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I'll be darned, I have that one sitting on my table right now. The rhythm of his writing is great, and the allusions to Greek myths are fun even if you don't know what they mean as a kid.

Graeme Base's illustrations are super good, especially the ones where he hides things that you have to go back and look for. And +1 for The Way Things Work.

It didn't bother me that much, and there are some good rhymes. But if you want someone who takes meter seriously, check out Steven M Nedeau's books.

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - Dr Seuss

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - the original is by far the best of these.

Ramona Quimby series - Beverly Cleary

Iggy Peck, Architect (+series) - Andrea Beaty

Beast Feast - Emma Yarlett

Dragons Love Tacos (+ 2) - Adam Rubin

The Princess in Black (+series) - Shannon & Dean Hale

Don't Let a Unicorn Scribble (+series) - Diane Abler

The Camping Trip - Jennifer Maan

Maddie & Mabel (+series) - Kari Allen

I Love You Stinky Face - Lisa McCourt

Authors that were always good: Arnold Lobel, Sandra Boynton, James Stevenson

And don't forget to check https://www.betterworldbooks.com/ , they are affiliated with the Internet Archive and they don't show up in shopping searches.

I'm fine with it being legally enforced. The point is, web site owners mostly wouldn't move to "a frame-buffer to draw on with something like a wasm vm".

I think that must be false. Serving the page as a static image was possible from the early days of the web, but vendors (mostly!) moved away from that as features like web fonts became available. I guess Flash was the big remaining exception. And remember Java applets? But even now as rendering to a canvas is possible, enabling animation and interactivity without necessarily including accessibility, websites are mostly not doing that. Accessibility is good for business. And sometimes it's legally required.

This kills accessibility. You wouldn't even be able to select text unless the page implemented that feature itself. Screen readers would have nothing to work with. No high-contrast mode, no translation, no changing the font size, no reader mode........

Well, they did sue Cox Communications for a billion dollars because they weren't self-policing. ISPs can lose their safe harbor status and effectively become accomplices in all the piracy of their customers.

Not only downloading, but also uploading. Your ISP (in America) has a policy about how many DMCA strikes you get before they disable your internet permanently.

In New Hampshire, we banned both public and private ALPRs. You can see on the map that the only ones are at toll booths. Those got explicit exemptions in the law.

Last week I called around to see if I could get a booster before schools open. I was told by several places that they had sent their Covid shots back and I should just wait until mid-September to see whether they get new ones.

Here is a "Yoga for Building VR Tolerance" article from 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209025553/http://elevr.com/...

Looks like superalignment was Jan Leike's term, since the team at OpenAI dissolved immediately without him.

The text version is nice for some things, but this one could really use the pictures. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/1243933142/diverging-diamond-...

Herd immunity has only ever been achieved with vaccines. It has not been achieved with Covid, with hundreds of people still dying from Covid each day.

I don't think a ring of galaxies is going to look very different from anyplace within the solar system. Anyway I think moralestapia's point is that the circle might not be centered on us, so the redshift of the galaxies would not be the same. We could still determine that a circle exists by plotting the galaxies in 3D.

Reddit? Metafilter?

What search engine do you think management uses now?

The output of the LLM is not just one token, but a statistical distribution across all possible output tokens. The tool you use to generate output will sample from this distribution with various techniques, and you can put constraints on it like not being too repetitive. Some of them support getting very specific about the allowed output format, e.g. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/... So even if the LLM says that an invalid token is the most likely next token, the tool will never select it for output. It will only sample from valid tokens.

I was browsing test kits where you send a sample back to a lab. They're $79 - $300 and advertise 1 or 2 parts per trillion. Looks like getting to 0.02 ppt requires some very specialized equipment, and would probably be optimized for continuous monitoring of a water supply.

Fine tuning can be useful if you need to generate lots of output in a particular format. You can fine-tune on formatted messages, and then the model will generate that automatically. That could save a bunch of tokens explaining the output format in every prompt.

How much money do you have?

The doctor in the documentary tells him that his liver is damaged like an alcoholic's. He just let people assume it was from the food.

He said it was this specific performance that convinced Weird Al that he was the right guy. Also the movie is great.

Since the 777 is older, and this has never happened, and they are giving airlines 5 years to make the change, it doesn't seem likely to be an actual problem.

As the body of the article says repeatedly, it's only a rumor.

It's not "reportedly".

I don't remember Currents or Spaces.

Similar to the deal they got from Microsoft, >$10B on paper but a lot of that is in the form of Azure credits.