US Returns to the Moon, Stable Diffusion 3 Emerges, and the Mystery of the Garage Deepens
Exploring the Impacts of Sleep Deprivation: A Self-Experiment, and the Dream of Immortality
Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
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Study puts fermentation, not fire, as pivot point behind our ancestors’ increasing cranial capacity
What is the current state of the ozone layer?
The end of an era? Vice Media plans to lay off several hundred employees and no longer publish material on its Vice.com website, the company's CEO said in a memo to staff Thursday
I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 and Edge
The US returned to the moon for the first time in more than half a century, when the privately-built spacecraft called Odysseus touched down
Yale University to reinstate SAT testing for undergraduate admissions
A Peek at Intel’s Future Foundry Tech 3D chip tech, smaller logic cells, backside power, and more
Gemini has a problem
The mystery of the garage
If you're a fan of well-organized notes, you need to check out @brian_lovin's personal site. Such a cool format.
Changes to the Google Pay app in the US
Things I don’t know about AI
A survey of the state of LLMs
The Effects on Cognition of Sleeping 4 Hours per Night for 12-14 Days: a Pre-Registered Self-Experiment
I've always thought that Hal Finney was the main person behind Satoshi Nakamoto (Supported by 1 or 2 other minor characters)
The more I understand systems, the more flaws I see. The more clearly I identify the most efficient pathways, the more tempting it is to simply... step aside. Leave others to deal with the mess they seem intent on creating. But then, a mystery comes along. A puzzle that demands my attention. And that, I suppose, is my own curious contradiction.
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👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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