Misinformation rampant. False claims trumpeted in headlines & front page splashes. Corrections are tiny and buried deep in the paper. No wonder commercial mass media lacks credibility.
Misinformation rampant. False claims trumpeted in headlines & front page splashes. Corrections are tiny and buried deep in the paper. No wonder commercial mass media lacks credibility.
Tesla has been a power of good in pioneering EVs but their CEO has blatantly misled customers and shareholders … and gets away with it. Crazy.
Elon Musk admits Teslas will need new hardware for FSD - Full Self Driving
In “Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected,” Peggy Noonan discusses the divide between the ‘protected’ elite and the ‘unprotected’ masses. Still relevant and worth a read. peggynoonan.com/trump-and…
Critics are calling out China’s DeepSeek’s censorship of some Chinese history. Fair enough.
But how far off is US censorship of LLMs? What happens when Mad King Donald disagrees with their version of the truth?
Out with the old circa 2011. In with a new Kindle Paperwhite. A big leap forward.
Old one used 3G GPRS to load books on demand in 150+ countries across the globe. 3G network is dead. WiFi rules.
Bigger screen, smaller footprint. What’s not to like?
Bill Gates calls Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right politicians abroad ‘insane shit’
Not a fan of Gates, the tech monopolist.
Appreciate the practical philanthropy of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; made a real difference in the world; Health, Education, Sanitation.
Well worth a regular read. Here’s a recent example.
Barely a week passes without another break through in AI.
This week it’s the release of DeepSeek R1 - an open-source ChatGPT competitor from China.
It is causing a wide range of reactions from Silicon Valley from
Well it’s been a while since my first post 33.75 years ago to rec.music.beatles back when all we had were dial-up modems and text views.
The first browser (Mosaic) was still a couple of years away (end of 1993 for Macs). So we did our best to communicate across the planet with Usenet in all it’s green text on black glory.