Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67510670

Microsoft, the company, is predicated on removing friction by creating friction elsewhere.

In a comment on a WSJ article, I found a concise spec of megachurches: Six Flags over Jesus

Decades ago I attended a lecture by a Pulitzer-prize winner who explained that all news can be categorized into two classes: news that is a "life hack" (useful), and news that is gossip (who/what did something to whom/what). I leave it to you to figure out which applies to ongoing changes of corporate board and management.

"OpenAI Became a Battle Between Science and Business. Business Is Winning."

This was the "lite" version of the story.

Details were sketchy - didn't say what kind of medical test was going on here.

Amazon Launches Free AI Classes in Bid to Win Talent Arms Race

Company aims to train two million people in AI as fight for skilled workers ramps up with Microsoft, Google

And yet, when I have tried Amazon SageMaker, I couldn't get a GPU for training images.

@mimsical The perfect WSJ article. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/thanksgiving-mayflower-society-pilgrim-plymouth-family-feud-4108567a?mod=hp_trending_now_article_pos1

Fantastic first line of a book review: "as a hater in general, and a crypto hater specifically,"

This is really weird, but twice in the past two days my home internet router lost its connection and had to restart immediately after ending a Zoom meeting.

Reddit says I am not the only one to observe this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Zoom/comments/tz8xfr/zoom_causes_internet_connection_to_be_lost_after/

Just tried searching for ChatGPT, also for LLM, on Amazon. Hundreds of results (relevant books).

I tried this because of seeing publications on Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C16&q=author%3AChatGPT&btnG=

This search on Arxiv turns up over 1500 results: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=ChatGPT&searchtype=all&source=header

On the side of a septic service truck.

"Jim's Septic. We're #1 in the #2 business"

“I think we are living in a kind of thermal renaissance”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/thermal-transistor

Expensive selfie mishap. https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/Y90-Y99/Y93-/Y93.C2

The odometer just turned a high digit. https://www.unixtimestamp.com/

Graphcast predictions. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi2336

tuition : intuition :: peal : ?

"In a creepy evolutionary trick seemingly designed to benefit the parasite's favorite host, rodents infected with T. gondii tend to lose their fear of felines, making it easier for cats to catch rats and mice. In the wild, infected chimpanzees have been shown to actually grow attracted to the smell of the urine of their feline predator, the leopard."

Hais (Desert Energy Balls)
(Makes 10-15 balls)

150 grams (50 ounces) dates, roughly chopped
50 grams (2 ounces) almonds
50 grams (2 ounces) pistachios
1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus extra to bind
Handful toasted sesame seeds, dried shredded/desiccated coconut or chopped pistachios