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LLMs have a great deal to teach us about the nature of language, understanding, intelligence, sociality, and personhood.

Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Passages from the Life of a Philosopher: The eminent Victorian scientist and mathematician on his inventions, dreams and adventures.

A pretty special gift unwrapping will soon take place – a piercing tool built by ESA will open a Moon soil container from Apollo 17 that has gone untouched for nearly 50 years. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases which may have been…

Bike Index tracks a Colorado-to-Mexico stolen bike pipeline - and learns things along the way

Countries taking part in U.N. talks on autonomous weapons stopped short of launching negotiations on an international treaty to govern their use, instead agreeing merely to continue discussions.

@UberEats this is a new low! I sort of got used to big tech getting away with dodgy stuff, but taking UNAUTHORIZED PAYMENTS, then when the issue is raised saying you CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT is something new... And yes, it's just £4, but this is still borderline…

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Origami artist Juho Könkkölä spent 50 hours folding an origami samurai from a single square sheet of paper, with no cutting or ripping used in the process. He describes his process on Reddit: Folded from a single square sheet of 95cm x 95cm Wenzhou rice paper…

Omniscient Mozart, being able to transcribe everything in the music, including vocal, drum, chord, beat, instruments, and more. - Music-and-Culture-Technology-Lab/omnizart

Anyway, with those changes we're up to a 94% pass rate for dEQP-GLES2 🙂 Pass: 13392, Fail: 642, Crash: 134, Warn: 20, Skip: 29, Timeout: 10, Flake: 39, Duration: 10:40, Remaining: 0

This is a small proof-of-concept. It relies on PGP - but you could use Keybase, GPG, or any other hard-to-use encryption program. Background Suppose you want to support an artist and give them money. That's easy. Most artists take PayPal, bank transfer…

Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM switch - haimgel/display-switch

A good scientist, in other words, does not merely ignore conventional wisdom, but makes a special effort to break it. Scientists go looking for trouble. — Paul Graham, What You Can’t Sa…

The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths — and scant accountability.

I've recently read an article criticizing Rust, and, while it made a bunch of good points, I didn't enjoy it --- it was an easy to argue with piece.
In general, I feel that I can't recommend an article criticizing Rust.
This is a shame --- confronting drawbacks…