Favorites October 24th 202
Great article full of size comparisons of the smallest current phones. Sadly they didn't include any comparisons to the ideally-sized iPhone 4.
According to the article, the EPA normally only allows one extra cancer case per million people, so this seems pretty unusual. It's for boat fuel, if you were wondering.
Longer Reads
• Great article about how the FAA has made changes to the safety designations for light and experimental aircraft. TL;DR: they seem to have a very good system for making risk changes, and the updated rules make a lot of sense. (src)
• A thread discussing the fact that the best US public schools are the ones run by the DoD. (src)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Toyota says they're really close to mass production on their solid state batteries. I hope they're right, because that would be great. (src)
– More studies about COVID19 and gut health (src)
– Apple and Nvidia have always had a bad relationship, Apple mostly refuses to put Nvidia GPUs in macs, but now Apple appears to be buying billions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPUs for AI training. (src)
– A naive implementation of using an LLM to forecast world events did worse than random. (src)
– Chinese "coast guard" patrolling like a thousand miles from the coast of China. (src)
– Seems like it would be good to have a way to speed up the clinical trial process (src)
– In the past, it's been expected that the US would unify in the face of serious threats, but now those are emerging and we're too used to polarized squabbling (src)
– Shinto Priest blessing Japan's domestically produced F-35 (src)
– Lithium-Ion battery recycling company bankrupt because construction costs are spiraling out of control (src)
– The statue of Unity in India looks wild from the ground. (src)
– British royal navy has some super weird traditions (src)
– Adobe Podcast AI enhance will attempt to turn random sounds into speech sounds. (src)
– "The difference between Wikipedia and Twitter is that Wikipedia is intentionally a non-profit." (src)
– US towns that are having a hard time sometimes decide to pretend to be Bavaria (src)
– Get around Prop 13 by instituting parcel taxes that are per lot square foot. (src)
– RLHF works pretty well for training AI, but it tends to make them sycophants. We're going to need to find ways to do better. (src)