Japanese Break Bandwidth Record: 450 Tbps On A Single Standard Fibre Pair. I still remember when before 2000, people were claiming that 2400 baud or 4800 baud was the theoretical limit of how fast we could transmit information. They claimed it was a physical limit, like the speed of light. Then someone came out with 9600 baud modem, then 19200 baud, and so it went. Glad we didn't give up the effort. π€£
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Cutting a photon in two creates an infinite swarm of particles. My first reaction was "What!??" but it turns out this is just theory. They haven't actually split a photon. But yeah, photons are weird.
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βBots have now passed human traffic online,β Cloudflare boss laments. Yeah, I'll bet he laments. Pretty soon there will be so many bots that Cloudflare's latency will be long (and maybe will jam its servers with so many requests).
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"Stop scanning QR codes, you dolts"Β QR codes are like shortened links. You have to trust that all that's happening is that you are being taken to a new link. That may not be the case. Plus, when you see a QR code from far away, NEVER scan it. It may not be real.
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Typical Feynman. He even worked out an algorithm for eating out at restaurants at an unfamiliar city.
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As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise. Here's something that almost no one talks about.
βI must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy,β and so-on and so-on until the grandchildren can enjoy painting and poetry. So, ideally, after we slog through pre-transcendence, AI will make us all theater kids.
Nobody is working less, theyβre just earning less. And as more AI-related companies reap trillions in valuation, the current US regime is looting the social safety net β the kind that must exist if weβre all going to become out-of-work theater kids.Β
SNAP abuse and fraud need to be cut. No question there. But the impact of AI on the workforce is a completely separate matter. That's not on the administration that companies are finding less need for humans to do rote work. If you don't want AI to be used to book your next flight or to summarize your emails, then don't use these services. I don't.
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Why Are Men So Bad at Makingβand KeepingβFriends?Β There's no advocate for the common now that Jordan Peterson is out of commission. It's easier to just communicate online than meet in person. It's harder to find activities to share. And as we get older, friends leave us, and it gets harder to meet new friends.
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Youβll never guess who made the first wireless telephone. I didn't know that either.
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