"We have air filters and n95 [masks], but what else is worth prepping?" Homeowner shares critical tips for surviving poor air quality during wildfire season: 'When it's bad, try to …' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Researchers at Cornell University have created a sustainable method to extract gold from electronic waste and use it as a catalyst to transform CO2 into valuable organic materials. This process provides an eco-friendly alternative to traditional extraction methods, utilizes vast … | Continue reading
"I, like, puked in my mouth when I saw the picture." Redditor sparks outrage after sharing eye-opening photo of downtown city streets: 'How are there even that many?' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
From the FTC on Friday: The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guide … | Continue reading
2024 has drawn to a close at The New Oil. Here’s how things went for us. !--more-- 2024 Goals Last years goals were mostly not met, but I think some of them had some legitimate reasons. Let me start with Namecheap. It turns out, Namecheap doesn’t simply rent standalone VPS’s, … | Continue reading
Sino-Platonic Papers is pleased to announce the publication of its three-hundred-and-sixty-second issue: “Divine Support and World Conquest in the Stele Inscriptions of Qin Shi Huangdi and the Res Gestae of Augustus,” by Dan Zhao.https://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp362_qin_ … | Continue reading
O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time: Created using a range of cutting-edge AI technology and trained with the help of one of YouTube’s best known scambaiters, Jim Browning, Daisy is a lifelike AI Granny completely indistinguishable from a real person. Able to i … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I found something lazier than graph jokes! Today's News: | Continue reading
I actually have quite a few days that are very close to perfect. I don't need to win the lottery or be gifted a new car to achieve perfection. All I want is a day filled with things that are already my favorites and I am a happy man. My perfect day starts early, like 4:30 am. Eas … | Continue reading
I actually have quite a few days that are very close to perfect. I don't need to win the lottery or be gifted a new car to achieve perfection. All I want is a day filled with things that are already my favorites and I am a happy man. My perfect day starts early, like 4:30 am. Eas … | Continue reading
"My mouth dropped." Outraged community exposes over-the-top content of influencer's recent haul: 'This is ridiculous' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Today’s Observer column: You know the drill. You’re logging into your bank or another service (Gmail, to name just one) that you use regularly. You enter your username and password and then the service says that it will send you … Continue reading → | Continue reading
"I think it's sad that people think they have to go and do that." National Park officials sound the alarm after damaging trend takes over local hotspot: 'It kind of ruins it for everybody else' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
I published my review of 2024 in LLMs and then got into a fight with most of the internet over the phone microphone targeted ads conspiracy theory. In my last weeknotes I talked about how December in LLMs has been a lot. That was on December 20th, and it turned out there were at … | Continue reading
"Some people burn thousands of pounds of gas for private jet travel." Local residents raise concerns over unusual crowd of private jets at nearby airport: 'I am worrying so much' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Garmin PAY is newly added as is the Conencted Leaderboard for group activities The post Garmin Instinct 3 – New Leak…now very close to launch appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Global overheating is making the land drier and saltier, according to the United Nations which makes growing food more difficult. The post Global Overheating Is Making The Land Drier And Saltier appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing and … | Continue reading
"Why is this thing manned!?" Outraged Americans call out government over expensive decision to maintain Russian megayacht: 'Ridiculous' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Once again, I’ve written a title that somehow manages to conjure something completely different to what I intended. Or is the imagery of an alien eating a human a thinly-veiled critique of our economic system? I’ll let you decide. Where was I going with this? I have a complicated … | Continue reading
A groundbreaking study from the University of Copenhagen has shed light on the intricate relationship between the gut environment and gut bacteria. Researchers discovered that changes in the gut’s internal conditions significantly influence the composition and activity of gut bac … | Continue reading
Now that the 2024 US election results have been certified by the states, those results have been made available to the public through the state election offices, usually part of the Secretary of State for each state. A non-profit, Open Elections, has been working for over a dec … | Continue reading
I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time Delightful Steve Jobs era Apple story from James Thomson, who built the first working prototype of the macOS Dock. Tags: apple, history, steve-jobs | Continue reading
At home most of the morning hanging up pictures, and seeing how my pewter sconces that I have bought will become my stayres and entry, and then with my wife by water to Westminster, whither she to her father's and I to Westminster Hall, and there... | Continue reading
A now-fixed vulnerability in the open-source vulnerability scanner Nuclei could potentially allow attackers to bypass signature verification while sneaking malicious code into templates that execute on local systems. [...] | Continue reading
One of the low-effort “engagement” tricks people used to do on Twitter would be to come up with word searches to define specific times of the year. They’d put controversial or risqué words in to drum up anger and discussion, and the “engagement” would flow! Well this year I’ve fi … | Continue reading
While it is widely acknowledged that each substance is a big issue, the combined effects have been studied less — until now. Researchers make disturbing discovery about combination of 'forever chemicals' and microplastics: 'It is imperative' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
BTW, as promised, last night's Knicks game was great. Up until the end, when the other guys took over and sadly the Knicks lost. We need a stronger bench. The starting five are great but they're not totally super-human. | Continue reading
Just taking it easy. Thinking about stuff. Will resume blogging soon. | Continue reading
I haven’t gotten very far into this interview yet, but Serlet’s history and career should be more widely known than it is. | Continue reading
This is a unique approach to solving a massive problem that has faced the cryptocurrency industry since its inception. Researchers at Stanford have discovered a revolutionary new way to mine bitcoin: 'It is essential to empower real people' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Sometimes I look at this list of “slash pages” and I’m like ughkgh I love these, I should do like all of them. Then something stops me and I think I’ve figured out what it is. They seem more like blog post ideas to me than permanent (if occasionally updated) pages. For example /c … | Continue reading
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth". When you have a conversation with Claude, what's really happening is you're coauthoring a fictional convers … | Continue reading
MinnMax: Panic, Playdate, Infinite Independence (YouTube link). A video mostly about everyone's favorite indie Mac company, Panic. It came out a few months ago, but I somehow completely missed it. Cabel Sasser gives a tour of Panic's new offices, shows off their McDonald’s-inspir … | Continue reading
Today we are doing a melted snowman craft! This snowman craft was inspired by Frosty the Snowman. Kids of all… The post Silly Salt Dough Melted Snowman Craft appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
A groundbreaking step in quantum technology has been achieved with the demonstration of an integrated spin-wave quantum memory, overcoming challenges of photon transmission loss and noise suppression. Quantum memories play a crucial role in creating large-scale quantum networks b … | Continue reading
O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time Bit of a surprising press release here from 14th November 2024: Virgin Media O2 (the UK companies merged in 2021) announced their entrance into the scambaiting game: Daisy combines various AI models which work together to lis … | Continue reading
Spotify is for me the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with the “growth at all costs” mindset applied to a tech product. I’ve been a user for I don’t even remember how long, has to be at least a decade at this point. And over these years I don’t think they added a single fea … | Continue reading
Republican’s War on Science takes a dark new turn. Sure, let’s destroy the foundation of US technological leadership over the last century. That’s a plan. E&E News: Every few years, the federal government publishes a comprehensive report that chronicles how climate change is tran … | Continue reading
Outdated systems and weak regulations have allowed untreated sewage to spill into waterways. Government department could soon face lawsuit for serious misconduct with sewage spills: 'We will decide next steps' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
The last Dragon Ball movie before Akira Toriyama's passing had one mission: give Piccolo, one of the franchise's best characters, his due. | Continue reading
The Army football team was on the periphery of the college football playoff mix in 2024. I noted that the Army-Navy game was played after the playoff field was finalized. This led to a research project. | Continue reading
On Nov. 19, a bomb cyclone hit the Pacific Northwest, with the majority of the damage affecting the state of Washington. Scientists shed light on unfortunate frequency of bomb cyclones — here's what you need to know first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Zohaib Rauf describes a pattern I've seen quite a few examples of now: engineers who moved into management but now find themselves able to ship working code again (at least for their side projects) thanks to the productivity boost they g … | Continue reading
I've had some interesting bathing experiences in my life. In 1986, I spent a month in the Mojave Desert at Ft. Irwin while in the Army. I got one hot shower during the entire month and most of the cleaning I did was by pouring canteens of water over my head with its GI haircut. S … | Continue reading
What we learned copying all the best code assistants Steve Krouse describes Val Town's experience so far building features that use LLMs, starting with completions (powered by Codeium and Val Town's own codemirror-codeium extension) and then rolling through several versions of th … | Continue reading
New research reveals the potential of circadian nutrition, particularly time-restricted feeding, to alleviate fatigue. The study indicates that aligning food intake with the body’s natural clock can enhance muscle endurance and cognitive function, offering a promising lifestyle c … | Continue reading
"We’re getting red, beautiful tomatoes late going into fall, which is exactly what we want." Gardening expert shares why you should be trimming back your tomatoes: 'I'm having great results' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading