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November 2023
Favorites November 28th 2023
This was the reminder I needed to go out and get the COVID booster yesterday. And good news: the booster induces robust levels of antibodies against the…
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David Watson
Favorites November 26th 2023
If I understand correctly, this new LCM system makes it possible to run Stable Diffusion models at about 10x the speed they previously ran. This makes…
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David Watson
Favorites November 25th 2023
This is old news by now of course, but I think it's important that the Biden admin was heavily involved, given that this seems like almost exactly what…
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David Watson
Favorites November 21st 2023
Here's the site for comparing car sizes. I was surprised to learn that my current sedan is actually almost exactly the same size as the first one that I…
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David Watson
Favorites November 20th 2023
This 3d population map of the US is really good. When you switch to diff mode, it makes it really clear that nothing got built in the Bay area for…
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David Watson
Favorites November 19th 2023
Here's a great photo of the SpaceX Starship launch Saturday. Ars Technica's coverage a week beforehand made it clear that if the hot staging stack…
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David Watson
Favorites November 17th 2023
Initial reporting was simply guessing at what could have gone wrong and speculating that Altman may be hard to work with. But Kara Swisher managed to be…
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David Watson
Favorites November 16th 2023
The details of this story were just absolutely ridiculous. They required someone uninstall a wall-mounted toilet because it was too fancy. Someone else…
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David Watson
Favorites November 14th 2023
While using a chatbot to rank chatbot responses isn't ideal, we can at least hope that if it makes mistakes it'll make the same mistake across all…
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David Watson
Favorites November 12th 2023
Trump is running around making very clear that in his second term he would do very bad things. Here's the NYTimes article reporting that he "would…
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