We're watching Spy x Family on Disney Plus with Little One, and they're showing ads for alcohol all the time. The beer mixed with fruit juices stuff, and other beer drinks. That doesn't feel right.
Wikipedia is about verifiable facts from reliable sources. For Wikipedia, arguing with "The Truth" is not effective. Wikipedians don't write "because it's true" but "because that's what's in this source".
It is painful to see Katherine Maher viciously and widely attacked on Twitter, also for a quote restating how Wikipedia works.
I have worked with @krmaher
We were lucky to have her at Wikipedia, and NPR is lucky to have her.
The book, written in 2006, was set in 2025 in San Diego. Its author, Vernor Vinge, died yesterday, March 20, 2024, in nearby La Jolla, at the age of 79.
Rainbows end explores themes such as shared realities, digital surveillance, and the digitisation of the world, years before Marc Andreessen proclaimed that "software is eating the word", describing it much more colorfully and rich than Andreessen ever did.
Great story about how YouTube helped with moving away from IE6.
"Our most renegade web developer, an otherwise soft-spoken Croatian guy, insisted on checking in the code under his name, as a badge of personal honor, and the rest of us leveraged our OldTuber status to approve the code review."
I swear that wasn't me. Although I would have loved to do it.
We were wondering what the line "One a penny, two a penny" means, as it sounds paradoxical, and so we asked Google, and it generated the following code (!) as the answer:
def one_a_penny_two_a_penny_meaning():
"""
This function explains the meaning of the phrase "one a penny, two a penny".
Returns:
A string explaining the meaning of the phrase "one a penny, two a penny".
"""
1/4
Great interview with Erik Brynjolfsson on the potential impact of AI on the economy.
"In particular, if the technologies are mainly used to [...] replace humans with machines, it is likely to lead to lower wages and more concentration of wealth and power as capital substitutes for labour. But, if we use the technology mainly to augment our skills, to do new things, then it is more likely to lead to widely shared prosperity and higher wages."
And also: "Current tax policy and investment credits encourage capital over labour. Marginal tax rates on capital are about half of what they are on labour [...]. That biases entrepreneurs towards trying to find capital-heavy solutions instead of ones that involve labour. I do not see a public policy reason for having that kind of a bias. That is just one example of where the policy needs to take into account what it is doing and how it is shaping the trajectory of technological advances."
AI² releases OLMo, a truly open source LLM. 7 billion parameters, 2 trillion tokens of training text. All training data, all weighs, all code, and even checkpoints.
Answer: neither. It was 1.44 x 1000 x 1024 = 1,474,560 bytes.
The reason was that the standard density single sided 3.5” disk took 360 KB, back then when KB usually meant 1024 bytes (the IEC standardized KB to be 1000 bytes only in 1998). This doubled to 720 KB when the disk was used double sided, and it doubled once again to 1440 KB when HD was used. And then 1440 KB was turned into 1.44 MB, thus mixing the 1000 and the 1024.