Based on this chart some proposed to use "bananas" as unit of radition (equivalent to 0.1 uSv).

So (from this chart) one flight from New York to LA exposes you to 400 bananas worth of radiation.

Reliable details are hard to come by, but some estimations are that more people in the industry are doing admin tasks than instead of providing care, admin tasks that will be reduced drastically once the industry is streamlined.

Once we get affordable care there will be less people who can... afford.

They don't add anything of value, did the author use an LLM to fix his prose but no useless slop was added in the process: who cares ? Is the article useless slop: fine, downvote it to oblivion.

(1) For those not old enough to remember that wonderful practice please use your nearest LLM to find out or, you know, visit a library and do your own research.

What I appreciate about the traditional shell languages is their remarkable stability. Shell scripts written in 2000, or even earlier, are often still able to run today with little or no modification. By contrast, Python applications frequently require recreating a historical runtime environment, including older language versions and dependencies, many of which have accumulated significant security vulnerabilities over time.

Interestingly, apart from the various shell languages, Perl is probably one of the strongest alternatives in this regard. The Perl community has placed a high value on backward compatibility, allowing older code to continue functioning while the language itself remains actively maintained and up to date.

I am not a hardware guy but very intrigued by the basics of computing and interested enough to throw some, but not a lot, of hours at building something like this from a kit I can order in one part.

So far though, all projects I have seen are fairly expensive (Ben Eater’s excellent kits) or unobtainable as they were one-off projects by someone four years ago or (again in this case) using components from suppliers that.. stopped supplying.

“The Santa Rosa Air Center was used to film Bruce Willis' 'Die Hard 2' in 1990

according to an article in the July 22 [2009] issue of the San Jose Mercury News.

The airport was used to depict [Washington] Dulles [International Airport] in the movie"

Fantastic deep dive as always, thanks for doing such stellar work!

On that note, any chance we might get a teardown/history of Cray architectures in the future? Specifically the Cray-1 and 2?

To throw a more serious challenge your way: How about a write-up on the original Frank Rosenblatt Perceptron? I know finding an original Mark-1 part would be close to impossible but it blows my mind that they were successfully doing real-time visual classification in 1957 with an electro-mechanical machine (potentiometers and motors) using a 20x20 "video" feed with some learning algorithm that was not based on backprop.

Then ChatGPT hit the scene and again, many of us dismissed it as a parlor trick that would never amount to much.

Using LLMs for coding initially was a only small step up from basic code completion, and a welcome farewell to Stack Overflow.

I am curious: what was the specific moment that you went from those quaint, dismissive observations to a slightly panicked, "Uh Oh" realization of what these models can do?

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