, for many years, for probably 20 years, that was the culture here," he added. "We had a vibrant startup community. We had a very supportive startup community. And the ecosystem worked. It helped build the companies.
"And then, for whatever reason, sort of over the last four or five years, we've seen this shift where entrepreneurship is now villainized. And it's an unfortunate and sad shift in what otherwise has been a phenomenal place to run businesses."
Obama-backed $2.2B green energy 'boondoggle' leaves taxpayers on the hook. This situation is crazy. Ivanpah is expensive, inefficient and its tech is obsolete. But they can't dismantle it because it would be disruptive and costly. And they still owe $730M to $780M on the $1.6B federal loan they took out to build it. Thanks, Obama.
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Coffee doesn't just wake you up—a key biological pathway illuminates widespread health effects. Research has shown that NR4A1 is involved in a wide range of biological processes, including inflammation, metabolism and tissue repair—all of which are closely tied to age-related diseases such as cancer, neurodegeneration and metabolic disorders. And coffee activates NR4A1.
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This is funny. Stupid NYT. This captures so much the flavor of the New York Times. The weird takes on things they cover, and always with a dig at Trump when they can. I love this take: "Spirit airlines going away could help other airlines". Help other airlines?
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