I forgot it was several kilograms of shavings. So not just a poorly assembled engine.

> The Emden is one of the five new K130 corvettes that Germany ordered for delivery in 2025 to fulfill its NATO requirements.

Ugh. Could that be five damaged units? Finds metal shavings in new engine. Touts it as sabotage without explaining further. Spends the rest of the article on fear mongering. If this was an internal investigation, that would have been great. Doing a press conference about it? Sounds more like "before we investigate where it came from, should we take the opportunity to do some propaganda?"

(With all the recent subsea cable issues, yeah, something is going on in these waters, but this is not a good press release.)

I can't tell what the publishing time was, but the first two comments are within eight minutes of each other. The third is an hour later. Sensible comments didn't start to trickle in until six hours later.

How many of those comments are from bots, and maybe human trolls?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016773222...

I don't understand cyclic voltammetry, but it seems from Fig 4a this tops out at about 75 µW/cm²?

In Europe, we call that an unemployment mitigation programme. Well, we don't call it that, but that's what it is.

The question is if LLMs/tools could drag mid-level earlier into senior level, or if it's a phase one has to go through. Ultimately, the tangible promise of LLMs is to push the entire timeline up, so that junior tasks are automated and you go in and control the LLMs. Expectations on what it means to be a software engineer are sure to change, at some point. (I like the software craft as-is, but fact is most of our lumber is straighter now that we have automatic saws. And I've never heard a carpenter pleading to split a log manually.)

Sure, this would theoretically be a backwards incompatible change. But if no one is using insertBefore without really meaning moveBefore, it's not a concern in practice.

Agreed on PR (or avoidance of negative publicity) being the main driver for Pichai to engage in the discussion, but there are many people at Google who care.

Disclaimer: worked at Google in Europe.

Dr Pippa Malmgren (political advisor) also pushes the idea that WW3 is on-going, and it will look nothing like WW2. She appears on podcasts once in a while and has a blog. Not sure if I care for calling it a war if it doesn't look like a war, but there sure are human conflicts all over the little ball of life now.

We play around with LLMs to build a chat experience. My first attempt made Claude spew out five questions at a time, which didn't solve the "guiding" problem. So I started asking it to limit the number of unanswered questions. It worked, but felt really clunky and "cheap."

I drew two conclusions: We need UI builders for this to feel nice, and professionals will want to use forms.

First, LLMs would be great at driving step-by-step guides, but it must be given building blocks to generate a UI. When asking about location, show a map. When deciding to ask about TIN or roof size, if the user is technically inclined, perhaps start with asking about the roof. When asking about the roof size, let the user draw the shape and assign lengths. Or display aerial photos. The result on screen shouldn't be a log of me-you text messages, but a live-updated summary of where we are, and what's remaining.

Second, professionals have incentive to build mental model for navigating complex data structures. People who have no reason to invest time into the data model (e.g. a consumer buying a single solar panel installation in ther lifetime,) will benefit from rich LLM-driven UIs. Chat UIs might create room for a new type of computer user who doesn't use visual clues to build this mental model, but everyone else will want to stay on graphics. If you're an executive wondering how many sick days there were last month, that's a situation where a BI LLM RAG would be great. But if you're not sure what your question is, because you're hired to make up your own questions, then pointing, clicking and massaging might make more sense.

https://budget.house.gov/press-release/us-national-debt-surp...

Not compared to gas compression. For a relaxed take on it:

https://youtu.be/CnMRePtHMZY?si=jusDm81RWkDF_HJ0&t=900 (Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great)

Though part of the complaints about the mini fridge is due to lack of insulation. But he compares it to his usual fridge, which has a similar power draw as this 60W mini fridge, and there's a 50x difference in volume to cool.

> This shows that by 1962, "main frame" had semantically shifted to a new word, "mainframe."

> IBM started using "mainframe" as a marketing term in the mid-1980s.

I must conclude it takes the competition 10 years to catch up to IBM, and IBM about 20 years to realize they have competition. Setting a countdown timer for IBM to launch an LLM in 2040.

Thanks for researching and writing this up. It's a brilliant read!

I noticed today that one of the big hardware stores in Switzerland has started using LLMs to generate descriptions. As expected, it's just drivel:

> Do you need a new sealing ring for your washbasin siphon? No problem. The Geberit plug-in seal is exactly what you need. With a diameter of 32/46 mm, it fits perfectly and ensures that everything is tight. It has a height of 5.5 cm and a length of 2.3 cm, making it easy to handle and quick to install. It's simply worth its weight in gold when everything fits at the first attempt and you don't have to worry about whether the quality is right. So, whenever your washbasin siphon needs a refresh, the Geberit plug-in seal with its 3.2 cm is your first choice. Simply insert and you're done.

https://www.jumbo.ch/de/bad-sanitaer/installationsmaterial/d...