Vannevar Bush re-visits William James's 'Moral Equivalent of War' in light of post-war peace

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations: they can produce inaccurate information, reinforce...

An international scientific team has redefined our understanding of archaea, a microbial ancestor to humans from two billion years ago, by showing how they use hydrogen gas.

It’s more than rails!

UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

People with aphantasia can’t mentally visualize things. Mental imagery is a spectrum, and we lie outside it, in the dark

Transient messages for strangers

The new law will affect all kinds of things Coloradans buy and use every day, that are made using something called per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

Finding out whether the AI is uncertain about facts or phrasing is the key.

Musings on management and how to can get that endorphin rush that I’m missing

The world's leading open-source electronic medical record and practice management software.

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There’s now data to back up what freelancers have been saying for months

First, I would like to acknowledge my friends and kind internet strangers who helped me with this post.

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lolll I found the answer, I was getting fucked by the userexperienced. Apparently it dictates thermal limits based on fan limits, and it sets fan limits based on *how much it hears the fans in the mics*

If I blast white noise, fan speeds stay at max + no…

There are simpler, more familiar, and better-designed chart type alternatives to box plots.

The Queen of the Night is today best known for her leading role in The Magic Flute, but for Babylonian historians the star of the show is an ancient goddess with the same name. Although almost 4,000 years old, she was only given her evocative noscript in 2003…

Wild ramblings, raport from the field about choosing Vector Database for a particular project and a little bit of a rant about the current state of AI and how it's perceived, why human brains are a wonder of nature, and why it's far from 'thinking' and 'consciousness'.