Someone found unseen Thunderbirds film footage in a garden shed. I watched Thunderbirds as a kid, and would love to see newer episodes. FAB!
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What happens to medical debt when a hospital is acquired by private equity? See for yourself in this interactive infographic.
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Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in pioneering neural networks. That's fine, but there should be a prize for the Attention is all you need team. They transformed the world, too. Hinton is to the Internet like Transformers are to the World Wide Web. Come to think of it, why hasn't Tim Berners-Lee gotten the Nobel Prize?
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With the Chagos Islands being handed over to Mauritanius, there goes the beloved .io to-level domain. I never liked it, because you couldn't mask your registration. But it was a favorite of geeks.
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OpenAI's o1 model is apparently pretty impressive. I've used the preview version, and it is indeed pretty good, sometimes finding code solutions were Claude 3.5 Sonnet threw up its hands.
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Why is the Philippines still poor?
Contrast with the approach taken by Singapore. Make note that in Singapore, not just anyone can run for political office. You must be excellent. In the Philippines, you just need to be well-known, and you will be voted in again, over and over. This is much like what's going on in Hawaii, and to some extent Oregon and California. We have term limits on the Presidency, but not so in other elections, and I think we should. You can't trust voters to be smart enough to know.