$22,000 Per Hour: Assistants Use a Legislative Loophole to Outearn Surgeons. There are a lot of examples of how politicians passed laws unaware of what they were unleashing. Marijuana legalization laws are like that. Here's another. The No Surprises Act, passed in 2020, was supposed to protect people from surprise medical bills. But it created an arbitration system, where healthcare professionals, if they think they aren't getting paid fairly, can go to an arbitrator to change the price – which insurance companies pay. The problem is that arbitrators have been deciding to pay surgical assistants HUGE amounts of money, way more than the actual surgeon their assisted. It's now widely abused. In one case, the surgeon got paid $1843 for a procedure, but the assistant was able to grab $50,456!
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Now with Widget AI you can build iOS widgets just by describing what you want.
Yeah someone lamented that the current crop of engineers will be the last to know how things actually work.
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Sebastian Raschka already put out a book on How to Build an LLM from Scratch. Now he has a book on How to Build Reasoning Models from Scratch.
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If you have no self-control, you can buy a $60 device that prevents you from accessing your social media apps while you enjoy nature outside. It's called Brick. It's pretty sad that people have to spend money on stuff like this.
Speaking of spending money, some 60-somethings can't retire because they have too much student loan debt. I simply don't understand how people get themselves in this position. Like the 70+ guy with the lawyer kid who won't help out his dad. He has to live in his son's multilevel home to save money, while he continues to work to pay off his son's student loans.
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Here's a comparison between the DGX Spark vs Mac Studio & Halo. Apple has a clear opportunity to make money off the AI boom by selling hardware that will outpace nVIDIA's offerings. Why they don't is beyond me.
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There's a whole industry designed to help influencers maintain the illusion of being wealthy. How to set up your fake rich image. In the early Internet days, there was a saying "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." Now, it's "No one knows you're not really wealthy."
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Cornerstone University launches ‘100%’ smartphone business degree. Heh, and it's as good as the paper it was printed on.
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There's a Reason Women Aren't Swooning Over AI Like Men Are. I can understand this. AI is taking over jobs mainly held by women, for one. It's also used to create misogynistic images of women. And it reflects that pro-male biases that are present on the Internet in general.
Ferrari's marketing boss quits after Luce debacle. Ferrari cars are supposed to make you think of sleek, wealthy, action-oriented Italian men, right? The Luce makes you think of...a Japanese city car, maybe? This car would never have come out of Lamborghini.
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