NASA designed new spaceship parts with generative AI McClelland holds up a tangle of metal. “So, for
instance, I didn’t design any of this,” he says, moving his hands over the intricate arms and curves. “I gave it these
interfaces, which are just simple blocks , and said there’s a mass of five kilograms hanging off here, and it’s going toexperience an acceleration of 60G.”
Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93) – The Public Domain Review Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Study (1887) unpacks like a matryoshka doll. The experience begins with a heavy wood box, outfitted with leather straps and brass clasps, inside of which is a sheaf of complex maps and charts, and a learning guide on how they should be used in the classroom. The maps are each the size of a small rug (ranging between two and four feet) — large enough to lay on the floor and have pupils gather around — and all save one are printed expensively, on thick paper with c…
NetHack 3.6.7: Release Notes “NetHack 3.6.7 is the official release of NetHack that follows NetHack 3.6.6” — en daarmee is er een nieuwe versie uit. Ik speel al jaren DCSS, maar het blijft mij iets doen als er een nieuwe versie van Nethack uitkomt.
The maze is in the mouse. What
ails Google. And how it can turn things around Google has four core cultural problems. They are all the
natural consequences of having a money-printing machine called “Ads” that has kept growing relentlessly every year,
hiding all other sins. (1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, (4) mismanagement.
The Witch Trials of J.K.
Rowling ‘You could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.’ A new audio series featuring extensive
interviews with the world’s most successful author.
Darwinian Gastronomy: Why
We Use Spices | BioScience | Oxford Academic In this article, we summarize the results of our inquiries.We found that spice use is decidedly nonrandom and that spices have several beneficial effects, the most important of
which may be reducing foodborne illnesses and food poisoning.
A Black Professor
Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell | Compact Mag In a recent book, John McWhorter asserts that anti-racism is anew religion. It was an idea I quickly dismissed. Last summer, I found anti-racism to be a perversion of religion: I
found a cult.
Full article: Wikipedia’s
Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust In the last decade, a group of committed
Wikipedia editors have been promoting a skewed version of history on Wikipedia, one touted by right-wing Polish
nationalists, which whitewashes the role of Polish society in the Holocaust and bolsters stereotypes about Jews. Due to
this group’s zealous handiwork, Wikipedia’s articles on the Holocaust in Poland minimize Polish antisemitism, exaggeratethe Poles’ role in saving Jews, insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists…
MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead This
post will make the case that the era of Big Data is over. It had a good run, but now we can stop worrying about data
size and focus on how we’re going to use it to make better decisions. I’ll show a number of graphs; these are all
hand-drawn based on memory. If I did have access to the exact numbers, I wouldn’t be able to share them. But the
important part is the shape, rather than the exact values.