In the U.S., during the Great Depression, sacks containing flour and grain were made of cloth, primarily cotton. The Kansas Wheat Company realized that the poorest families were reusing the sacks to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more appealing they decided to

The old Slănic salt mine in Prahova county, Romania.

Closed for extraction purposes, it's now open for visitors, featuring a microclimate with natural air-conditioning and constant temperature and atmospheric pressure throughout the year.

The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson. You all thought it was math or something

If open source is 'bad for national security' why does Linux run all the nuclear subs in the US, every super computer in the US for national defense and everything else, all the Gov clouds in the major clouds that the government runs on, the military laptops of service personel

Clearly Vinod Khosla can profit financially from a closed approach to AI.
But I don't think that his main reason to oppose open source frontier models.
He is genuinely worried about China getting its hands on it.
That worry is misguided.

First, Chinese AI scientists and engineers

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A giant 21 inch 4.5 lb toy for adults.

The largest solar farm globally is the Golmud Solar Park in China, with a capacity of 2.8 GW.

The park has almost seven million solar panels and the plan is to increase the park's capacity to 16 GW within the next five to six years.

Courtship display of male peacock spiders

this looks fun

Nope, not a Velociraptor

tortoise vs hare irl

How cells divide in your body:

#MedTwitter

Can we please stop with the overpopulation nonsense,
humanity is literally wasting away

Wow , this brings memories.

So weird how we thought back then

No cell phones, no internet, not even computers.

Newspapers in the morning and the talking heads on the television at night

If I'd go back and tell my normal life today, They'd laugh it off as science

History Repeats Itself As Communists Run Out Of Food buff.ly/4dirV8f

MEET THE PHOTOVOLTAIC GOATS OF THE GOBI DESERT

The 2.2GW Talatan Solar Park is the second largest solar installation in the world. It also accidentally greened the desert. Before the panels arrived starting 2012, it was a barren landscape, 98.5% desert, and so windy the swept-up

Disney Research is doing really incredible robotics work

Brickit is an app that scans all your LEGO bricks: it will recognize all of them and then give you suggestions on what you can build with the bricks that you have.

[📹 rainbow. construction]