No evidence is offered by @elerianm for the idea that the AI capex boom has driven up real rates. That's not what going on. What's going on is that the bond risk premium is going up, driven by the deteriorating fiscal situation.

Recently, I started logging into Facebook again, mostly to do the depressing thing of posting photos of my children to my late father’s wall. One of the interesting things about Facebook is that it forces me to exit my bubble of people who work in tech and media, and thus are very tech and media literate. The people I see on Facebook inhabit a completely different universe than the ones I see on X or Substack or even TikTok much of the time. I don’t love referring to the people I grew up with as “normies,” but, you know, many […]

People are fucking pissed and scared and this is a very visible concrete target for that previously free-floating anxiety. The companies handed this to China on a platter.

More importantly, it changes what these machines can practically serve, from a 35B model on a laptop to a 284B model on a gaming desktop and the 753B GLM-5.2 on a single workstation GPU.

Starting things off with Qwen3 4B running at 4-bit quantization and a Context Length of 262,144, it's clear that the raw graphics horsepower of the RTX 5090 isn't going to be enough here, because nearly its entire 24GB VRAM has been used up, resulting in a tokens/second generation speed of 25.28. In comparison, the M5 Max obtained 181.40 tokens/second.

Charity retail's crisis is about a sector caught between rising costs, falling donations and a booming online resale economy

While digital circuits make calculations one step at a time through sequential switches and gates, analog computation, which can be performed via the interference of waves, processes multiple calculations in parallel.

Emergent in-context learning from a few seconds of data, or one gradient step on one minute of demonstrations, is no longer task-specific training in the conventional sense. It is closer to reminding the model of something it nearly knows, with a tiny amount of compute.

Unlike traditional driver-assist computing, our system handles the entire task of driving without a human backup, demanding significantly higher performance.

ChatJimmy is an ultra-fast AI chatbot created by Taalas that runs on dedicated silicon hardware. It reaches speeds of over 15,000 to 17,000 tokens per second, making text generation feel nearly instantaneous.

You don't realize it's a cliche but it's true, you don't realize how important someone is until they're gone and how special as well.

Here's what undergoing spiritual experiences from a secular materialist background is like. One day, you start seeing glimpses of a new color, that's more vivid than all of the other colors. Let's just call it purple. Looking at purple starts to have profound effects on your behavior and priorities, which are unmistakably positive.

The main issue for Europe now is that serious energy problems are already baked in as a baseline scenario for the coming winter. Scenarios involving a worse than normal winter (N.B. worse case scenarios, not worst case) do not create the crisis: they make it more extreme.

The date range is not a sampling frame. The corpus is what the British Library and Microsoft chose to digitise from what the Library had acquired from what happened to survive — three selection layers stacked before any image reached this dataset — and digitisation programmes of this era were driven partly by preservation priorities and out-of-copyright status rather than by any attempt at representativeness.

While Pemberton is right to note that rates of diagnosis have soared in recent years, diagnoses in the UK are still below estimates of population prevalence from around the world. Studies that screen large groups of people for symptoms consistently put rates of ADHD in the general population at around 5 per cent in children and 2 to 3 per cent in adults. But the results of an analysis published in The Lancet this month found that just 1 per cent of the population is diagnosed overall in England.

My doomiest opinion is that this trajectory can take us to a Unipolar Singularity, one where we have superintelligence and cancer is cured but we're all driven mad by Claudeslop as far as the eye can see.

But a lot of people talk about stacks now. It's the jargon of choice whenever someone is selecting and combining things, strategizing about how each choice can amplify the others.

These findings enhance our understanding of how digital media consumption interacts with neurochemical processes to influence self-regulation. Our study offers new insights into the neural mechanisms underlying short-video engagement and has implications for understanding excessive digital media use.

CS-4 doubles the performance of CS-3 through increased power consumption and clock frequency per wafer, and better rack-scale density.

Many have achieved what they thought they wanted: a good career, a comfortable home, a partner, friends. Yet they feel restless. The new job was supposed to be fulfilling. Marriage was supposed to feel like arriving. Instead, the life they worked for leaves them cold.