Articles by mdp2021
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Intel's Nova Lake-Ax for Local LLMs – What We Know About AMD's Halo Competitor (hardware-corner.net)

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John Edmark's geometric patterns underlying space and growth in nature (johnedmark.com)

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"Nightmare bacteria" are rapidly spreading (theweek.com)

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Carbon dioxide may drive lung damage in[to] obstructive pulmonary disease (medicalxpress.com)

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What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (dailynous.com)

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40k-Year-Old Symbols in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language (openculture.com)

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"Why Everything Pam Bondi Said About 'Hate Speech' Is Wrong" (reason.com)

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Does Pam Bondi know what free speech is? (thespectator.com)

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[flagged] Commenters Deemed Offensive After Charlie Kirk's Death Face Consequences (time.com)

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Readest Could Be [a] New Favorite eBook Reader App on Linux (itsfoss.com)

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Local LLMs Directory [with VRAM Calculator] (apxml.com)

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Leonardo da Vinci's To-Do List from 1490: The Plan of a Renaissance Man (openculture.com)

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How Much Metal Can $10K Buy? (visualcapitalist.com)

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Upgradable Laptop GPUs Have Arrived (ieee.org)

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Can you say no to your doctor using an AI scribe? (theconversation.com)

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Eighteenth-Century Takes on Basic Income (jstor.org)

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[Bruce Schneier's] Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy (schneier.com)

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Welcome EmbeddingGemma, Google's new efficient embedding model (huggingface.co)

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Imagining the future of banking with agentic AI (technologyreview.com)

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From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger (eff.org)

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An Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist (openculture.com)

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Can Creatine Keep Your Brain Sharp? (time.com)

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Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job? (technologyreview.com)

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"Medicine goes viral" – resuscitating a century-old solution, bacteriophages (cnrs.fr)

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Some therapists are using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered (technologyreview.com)

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Tech Founders Must Prioritize the Problem Before Their Solution (ieee.org)

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I [Sabine Hossenfelder] tried Vibe Physics. This is what I learned [video] (youtube.com)

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Lawyer Ian Bassin says authoritarians throughout history followed these 7 steps [video] (youtube.com)

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Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off (theregister.com)

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The Qweremin, a [C64 based] QWERTY theremin (linusakesson.net)

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U.S. denies Palestinian officials visas to attend UN General Assembly (axios.com)

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ICANN Wiki: All 2012 New gTLD Applications (icannwiki.org)

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Google Is Now Rolling Out an AI-Powered Duolingo Competitor (lifehacker.com)

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What scaling doesn't buy: peeling back the hype on Google's trendy Nano Banana (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Partisan Gerrymandering After Rucho (stevevladeck.com)

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More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will surive (theregister.com)

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LLM VRAM Usage Cut by 45x? What Jet-Nemotron Means for Local Users (hardware-corner.net)

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French Toilets of Spikersuppa in Oslo, Norway (atlasobscura.com)

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Game-Changer for Local LLMs: AMD Medusa Halo Points to 384-Bit LPDDR6 Bandwidth (hardware-corner.net)

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Cochrane library, global source of indep. health evidence: NZ restricting access (theconversation.com)

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California Resident Tests Positive for Plague. What to Know About the Disease (time.com)

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"Deeply concerning": reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40% (theguardian.com)

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We should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs (technologyreview.com)

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Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers (simonwillison.net)

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New Local LLM Value King – MaxSun Arc Pro B60 Dual with 48GB VRAM for $1200 (hardware-corner.net)

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Mapped: Where ChatGPT is Banned in 2025 (visualcapitalist.com)

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LLMs are not like you and me – and never will be (garymarcus.substack.com)

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4D Toys [Miegakure's sibling] now available for Meta Quest (marctenbosch.com)

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From GPT-2 to GPT-OSS: Analyzing the Architectural Advances (sebastianraschka.com)

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Americans, Be Warned: Lessons from Reddit's Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout (eff.org)

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Is your AI benchmark lying to you? (nature.com)

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Giorgia Meloni's government makes a bet on unproven nuclear technology (politico.eu)

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Trump Announces Plan T Launch Private Health Tracking System with Big Tech Firms (time.com)

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You Shouldn't Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa (eff.org)

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The dangers of Musk's new, Manga-style [flirty] chatbot [video] (youtube.com)

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LLM architecture comparison (sebastianraschka.com)

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Open, free, and ignored: the afterlife of Symbian (theregister.com)

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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food (theatlantic.com)

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Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools (techxplore.com)

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IBM Says It Has Cracked Quantum Error Correction (ieee.org)

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This Nuclear Outboard Motor Was a Really Terrible Idea (daxe.substack.com)

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Simple low-cost method to detect GPS trackers hidden in vehicles (techxplore.com)

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Author and Express legend Frederick Forsyth dies aged 86 (express.co.uk)

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A. Douglas, "Against Identity": superb critique of contemporary self-obsession (theguardian.com)

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The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems (technologyreview.com)

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Monitoring Artificial Intelligence – IQ Test (trackingai.org)

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Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel (tedium.co)

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Privacy Victory - Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/Doge Lawsuit (eff.org)

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Ranked: The Smartest AI Models, by IQ (visualcapitalist.com)

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Chap claims Atari 2600 "absolutely wrecked" ChatGPT at chess (theregister.com)

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Lawyers escape contempt over fake citation cases – but set to face regulators (lawgazette.co.uk)

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The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system (arstechnica.com)

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Long-lasting HIV prevention [vaccine] shot headed toward approval (medicalxpress.com)

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Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress (theregister.com)

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Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire (theregister.com)

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"Another blow": How Trump's latest travel ban could harm research (nature.com)

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Brain mechanisms that distinguish imagination from reality discovered (medicalxpress.com)

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Supreme Court Unanimously with Straight Woman in "Reverse Discrimination" Case (time.com)

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Statement on California State Senate Advancing Dangerous Surveillance Bill (eff.org)

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Review: At $349, AMD's 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT is the new midrange GPU to beat (arstechnica.com)

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DreamWorks co-founder Katzenberg likens AI to CGI revolution (axios.com)

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Generative AI fills in the gaps in microscopy data to further genetic medicine (medicalxpress.com)

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America tried to ban fake photos in 1912 (freethink.com)

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What's Next for AI and Math (technologyreview.com)

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ODNI Wants to Make It Easier for the Government to Buy Your Data Without Warrant (eff.org)

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Human Brain Cells on Chip for Sale – First biocomputing platform hits the market (ieee.org)

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Trump appears to be building unprecedented spy machine tht could track Americans (msnbc.com)

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The rush for rare earth elements (geographical.co.uk)

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The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State (eff.org)

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"Not welcome": researchers grapple with US plan to revoke Chinese student visas (nature.com)

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Teaching AI models what they don't know (news.mit.edu)

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AI stirs up the optimal recipe for sustainable concrete (techxplore.com)

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Disaster awaits if we don't secure IoT now (ieee.org)

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Rare "ambidextrous" protein breaks rules of handedness (nature.com)

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Hey chatbot, is this true? AI "factchecks" sow misinformation (techxplore.com)

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What Made William F. Buckley So Unusual (theatlantic.com)

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Autocratic Capitalism: An Introduction (jstor.org)

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Ranked: Most Valuable Unicorns Created in 2025 (visualcapitalist.com)

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AI thinks "vegetative electron microscopy" is real – it's not (freethink.com)

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She Got an Abortion. So a Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down (eff.org)