Maybe I am missing something but compared to a GPU, AI chips seem much simpler:
- No unpredictable conditional memory access patterns. It's mostly matrix operations which are very linear and predictable
- No complex shaders. It's primary multiplication and addition
- Extremely small and simple fixed functionality - just tensor operations. GPUs have to deal with many things like anisotropic filtering, texturing, z-buffering, rasterization, tesselation, anti-aliasing...

Besides the usual players, there are multiple companies developing AI chips, much more numerous than GPU companies. Many startups, but also many big players that develop AI chips for internal use: Tesla, Google, Amazon, Apple... IMO the current NVidia domination is not going to last.

Even if U.S. courts deem the current practice of data scraping for LLM training illegal, the laws will change very quickly. Imagine a situation where China has access to the smartest LLMs and USA is limited to only AI trained on public domain data.

Although methane is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, its half-life in the atmosphere is 8.6 years. And CO2 stays there forever. Many alarming scenarios, such as the melting of permafrost, often neglect to mention this detail.

GPT-3 is a text generator - give it a few words and it will write an essay. DALL-E is an image generator. While both can be misused, they don't pose nearly as much danger as a chat bot like ChatGPT-4 which can manipulate humans into carrying out its commands or directly accessing the internet. Classifying each generative AI as high risk is stupid and will overload most AI startups with tons of unnecessary paperwork.

This should have happened long ago. Not because of a factory turmoil, but because a conflict with USA is inevitable and every company that keeps all it's eggs in one basket is going to suffer. The Chinese are very aggressive in South China Sea, claiming territory that belongs to a bunch of nations, thousands of kilometers away from China. And of course there is Taiwan.

I am not Apple user/fan, but I am quite sure this notion may change soon. With the switch to ARM, Apple is on a clear path to making your phone a personal Mac computer that you can bring anywhere and connect(wirelessly) to a screen/keyboard. The self driving cars is an important part of this strategy. There will be many bored people commuting in self-driving cars and they will want to work or enjoy entertainment while driven. Google will try to counter this by turning your Android phone into a Chromebook, but not many people will find this useful. Apple will use this advantage to gain a foothold in a new market.

The paper lists the probabilities of psychiatric illness after diagnosis for covid. It compares the results to conditions like influenza, respiratory infection, skin infection, fracture, etc.
First, psychiatric illness is defined as any of these: psychotic disorder, mood disorder and anxiety disorder. Mood and anxiety disorders are quite vague and can happen to many people when the circumstances are far from optimal.
The exact values for covid are:
- Psychotic disorder: 0.94%
- Mood disorder: 9.9%
- Anxiety disorder: 12.8 %

For influenza: 0.49%, 7.4% and 9.4%, for skin infection: 0.92%, 8.6% and 10%
So while covid is worse than any condition they compared it to, the results are not as extraordinary as the title claims.

SpaceX satellites are on a very low orbit which will automatically decay in months if thrusters are not used, the sats will burn completely in the atmosphere.
Also the article does not include a link to the report, I checked the last reports and there's no such info there. I won' be surprised to see that the planned retirement of the initial 60 experimental satellites is included in the 3% count.

The article says it has double the specific impulse of a chemical engine. There is no way this will reduce the travel time to 3 months (from between 6 to 9 with chemical rocket). And it will be beneficial mostly for small one-way spacecrafts that don't have to carry chemical engines once the booster stages are expended. For a rocket like SpaceX Starship which already has chemical engines that it needs for launch and landing - adding a nuclear engine will add more mass - for the engine itself, for structural support(bigger rocket), for the fuel tank (huge because the fuel is hydrogen which has very low density and is hard to contain), for the fuel itself and for the fuel required to bring the extra mass to orbit. Yes the fuel required may be less, but because of the increased mass the difference will be marginal.

So getting from almost nobody being able to drink milk to most of the population (yes, 60% means most) being able to drink it, in the span of a few thousand years somehow has nothing to do with evolution and drinking milk being evolutionary advantageous?

Actually most europeans have evolved genes that let them digest milk in adulthood. This happened very quickly a few thousand years ago, so there must be a big evolutionary advantage to drinking milk. So "not really suited to drinking milk in adulthood" is incorrect, mother nature has taken care of me being able to drink a few glasses of milk and feel great.

The Bolt is more an LG Chem car than a GM one. The battery pack, motor, inverter, charger, climate system, power electronics, instruments, infotainment are all made by LG chem. If the GM plan is for somebody else to make their cars, this will have a huge impact on their profits.

I sold my WRT54GL a few years ago after a decade of usage. It sold almost instantly after I listed it and for enough money to buy a very decent brand new router. I really don't get it - why would anyone buy such a relic?

Embryos can easily be tested for unwanted DNA (changed or not), so these 22% can be discarded.

The performance gap between mobile and desktop shrinks constantly. Apple can port macOS to the iPhone and seamlessly switch to it when it is plugged in a docking station. Unplug it and switch immediately back to iOS. Storage can be shared and it can even keep browser sessions and apps which have versions for both OSes persistent when switching.