6.29

Seems possible if not probable that while every open-source reporter in the world was watching very public and eventually government-confirmed B-2 flights westward, a guy in his backyard in Missouri saw the real, undisclosed and untracked mission heading east.

The idea of a “Python dev” or “React dev” is outdated. Going forward, I won’t be hiring for languages, I’ll hire devs who can solve problems, no matter the stack. The language barrier is completely gone.

Hawaii Highways.

The main strongpoint for TPUs is in their scalability. This is achieved through a co-design of both the hardware side (e.g. energy efficiency and modularity) and the software side (e.g. XLA compiler).

While the Covid mRNA vaccines may have provided a therapeutic effect during the fall 2021 B.1.617.2 variant wave, helping to keep some vulnerable individuals out of the hospital, this benefit did not translate into reduced infection rates or into any arguable offset in overall mortality. In contrast, the Week 14, 2021 inception of the mRNA vaccine has led to a pronounced and pervasive inflection in mortality across multiple-dozens of ICD codes. This shift has resulted in more than 840,000 excess deaths from causes other than Covid or non-natural means (see Charts 3b and 4c). These deaths have come mainly as a result of the vaccine itself (see Charts 3c and 3d) – a mortality total which is 25 times greater than the 33,000 lives the CDC claimed could have been saved by the B.1.617.2-valent vaccine during the Delta Variant wave. Nations with a low rate of Covid and high rate of mRNA vaccination serve to confirm both the timing and cause of this excess mortality.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is the only rocket among Amazon’s launch providers that has actually flown at the kind of cadence envisioned for the Kuiper network. The Falcon 9 currently flies at an average rate of once every two days, primarily on missions with SpaceX’s own Starlink broadband satellites. So Amazon went to SpaceX in 2023 and booked three initial rides on the Falcon 9. SpaceX’s Starlink network dominates the satellite broadband market, with more than 5 million subscribers connecting to approximately 7,000 satellites currently active in the constellation.

The Nicene Creed in Old English, translated by Ælfric

Live data from all US ISOs/RTOs in a single, intuitive platform. Gain seamless visibility into the grid, stay ahead of market shifts, and never miss critical events with instant, customizable alerts.

That was the theory at least, but the economic case was always confused. Stewart is (correctly) a fan of the book ‘How Big Things Get Done’ and quotes a line from it: “Projects don’t go wrong, they start wrong.” HS2’s problems started with the vision: while the strategic case was about capacity, the economic case focused on travel times, which were easier to measure and talk about, and more in line with how the Department for Transport typically talks about projects. The conflict between the strategic case and how the economic case was talked about led to constant confusion about the purpose of HS2 in the public discourse (epitomised by Jenkins above), but also made it hard to know how to evaluate proposed solutions.


“We have 50 people that have given $50,000 or more,” Gee said.

Gifts of $1 million or more came from the state of Wisconsin, Dane County, Ascendium, American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation, Summit Credit Union and TruStage. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Mark Pocan helped the center secure federal grants for the project, too.

The gift that pushed the campaign to meet its goal was actually a second donation from Ascendium, the Madison-based nonprofit that supports education and workforce training. Ascendium gave the final $626,000 to help the center meet its fundraising goal.

Steve Vig, 51, of Madison, had just left the produce section with his shopping cart and was walking up the meats aisle toward the back of the store about 8:40 p.m. when he heard a loud crash behind him. “For a moment I thought a display had fallen over but realized the sound was too loud for that,” Vig said. When he turned around, a veritable Niagara Falls was pouring through the roof onto the sale items between the produce and meat sections.

Anthropic purchased millions of physical print books to digitally scan them for Claude.

Tanden confirmed that during her tenure as White House staff secretary, she oversaw the many documents coming to and from the president’s desk, and she noted that her role included authorization to direct autopen use.

One also starts understanding how much the American NGO community, by blathering on about future monetary opportunities for nation-building, contributes to the unending nature of all these crises. National collapse of Iran is in none of the primary three demographics I named above. Urban elites are aware of the results of chaos. The IRGC and the mullahs lose their retirement plan. And the rural poor are still bereft, and powerless. There is no land war even for their sons to be drafted into. And the Iran-Iraq War is not that long ago – only 38 years.

German automotive industry signs Memorandum of Understanding for joint software development based on open source.

San Francisco Streets.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur (The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.)

— attributed to Petronius (c. 27-66 AD)

But the city has taken well to the vacuum of our present national drift. Here a new, more bloody-minded politics thrives, in which eccentrics and civic entrepreneurs can achieve cult status by picking up the litter where the council will not, invading Cineworld to cancel a screening of an Indian film deemed anti-Islam and calling the Prime Minister a “wasteman” in a viral TikTok.

The vast majority of Americans (83%) say they have not paid for news in the past year, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March. Another 17% say they have directly paid or given money to a news source by subscribing, donating or becoming a member during that time.

At the same time, 74% run into paywalls at least sometimes when they are looking for news online. This includes 38% who say they come across paywalled articles extremely often or often.

I continue to hold that feminism is the KEY movement that has undermined the success of western culture. Their zealotry has led to the destruction of the nuclear family (the most important factor in a healthy nation). They have helped to facilitate the near collapse of the west and this problem needs to be addressed before it’s too late.

During my time in Ukraine, I collected statistics on the success of our drone operations. I found that 43 percent of our sorties resulted in a hit on the intended target in the sense that the drone was able to successfully fly all the way to the target, identify it correctly, hit it, and the drone’s explosive charge detonated as it was supposed to. This number does not include instances when our higher command requested a sortie but we had to decline because we knew that we could not strike the target for reasons such as weather, technical problems, or electronic interference. If this type of pre-aborted mission is included in the total, the success rate drops to between 20 and 30 percent. On the face of it, this success rate is bad, but that is not the whole story.

This is not a niche opportunity; it’s a growing, scalable energy resource. More than 100,000 EVs will come off U.S. roads this year alone. Today, over 5 million EVs are active on U.S. roads, representing an estimated 350 GWh of energy that will reach end-of-life in the coming years. And with another 150 GWh entering the operational fleet annually, that total is increasing fast and could supply 50% or more of the entire energy storage market.  

Log rolling is a sport with deep historical roots, derived almost 200 years ago on river drives, according to Verstegen. “Lumberjacks put the timber into the rivers, and they had to steer the timber down the rivers and kind of prevent log jams.”

But the move has been canceled, and the brick house at 427 W. Mifflin St. — deemed historically significant by the city in part because it was designed by a noted Madison architect — will be demolished to make way for a larger residential development at the site.

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen of Death. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a simplified black screen.

Society said in its suit, filed Nov. 6, that “while responding to the fire call, the Madison Fire Department discovered several city-owned fire hydrants were under-pressurized or not pressurized at all.”

Now with the full set of nearly a thousand comments on the CMS RFI.

Chief Justice Roberts Speaks at Fourth Circuit Conference.

Available on this site is a complete history of cycling maps, including well over a hundred carefully-selected and restored extracts from the main providers of such maps. It has been created specifically and wholly for that purpose for the general public with an interest in such matters. it was first published in 2021 and is now much expanded. 

An underappreciated passage of Justice Jackson’s dissent in CASA is her appeal to the authority of a fictional space alien.

6.22

Susan Napier, a professor at Tufts University in the United States and author of “Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art,” agrees. “In Ghibli, you have ambiguity, complexity and also a willingness to see that the darkness and light often go together” unlike good-versus-evil U.S. cartoons, she says.

I’d be surprised if the Where2 guys were reading any of these specific papers as they developed the product that became Google Maps, but the quad tree as a thing in computer science was pretty well established by then so they probably didn’t need to go that far back in the literature to land on this idea.

Drive Pilot only works in the right lane, requires a lead vehicle, and disengages in poor weather, construction zones, or when emergency vehicles are present.

Twenty years ago, in winter and spring 2005, President George W. Bush embarked on a nationwide tour to promote his plans for Social Security reform, which included slowing the growth of benefits for middle- and high-earning individuals and establishing voluntary personal accounts in which workers could invest part of their payroll taxes. Bush’s changes to traditional Social Security benefits, termed “progressive price indexing,” would have addressed about two-thirds of the program’s long-term funding gap. By summer 2005, however, his efforts had fallen short; his plan never received a vote in Congress. But what if Congress had enacted Bush’s plan for Social Security? I model total Social Security benefits for individuals retiring in 2025, incorporating Bush’s progressive benefit changes and personal account balances based on investment market returns. Workers with very low, low, and middle earnings would have received total Social Security benefits 3–8 percent above those scheduled in current law, while high-earning employees and those earning the maximum taxable wage and above would have received benefits 2–4 percent below scheduled levels.

Oil 2025 looks beyond the short-term horizon covered in the IEA’s monthly Oil Market Report (OMR) to provide a comprehensive overview of evolving oil supply, demand, refining and trade dynamics through 2030. This Report presents detailed forecasts and analysis of oil demand fundamentals across fuels, sectors and regions as well as the supply outlook from planned upstream and downstream projects around the world. The results provide valuable insights on the prospects for spare oil production capacity, product supply and trade flows through 2030. Oil 2025 also explores the implications of surging output of natural gas liquids (NGLs) in an era of petrochemical-driven demand growth.

Carbon County Sheriff Alex Bakken had just finished a meeting Monday night with emergency dispatchers in Saratoga, Wyoming, when he jumped in his car and saw an alert for three missing hikers lost on Medicine Bow Peak.

Find out about quantum-secure encryption in TLS and how to check if your organisation’s web servers are ready.

An international club where dull people meet online to share the tedium of everyday lives is immensely popular. But for one man it’s a place of poignant connection.

The book is a revelation. What becomes clear is that, in policy circles, it is now impossible to express any opinion which is pro-car or in favor of roadbuilding. The only approved vision of the future involves extracting people from their cars and cramming them into some form of mass transit. This is obvious nonsense. While trains and buses are fine for very specific journeys, for the overwhelming number of journeys we make day to day, the car is either irreplaceable, or else supreme. If it’s raining, if you have luggage, if you have children, if you want to transport anything heavier than a suitcase, if you want to travel at an unusual time or anywhere remotely rural, the car or van wins hands down. And I write this as someone who really likes trains.

Jon Ossoff and his wife announced the birth of their new baby on 6/2.

Unsurprisingly, he has missed almost every single vote since the end of May, as he should.

But he came back for the first time yesterday….to vote for the crypto industry’s GENIUS Act.

Although perhaps the biggest changes are still to come, AI tools are already reshaping how films are written, sold and made in big ways.

A former employee at Austin, Minn.-based Hormel emailed recipes and proprietary information to his personal account before joining brat-maker Johnsonville, a federal lawsuit alleges.

What its marketing literature barely mentions is perhaps one of the car’s secret selling points, at least at home. The R5 comes with an optional and detachable tubular basket known as a porte-baguette, or baguette-holder, to store the only accessory motorists in France really need. ?

Renowned Chinese scholar Lu Feng makes the case for why China needs more–not less–industrial development, particularly in its showdown with the US.

Obviously, if Hill can get this information from public data, Iran has it and far more. Iran has the targeting coordinates of these sites and far more than that (on-the-ground spies). Hill isn’t even in Israel. Hill isn’t giving Iran anything they don’t easily have themselves.

Thomas Jefferson & John Jay wrote this report of their meeting with a Muslim ambassador from Tripoli in 1786. Tripoli was enslaving American sailors at the time. Even though it is one of the only documents where Thomas Jefferson mentions Islam, PBS omits it entirely from their documentary on “How Muslims influenced Thomas Jefferson and America’s Founders.”

But WPR’s budget troubles predate those moves in Washington. The prospect of layoffs at the organization was publicly reported in May, and there is a planned merger between WPR and PBS Wisconsin, both part of the Division of Public Media. Multiple employees said that the prospect of layoffs was first raised almost a year ago.

Here’s our response to @HHSGov’s RFI re: building a tech ecosystem that prioritizes patients’ access to their info, ensures physicians can base care decisions on complete and accurate medical records, and reduces administrative burden by improving payer-provider communication.?

She wants men to play by her rules. She misses them. How pitiful.

The negligible usage reflects implementation barriers, not lack of need. The dissatisfaction stems from execution challenges that Epic has not resolved.

The latest technologies have transformed maritime warfare, much the way they have rewritten the script for land wars in Ukraine—forcing militaries to adapt in real time. The U.S. is developing fresh ways to intercept the newest drones and missiles but still relies largely on expensive defense systems.

Researchers have studied the relationship between beauty and usability for decades. In 1995, researchers at Hitachi discovered that users consistently rated more visually pleasing interfaces as easier to use—even when the underlying functionality was identical (1). Later, researchers coined this phenomenon the aesthetic–usability effect: the tendency for people to perceive attractive things as more usable (2). In other words, if something looks well-made, we believe it will work well—even before we’ve interacted with it.

‘Most important Memphian of all time’ has died

6.15

Last June, alders greenlit the rezoning of parcels from 6610 to 6706 Old Sauk Road that would have allowed the space to be developed into a new three-story apartment building. However, the rezoning was vacated after Judge Rhonda Lanford ruled that city officials didn’t follow the law in the process of rezoning the parcels.

Once I was in office, we restored the limits to cover those living in poverty and eliminated the waiting list. Today, my state is the only one in the nation to have no gap in insurance coverage despite not having taken the expansion. Second, I did not want to put more people on government assistance. For those who are able, public assistance should be more like a trampoline than a hammock. True freedom and prosperity do not come from the clumsy hand of the government. They come from empowering people to control their own destiny through the dignity of work.

Toyota released a pro-life ad highlighting Lauren Woolstencroft—born without legs—who went on to defy the odds and become an 8X Paralympic gold medalist.

Lifting the ban on supersonic flight.

Note that this is the inevitable result of mass immigration that was predicted by proto-nationalists decades ago. It is why the entire immigration debate about crime and economics was always irrelevant and fundamentally missing the point. The reason for banning immigration and protecting the nation’s demographics, as was done in the early 1920s, is to preserve the nature of the society.

Boeing now hopes the 777X will be certified later this year and first deliveries in 2026. But all the Xs that have been built and stored must go through Change Incorporation to whatever new standards the FAA requires for certification; and upgrades that happen in the normal course of elapsed time. The airplanes also must be pulled out of long-term storage, all systems tested, and if necessary repaired or replaced.

This glossy rebrand rings hollow when juxtaposed with the company’s actions. USAA is close to becoming a corporate zombie, animated by its historical association with U.S. military members and veterans but rotting on the inside.

In experiments with mice and studies with human tissue samples, the researchers conducting the new study saw that anaerobic microbes from the colon not only colonized the small bowel after a single transplant but also persisted there for months. These microbes also changed their new intestinal environments to their advantage, “terraforming” them in ways that caused changes in the recipient’s metabolism, behavior, and energy balance.

As for the business’s iconic green and yellow color scheme, Lance said it was his dad who came up with it some time after he returned from Korea. Back then they had to mix the colors carefully to get the correct shade, he said. Apparently it worked. People would always recognize the colors. A woman in Waterloo hand-lettered the trucks and signs until probably 2000, Lance said, when they started wrapping the trucks.

However the other name in the email raised some eyebrows, coming so soon after the announcement that New Glenn’s cadence would be significantly slower than expected. Jarrett Jones, the senior vice president running the New Glenn program, was said to be “stepping away from his role and taking a well deserved year off” starting on August 15. It is not clear whether this departure was linked to Bezos’ displeasure with the rocket program. One company official said Jones’ sabbatical had been planned, but the timing is curious.

For those new to ACIP who want to know why RFK blew up the entire racket today, you need only watch this clip of a typical meeting.

As a result, people began contacting the Armstrong company asking for the contact information for the artist who “made those beautiful stools.” Esherick received dozens of letters from people inquiring about purchasing his stools from all across the country including Alaska, Georgia, Nebraska, Massachusetts, California, Ohio, and New York. Esherick, and later Miriam Phillips, would answer each letter, letting the potential customer know what was available, how much each stool cost, and on several occasions letting designers know very pointedly that he was not a mass production studio!

I also now deeply understand why experienced business people have a strict “no assholes” policy. I always thought this was throwaway advice, but it only takes one lawsuit to make it clear how incredibly valuable it is to work with people you trust.

“Now, I have a question for you,” Federer said, looking out across a sea of umbrellas at the commencement ceremony for Dartmouth College. “What percentage of points do you think I won in those matches?”

He paused.

Only 54 percent,” he said.

It was one of those statistics that at first seemed incorrect. Federer was one of the most dominant athletic forces of this century. That guy lost nearly half of his points?

Two differing game styles collided in the women’s final with Aryna Sabalenka’s willingness to produce winners and Coco Gauff’s defensive skills and tennis IQ. To understand the difference between the players, one needs to understand the difference in mentality. Players with an aggressive mindset (like Aryna) value winners hit more than unforced errors gained. It’s almost as if a clean winner counts double the points in terms of how it feels to the player. Whereas an extracted unforced error from the opponent is brushed over like it never happened. For Coco and players of Coco’s mindset, on the other hand, an unforced error from the other side is just as much confirmation for doing things right as a down-the-line shot nobody can reach. If you think of the quarterfinal match between Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev, for example, every mistake Zverev made was a confirmation of the strategy applied by Djokovic.

Technology development is inherently risky and the book goes into detail on the many false starts and near misses. Although the focus of the book is usually on hardware and physical concerns such as wire propagation delay, the book pays attention to software concerns in parallel to market changes. Early on, supercomputer customers wrote almost all of their own software but, as the market grew, customers expected more software support from vendors. The latter half of the book includes discussion of operating system development, evolution of compilers (mostly Fortran) and their interplay with instruction sets, and specialized tools for specific industries (e.g. computational fluid dynamics). I was unaware of the early resistance to Unix and the concern that it was “slow.”

Mapbox MCP Server.

Open Planet Data:  first project offers daily snapshots of OpenStreetMap.

Ikuyo Travel Planning

6.8

Today’s web development tools are undeniably more powerful, but they’ve also introduced significant complexity:

JetZero has daunting tasks ahead to successfully bring its BWB, called the Z4, to the market. It needs $7bn to $10bn (it has, publicly, less than $300m). JetZero plans to make a site selection announcement any day now, before the air show. An entirely new production plant is required. It needs to build the plant, production tooling and the final assembly line

Following his visit May 1-2, Phelan ordered Marines and sailors be moved out of the Air Force-owned barracks within 10 days and that new housing aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz be opened about a month ahead of schedule in response to the squalid conditions, according to POGO and confirmed by the Navy. “I actually thought the buildings were condemned,” Phelan told POGO in an interview. “When we pulled up to them and saw what shape they’re in, I was shocked.”

Since 2010, Illinois has increased taxes and fees 70 times at a cost of $110 billions with 49 of the tax and fee hikes coming under Pritzker.

Similar to Mike Posner’s mindset: Instead of trying to figure out what your audience likes, just create what you like. That’ll help sustain motivation when your audience doesn’t really exist. You’ll be more likely to push through plateaus, and you’ll enjoy the process. You’ll also just produce better work.

this was a Techbuilt, which was a prefab home manufacturer started by a group of Harvard architecture professors and based in Cambridge, MA

Shortly after New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen spoke with the Transportation Security Administration about her husband, William Shaheen, TSA officials removed him from a list of people subjected to additional scrutiny under TSA’s “Quiet Skies” domestic surveillance program. 

“Here you don’t second-guess,” a friend of Winters says. “In London if someone is not drinking, you think they have an alcohol problem. Here it is either that, or they’re Mormon or have other religious reasons, or because they look at health.”

Then there’s the newfound ability of non-technical people in the humanities to write their own code. This is a bigger deal than many in my field seem to recognize. I suspect this will change soon. The emerging generation of historians will simply take it for granted that they can create their own custom research and teaching tools and deploy them at will, more or less for free.

Based on intelligence files, field investigations, and dozens of interviews, it lays out a stark diagnosis: The Muslim Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France—not through violence, but through schools, charities, mosques, and soft power. It states: “The Brotherhood’s strategy is to install a form of ideological hegemony by infiltrating civil society under the guise of religious and educational activities.”. The report is the most detailed government study to date of the Brotherhood’s presence in Europe. Written by two civil servants, it draws on months of fieldwork and analysis conducted in France and abroad, with input from diplomats, intelligence officials, academics, and religious figures. Its conclusion is blunt: The Brotherhood operates as a political project. Its goal is not sudden revolution, but gradual transformation. Its targets are hearts and minds. Its strength lies not in secrecy, but in strategic ambiguity. And it is not coming just for France. It is coming for all of the West.

Hovde Properties plans to start the renovation of the Churchill Building this fall and open the hotel about a year later, Schwenker said, though he noted that the opening date is tentative. “We’re going to take our time and do it right,” he said. The renovation will begin with a meticulous interior demolition, informed by an extensive documentation and planning process, he said.

The statement comes some 40 hours after the Postupdated its initial story without an editor’s note or correction notice. One of the authors, former Al Jazeera correspondent Louisa Loveluck, was part of the Post team named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for international reporting on Gaza. She celebrated the affair with a speech to the Post newsroom that condemned the “level of suffering” in Gaza but did not mention Hamas or the Israeli hostages. Loveluck also has a history of receiving editor’s notes on Israel-related coverage.

“This is America’s, and the world’s, Achilles’ heel, which China continuously exploits,” said Nazak Nikakhtar, who was the assistant secretary of commerce overseeing export controls during Mr. Trump’s first term.

The essay isn’t just poorly argued: It has policy implications. Samson both insults and threatens allied governments, implying there will be some kind of US punishment if European states do not change their policies on free speech, election administration, and (for some reason) migration.

A person still has to stare at the results and discriminate if they are good. This is my major criticism of LLM coding in that they casually spit out way too much code per query at arbitrary complexity, pretending there is no stage 2. Getting that much code is bad and scary. Instead, the LLM has to actively work with you to break down problems into little incremental steps, each more easily verifiable. It has to anticipate the computational work of (2) and reduce it as much as possible. It has to really care. and that means knowing the topic well enough to correct the AI

“The agency is doing a lot of littles, a lot of things that other agencies, departments, companies are capable of doing,” Isaacman said. “That’s not why the taxpayers fund NASA. NASA’s funded to do the near impossible that no one else can do.”

These depth maps, along with other imagery, are stored in High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) container files. These files can contain multiple images and vast amounts of metadata. This format was originally designed between 2013 and 2015 and Apple adopted its HEIC variant in 2017.

The tell-tale element is neatly hidden at the back: a church tower like no other in Berlin today. The only original baroque church tower, in fact. It belongs to Sophienkirche – built in 1712-1713 and, as if by a miracle, not hit by massive bombs in the WW2 air-raids or pulverised during the battle for Berlin in April-May 1945.

Went into Chicago yesterday. Some sticker shock. Uber wanted $38 for a 1.7 mi ride from the train station to the Sheraton hotel (it was raining otherwise would have walked). A regular cab was $8. Our breakfast companion said the hotel wanted $500/nite. Ridiculous.

2a. If they have expired, what is the legal basis you think the family has to stay? Particularly in light of the fact that their illegally here father is an antisemite accused of some pretty heinous crimes. (see 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B))

county officials told her it would be “quite a while before any real estate transactions would take place.” Baron said she reached out to politicians and county officials but came away with the impression no one knew how long rebuilding the system would take.

Fighting drones isn’t so different from fighting malware: both are a cat-and-mouse game,” Hypponen said. “We try to detect threats that don’t want to be seen. Our adversaries study our methods and adapt, and we update our defenses in response. I’m bringing decades of expertise to this area, tackling a fight that matters now more than ever.”

BREAKING: I have obtained the internal memo outlining reasons behind Microsoft Build’s(@Microsoft) exit from Seattle. This is an absolute indictment on Mayor Bruce Harrell’s(@MayorofSeattle) administration and shows his failure to get the homeless drug crisis under control. ??

As part of the transaction, the new ownership group did two things: 
1?? Sold the land to Prudential for $29M and entered into a 114 ground lease (with rent payments going down over time, this is important)  2?? Raised $33 million from over 3,000 shareholders in Empire State Building Associates.

I told him I had to finish my PhD, a required credential for researching brains and consciousness. But Jef would not take “No” for an answer, and sent me roundtrip airplane tickets with a note: “Just visit for a weekend, no strings attached.” My dad lived in nearby Los Gatos so I decided to visit.

If you want even more understanding, you can go further and test the tap water that comes out of your faucet. Doing so is not cheap — but it is much more affordable and far less of a hassle than a lifetime of maintaining a filtration system that you may not have needed in the first place. (Because about 15% of the US populace, or 43 million people, uses water from unregulated private wells, we include both utility and well-water test kits in our guide.)

BREAKING: Apple just proved AI “reasoning” models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don’t actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

Furthermore, look at the libertarian & green parties. They have been working for years & still don’t have complete ballot access.

6.1

This approach reflected a belief by the policymakers that property ownership could strengthen community responsibility and social stability. During the war, the federal government rented these homes to workers at regulated rates designed to be fair, while covering maintenance costs. After the war, the government began selling the homes – often to the tenants living in them – through affordable installment plans that provided a practical path to ownership.

One thing I’ve noticed in watching people photograph—and I do that any chance I can get, because it’s so informative—is just how many people are (a) get to a place; (b) pick up the camera; (c) take a quick photo; and (d) move on. No time contemplating, no time checking or making settings, no questioning their choices, and often very bad handling because they’re moving so quickly doing things. I expect those folk to fail. 

The propaganda was the purpose, all ramping up Islamophobia to justify the Western destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. When the Manchester Arena attack eventually did happen, it turned out that MI5 had been the perpetrator’s sponsor and he and his father had been ferried from Libya by the British armed forces. Sponsorship of terrorism abroad is always likely to result in blowback at home.

Just in: The American Land Title Association (@ALTAonline) has compiled title insurance industry financial data? for 2024. I always like to break this down in a big ?to share what I think is important. Glad to hear your thoughts, too.

Toyota mounts software challenge to Tesla and Chinese rivals.

It is easy to think of examples of software which has made work more prescriptive or structured, from real-time tracking of logistics workers to the use of tools which allow managers to keep track of white-collar workers’ productivity. Felstead describes this trend as “discretion-sapping technological change.”

The in-house system, known as Arene, will provide over-the-air updates to help drivers with manoeuvres such as lane keeping and parking, as well as multimedia and entertainment features. It will debut in the next-generation RAV4 sport utility vehicle.

The software platform is central to Toyota’s efforts to lay the groundwork for autonomous driving, accumulate driving data and catch up with competitors that have banked on the provision of digital services — paid and unpaid — to add value to cars.

It is the first fruit of seven years of labour by the entity that became Woven by Toyota, a subsidiary established by the automaker to boost software development competitiveness and break from its slower-moving car manufacturing culture.

Anton has risen to the top by playing his cards close to his chest and deftly navigating the right’s warring foreign policy camps.

If Mark Papko is confirmed this spring as the Dane County Regional Airport’s new leader, one of his first priorities will be securing an international designation for the travel hub.

That’s because the bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in the history of cinema—and one of the weirdest and most inexplicable flubs in any movie I can remember. It is elaborately, even ornately wrong. It has haunted not just me but, as I’d later learn, the birding community at large for almost a quarter of a century.

“We weren’t expecting to automate so many processes in China, but the Chinese suppliers’ pricing is very low,” says Tobias Liebeck, Audi’s head of manufacturing engineering at the Changchun plant. China now has more robots per 10,000 workers than Germany.

That was the case, until Frank Luntz (American political commentator commonly seen on CNBC, Bloomberg, who also has a 400,000+ follower count on Twitter) somehow saw my tweet and took interest in the site.

Tariff court decision

Once implemented, the second-home tax approach will divide residential properties into two tiers, applying higher rates to second homes and short-term rental properties in an effort to backfill residential cuts and minimize spillover onto business properties. The package also includes several rate tiers that lean the tax system harder on high-value homes in an effort to focus more relief on lower-value properties.

  • U.S. providers conducted 42 orbital launches in Q1
  • Chinese providers conducted 17 launches
  • A total of 900 spacecraft were launched globally
  • Satellites under 1,200 kg accounted for 98% of spacecraft launched and 85% of total upmass

If you go more south and inland, you get the edge of the Sahara Desert. I’ve seen plenty of that before in Mauritania but I didn’t have much experiences with oases, which are quite cool with their palm groves growing in the middle of the desert. Better yet, completely unbeknownst to me before going and presumably to the rest of the world too, Tunisia has an Aral Sea thing going on with at least two large lakes in the south called Chott el Djerrid and Chott el Gharsa. If you look at them on Google Maps, you’ll see two blue bubbles:

Congress can’t give this power over from the legislature to the executive just by passing a normal law. That would take a constitutional amendment. But it can pass laws to delegate part of its power to the president in limited ways.

On Henry James and the State of Literary Criticism

As things stand today, he said, “I will not recommend this for anyone else unless they have a stomach of titanium.”. The relocation, if it takes place, will come almost exactly a year after Madison developer Brandon Cook transported a four-story brick apartment building about two blocks — from 438 W. Dayton St. to 531 W. Mifflin St. — over the course of three days, at a cost that topped $1 million. Cook’s ambitious project nearly fell through at the last minute, and he ran out of time to move a second structure to the West Mifflin Street lot before it was demolished. But the main building reached its destination intact.

Graham’s crackers were intentionally bland and reportedly tasted like bran saltine crackers without the salt. Free from spices or sugar, these graham crackers were invented with the goal of suppressing undesirable passions.

If we do this well, AI models will become capable of the same kind of online learning that humans can do: instead of having to work inside bespoke RL environments with custom graders, we will be able to deploy them in the real world for them to learn from their successes and failures. The most plausible way for models to reach this level of meta-learning skill goes through RL, which will require environments of much greater volume and quality than the ones that are available today.

Terrible legacy media and how they went after Elon Musk. Now they are defending Cory Booker for the same hand gesture