beautifulfreak

Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

News aggregator The Drudge Report recently started using archive.is links to articles. That might have angered some publishers.

The article says 400C

Maybe bismuth oxyselenide https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-univ...

Reminds me of the photos of Vivian Maier, discovered in a storage locker after her death. The documentary "Finding Vivian Maier" tells the story. Amazing photos! https://www.vivianmaier.com

No one has mentioned China's uptake of coffee drinking, or their long term contracts with coffee growers, buying up whole crops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aR4RCqw-gg

You must have missed this: "In the end Laplace transforms, easier to use with a more rigorous structure and incorporating the powerful tool of convolution, overtook the operational calculus of Heaviside, and his methods largely fell victim to history."

reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber#Credit...

"Double down" has a similar chart, another annoying phrase.

China is actually dumping US treasuries, as of the start of 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbzefh0VEM They've found new ways to trade in dollars without using US or European banks, so their assets can't be frozen (such as by the use of Tether) so US banks aren't getting paid. As for cross-border trade, 53% of it is now conducted in RMB, with USD falling to 41% (and continuing to decline). US economic policy towards China is backfiring on many fronts, the worst being that Chinese companies have adapted and now produce what they used to import, even advanced technologies. If the export controls were lifted, Chinese companies would not resume business with US companies, because they don't need them anymore.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/start-de-dollarizatio...

Who makes the real profit on Ozempic/Wegovy? In the US, that would be Pharmacy Benefit Managers, who are middlemen between drugmakers and US health insurance companies. They have no shame in the exorbitant amounts they mark up prices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYP5urTEWIA

It didn't just replace the sky and background, it replaced the trees. That wasn't part of the instructions.

I'd like to see an overlay showing which red areas are also college towns. Did easy student loans help fuel the increase in rents? That's what happened where I live, where dormitories are mainly for new undergrads. After a year or two, students are expected to find apartments. (And I wonder if something similar would happen if Universal Basic Income became a thing.)

~2.6 teraflops FP32 (CPU) for the M3 Max.

That's from Body Heat, said by Mickey Rourke to William Hurt. "...you got fifty ways you're gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius - and you ain't no genius." (But a million sounds closer to the truth.)

So it's increased from 2.6 to 4 trillion transistors over the previous version.

Perhaps you meant...

DM = Dark Matter, BAO = Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, CMB = Cosmic Background Radiation, MOND = Modified Newtonian Dynamics

It's mentioned briefly in the article, "History of Personal Computers," which gives some links to external content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers

A phys.org article goes into more detail about its cost effectiveness: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-team-green-steel-toxic-red.htm...

I was more impressed by the Science article from two weeks ago about cost effectively making iron from the toxic residue of aluminum refining: https://www.science.org/content/article/zapping-red-mud-plas...

That conflation is what Baudrillard addressed in Simulacra and Simulation (a book that the cast of the Matrix were required to read before filming started). When environments are designed, the blueprint is what one experiences in those environments, the conceptual underpinning, even if the environment consists of matter. In a sense, they try to tell us what to think. The book came out in 1983, so these are old ideas, not really vanguard anymore, but it raises legitimate points that are becoming a lot more noticeably believable with the rise of information technology. I think the OP has a point.

"The electric field right near a membrane in a salty solution like our bodies produce can be astoundingly strong. Its strength falls off rapidly with distance, creating large field gradients that we figured might repel nearby particles."

The iPad Death Watch is pretty funny: http://aaplinvestors.net/stats/ipad/ipaddeathwatch/

I've used it to interpret messages in the Mac console app. I wish it could explain what causes certain messages to appear over and over.

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Before him there was John Mack, the Harvard professor who turned serious attention toward alien abduction stories and was the world's leading authority on them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Mack#Psychology_of_ali... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/johnmack.html https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/magazine/john-mack.html

The Brainstorm/Green-Needle auditory illusion is more noticeable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g88BXUhR2a4

DailyMail says the asking price is $100,000. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12081261/West-Texas...