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BSOhealth commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
BSOhealth · 7 days ago
Intel as a store of value?
BSOhealth commented on That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake   theverge.com/tesla/757594... · Posted by u/nosrepa
BSOhealth · 17 days ago
It’s easy to be cynical specifically in this case, when Elon has in the past very gleefully amplified AI fakes to drum up social sentiment
BSOhealth commented on 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens   academic.oup.com/mnras/ar... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
BSOhealth · 18 days ago
With all the lensing going on out there, is it possible for us to observe the light from our sun (and potentially our planet) billions of years ago?

A cool achievement would be, observe the moon/earth separation event(s)

BSOhealth commented on How Potatoes Evolved   nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2... · Posted by u/gmays
CoastalCoder · 19 days ago
I thought one of the issues with potatoes is that they have a really high glycemic index, not lack of nutrients.

So consistently eating a lot of them increases one's risk of Type 2 diabetes.

BSOhealth · 19 days ago
This is true. Most of the potatoes eaten are valuable in caloric-deprived situations, but they are not a long-term healthy food due to the thrashing they do to insulin management.
BSOhealth commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages   nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan
BSOhealth · a month ago
These figures are for a very small number of potential people. This leaves out that frontier AI is being developed by an incredibly small number of extremely smart people who have migrated between big tech, frontier AI, and others.

Yes, the figures are nuts. But compare them to F1 or soccer salaries for top athletes. A single big name can drive billions in that context at least, and much more in the context of AI. $50M-$100M/year, particularly when some or most is stock, is rational.

BSOhealth commented on Figma will IPO on July 31   figma.com/blog/ipo-pricin... · Posted by u/nevir
BSOhealth · a month ago
The current product _must_ simply be a funding mechanism for whatever AI solution will ultimately define them. The idea that we’ll continue to have rigidly defined design mockups and specification seems relatively naive compared to generative UX defined by the user and their interaction preferences.
BSOhealth commented on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/sxv
BSOhealth · a month ago
On the subject of LLMs and cats, I continue to find it disappointing that if you search for one of the leading AI services in the Apple App Store that they all seem to have centralized on images of cats in their first app screenshot as the most-converting image in that setting

Edit: a quick re-search shows they’ve differentiated a bit. But why are cats just the lowest common denominator? As someone who is allergic to them any cat reference immediately falls flat (personal problem, I know).

BSOhealth commented on Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu   sfgate.com/hawaii/article... · Posted by u/c420
BSOhealth · a month ago
What a terrible website
BSOhealth commented on Internet Archive is now a federal depository library   kqed.org/news/12049420/sf... · Posted by u/XnoiVeX
MPSimmons · a month ago
Is it likely that the Executive Branch would try to exert control over it to remove "inconvenient" data?
BSOhealth · a month ago
given this is already happening with many other taxpayer funded datasets, will pretty on brand with this group
BSOhealth commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
DanielKehoe · a month ago
I've written high-quality technical how-tos for many years, starting with PC World magazine articles (supported by ads), a book that helped people learn Ruby on Rails (sales via Amazon), and more recently a website that's good for queries like "uninstall Homebrew" or "xcode command line tools" (sponsored by a carefully chosen advertiser). With both a (small) financial incentive and the intrinsic satisfaction of doing good work that people appreciate, I know I've helped a LOT of people over four decades.

A year ago my ad-supported website had 100,000 monthly active users. Now, like the article says, traffic is down 40% thanks to Google AI Overview zero clicks. There's loss of revenue, yes, but apart from that, I'm wondering how people can find my work, if I produce more? They seldom click through on the "source" attributes, if any.

I wonder, am I standing at the gates of hell in a line that includes Tower Records and Blockbuster? Arguably because I'm among those that built this dystopia with ever-so-helpful technical content.

BSOhealth · a month ago
Novel content will continue to require human creators. So, if you are at the frontier of some idea space, whether that’s using Homebrew or baking brownies, your input will be rewarded to some extent. But, we won’t need 1000 different Medium blogs about installing Rails or 1000 baking websites pitching the same recipe but with a different family story at the top.

Yes, maybe a small amount of people ultimately contributing but if their input is truly novel and “true” then what’s the downside?

u/BSOhealth

KarmaCake day238October 11, 2021View Original