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Good. Fucking. Riddance. Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford, no longer…
I paid a lot of money for the privilege of getting an Apple Vision Pro brand-new in February. All-in, with optical inserts and taxes, I financed a little over $3,900 for the 256GB version of the headset. A day or so ago, I made a mistake that I’m sure many early adopters are familiar with: I looked…
From the makers of the image generator Stable Diffusion to Anthropoic, which was founded by OpenAI exiles, startups are staring down the barrel of their expenses — which in addition to the regular cost of running a tech startup also include the massively expensive compute power required to run large AI models. https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-startups-money-trouble
The Gulf of Mexicohas experienced twice the global average rate of sea level rise since 2010, a Post analysis of satellite data shows. Few other places on the planet have seen similar rates of increase, such as the North Sea near the United Kingdom. “Since 2010, it’s very abnormal and unprecedented,” said Jianjun Yin, a climate…
Resist the urge to self-commodify. Embrace what makes you different, not what makes you blend in. Focus on the process, not just the outcome. Pour yourself into your craft and trust that your tribe will find you. The internet is becoming a sea of sameness. But what we crave most is something genuine-something real-not a…
The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China’s work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers. https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-is-reviewing-risks-chinas-use-risc-v-chip-technology-2024-04-23
… it could be shown that homo economicus is not simply some kind of psychopath but specifically a subclinical or Factor 1 psychopath, often referred to in business research as a “corporate psychopath.” These are individuals who are extremely callous, selfish, and manipulative https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-024-05638-7#Sec7
[Rejunity] is bringing us an open-source z80 core on real hardware, thanks of course to the TinyTapeout ASIC project. The classic core will occupy two tiles on the upcoming TinyTapeout 7. While perhaps it’s not quite the same as a real 40-pin DIP in your hands, like all of the open-source custom silicon world, it’s as yet…
We overly despair. We think fascism is rising because millions of people have deeply thought through it. In fact, lots of people are ambling into it because they are victims of disinformation, don’t spend a lot of time thinking about this, and have convictions all over the place. https://the.ink/p/for-more-people-than-we-realize-fascism
Stack: Add .hdr to the acceptedFiles collection when instantiating Dropzone: Crank the max file size way up… In rails set up active_storage.rb under initializers and put the following in it: Note that I change the image processor from vips to mini_magick. While libvips does list HDR as a supported file type, I found mini_magick more…
The Vision Pro and the Ai Pin are just the latest in a long line of tech failures, and they won’t be the last. We need to recognize that we have the collective power to challenge the industry, and no tech company or access journalist should be able to convince us otherwise. The only way…
… to point out that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Ben-Gvir will be listed amongst history’s monsters.
This is the result of taking technology out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth. You’re not…
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