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Why not rig it the other way: pump water past the CPU, then through your coffee grounds?It probably wouldn't be great for your CPU, because the temperature required to properly brew coffee is hotter than you really want for your CPU. But maybe get the water to 80C, and a secondar

"OpenAI was plugging Claude into its own internal tools using special developer access (APIs)"Unless it's actually some internal Claude API which OpenAI were using with an OpenAI benchmarking tool, this sounds like a hyped-up way for Wired to phrase it.Almost like: `Woah man, Ope

The central finding is that a 15% increase in solar generation across the U.S. is associated with an annual reduction of 8.54 million metric tons (MMT) of CO2, a significant step toward national climate goals.Whoa, that's really cool.You can see the paper along with figures & r

Deep seek papers are a must to read for anyone who wants to understand how to make LLMs operate at hyper scale. All western labs hide their best results, or at most release summaries that are about as meaningful as the answers Cleo used to give on stack exchange: https://math.sta

There can be no objective story since the very act of assembling facts requires implicit beliefs about what should be emphasized and what should be left out. History is therefore a constant act of reinterpretation and triangulation, which is something that LLMs, as linguistic a

What amazes me is that this wasn't the original plan. What product manager thinks "the best thing for our customers is to delete their data!".> We understand these links are embedded in countless documents, videos, posts and more, and we appreciate the input received.How did they

Reminds me when I got banned from Amazon for suspected fraud (had an old account, but deleted my email and number since it was in a lot of DB dumps). After I got hired, I reached out to the guy in charge of the anti-fraud team at Amazon, and got unbanned. Emails to support etc. d

Is there evidence that minimizing finger movement is ergonomically desirable? It seems like "repetitive" is a key part of RSI, so making the exact same small motion over and over again may not be optimal.I think about piano players, who obviously need to move their hands and arms

“There was this inescapable sameness, in a way. No matter what I did, I was in the same place doing mostly the same things,” she said. “I was very isolated, and nothing I could do could really change that. I’d wake up on certain days and realize, I’m just older.” I finally have s

Whenever I look into IP cameras I close the tabs because it feels like I walked into a store brand cereal aisle where all the boxes are exclaiming “Now with fewer razor blades!” or “Only half the reported cases of salmonella than similar store brands!”What’s a good brand for IP c