Favorites September 19th 2024
The Ioniq 5's styling isn't really for me, but I certainly prefer it to the ID.4, and I've certainly thought of it as a hatchback before, wild that it's the same overall shape. Wild what you can accomplish with soo few mistakes”.
This 'create a podcast where the hosts discuss your document' feature got a ton of discussion recently. Here's another example where they asked it to explain random noise (cachd). One guy fed in the famous chicken paper and got predictably funny results. Finally, here's one where they sent it 100k of the word 'Hi"
There's a transit line right there. Why aren't they using it.
It's definitely worth very carefully reading the definition of "Out-of-Pocket"
Longer Reads
• Thread about a study regarding educating folks about housing (cached). TL;DR: unlike most other commodoties, people tend to think that new housing drives up rent of existing homes, the study showed that a short educational video on the subject was extremely effective at changing minds, even compared to other economics educational videos. (src)(cached)
• Fun article about secrets hidden within a website that contained nothing but one million checkboxes. (src)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Summary of an article about how President Xi's crackdown on the tech industry has continued. It may have taken down biotech too (src)(cached)
– India should require Chinese investment be 50/50 joint ventures, just like China previously required of outside investment. (src)(cached)
– JD Vance, trying to claim immigration doesn't help the US, says that if it did, we have so much that we'd be the most prosperous nation in the world. But like... Yes. we are. (src)(cached)
– Some stats from Sam Altman about their new OpenAI o1 model. Here's more technical detail from their site. Although it still sometimes makes mistakes when you ask it how many 'r's (cached) there are in Strawberry. Here's an envaluation of o1's capabilities from a third party, who says it's better than 4o, but moody (src)(cached)
– Sankey chart of how mass shootings end. (src)(cached)
– Waymo is expanding to two more cities, and they won't even be doing fleet management themselves, they're handing that off to Uber. (src)(cached)
– Trump is talking about deporting people who are here legally and have done nothing wrong. Yuck. Vance too, it's really unamerican (cached) (src)(cached)
– The influential "Firebomb a Walmart" meme now has a 'know your meme' webpage. (src)(cached)
– Thierry Breton, the primary opponent of technological progress in the European Union "resigned", but it appears that he was pushed out (cached). Ben Thompson syays it's simple, they went too far with integration (src)(cached)