But would the energy recovered from using it as fuel be more than the energy required to ship it to China?

Seems like an opportunity for a bunch of street artists to show up at court and pull an “I’m Spartacus”.

Did they select Whatsapp as a main communication channel and direct their supporters to it?

Or did they just start a group chat to reach out to supporters who were already on the app?

I don’t have a thermostat, but I have indoor and outdoor temp and humidity sensors, and a window position sensor. HA notifies me (via lighting color) if I should open the window because the outdoor conditions are better than indoors, or vice versa.

The takeaway shouldn’t be that Newsom is a popular candidate among Democrats, but that visibly standing up to Trump is a popular strategy.

From my rough understanding, getting vaccinated keeps you alive or get less severe symptoms, but you can still pass it on.

It greatly reduces the chances of contracting or transmitting the disease, in addition to limiting its severity.

All of Haidt’s writings read to me like what I’d expect if you pulled a random person off the street and forced them at gunpoint to imitate an academic.

TL,DR: It wasn’t learning, it was just brute-forcing the entire solution space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_ticket_hypothesis

RFK Jr. eagerly takes notes

there is no “AI” in “IPA”

…because they’re still in the process of putting it there.

A neural network can learn to closely imitate someone making logical inferences, but that’s different from making logical inferences itself. It doesn’t have a sense of whether it’s correct or incorrect—just a sense of how similar it is to its training examples.

Yeah—now military deployments anywhere in America can be excused as part of anti-cartel actions, until they aren’t.

“Up until the semi finals, it seemed like nothing would be able to stop Grok 4 on its way to winning the event,” Pedro Pinhata, a writer for Chess.com, said in its coverage. “Despite a few moments of weakness, X’s AI seemed to be by far the strongest chess player… But the illusion fell through on the last day of the tournament.” He said Grok’s “unrecognizable” and “blundering” play enabled o3 to claim a succession of “convincing wins”.

I think the main takeaway is that these models are fundamentally inconsistent, and you can never assume they’re going to be reliable based on past performance.

Great—now Scylla and Charybdis can join forces.

Everything else aside, why does the White House have control of Congress’ website?

The typical pattern for leaders is to get “second opinions” from advisors who tell them whatever they want to hear, so… maybe asking the equivalent of a magic 8 ball is a marginal improvement?

“Researchers in the field sometimes describe our goal as to pass the ‘Visual Turing Test,’” said Suyeon Choi […] “A visual Turing Test then means, ideally, one cannot distinguish between a physical, real thing as seen through the glasses and a digitally created image being projected on the display surface,” Choi said.

So they just came up with a needlessly opaque synonym of “verisimilitude”.

Doom Quixote.

As a 50-something, I can see the case for putting the “golden age” of the internet between the birth of Wikipedia in 2001 and Facebook in 2006.

I think it does accurately model the part of the brain that forms predictions from observations—including predictions about what a speaker is going to say next, which lets human listeners focus on the surprising/informative parts. But with LLMs they just keep feeding it its own output as if it were a third party whose next words it’s trying to predict.

It’s like a child describing an imaginary friend, if you keep repeating “And what would your friend say after that?”