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Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video] (citynews.ca)

a year ago | bilsbie | citynews.ca | best

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Tesla owner created a folding solar array capable of charging 20-60mi per day (twitter.com/niccruzpatane)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

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A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | wordpress.com | newest

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It's possible the universe is "running" as a black hole computer, here's why (twitter.com/andercot)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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The Desalination Thread (twitter.com/jordan_w_taylor)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Technological innovations that produced the shale revolution (construction-physics.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | construction-physics.com | best

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Biotech Startup Enlists Bryan Johnson to Show Off Follistatin Gene Therapy (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | bilsbie | bloomberg.com | newest

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Snacks contribute considerably to total dietary intakes among adults (plos.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | plos.org | newest

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I Finally Bought a Tesla and These Things Surprised Me (nickgray.net)

a year ago | bilsbie | nickgray.net | newest

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Package Cybertruck to traverse 100M water as boat (twitter.com/elonmusk)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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People don't realize how HuggingFace is for anyone curious about AI (twitter.com/saurabhambry)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

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Voice In My Head explores the implications for AI to listen and intervene (twitter.com/laurenleemack)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Magnetic Monopole (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | bilsbie | wikipedia.org | newest

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Sperm whales have equivalents to human vowels (twitter.com/begusgasper)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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An AI that is free to swear is a lot more creative in its code output (twitter.com/nptacek)

a year ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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AI is easy to control – AI Optimism (optimists.ai)

2 years ago | bilsbie | optimists.ai | newest

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Ban of the printing press led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire (twitter.com/ylecun)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | best

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Breakthrough Thermoacoustic Stirling Generator Converts Energy No Moving Parts (nextbigfuture.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | nextbigfuture.com | frontpage

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Go to Any Thing (Goat) (theophilegervet.github.io)

2 years ago | bilsbie | github.io | newest

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A lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI (twitter.com/maiab)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | best

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The Normal Blog – A First Demonstration of Thermodynamic Matrix Inversion (normalcomputing.ai)

2 years ago | bilsbie | normalcomputing.ai | frontpage

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Better Way to Hire? (twitter.com/__tinygrad__)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

1

List of Emerging Technologies (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | wikipedia.org | newest

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SurfGPT: Chat with Any Website (chrome.google.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | google.com | newest

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The infrastructure to start a startup in 2023 is mindblowingly good (twitter.com/awwstn)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Olson Kundig's First Prefab Home Hits the Market at $4.2M in Silicon Valley (dwell.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | dwell.com | newest

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Ditching your commute qualified: worth –$40K/year in happiness (hottakes.space)

2 years ago | bilsbie | hottakes.space | newest

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Why a 'hologram revolution' could be on the way (bbc.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | bbc.com | newest

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Asteroids Are Hiding Never-Seen Elements from Beyond the Periodic Table (charmingscience.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | charmingscience.com | newest

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Impulse Space CEO Tom Mueller Talks Early Days at SpaceX (space.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | space.com | newest

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Blighted Pizza Hut, wants to into 30 housing units. The local board is says no (twitter.com/garywinslett)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Supersonic Submarines and the Physics of Supercavitation (twitter.com/andercot)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Humane, a startup full of ex-iPhone talent, trying to make phones obsolete (inverse.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | inverse.com | best

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Whenever I buy things I try to prioritize cost per use (twitter.com/kepano)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | best

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A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations (wired.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | wired.com | best

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Case for optimism about being able to communicate with whales and dolphins (twitter.com/hamandcheese)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Linda Yaccarino on X: a hint of what’s to come (twitter.com/lindayax)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Intel Unveils Industry-Leading Glass Substrates to Meet Demand For (intel.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | intel.com | newest

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No More Astronomy Photobombs. SpaceX Shows Off Starlink Satellite 'Mirror Film' (pcmag.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | pcmag.com | newest

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Fixing the housing crisis is not rocket science. “Minneapolis has been build (twitter.com/scienceisstrat1)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

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CubeSat rocket thruster is so small it has to be made like microchips (newatlas.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | newatlas.com | newest

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[dupe] Godot Development Fund (godotengine.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | godotengine.org | best

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Elon will surprise you by knowing way more than you do about your own specialty (twitter.com/ajtourville)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Made on Earth by Humans (twitter.com/spacex)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Tesla gets ready to take on Australia energy utilities in landmark move for grid (reneweconomy.com.au)

2 years ago | bilsbie | reneweconomy.com.au | frontpage

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Paper Page – NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM (huggingface.co)

2 years ago | bilsbie | huggingface.co | newest

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Science upside for Starship – Casey Handmer's blog (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | wordpress.com | newest

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SpaceX – Updates (spacex.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | spacex.com | newest

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Asteroid hit by NASA's DART spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly (newscientist.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | newscientist.com | newest

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The first three-year degree programs win accreditor approval (insidehighered.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | insidehighered.com | newest

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Renderings show Solano County city tech billionaires are planning (sfchronicle.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | sfchronicle.com | newest

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Research suggests monarch butterflies may be in less danger than we think (phys.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | phys.org | newest

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How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg (terraformindustries.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | wordpress.com | best

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Ferromagnetism“ is not a blow against LK-99 (twitter.com/sanxiyn)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Paper Page – Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers (huggingface.co)

2 years ago | bilsbie | huggingface.co | newest

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Probing the limits of nuclear existence (2022) (aps.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | aps.org | best

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With all the buzz about LK99, Can a coil make the perfect battery? (twitter.com/jordan_w_taylor)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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LK-99 (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | wikipedia.org | best

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Re superconductor, asked my old Princeton buddy, now a materials prof at NYU (twitter.com/daniellefong)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

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Major advancement in geothermal, proven it at the field scale (twitter.com/timmlatimer)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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2023 Geothermal Update – Austin Vernon's Blog (austinvernon.site)

2 years ago | bilsbie | austinvernon.site | newest

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Big scary equation –> Mathpix –> ChatGPT –> heavily commented Python (twitter.com/sirupsen)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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It's weird that people get mocked for changing their minds (twitter.com/paulg)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | best

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Island's ecosystem is artificial: Ascension island was terraformed (twitter.com/jordan_w_taylor)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Giving LLM’s a <Backspace> Token (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | arxiv.org | best

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Streamlit • A faster way to build and share data apps (streamlit.io)

2 years ago | bilsbie | streamlit.io | newest

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[flagged] Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | arxiv.org | best

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Using modern genomics to turn alligator scales into birdlike feathers (phys.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | phys.org | newest

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Thermometer Study Attempts to Blame Schools for Covid Spread (kelleykga.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | kelleykga.com | newest

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Sal Khan: The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers [video] (ted.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | ted.com | best

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Black Hole’s Ring of Light Could Encrypt Its Inner Secrets (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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I think faster than light travel is possible [video] (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | blogspot.com | best

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Chernobyl Dogs Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Biologists Say (popularmechanics.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | popularmechanics.com | newest

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Runaway black hole tears through space, creating trail of new stars (france24.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | france24.com | newest

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States like California want to make it easier to convert offices into housing (marketplace.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | marketplace.org | frontpage

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Solar’s Future Is Insanely Cheap (2020) – Ramez Naam (rameznaam.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | rameznaam.com | newest

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We May be Surprised Again: Why I take LLMs seriously (inference.vc)

2 years ago | bilsbie | inference.vc | newest

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Scientists developed simple way to cook rice that cut calories absorbed by half (acs.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | acs.org | best

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Treasure Found– Poem That Sparked Decade-Long Hunt Revealed Chest Location (newsweek.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | newsweek.com | newest

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We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF (getclearspace.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | getclearspace.com | best

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Tim Urban on Twitter: “If I told you this boxer was the best boxer in the world (twitter.com/waitbutwhy)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Breakthrough challenges current understanding of photoemission (phys.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | phys.org | newest

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Startup's bladeless flying car could reach Mach 0.8 – Big Think (freethink.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | freethink.com | newest

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Light Field Lab raises $50M to manufacture its SolidLight holographic displays (venturebeat.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | venturebeat.com | frontpage

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California exodus continues as population drops by 500k (latimes.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | latimes.com | frontpage

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Why I chose OpenAI over academia (rowanzellers.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | rowanzellers.com | best

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Terraformed and colonized Mars as it would be seen from space – human Mars (humanmars.net)

2 years ago | bilsbie | humanmars.net | newest

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Paul Graham on Twitter: “At this point, you should be default skeptical (twitter.com/paulg)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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Even Reading Was Political (twitter.com/paulg)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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I changed my mind about nuclear waste (zionlights.substack.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | substack.com | best

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Twitter Heads in the Direction of Financial Health Under Elon Musk (whatsuptwitter.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | wordpress.com | newest

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Pig Intelligence: Are Pigs as Intelligent as Dogs? (sentientmedia.org)

2 years ago | bilsbie | sentientmedia.org | newest

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Global Temperatures Fall Below 30-Year Baseline, Down 0.75C from 2016 Peak (electroverse.co)

2 years ago | bilsbie | electroverse.co | newest

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Travel Predictions for 2023 (going.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | going.com | newest

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[flagged] PG: Ideologues realize that they're helping other side more than (twitter.com/paulg)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | frontpage

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Humanity takes little of Earth’s area can fit entire pop of Earth in NYC 1 floor (twitter.com/elonmusk)

2 years ago | bilsbie | twitter.com | newest

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7.3B People, One Building – Wait but Why (waitbutwhy.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | waitbutwhy.com | newest

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Will Revitalizing Old Blood Slow Aging (columbia.edu)

2 years ago | bilsbie | columbia.edu | newest

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3D Printer by Ex-SpaceX Engineer Aims to Refresh Technology (bloomberg.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | bloomberg.com | newest

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Housing activists clash with environmentalists over mass timber factory homes (yahoo.com)

2 years ago | bilsbie | yahoo.com | newest