Ancient DNA identifies the southern Urals as a primary source for the 10th-century Hungarians cell.com/cell/fulltext/… 👆their descendants persisted in the Volga-Kama region until at least the 14th century

The presence of deeply divergent Denisovan ancestry in both Oceanians and South Asians makes it plausible that the Denisovans that contributed ancestry to these groups were isolated in South Asia by the Himalayas. A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan

Fascinating and unsurprising paper. LLMs "brain rot" from attending to junk content.

The least believable part of this monologue is that MSFT is dutifully staying within the limits of their water permit in a South American country lol.

Forced selling without anyone showing a bid, good luck with that...

New high quality Denisovan genome unearths evidence for 'super archaic' admixture into Denisovans and at least three distinct sources of Denisovan ancestry in modern humans.

Everyone talks about AI slop. No one talks about PE (private equity) slop. - restaurants that lost their soul - medical practices that feel like assembly lines - apartment buildings designed by an Excel formula The algorithm didn’t kill culture. The margin model did.

Windows Right, and if we don't want AI at all on our PC? How do we get rid of it? Considering that AI and the grotesque amount of resources it wastes is absolutely NOT necessary for any task an operating system needs to do, we absolutely should be able to disable it if we want to.

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Decoupling:

Ouch! A compilation of Sora 2 physics fails.

OpenAI does not have the money => data centers getting built becomes a risk => no GPUs get purchased => $NVDA self-finances OpenAI to keep the bubble inflated => will investors buy it all?

No AGI for you. Yes. reinforcement learning (RL) is a huge waste of time primarily because there is no intelligence in it. It's a brute-force search within a computer simulation (closed domain). The worst part is that RL can't learn continually in the real world.

BRICS is the best tool vs sanctions..55% of world population and 40% of GDP (cf 8% and 35% for NATO members).

amit Wait my redux is a bit simpler: bunch of different existing players got played by a film flam man, I mean child...

Is astonishing to me how many mainstream economists are oblivious to the ideological capture of their own profession, and genuinely believe that the history of economic thought is akin to the that of the hard sciences.

Argentina's right-wing libertarian government is run by Wall Street, both indirectly and directly. President Javier Milei's minister & vice minister of the economy, and the president & vice president of the central bank, all previously worked for JPMorgan, the largest US bank.

Boring_Business Pointless exercise. LLMs hallucinate. They will cook up EBITDA numbers. Financial modelling is not the domain for LLMs.

Google will suffocate the open web - effectively killing it - once they fully transition to AI search, too. And they know that. They just don't care. They've stolen all the information on the internet to build their AI and fully intend to replace the entire work economy of