The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

The Roman Roads Research Association was formed to advance knowledge of the Roman road network and promote the study of Roman roads and Roman heritage throughout the British Isles. Our work is inspired by Ivan D. Margary whose “Roman Roads in Britain ” (1955) remains the most comprehensive gazetteer ever compiled

Maybe wait and see what Dershowitz does. 

“Anita Dunn has made $40-$50 million off the Democratic Party.”

Importantly, these fare buckets are nested in a hierarchy rather than strictly partitioned. Higher-fare buckets are usually kept open as long as lower buckets have availability, so that expensive fares can always be sold until the flight is full. In fact, if you sum up the seats shown across all buckets, it often exceeds the plane’s actual seat count – because the same physical seat is sellable in any one of several buckets, but obviously can only be sold once. For example, a single economy seat might be simultaneously counted in Y, B, M, and H class availability. This nested structure ensures that if cheap seats sell out, the next bucket opens, and so on up the pricing ladder. Conversely, if demand is weak, an airline might reopen lower fare buckets to stimulate bookings, even after initially closing them. Thus, fare buckets function as overlapping groups of seats with a yield-management-driven pecking order.

How the diamond industry lost its sparkle.

While everyone’s laughing at Hunter Biden again today, remember he is not a nobody. Hunter Biden held a seat on the board of one of the most powerful NGO networks in the world: the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC). This is a group that directs U.S. foreign aid strategy and partners with top corporations, nonprofits, and military sector. Its CEO, Liz Schrayer (formerly AIPAC political director) still advises USAID, and just last year took credit for pushing through $90 billion in foreign aid during a gridlocked Congress.

Within two years of physician groups being acquired, the study found, physician prices increased an average of 15.1%.

The Oshkosh Air Show began this week. One of the airplanes to come to the show is the Boeing B-29, “Doc.” LNA’spartner, AINOnline, reviewed the book written by the organization that restored “Doc” to flying status. Here’s a preview of the review with a link to the full review at the bottom of this post. I had the opportunity to fly in “Doc” in 2022. My story is here. — Scott Hamilton.

Why are there so many hotels named after cities they are not in? Follow along for a data analysis on hotel names.

Relatedly, Advance has long kept its digital brands unusually distinct from its print ones — and it’s insisted on others taking that distinction seriously. (I don’t hear from Advance PR people often, but I’ve received several emails over the years complaining about referencing “The Times Picayune” instead of “The Times-Picayune | NOLA.com”³ or “The Plain Dealer” instead of “The Plain Dealer | cleveland.com.” Hey, bub — you stick to your style guide and I’ll stick to mine, okay?)

Personalized pricing, made possible via surveillance and AI, is distinct from dynamic pricing, in that the former allows a firm to condition pricing on the circumstances of the customer. Hence, two people shopping for airfares at the same time might see different prices based on things like travel purpose (business or leisure), income estimates, browsing behavior, ticket purchase history, website used, or type of device used.

Professor Sun shares:

• Why most Chinese factory workers are surprisingly optimistic about automation, and the unique role of China’s hukou (household registration) system in shaping those attitudes.
• How automation is changing the very structure of Chinese industry, and why large-scale layoffs haven’t materialized the way many feared.
• The migration of millions of former factory workers into service sectors and new forms of employment—and what this means for China’s labor market.
• How China’s experience with automation compares with other countries, and what sets its path apart.
• The emerging challenges and opportunities for both workers and policymakers as AI and digitization continue to advance.

I used to think this Democratic strategy was a conspiracy theory. Turns out it was neither a conspiracy nor a theory.

This literally shut me down. I used to get clients who want to make toys because they visited my site for blog posts and information. Now they don’t need to. Google scraped my content and regurgitates it at the top of the search. Zero visitors now. No clients.

Left unsaid at the time: Healey is giving those same managers — 3,600 in total — a separate raise this month, a 2 percent increase her administration estimates will cost roughly $10 million this fiscal year. Members of Healey’s Cabinet, most of whom were making more than $202,000 a year, are also eligible for the increase, which would boost their pay by more than $4,000 apiece. The raise would mark the second time in six months Healey has given administration managers and Cabinet members a salary bump.

Missing in China offers readers with crucial insights and practical advice to deal with the detention of a loved one in China.

Of course we now have smartphones that sort of do that on the fly. Adobe’s Project Indigo camera app essentially is taking multiple exposures with my iPhone and processing them into a finished image much the same way (actually better, as it will stack out matching detail to reduce noise in it). 

“That’s probably one of the bigger challenges that we have,” VandeWettering said. “You know, there isn’t a lot of comps. There’s not a lot of data out there yet for us to be able to truly model this out in a way that makes sense.”. He’d love for the business to progress where this is more common knowledge, but part of VandeWettering’s job, now, is figuring out questions like: “What’s a starting point guard in the Big Ten worth?“

The facility can support 250 employees per shift and has four main assembly lines with a space for a fifth, Martin said. It currently has 130 employees with hopes of building the staff to 320 members by the end of the year.

I’ve dabbled in all of these. But it was Captain Ron, a Vietnam War vet with a master’s degree in counseling, who truly understood me. Captain Ron’s FearlessFlight® is the only one of these methods I’ve ever stuck with because, well, I like the guy. In our first meeting, a fifteen-minute free coaching session that sprawled well past the time allotted, I asked: How can I have flown so much, and still be so scared? Why am I getting worse, not better, with time? He nodded sagely and explained to me that this is common among people with severe flight anxiety, that our anxiety has created bad mental pathways, and with each bad flight, we reinforce them, making them worse.

As he watched his father stand firm while trading a franchise icon in Montana 32 years ago, Policy likely didn’t imagine he’d one day make a similar call with the Packers after stops at Stanford Law School, the Arena Football League, the NFL office, and beyond. Regardless of what those outside — or even inside — 1265 Lombardi Ave. may think, Policy said he will always do whatever best helps the Packers win.

The U.S. once had more than 19 copper smelters, Dan said. Now, there are only two in operation. China, meanwhile, has more than 50. “The processing of minerals is also where the Chinese have a very dominant position,” he said. “It’s very hard to build anything in the United States because of permitting and judicial delays,” Dan said. “It would be impossible to build the Interstate Highway System today, given our current system.”.

Then there’s the matter of the ongoing competition with China for economic. supremacy. Dan described it as “The Art of the Deal versus the Long March.”

Up-to-date pricing information for major LLM APIs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more. Compare costs across different AI models and find the best value for your use case.

The lawsuit claims that Portland has failed to quell the nightly noise disturbances at the ICE facility, causing local residents persisting harm.

OpenAI follows Elon Musk’s lead — gas turbines to be deployed at its first Stargate site for additional power

In an ideal world, the Brooklyn widow would be able to rent her home to the visitors from Buffalo for a week. Unfortunately for all of them, New York has made that transaction illegal by effectively banning short-term housing rentals. In the city that never sleeps, you can only rent out your home if you never leave it.

The cost of misaligned incentives in the pharmaceutical supply chain.

“The last administration was obsessed with imposing restrictions on AI, including extreme restrictions on its exports. As you know, they made it very difficult to export. This alienated American partners and drove even our friends into the arms of China and other countries.”

Lately I have become obsessed with the Federal Aviation Administration’s new MOSAIC rulemaking on light-sport aircraft. The agency’s proposed rule is smart, counterintuitive, and potentially transformative. If not literal flying cars, it could make personal aviation in general much more viable. It’s an action that deserves both applause and careful study.

Around 1.2 million vacation homes in the US, slightly more than 1/4th of the total, are in census tracts within 5 kilometers of the ocean. Virtually the entire East and Gulf Coasts are lined with vacation homes. Interestingly, this is somewhat less true of the West Coast. There are still many coastal census tracts with large fractions of vacation homes, but there are many fewer than on the East Coast. Florida has 1.5 to 2.5 times California’s coastline (depending on how you calculate it), and around 60% of its population, but around 5.6 times as many ocean-adjacent vacation homes. In fact, both New Jersey and Massachusetts have more coastal vacation homes than California does. In the continental US, there are roughly 5 times as many vacation homes on the Atlantic coast as there are on the Pacific coast.

The two biggest U.S. manufacturing success stories of the last twenty years are Tesla and SpaceX. And this is a problem.

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But here’s the best reason the $430,000 doesn’t make sense. Walz served in Congress from 2007 to 2019. He was on countless committees and commissions. He held congressional hearings. Walz could walk through the nation’s Capitol building blindfolded. He not only knows all the nooks and crannies, he knowns all the tricks, the deflections, the stunts, the BS, you name it. And we’re supposed to believe that Walz needed highly specialized and outrageously expensive coaching for two months so he could handle those evil attack dogs, of whom he once was one. JB Pritzker of Illinois was also summoned to appear the same day as Walz. Pritzker isn’t much of a governor, either, but it should be noted that he personally paid for his legal prep.

I am a Singapore-controlling-Michigan’s-Upper-Peninsula accelerationist. Not only should they own the land, but they should institute SIngaporean law there and build a hyperfuturist Great Lakes megalopolis-thalassocracy.

Getting ready…just one week until @EAA Oshkosh–one of the largest airshows in the world??. I asked Grok4 to analyze MiG-29 from brake release at SLF to a Falcon 9 from ignition. The Falcon 9 overtakes the MiG at ~T+77 seconds at ~50,000 feet. Does Grok math checkout @DJSnM?

Insurers call this type of screw-up “mortality slippage.”  Mortality slippage means accidentally classifying someone as lower-risk than they actually are. It’s ridiculously expensive. A single mistaken classification can cost insurers millions in unexpected payouts over the life of a policy.

Kirk also has a gigantic database of each guest — about 115,000 people — and knows how many times they’ve dined at Lazy Bear since it first opened as a supper club in 2009. She then dives into social media and finds extra information that is publicly available to get a sense of who the guests are before they come in. Finally, she puts all the data she’s gathered into a color-coded Google document that every member of the team, front and back of house, studies.

Car Magazine’s 2003 take on the Toyota Prius is epic to this day ??. “the Prius is such an insipid driving device that all the emission-trimming cleverness gets effectively forgotten. Zero dynamic reward, identical fuel economy to the rather fun WW Golf TDI 130. Why?”

Just in: Stanford shows that virtual reality lectures outperform in-person lectures from PHD professors.

To aid the Port Washington and Beaver Dam projects, Gov. Tony Evers last week signed a bipartisan bill that creates exceptions for tax increment districts in the two communities. It’s unclear what if any type of tax incentives could be part of the proposed data center in the town of Vienna.

Remember when Democrats would look at those who did build things and assert that they didn’t build that? Now, that was ideology! Remember “You didn’t build that”? Who said that? Was it Elizabeth Warren or… oh! 

It’s that unelected people exploited it to run the country in secret in Biden’s name.

New documents show an officer known only as Howard managed a Cuban group that interacted with Oswald in the months before the JFK assassination.

In selling law enforcement agencies bulk access to such sensitive information, these airlines—through their data broker—are putting their own profits over travelers’ privacy. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently detailed its own purchase of personal data from ARC. In the current climate, this can have a detrimental impact on people’s lives. 

That’s the takeaway for any brand. Clarity isn’t something you’ll find on an explore page – it’s an ongoing discipline. It’s a refusal to do everything just because you can. It’s knowing which moments are yours to own – and which to let pass. It’s constantly asking: is this what we’re here to do? If the answer is no, then just don’t. And if there isn’t a bit of tension in your choices, you probably aren’t saying no enough. Clarity is the best constraint.

Generally, doing less is faster and easier! Depending on the task, you may be able to soften the requirements.

Some example questions to ask:

• Could I combine multiple screens into one?
• Is it okay if we don’t handle a particularly tricky edge case?
• Instead of an API supporting 1000 inputs, what if it just supported 10?
• Is it okay to build a prototype instead of a full version?
• What if we didn’t do this at all?

Was this the saltiest press conference ever?

Washington state spent about $80 billion in the 2013-15 budget but is set to spend more than $173 billion in 2025-27, a more than 116% increase over that time. U.S. inflation since 2015 has risen just 35.63%.

CureIS may not have Epic cornered, but they’ve probably earned their day in court.

Dr. Jay Greene and Dr. Ian Kingsbury show that members of “The Squad” receive an extraordinary amount of their campaign donations from foreign-trained doctors.

Benjamin Franklin first discovered the Incentive Flywheel, when fires threatened Philadelphia’s growth. He gathered neighbors and founded America’s first fire insurance company. They created volunteer fire departments and established the first building safety standards.

Of course, everything breaks when you scale that quickly: how to communicate as a company, the reporting structures, how to ship product, how to manage and organize people, the hiring processes, etc. Teams vary significantly in culture: some are sprinting flat-out all the time, others are babysitting big runs, some are moving along at a much more consistent pace. There’s no single OpenAI experience, and research, applied, and GTM operate on very different time horizons.

The final chip challenge: Can China build its own ASML?

Beijing and SMIC lead effort to replicate the world’s top chipmaking machines.

This is a whole series of decisions on the part of the city to eliminate citizen participation in government.”

“The point is that we have been doing it for 30 years, and they (Huawei) have been doing it for a few years, and Huawei can already tell everyone how powerful they are. Now no one has put more effort into building (the AI ecosystem) than me. I have been (doing this) at an extremely high level and at a scale that is difficult to execute, and Huawei can already be compared with us, which explains something.”

But their refusal to acknowledge the violence that some residents were seeing with their own eyes came off not as reassurance but as erasure. At the rally, Romero described herself as a “former lifelong Democrat,” explaining that the denials had turned her against the party. She thanked Trump first and foremost “for believing me.” Mike Coffman, Aurora’s Republican mayor, found himself caught between dueling narratives as the city became a flashpoint in national politics. “There’s one side that said there’s never been a problem,” he said at a town hall in October. “There’s another side that says, yeah, the whole city is overrun. And I think that the truth lies in the middle.”

A big shocker since working in Gov: Most agencies don’t know how many people work there, or even have org charts. It’s not only State Dept. And good luck trying to tally up how many contractors are employed. No one would ever run a company this way.

Marco Pizzi, a sociologist who has conducted extensive research into the impacts of the €1 house campaigns in Umbria, told me that though he was sceptical when he began his research, he’s come to see the programme as an innovative local approach to economic redevelopment. The foreign investment may, in fact, be what allows some of these towns to survive – and the very fact of their survival would allow their traditions to continue. Almost everyone I spoke with in Italy with first-hand experience of €1 house initiatives agreed: these schemes were a form of revival and had drawn people from abroad who were curious to learn about and participate in local ways of life.

As an indication of Twitter’s tendency to expose people to more news, a simple breakdown of our data shows how a higher proportion of Twitter users (28% of them) accessed seven or more online news sources in the last week, compared to users of other platforms, those who don’t use social media, and the total sample in general. This is perhaps again a reflection of how Twitter has been seen as a destination for news.

His first solo exhibition, underwritten by the communications department of the Michelin Corporation, caused a stir in the Paris art world.

The entrance to the hall was barred by a big panel, leaving two-meters-wide passageways at either side, on which Jed had displayed a satellite photo taken around the mountain of Guebwiller next to an enlargement of a Michelin Departments map of the same zone. The contrast was striking: while the photograph showed only a soup of more or less uniform green sprinkled with vague blue spots, the map developed a fascinating maze of departmental and scenic roads, viewpoints, forests, lakes, and cols. Above the two enlargements, in black capital letters, was the title of the exhibition: THE MAP IS MORE INTERESTING THAN THE TERRITORY.

The review in Le Monde was “ecstatic in its praise.”

In recent days, there has been a rush for bottled water at the Aldi supermarket in Blagny, in the Ardennes region of eastern France. “I sold an entire pallet in two hours this morning, 786 liters. That’s up 120% in sales,” said Gauthier Denis, manager of the store. In the parking lot of the Carrefour Market directly across the street, a customer loaded her car trunk with six packs of six bottles. “That should last us four days, no more,” said Sandrine Bouvet, 46, who lives with her husband and stepson in the neighboring village of Malandry. “We were told we can’t drink tap water anymore because of ‘pfffasses’ – I can’t remember how to say it – so we’re buying bottled water.”

The enhanced subsidies started during the COVID-19 pandemic under the Biden administration and helped dramatically decrease the cost of premiums for these plans.  It turns out that people liked those lower premiums. “The number of people signing up for coverage has more than doubled,” says Cox, who directs the Program on the Affordable Care Act at KFF. In January, enrollment hit a record 24 million. That high enrollment helped drive the uninsured rate to its lowest level ever.

The irony is that history will prove @epochtimes to be the true journalists in one of the most epic betrayal stories in American history. Meanwhile the New York Times will cling to its debunked Pulitzer “Prize” like a rejected sweetheart clutching old love letters.

Study finds that there is more diversity of thought on the political right than on the left.

At least seven states and the District of Columbia have offered coverage for immigrants since mostly 2020. But three of them have done an about-face, ending or limiting coverage for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who aren’t in the U.S. legally in California, Illinois and Minnesota.

Podcast: Building a culinary legacy, Jeanie Roland’s recipe for success

This post is about the reason I will probably never try to warn any organisation in Belgium about any vulnerability again. Recently I have been dealing with an attempt at coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) with an organisation in Belgium. This post is not about that, because I’m not allowed to write about it. This post explains why I believe Belgium is unsafe for people trying to do CVD. I believe it’s important to warn others so that they know what to expect and can decide for themselves.

as well as a wariness of tech companies’ utopian promises.

The course will measure 7,600 yards from the tips, which would make it one of the longest courses in Wisconsin, and will unfold across rolling land, with some holes routed through wetlands.

CT is an intrinsically distributed system: CAs must submit each certificate to two CT logs operated by third parties and trusted by the browsers. This list is, and has been for a couple years, uncomfortably short. There just aren’t as many independent log operators as we’d like. Operating a log right now would be an immense contribution to the security of virtually every Internet user. It also comes with the bragging rights to claim that your public key is on billions of devices.

However much you like to be reminded of your vacuum cleaner’s power, the over-emphasis on statement-making is itself a disturbance from using the product. For many product categories symbolic value allows us to express our individual tastes and values – and that’s great. But for the categories Dyson operate in we largely want to ignore the product, complete the task and get on with our lives.

Leon Black, founder of Apollo Global Management, paid Epstein $158 million for “tax advice.” In 2023, Black paid $62M for immunity in an Epstein suit, admitting his money helped fund Epstein’s operations. In January, Donald Trump appointed Leon Black’s son—apparently unexpectedly.

Discussion of dabbling in samplers of ‘avant-garde’ perfumes and other perfumes; what I liked and didn’t like, and what 2 perfumes I ultimately bought for myself (Acqua di Sale and Kyoto Incense).

If the package passes, city planners estimate 32,000 residences would be able to accommodate two units — about 1,500 new homes. Developers could pursue more 6-story apartment buildings downtown without needing special permits. 

This gets my tag “MSM reports what’s in social media.”. Here‘s the viral video the article is about. It’s exactly the video you’d expect from a 24-year-old barre instructor and fitness influencer who studied political science and communications. It’s what I’d have said at age 24. By the way, I just watched a movie made by a 24-year-old woman, and I got the feeling it was exactly the kind of story I thought up when I was that age. Not saying I could have made the movie that topped the Sight & Sound “Greatest Films of All Time,” just saying I remember these young-woman thoughts. 

Those days are long gone. I’ve driven nearly every BYD model and they are now as good as other top brands like Tesla in terms of design, features, advanced technologies and overall quality. The company’s Blade Battery is among the safest and most cost-efficient in the world, so good that Toyota and Tesla have used it in some of their cars. Most worrying for its competitors, BYDs are affordable: Its least expensive models sell in China for under $10,000, a third of the price of the most affordable electric vehicles available in the U.S. market.

3/ The topline result is below. The average suspects per 100,000 rate for Germans is 1878. The highest rates are, in order, Afghans (8753), Iraqis (8638), Syrians (8236), and Bulgarians (7058). These numbers don’t include crimes related to immigration issues.

In fact, the rot runs much deeper. Americans can see that something is wrong, especially when it is staring them in the face: Navy “bureaus” that cannot design ships, builders that cannot build, shipyards that cannot repair, depots running out of munitions, command failures and corruption, accidents at sea, and billion-dollar fires in port. 

The disorder is in fact positioned in the heart of the Navy Ethos itself. The precise term-of-art — “Navy Ethos” — was first introduced in 1980, here. It signifies the core, or essence of the Navy’s sense of self: Its codification of meaning, belonging, and identity — as a society and culture.

Hence, the real story of the Navy’s roads to ruin lies in the unraveling of the Navy’s own Ethos.

According to the people familiar, the available information on the black boxes at this point cannot rule in or out improper, inadvertent or intentional actions that preceded or followed the apparent loss of thrust before the aircraft crashed into a hostel for students at BJ Medical College. It is not known to TAC whether one or both of the fuel control switches for the GE engines in the cockpit were moved in the moments after takeoff from Runway 23 in Ahmedabad.

The cross of Christ is the ultimate call to adventure for any man willing to fight. It is a call for young men to glory in their strength and enthusiasm while storing up plunder for themselves in heaven, instead of working for self-aggrandizement and passing pleasure. It is a call to make the epic a reality and to take your rightful place in it. And instead, we use the cross to domesticate our men.

So to address vaccine inequity, GAVI is investing in local production….but the need to manufacture “demand solidarity” among African governments reveals both the flaw in the premise and the weakness of the plan.

In practice, as we’re going to briefly outline, American civ-mil is, in a sense, fundamentally based on a bargain, the foundations of which date to the American Revolution but which has evolved and solidified since then. That bargain has been remarkably successful: the United States has avoided the sort of major civ-mil disjunctures (like military coups) that are often distressingly common in many states and has done so for two and a half centuries.¹ That isn’t to say the American civ-mil has been forever untroubled, as we’ll see: it is an evolving bargain, based on norms and thus fundamentally both precious and fragile.

Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead.

A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti’s Violence. Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that control most of the country’s capital.

This teaches us two things (well actually, two things relevant to this abbreviated discussion today): first, that in the system of government God personally designed, the legislative body (admittedly a bit less of a Congress and more of a Constitutional Convention, but elected and representative which is the principal point) had power to elect and to dismiss Kings; and second, that this power was in fact used lawfully, more than once (it comes up again after David’s death as well as Solomon’s) and with God’s express approval.

What’s more, the report notes “a complete lack of leadership” from both Witzel-Behl and deputy city clerk James Verbick. “It was the job of the City Clerk to immediately take action once notified about the found ballots, and she did nothing,” according to the report. “It was the responsibility of the Deputy Clerk to take action in her absence, and he did nothing. These ballots were treated as unimportant and a reconciliation nuisance, rather than as the essential part of our democracy they represent.”

How Volkswagen’s Electric Bus Went From American Flagship to Flop. The German company’s hyped reboot of its iconic vintage van has been stunted by a luxury price tag, Trump’s trade war and an embarrassing recall.

Despite the reduction, the size of the central bank’s balance sheet remains +$2.5 trillion, or +60%, above its pre-pandemic levels.

The Budget Lab (TBL) estimated the effects all US tariffs and foreign retaliation implemented in 2025 through July 9, including the effects of the US-Vietnam trade framework, the 50% commodity tariffs on copper, and the July 7 & July 9 announcements on new rates for 22 countries. TBL analyzed the July 9 tariff rates as if they stayed in effect in perpetuity.

It’s full service. Labor costs are higher. Food costs are a little bit higher. So it’s just harder to operate.

Then we look at Miko Poke, which had a great run. We were the first poke restaurant in Madison. We were doing fantastic. But then everybody started putting poke on their own menus. There were new poke restaurants, so the growth wasn’t there like in the past.

Patrick waded into the water to intercept a blue kayak that was floating by. An older couple, watching from a house on a nearby hill, brought Lance and Patrick an inflatable inner tube, and they decided the tube was the better option to catch Rosemary. More control, softer landing. 

This article follows Part 1 of the Tandy Corporation’s history, which covers the company’s founding and the lead up to and launch of the TRS-80, and Part 2, which covers the TRS-80 Models I, II, III, CoCo, and Pocket Computer.

By reclassifying most lanes to dry van service, I reduced freight spend, improved trailer utilization, and reserved flatbeds for truly specialized loads.

“We’ve seen projects come in that promise community benefits, but then the rents go up and the small guys get squeezed out,” Lee said. “If the city and developers are serious about keeping space affordable for local businesses, that could be a game-changer — but we need to see that commitment in action.”

Can’t believe Elon actually did it. FSD has gotten shockingly, eerily good. Just did another drive from Malibu to LAX without taking the wheel once. Plenty of tricky, subtle situations along the way. What a time to be alive!

Should we expect the US electric grid to gradually devolve to a patchwork of microgrids? Why or why not, and on what technological, legal, economic, and political bases would you make this prediction?

Key Findings. Only Arkansas had an overall relative price below 170 percent of Medicare prices, while other states (California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New York, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) had relative prices that were above 300 percent of Medicare prices.

You will struggle mightily inside American technocapitalism to afford a home insulated from crime caused by deluded politicians, private school to avoid woke social experiments, and you’ll still see a homeless guy taking a shit on your sidewalk.

The “most transparent administration in history” has spent years trying to hide embarrassing financial secrets from the public

Apple Vision Series and Smart Glasses Roadmap (2025–2028): Smart Glasses Set to Drive the Next Wave in Consumer Electronics

Small Modular Reactors, or SMRs, in particular. They have long been viewed with cautious optimism in clean energy circles. In China, they are quickly becoming an emerging backbone of the country’s AI infrastructure strategy. The logic is simple: If compute (industry jargon for the infrastructure powering AI) is the engine of AI progress, energy is the fuel. And China wants control over the pump.

Trends come and go—cottagecore, coastal grandma, goblin mode, clean girl, brat summer, whatever’s next. But the people who endure aren’t optimizing for today. They’re building libraries. Languages. Signature worlds that last.

https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/whats-stopping-america-from-goingWhat’s important to understand is that a heat pump does not create heat. It also doesn’t create cold (cold is the absence of heat, just like darkness is the absence of light). A heat pump simply transfers – pumps! – heat from one place to another.

What did they create? Two key innovations:

1. SDBench: A testing environment using 304 real medical mysteries from NEJM where AI starts with just “29yo woman with sore throat” and must decide what to ask/test next

If they were average members of the S&P 500, trading at a trailing price-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27 to 1, Fannie and Freddie’s combined market capitalization would be almost $780 billion. But they are not; they are financial companies, with a “special relationship” with the government. That special relationship resulted in their being forced into conservatorship in 2008—in spite of  being in full compliance with their applicable capital standards—by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who was not comfortable having to rely on them as shareholder-owned companies to get the country through the mortgage crisis, after the private-label securities market had imploded in the fall of 2007 and commercial banks had greatly pulled back on their residential mortgage lending because of soaring delinquencies. For virtually all of the time since their conservatorships, Fannie and Freddie’s P/Es have rounded to zero, and even with the recent optimism about their potential release, their average P/E still is languishing at under 3 to 1, or less than 11 percent of the S&P 500 P/E.

Last week, I wrote about some challenges of accessing and analyzing Epic’s EHI exports. Let’s leave access challenges for another time; today I’m sharing a draft of an open-source project to help with analysis: The EHI Living Manual. This guide is for anyone who has been handed a folder of TSV files and needs to make them useful — whether you’re an individual with your own health data, a developer building a new application, or a data engineer tasked with integrating a large-scale export.

Ultimately, the 5 series was so successful that it was a major factor in the demise of Canon’s previous professional full-frame series of cameras, the 1Ds series.   The 5 series prompted Canon to rethink how to provide value to its professional and prosumer user base. 

According to a preprint posted to the bioRxiv server this month, nearly all the dead colonies tested positive for bee viruses spread by parasitic mites. Alarmingly, every single one of the mites the researchers screened was resistant to amitraz, the only viable mite-specific pesticide—or miticide—of its kind left in humans’ arsenal.

This isn’t just about abortion. It’s also about judicial respect for democracy and the legislative process. Even if you want broader abortion rights, you need to be concerned about who decides. 5/5

An Enormous Scandal, Dwarfing Watergate & The Pentagon Papers.

A quick steel man of the $55 billion number: We can be confident this is Apple’s internal figure—just as the author claims—because multiplying this 2016 number by five yields the exact $275 billion five-year deal reported by The Information in 2021, part of Apple’s MOU with the NDRC.

On Monday, ASTP/ONC announced (link) they will no longer enforce most Real World Testing (RWT) requirements for Certified Health IT. To most, this is an obscure policy shift. But it effectively ends a short-lived, and arguably unintentional, era of transparency into how health IT systems actually perform.

Whether or not one can comprehend all of the elements above as genuinely additive to Moby Dick itself (a feat unworthy of lesser minds), one cannot deny their literary-historical significance in opening up the form of the novel beyond simple storytelling. Sure, there is no Infinite Jestwithout Melville, but there is no Grapes of Wrath, either.

A puffin was found in a Hereford garden after being blown more than 100 miles from her seaside nest.

I started off by asking him whether there is a unifying theme to his seemingly diffuse life’s work, which has included old-school magazines and books, bleeding-edge technology, conservationism, photographing Asia, and teaching. “Following my interests,” he said simply.

While many voters have become skeptical toward the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of Democrats embrace restrictive policies, including punitive measures against those who haven’t gotten the COVID-19 vaccine. 2022.

A few dozen people of all ages arrived ahead of the 8 am opening of the Bras Marie swimming zone – one of three open in Paris this summer – donning swim caps and goggles as they prepared to dive in and celebrate the long-awaited return of bathing in the Seine. The seasonal opening of the Seine for swimming is seen as a key legacy of the Paris 2024 Olympics, when open-water swimmers and triathletes competed in its waters which were specially cleaned for the event.