Passengers travelling in Germany this weekend should expect busy public transport and airports as people make the most of the long weekend. German airports will be crowded over... | Continue reading
Technical events are a great way to learn new things, connect with people, and share knowledge with others. The post NODES 2024: How to Submit a Technical Presentation appeared first on foojay. | Continue reading
I was never a fan of science fiction. I have a vivid imagination but with the exception of the original Star Trek, there’s something about stories set on different planets, or filled with aliens or with robot point-of-views that disconnects me from the story in a way in which I c … | Continue reading
Most young people aren’t sure how to take action. Biden’s program could provide much-needed structure. | Continue reading
When you think about what science actually is, how do you conceive of it? Do you do what most people do, and default to what you learned in our classes in school, with a layer of cynicism and skepticism layered atop it? That’s understandable, as many of us remember being taught “ … | Continue reading
The World Health Organization says that around 7 million people die prematurely due to air pollution. New report finds staggering number of Americans face 'climate penalty' with concerning health implications: 'We're essentially adding back additional premature deaths' first appe … | Continue reading
The redistribution of snakes will create a new public health challenge for many countries. Researchers forecast mass spread of venomous snakes in coming years: 'Major concern that they will bite more people' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
"Some people shouldn't be allowed to drive." Bystander shares video of tense traffic scene highlighting problems with large vehicles: 'There are so many issues that could be avoided' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
This may be obvious to many people already, but I recently thought about this in a few scenarios and figured it may be valuable to articulate it clearly. One note before the main discussion is we should acknowledge that LLMs do have some sort of independent and creative thinking. … | Continue reading
There's a black samurai in the new Assassin's Creed game, and it has made some people mad. You simply don't have to argue about it. The post Stop Trying To Defeat Racism With Logic appeared first on Aftermath. | Continue reading
"They have no idea how fast a bear can move." Parkgoer shares photo of family getting dangerously close to bear and her cubs: 'This is how people get mauled' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A breakdown of how people, Americans in this case, spend their time, by each decade of their life. Things like sleeping, eating, working, caring for others, and socialising. The crunch is definitely on in our thirties, forties, and fifties, when time for sleep and socialising, fo … | Continue reading
Most people are very convinced! | Continue reading
If we want LLMs to be less hype and more of a building block for creating useful everyday tools for people, AI companies' shift away from scaling and AGI dreams to acting like regular product companies that focus on cost and customer value proposition is a welcome development. — … | Continue reading
Unfortunately, some bad actors have started using Workflowy’s sharing feature to publish phishing pages. Last week, this led to us getting miscategorized as a phishing site on a few lists that track these things. Some internet providers then automatically blocked people from acce … | Continue reading
In a small trial, some people with inherited vision loss experienced improvements in their sight after being treated with CRISPR. | Continue reading
“Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.” For many people, Marty Robbins’ classic gunfighter ballad is their first and sometimes only impression of Texas’ largest border city. They may be surprised to discover that the setting of the song, Rosa’ … | Continue reading
Teddy Amenabar in The Washington Post: Older people who aren’t picky eaters appear to have better brain health than those who prefer more limited diets, according to a large study of British adults. The research tracked the dietary preferences of nearly 182,000 older adults in Br … | Continue reading
It’s often said that people fear public speaking more than death, but in fact, people fear a great many things more than public speaking. According to the Chapman Survey of American Fears, corrupt government, economic collapse, nuclear weapons, climate change, and high medical bi … | Continue reading
A 24/7 livestream “Portal” that connects New York City and the Irish capital of Dublin was temporarily deactivated on Tuesday as technicians sought to solve a critical flaw in the project’s fun premise: How to stop so many people from sharing inappropriate material—like dick pics … | Continue reading
Today is Nakba Day - Wikipedia . Nakba Day ( ‘Memory of the Catastrophe’) is the day of commemoration for the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majorit … | Continue reading
In a recent episode of Doctor Who, we see a lovely sequence where The Doctor has a nice chat with Paul McCartney of The Beatles. Great larks! The Doctor often meets real people - Dickens, Shakespeare, Rosa Parks. But, crucially, all those people are dead by the time the episode a … | Continue reading
There’s nothing I love more than sitting down with a queer mystery or thriller—obviously, as a writer of the genres myself! The twists, the turns, the “oh my god!” moments, there’s nothing like it. Add the riches of queer history, the complexity of queer identity, and the double- … | Continue reading
After investigating 100 articles about testing React Native applications I detected 2 main methods of testing which helped me succeed and can definitely help you. Unit testing A lot of people use Jest with Enzyme to make unit testing more confident and more easygoing. You can do … | Continue reading
I’ve now seen them twice! A few nights ago we got out with the family to see the lights, much like millions of people across a very wide northern band of the globe. It turns out “northern lights” is sort of a catch-all statement representing a lot of different phenomena. The expe … | Continue reading
Liz Reid, head of Google Search: People have already used AI Overviews billions of times through our experiment in Search Labs. They like that they can get both a quick overview of a topic and links to learn more. We’ve found that with AI Overviews, people use Search more, and ar … | Continue reading
People who choose not to rely on their cars all the time are helping the environment by reducing their contributions to harmful emissions of planet-warming pollution. Resident gets confronted by police for walking 'too much': 'They couldn't understand why' first appeared on The C … | Continue reading
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought The transcript of How Do You Use ChatGPT? with Kevin Roose is below for paying subscribers. Subscribe now Timestamps Introduction: 00:01:11 The surprising allure of relationships with AI personas: 00:03:47 The icks of AI dating and intimacy: 00: … | Continue reading
I have two general rules for working across branches in a git repo these days: squash merge feature branch into main (or rebase, sometimes) merge main into feature branches https://twitter.com/mehulkar/status/1790822175638765856 squash merge feature branches into main For most pe … | Continue reading
This site and a good dozen others that I’ve built and maintain, are built with Eleventy (aka 11ty). It’s not only a really good static-site generator but also a center piece of a wonderful community of web developers, bloggers, indiewebbers and other people who like to make web s … | Continue reading
Today is day 14 of WeblogPoMo2024, a month long daily blogging challenge. I’m challenging myself to write about a song each day, but there are many other people writing about other things. You should check them out! Today’s song is “Transistor Radio” by Cloud Cult. When I was a s … | Continue reading
It's still unclear how long people will have to stay on the drugs to maintain the effects. | Continue reading
In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’ Appearing in cartoons and magazines, it felt like a matter of time before people could ride a jetpack to work. But jetpacks never became a mainstream technology, leaving many to wonde … | Continue reading
Web designers and bloggers have been able to use alternative text, often referred to as “alt-text”, to describe images and photos, for decades. Alt-text helps people with little or no vision comprehend a website image, so long as the description is reasonably accurate. In recent … | Continue reading
The behavior by these tourists exhibits a carelessness and disrespect for the wildlife. Parkgoer shares concerning photo of tourists surrounding grizzly bear at national park: 'People with cameras feel so entitled' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Even people who have grown up in the Portland metro area are often surprised to learn that there is a botanical garden in this outer southeast Portland neighborhood, and it's been open to the public for 40 years. There are magical trails, meadows for picnics, summer events like n … | Continue reading
Sales of raw milk in the U.S. have risen 21% since bird flu was first confirmed in dairy cattle in late March, according to a report from PBS Newshour, citing new data from research firm NielsenIQ. Why on Earth would people drink raw milk at a time when pasteurization has been sh … | Continue reading
Okay, this will be of interest to a VERY SMALL number of people. But over on LinkedIn, someone with a perverse interest in ancient history (hi Tim) asked if I still had copies of some UI design documents that I did for the now-defunct compositing package Shake. So, see below for … | Continue reading
This tool could help farmers to continue growing the crops that people rely on even as climates become less suitable. Scientists develop computational tool to uncover genetic variations of crucial crops — and it could be a massive boon for agricultural systems first appeared on T … | Continue reading
I spend my time doing things online. I design and code websites for clients, I make websites for friends, and I start—and almost always shut down—all sorts of weird side projects. It’s easy to take this online life too seriously. If you go online you’ll immediately find people di … | Continue reading
I linked to this in my iPad Pro review, but in case you missed that, Federico Viticci has done everyone who writes about iPadOS a service and written a detailed account of what we mean when we say “the iPad hardware is let down by its software”: In our community, we often hear ab … | Continue reading
In a recent issue of Car and Driver, a mysterious full-page ad announcing the return of GM’s Pontiac brand (which got killed during the GM bailout 15 years ago) has people arguing and debating. Is it a real ad, or a joke by C&D or someone else who paid for ... [continued] The pos … | Continue reading
5-14-24 Tired of negative people and what they attempt. Today is beautiful and full of invitation, so those […] | Continue reading
The more I think about it, the more I’m squarely in the camp of people who want iPad-like hardware that runs macOS, and I’m not sorry for saying it. | Continue reading
The chip-scale device could provide sensitive detection of lead levels in drinking water, whose toxicity affects 240 million people worldwide. | Continue reading
When Maria is excited about the word she’s doing, she invites me into her studio to see it and help her with a video. This is great fun for both of us – I’m a former TV producer – and Maria is one of those people that the camera loves. She never shows the slightest […] | Continue reading
Results from the longest-running trial of semaglutide—the active ingredient in the popular drugs Ozempic and Wegovy—are in, and the verdict is decidedly positive. The study found that people taking semaglutide tended to maintain their initial weight loss for up to four years. Oth … | Continue reading
Apple and other streaming companies are interested in shaking up the entertainment industry’s compensation model. According to Bloomberg, under the newly proposed system (which is really only an idea, at this point), talent—like actors and other production staff—would be paid bas … | Continue reading