This is one of a pair of questions trying to understand this comment on the xkcd forum contest My number is bigger than yours!. For a definition of Goodstein sequences, see this question.
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Its novel balloons are lighter and smaller than competitors.

Comment: Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland

The Danish Ministry for Digital Affairs will move half of its employees off Windows and Microsoft 365 next month as part of a four-year 'digital sovereignty' push.

The lair built in the Burlingame station was furnished and even had a gym.

<div><p>Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has become a cornerstone of operations research. This is driven by the enhanced efficiency of modern solvers, which can today find globally optimal solutions within seconds for problems that were out of reach…

Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both…

Saab, in collaboration with Helsing, today announced the successful completion of the first three flights integrating Helsing’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent ‘Centaur’ into a Gripen E fighter jet.

Introducing UDA, the knowledge-graph-based architecture that translates conceptual domain models into consistent schemas and data…

This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.

“The Satie life contains so much murk; his music sparkles with riverine clarity.”

To steer pretrained language models for downstream tasks, today's post-training paradigm relies on humans to specify desired behaviors. However, for models with superhuman capabilities, it is...

A reimplementation of Stable Diffusion 3.5 in pure PyTorch - yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion

Originally published May 20, 2015.

The 6.16 kernel will include a number of changes to how the kernel handles the processing of co [...]

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s…

Hundreds of law enforcement officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb on Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally shot a Democratic state lawmaker in her home and wounded a second lawmaker.

During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument called the FDAI (Flight ...

A new analysis done by ride-hailing aggregator Obi shows Waymos cost more especially on shorter trips. They also have longer wait times.