Karaoke is a uniting past time for North and South Korea, with noraebang commonly available throughout Pyongyang, and Video CDs long a ubiquitous commodity. It comes as little surprise then, that karaoke machines have made their way to Pyongyang. In this…

Do Androids dream of electric sheep?

Org babel extension for Chat Assistant APIs such as ChatGPT - tyler-dodge/org-assistant

Note: Only shows FDIC-reported bank failures; does not include investment banks and non-U.S. banks. Data: FDIC, FRED. For a walkthrough of how I made this chart, please see my YouTube channel.

Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival, Demis Hassabis cites the need to develop artificial general intelligence responsibly.

LTT asked, I delivered. Revised model with better bridge and guards preventing cup/glass/can from falling onto laptop. | Download free 3D printable STL models

The dollar is losing its reserve status at a faster pace than generally accepted as many analysts have failed to account for last year’s wild exchange rate moves, according to Stephen Jen.

Some companies might have been raising prices faster than their costs have increased, making it harder for inflation to fall, economists say.

Baby monitors and nanny cams justify hawkeyed supervision as a security necessity. In fact, they’re a political choice.

30-second spot set to "All Star" may inspire awe—or nightmares.

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset - openlm-research/open_llama

Richard Feynman recounts an amazing anecdote about philosophy of science; we trace it to a forgotten University of Michigan research programme into ‘floor cues’.

Microsoft is ignoring browser choice again

A detailed project on retrofitting a 45-year old HP-25 calculator with modern wireless charging and a Li-Po battery for extended use.