5 April 2024

The April 8 solar eclipse still doesn't look good for those in Texas and Arkansas. Your best bet might be in the Northeast, however you'll have to contend with the microclimates there, which can be unpredictable.

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Injecting hepatocytes from a diseased liver can be injected into lymph nodes to grow an accessory liver that might suffice to provide enough liver function to avoid having to have a liver transplant. This would be a major breakthrough if the technology is perfected.

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Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service. Don't use Microsoft's Outlook for email unless you have to. Microsoft hasn't learned after all these years. Because they don't feel that they have to. 
 
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This should have been an April 1 articleThe fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT.

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Even Apple's laying off staff now. Their stock is down and they seem direction-less now, not sure how to incorporate the AI craze into their own products. They could really impress with a swarm of agents, like The Open Interpreter. That should have come from Apple.

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Vector databases. Remember when they were all the range? What happened to them? They're still around, but the field is consolidating, and the leaders are changing. It's not just Pinecone anymore.

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AI startups are a dime a dozen now. It's very much like the dotcom era.

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More on Jia Tan, and the XZ backdoor. Maybe he wasn't Chinese after all. Maybe he was Russian?

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Cardiff giants, maybe? Who were the 10 feet tall people that lived around Lovelock, NV? Why did they die out?

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AI content detectors. You never know if you might need them.

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In an American City Business Journal survey, Portland ranks 2nd to last in city vitality. Yet another thing Portland is getting fame for.
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Some good news. Princeton scientists unveil another fusion reactor breakthrough. Apparently, using a liquid lithium coating was the trick. The goal was to stabilize plasma, so there's no information about fusion duration, or energy out vs energy in, which we usually look for. Stil...

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