Here's an interesting essay by Terence Tao and an art
history/physics person regarding the impact of AI in math. They make good points about how AI can generate important but "odorless" theorems, "strangely unsatisfying". Many say that about the coding projects that they work on. The apps works but they don't feel proud of the accomplishment. And like Copernicus, we may have to realize that math doesn't just revolve around us now. But can we just incorporate AI into math like "vanilla extract"? A bit here and there for flavor?
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Target Warns That If Its AI Shopping Agent Makes an Expensive Mistake, You’ll Have to Pay for It. Would you want to use Target's AI shopping agent now?
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This sounds like "odorless" education. So now an OpenClaw agent called Einstein can log in to Canvas system that some schools use, and do your homework for you. Time to expel any student that tries that. That person doesn't deserve an admission spot.
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Oracle Filed 3,126 H-1B Petitions While Cutting Staff. First we heard about the 6 am emails that went out. Now this.
And Nonprofit Research Groups Disturbed to Learn That OpenAI Has Secretly Been Funding Their Work. Pretty shady.
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This techie paper from Google DeepMind came out a year ago, but it's just recently been appreciated. TurboQuant is a way to compress information in vectors by recasting them in polar coordinates in the KV cache plus using the Johnson-Lindenhaus transform, which makes the data take up less information space. Initially there was no reaction since Google didn't provide the code to make it work, but since then people have started to find out how to incorporate this trick, and it works. With a six-fold reduction in memory requirement and no data loss, this is predicted to relieve some of the global memory shortage.
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Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination. So a tattooed person is less likely to mount a protective response to the COVID-19 mRNA, although there was an increased response to the influenza vaccine. Go figure.
This study sought to investigate whether there was any increase in sudden death in those vaccinated against COVID-19. They concluded that there was no evidence of an increase. But interestingly, they could only track the cause of death in 10.4% of study subjects. More than 89% died outside the hospital, so they couldn't say what they died of. They found that when looking just at those who died within 24 hours of presenting to the hospital or emergency department, that the odds ratio of them being vaccinate was 0.71, but that was the case with being vaccinated against influenza, too. They suspect it might just be the effect of baseline healthier people choosing to get vaccinated, rather than any effect of the vaccine itself. But in the case of the self-control case series, where each subject was their own control, the follow-up was only six weeks, and that may not be enough time to see the sudden death effects of the vax. The study was also conducted on those living as of April 2021, so the vax had only been out for about 3 months.
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What is HIPAA-compliant AI? HIPAA-compliant cloud options are both restrictive and expensive. You must have a Business Associate Agreement in place. Many public models don't. Because larger cloud providers have to pay more than smaller providers.
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AI Removed All the Tedium. So Why Am I So Exhausted? This is the life of the cofounder of SuperDuper, the Mac backup software app. What a grunge. Who would want a life like this?
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That bright Kreutz sungrazer comet we were supposed to see – it disintegerated. Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is no more. Comet C/2025 R3 (Panstarrs) might be bright later this month, but like Charlie Brown and Lucy, I'm not going to get too excited about this.
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Scientists found a protein that drives brain aging — and how to stop it. Well, in mice anyway. The protein is FTL1 Why was it evolved to exist to being with? It seems designed just to be a nerve growth inhibitor.
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Tax Burden by State. Oregon is #9 worst state. Hawaii is #1. Yikes. Washington is #25. And Oregon and Portland want to raise taxes even more. Like California and New York (which were #11 and #2). Netflix tax to replaced Arts Tax?
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