acbullen

Yeah, the grain of salt one should take this statement with is large.

I imagine the additional costs of cleaning/replacing tubing when contaminants accumulate from less-than-potable water outweigh the benefits (from the datacenter's perspective).

I'm sorry

I'd hazard that even with legislation about selling outside the US, a foreign government would still just find a cut-out that looks legit enough and then have them send the data overseas regardless.

Inevitably there will be copyrighted images, audio, and text mixed in with random social updates and discussions. It should be on the LLM builder to seek active consent, rather than everyone else to be vigilant and/or sue to get their work out of the model's data.

A significant part of this is probably the switch to the tesla connector as the standard for the US (and not wanting folks who already have a ford EV to complain about needing to buy one once that starts to roll out)

Once human-driven alternatives (eg. rideshare, taxis) are out-competed by autonomous taxis, what would be the incentive to keep those prices low? Especially if Waymo is the one service with suitably performant autonomous vehicles

This is definitely a stressor in my current job. Fortunately I have a couple coworkers from before acquisition knocking around so there's at least some folks knocking around the office providing some social benefit, if not actual productivity boosts.

I am doubtful that unless a car is fully autonomous anyway having the car try to pull itself over against driver input will be that much safer. I can see many iterations causing accidents by suddenly slowing down or merging into another vehicle or parking on blind corners. Plus I imagine the 'drunk' driver would then leave the immobile vehicle, opening a host of pedestrian on road risks

The title is a little misleading. It's about connecting the brain up to an external blood supply, basically, so it can continue to live without the heart and lungs running (useful for surgery, perhaps) and so in theory changes in blood chemistry affects the brain can be experimented on without also having to deal with different metabolic/chemical signals from the rest of the body. No brains were removed from their skulls

I feel similar, but mostly from leftover baggage from working retail. If someone says something nice to you when you're working a cash register, 9 times out of 10 they want you to do something for them and you're about 10 seconds away from them flipping over to a verbal abuse strategy to get what they want

I think the implication is 'Falling sperm counts [study] finds 'alarming' levels of chemicals in male urine'