There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
Hangul
Oh, yup, these are not derived from Phoenecian, but considering how recent they are they were developed after the concept of a phonetic alphabet had already been widely circulated
Do you have any info on that? I’m not too familiar with Eastern languages, but all of the examples that I can think of have phonetic alphabets less than a millennium old.
Yes, but it’s quite recent, only a few hundred years old - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul
The most insane thing to me is that — as far as anyone can tell — a phonetic alphabet was developed only once in all oh human history.
I’d say that this is the kind of thing we elect leaders to decide and implement for us, but my leaders are a bunch of fucking morons.
We've got to go dig them holes. 🎶
Zurich-based mimic has raised $2.5mn to further develop its AI-powered humanoid hand that can perform repetitive and demanding manual tasks.
That clipped ear says they've also been neutered, so... maybe think hard about what that kind of lifestyle change entails.
Investors who don’t bother reading past the letters A and I in the prospectus.
How is Worldcoin still a thing?
Maybe true, but even at $3500 the Vision Pro would be about the cheapest thing in the operating theater anyway.
The ability to see and highlight critical details more easily or have surgery-aiding software could improve medical outcomes for all.
In this niche case the Vision Pro seems like it has some compelling benefits.
Can a non-profit foundation get Home Assistant to the point of Home Depot boxes?
Are you looking for a tool that can diff legal documents line by line or clause by clause? If the latter I’d bet an LLM with a large context size could do a pretty good job, especially if you used a script (or another pass through the LLM) to break them down into like sections so that could just compare e.g. all Controlling Law sections with each other and all IP Indemnification sections with each other.
Now that I think about it, tuning the prompt (and keeping the temperature very low, like 0) you could probably get it to return everything from proper diffs to summaries of conceptual differences. And it could definitely do multiples at once if you were to break them into like pieces ahead of time.
I bought one of these when the Amazon meme first got big. It has become a family tradition to try to hide it in somebody’s drawer/under a pillow/etc and claim that it was the power of the wolves. And then wait for it to make its way back….
My family’s spread out. Ours are well-traveled wolves.
"Aerospace chocolatiers" would be a great name for an experimental, new-age music troupe.
If Ukraine is forced to capitulate It could be 20x this number and the Kremlin would still consider it a massive win.
The interesting part of the article:
The new flexible polymer and carbon composite boom is coupled with a twelve-unit (12U) CubeSat built by NanoAvionics. After the mission launches atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand, the spacecraft will go into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 600 miles (~1,000 km) and the sail will deploy in about 25 minutes to cover an area of 860 ft² (80 m²) with the boom unfolding from the size of a hand to 23 ft (7 m) long. Once deployed, the sail will adjust the vehicle's orbit by angling itself in relation to the solar wind.
This is why AI-created content will win the day. No complicated moral or ethical quandaries to navigate. Oh, except electricity usage. And copyright issues. And diminishing the value of human art and artists. And the possibility of skynet ending humanity.
Looks like it’s back to scratching rough drawings into the dirt for me…
Ironically (to everyone but him) Trump himself is the reason a lot of people from the "good" countries would never consider moving here.
Smaller LLMs seemingly have faster reactions
The U.S. Geological Survey initially measured the earthquake at a 4.8-magnitude. An aftershock of 4.0-magnitude hit later in the day.
Raw data from the USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive
The electron is the basic unit of electricity, as it carries a single negative charge. This is what we're taught in high school physics, and it is overwhelmingly the case in most materials in nature.
Graphene: is there anything it can't do (aside from be manufactured at scale, anyway)
Astrophysicists studying a popular exoplanet in its star's habitable zone have found that electric currents in the planet's upper atmosphere could create sufficient heating to expand the atmosphere enough that it leaves the planet, likely leaving the planet uninhabitable.
The Raspberry Pi powers the show, but the real star is the exquisite build and test process to achieve 600 RPM
Some serious engineering makes for a pretty compelling voxel display. Plus the whole build saga is on Mastodon! Go Fediverse!
Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.
A SpaceX engineer details how the company is using a fleet of 9,000 lasers over the Starlink constellation to deliver high-speed internet across the globe.
SpaceX's laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today. That translates into 42 million gigabytes. Each of the 9,000 lasers in the network is capable of transmitting at 100Gbps, and satellites can form ad-hoc mesh networks to complete long-haul transmissions when there are no ground towers nearby (like when they're going across oceans).
It's not just you – things really are getting worse
Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we're closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech's power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.
Noticed I was logged out of lemmy.ml this morning. When I logged in, everything looked the same, but... "All" loaded instantly. Switching to "Subscribed" was just as fast. Post thumbnails came up as quickly as I could scroll.
I don't know if it's the new software or if y'all cleared out some cruft when restarting the services, but from this end-user's perspective, Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.8 flies. Nicely done!
Copyright activists are on a mission to wipe a popular generative AI training set from the internet. Success could alter the industry—and who controls it.
Increasingly, the authors of works being used to train large language models are complaining (and rightfully so) that they never gave permission for such a use-case. If I were an LLM company, I'd be seriously looking for a Plan B right now, whether that's engaging publishing companies to come up with new licensing options, paying 1,000,000 grad students to write 1,000,000 lines of prose, or something else entirely.
This could be a groundbreaking advancement in obesity treatment that allows people to lose weight without compromising appetite or avoiding fats.
A new discovery reveals that astrocytes, star-shaped cells in the brain, play a key role in regulating fat metabolism and obesity. These cells act on a cluster of neurons, known as the GABRA5 cluster, effectively acting as a “switch” for weight regulation.
The MAO-B enzyme in these astrocytes was identified as a target for obesity treatment, influencing GABA secretion and thus weight regulation.
KDS2010, a selective and reversible MAO-B inhibitor, successfully led to weight loss in obese mice without impacting their food intake, even while consuming a high-fat diet, and is now in Phase 1 clinical trials.
A new study has found that antioxidants like vitamins C and E activate a mechanism that stimulates the growth of new blood vessels in cancer tumors, helping them to grow and spread. The researchers say their findings highlight the potential risk of taking antioxidant supplements when they’re not…
“We’ve found that antioxidants activate a mechanism that causes cancer tumors to form new blood vessels, which is surprising since it was previously thought that antioxidants have a protective effect,” said Martin Bergö, a new study’s author. “The new blood vessels nourish the tumors and can help them grow and spread.” It's worth noting that there's no harm in consuming normal antioxidant-rich foods in normal quantities, though.
Ever wonder why cats love tuna? Well apparently a bunch of scientists did too, and they found the answer: the umami flavor (savoriness in English, I guess), is a cat's most favorite (as opposed to mine, which is definitely sweet).
Republicans seem to depolarize more than Democrats.
Researchers conducted a study to see if social media could help bridge the political divide by facilitating anonymous conversations between individuals with opposing political views. The study used an app called DiscussIt, which allowed users to have anonymous one-on-one discussions about controversial topics. The researchers found that these conversations reduced polarization, particularly among Republican participants. However, there are practical challenges to implementing this approach on a larger scale, as most people do not engage in one-on-one conversations with strangers on social media. Nonetheless, the findings suggest that displaying respect for political opponents and engaging in civil conversations can make a difference in reducing polarization.