Downtown San Jose is devastated. It used to be blessed by all the tech riches. And an expensive place to live. Now, it's a wasteland, after all the tech firings. Is this a temporary problem, or further evidence of "Build Back Better"? In any event, who could realistically want four more years of this?
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Conversation Halters. These are all the things people say when they've been proven wrong or can't argue a point on facts. How many times have you heard these? The favorite one around Oregon seems to be:
Appeal to personal freedom - "I can define a word any way I want!" Now if you keep talking you're infringing on their civil rights.
François Chollet thinks that LLMs are a dead end in the pursuit of AGI (artificial general intelligence). And he's one of the guys who would know. LLMs are just predictors of the next word based on a massive dataset. But that's not truly intelligence, is it? Of course not. He's right. But it's giving us a semblance of what a truly intelligent being would look like.
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Who is Cleo? Cleo is one of the most extraordinary math geniuses on Math Stack Exchange, solving enormously complicated math problems in minutes. But who this person is, remains a mystery.
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What accelerates brain aging? Apparently, being a woman, being in a country with greater socio-economic inequality, and living in a Latin American country. People with these risk factors have a greater gap between their brain age and their chronological age. So you want to have a young body, but a brain that keeps up with it. I suspect that other countries don't have a large gap because their chronological age doesn't increase very much. And remember this article from 2022?
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Cool. A water car. It runs on water, not gasoline. It hydrolyzes water and runs off the hydrogen. Hydrolysis is done with nano-technology that uses a specialized membrane. It's the Hiroshima Engine, and the car in the picture is a Toyota.
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Firing a projectile in the air? It doesn't follow a parabolic path, as you've been taught in high-school physics. It follows an ellipse.
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