I’ve been at OpenAI for almost a year now. In that time, I’ve trained a lot of generative models. [...] It’s becoming awfully clear to me that these models are truly approximating their datasets to an incredible degree. [...] What this manifests as is – trained on the same datase … | Continue reading
Hardika Singh, Wall Street Journal: Bartash isn’t alone. Scores of individual investors have piled into Tesla shares in recent years, lured by the company’s technology, visionary chief executive and mammoth stock market gains. Through the end of last year, the stock was one of th … | Continue reading
"It's not the first, and it certainly won't be the last example." Human rights court makes landmark ruling, faulting government for not protecting citizens: 'I expect we're going to see a rash of lawsuits' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Blogmarks that use markdown I needed to attach a correction to an older blogmark (my 20-year old name for short-form links with commentary on my blog) today - but the commentary field has always been text, not HTML, so I didn't have a way to add the necessary link. This motivated … | Continue reading
"I started counting and it's literally every 3 videos." Woman calls out upsetting trend cropping up on several TikTok videos: 'I can't even enjoy it anymore' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Ed Zitron read a bunch of the emails released in United States v. Google and believes the quality of Google’s search engine has been in decline since early 2019 thanks to new leadership: These emails are a stark example of the monstrous growth-at-all-costs mindset that dominates … | Continue reading
It’s the sound of life. Listening to the sound of a stomach chowing down on a greasy hot dog is listening to the sound of a body filling up with energy. Ketchup, mustard, pickles — they’re all magically getting transmogrified into molecules of you and molecules of poo. Amen, sing … | Continue reading
One of the biggest barriers for the solar energy industry is the amount of physical space solar panels take up, and doubling their efficiency could be a big step forward. Scientists develop material with potential to revolutionize solar panel efficency: 'Significant leap forward' … | Continue reading
The prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members. | Continue reading
Lydia Bourouiba’s research on fluid dynamics influenced new guidance from the World Health Organization that will shape how health agencies respond to respiratory infectious diseases. | Continue reading
Chosen from 16 finalist teams, the MIT-led projects will investigate quantum topological materials and sustainable microchip production. | Continue reading
A new survey has found that Germany is the fifth most popular job-seeking destination worldwide and the number one, non-English-speaking destination for internationals looking for... | Continue reading
Schedule includes up to 12 offshore wind lease sales across the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, and the waters offshore the U.S. territories NEW ORLEANS — In remarks at the International Partnering Forum conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, today, Secretary of the Interior De … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have finalized updated regulations for renewable energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental She … | Continue reading
As Required by Congress, DOE Finalizes Standards That Decrease Emissions for New and Renovated Federal Buildings Across the Nation, Slashing Harmful Carbon Emissions by 2 Million Metric Tons WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that it has delive … | Continue reading
No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies I linked to a story the other day about book sales claiming "90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies", based on numbers released in the Penguin antitrust lawsuit. It turns out those … | Continue reading
"Parts of the country are set to see months' worth of unhealthy air quality days." Experts warn millions of Americans will be exposed to 'staggering' wildfire smoke: 'Going to slowly make some parts of the country relatively unlivable' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Hyundai continues to be a bit of an under-hyped hero on cleantech. Well, maybe that’s going a little far, but it is definitely a company that has made many good decisions with regards to electric vehicles, and now we’ve got some great news from Hyundai regarding renewable energy … | Continue reading
"This is a wonderful testament to what you have built there." Gardener shares photos of incredible method used to manage intense rain: 'Handling the water far beyond expectation' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Snowflake Arctic Cookbook Today's big model release was Snowflake Arctic, an enormous 480B model with a 128×3.66B MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture. It's Apache 2 licensed and Snowflake state that "in addition, we are also open sourcing all of our data recipes and research in … | Continue reading
"It won't be a surprise to anyone that the IEA is cementing its role as a major mouthpiece for climate change [skepticism]." Senior member of major think tank aids in education program to feed misinformation to public: 'It's a huge scandal' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The monthly free content update for Gran Turismo 7 is set to go live later today, bringing in the expected quantity of three cars to the racing game. The selection of three cars here is quite the spread. We have an classic muscle car, the EV brand by Sony and Honda, and a new man … | Continue reading
"It's hard to believe." Governor faces backlash after hasty decision against permanent ban of highly pervasive plant: 'This is super disappointing' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"If I had an electric car and they were the only two spaces, I'd consider parking in front of one of them." Tesla driver calls out parked trucks with photo taken at public charging station: 'Every charger should have a number to call to get people towed' first appeared on The Coo … | Continue reading
There was one part of Tesla’s shareholder conference call yesterday that caught my attention more than any other. That was partly because of the potential being discussed, and partly because it’s the first time I’ve heard Elon Musk and team discuss the topic. First of all, you’ve … | Continue reading
I committed a pretty big social media mistake once. Well, way more than once since then, but I remember this one specifically because it was my first. It was well over 6 years ago, but I still shake my head at how tone deaf I was. I posted a quote on Instagram to my hundred follo … | Continue reading
The upcoming single by Giack Bazz is titled "Only Fans," and of course just by title alone that string of words today is going to initiate a lot of upfront speculation about where this is going to go. | Continue reading
"Storing and generating on-demand electricity, which can be used in any number of ways." Clean energy developer to transform former mine into massive clean energy storage project: 'Will help ensure people have energy when they need it' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The requirement for TikTok to relinquish Chinese ownership or face a nationwide ban was signed into law today, as an add-on to a foreign aid bill: But even as ridiculous as it is to tack on a TikTok ban to foreign spending support, Biden had made it clear he supported the TikTok … | Continue reading
Here’s an interesting new indie/indie-style game to put on your radar. Gift is a side-scrolling adventure game that takes place on a cruise ship. A sinking cruise ship. You will have to be on the move as not only will the flood rises, the ship also tilts and shakes, making the en … | Continue reading
As U.S. buyers assemble, there’s only one family we should trust to own the app, writes River Page. | Continue reading
Ivy League activists, armed with melatonin gummies, gluten-free bread, and friendship bracelets, stand up against ‘the violent Zionist settler entity.’ | Continue reading
"Damage aside, that can easily confuse hikers trying to find their way through." Photo of graffitied trees in nature preserve sparks derision online: 'Whoever did this also painted arrows on a ton of trees along the entire main trail' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
As far as I’m concerned, this 8-minute YouTube video by Becca Farcace at The Verge is required viewing for anyone interested in the Meta Ray-Bans and will give you valuable context for this blog post. I didn’t see it until after I already had my Ray-Bans, but Farcace does an exce … | Continue reading
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow My rating: 4 of 5 stars Got this book for free from the Tor Ebook Club This book is a refinement of many topics that Doctorow has broached in the past: – uploading of consciounesses/backups and how that changes things– living in Capitalism vs leaving cap … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, Moses, Rob, Stefanni, and Svenja met to discuss how Team Leads work at thoughtbot. You can find it on our YouTube channel if you missed the chat. Below is a summary of everything we discussed. Team Leads at thoughtbot The concept of Team Leads is new to thoughtbo … | Continue reading
Dolt is the world's first version-controlled SQL database. It merges, pun intended, all the features of a SQL database like MySQL with the… | Continue reading
The energy source supplies just 1% of the States' electricity, but the Department of Energy believes that number could climb as high as 10%. Government to fast-track approvals for energy exploration on public lands: '[It] can move our country toward a clean energy future' first a … | Continue reading
“As people live longer, improving quality of life is paramount,” said Alex Morgan, a partner at Khosla Ventures, who chipped in to fund Rubedo’s first round of venture capital financing. “Rubedo is targeting senescent, or aging, cells that drive age-related disease. This first tr … | Continue reading
https://twitter.com/JWGrieve/status/1782747849052016680 This is the cited paper: "Geographic structure of Chinese dialects: A computational dialectometric approach", by He Huang, Jack Grieve, Lei Jiao, and Zhuo Cai, Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton [April 23, 2024]) https://doi.org … | Continue reading
Good on Zuck to say the quiet part out loud: “Historically, investing to build these new scaled experiences in our apps has been a very good long-term investment for us and for investors who have stuck with us,” Zuckerberg said on the first quarter earnings call, drawing an analo … | Continue reading
This post asks the question, How does the order of questions in a test affects how well students do? The answer is “significantly.” The post points to a paywalled study that shows, fairly conclusively, that starting with simpler questions in a typical academic quiz (on average) i … | Continue reading
Tiny houses come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but this is the first example we've seen that's modeled after a World War II airplane. Named the Monocoque Cabin, the unusual dwelling is defined by an eye-catching curving exterior and comes with lots of options, including its i … | Continue reading
Try putting pure joy into words. The English language has plenty of worthy adjectives and beautiful metaphors but nothing quite comes close to actually, perfectly capturing what it feels like to be completely filled with happiness. To reverberate with delight. To float on cloud n … | Continue reading
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After the article from our editor Zachary regarding the most likely replacement for a “Model 2” (and a followup here), and after having a brief exchange in the comments, I was left thinking. My original response was simple and straightforward … yet the more I think about it, the … | Continue reading
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or... | Continue reading
Last month, New York City’s Department of Transportation authorized the use of electric cargo bikes on city streets, and put some key safety standards in place. On March 27, NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced the amendments to the city’s traffic rules to allow the op … | Continue reading