Probably not the angle parent was going for, but CoinDesk is owned by Digital Currency Group, who had significant exposure to this mess (and their Genesis trading arm appears to be currently evaluating bankruptcy), so in some sense CoinDesk precipitating FTX's collapse had severe effects on their own situation.
Relevant from last week: a (horrific) Ars Technica story about a person that got a foot amputated without their consent (and then died)[0]. The amputation is one of the milder parts of the story, the conditions and neglect that lead to it are just unbelievable.
Reminds me of my Starcraft strategy (definitely not competitive, playing vs the computer) to build tons of supply depots as dragon teeth, worked also because advancing hordes would not only open a path, but want to destroy them all, leaving them vulnerable
Together with memristors, in-memory compute is likely going to be a big deal. It's already here in some forms, see e.g. Content Addressable Memory in high end networking gear.
On that Google Nature paper, I'm not sure if the 5x5 matrix improvement is the more significant result, or that they figured out a way to optimize directly to SIMD/AVX instructions, resulting in faster execution even if not necessarily fewer operations
I still remember the time I opened the box on a new Ipod, and there was no instruction booklet. The contrast with my previous device (a Sony minidisc player) was shocking.
Reminiscent of how google maps (on cellphones) killed standalone GPS trackers, this may hurt Garmin InReach type devices quite a bit, not that there is a huge market for that in the first place.
In the description of the video on youtube he often explains how long the full project took, and clarifying what took longest, it's always much longer than I expect (in the trebuchet video I think the problem was that collecting bark to make the rope took a very long time)
Back in the day (1960s?) two relatives of mine had a prank battle going on. One of them posted an add in the local newspaper offering to buy old Christmas trees, at the address of their adversary. Half the city showed up, were told trees were not in fact being bought, and everybody dumped the trees at their door.
In another universe they did use random numbers, but based on the old C rng, people figured out the seed and were able to again find all of the GRU passports
There's a story in the news this week about an undercover Russian spy that had a jewelry shop/brand in Italy [0], one funny detail about the story is that the jewelry was actually sourced from Aliexpress
> Getting the Starship itself to survive reentry and landing in good enough condition to fly again without major refurbishment is another story. Something like that has never been achieved before
Reminded me of the book/movie Name of the rose (awesome in both formats). The Macguffin is the single remaining copy, long thought lost, of Aristoteles book on comedy, thought to be a forbidden thing by some of the monks.
It's relatively common to see hydrogen Mirai cars in Vancouver (Seattle too?), nowadays they look similar to newer Prius, they used to be pretty distinctive. You can/could buy them used for around $20K Canadian, very nice interiors (Lexus essentially). Fuel costs I think were comparable to gas (3 hydrogen stations in metro Vancouver)
I used to work doing epidemic models, it was torture sometimes to see people abuse mathematical concepts (eigenvalues, r0, etc) when talking about covid
The first two cured patients (unsure about the third) were also cured by a similar bone marrow transplant from a resistant donor (and I think leukemia was also present?). This is good news, as validation of the other cases, but it still remains an infeasible path for the vast majority of HIV positive people.
Since this is the original paper I'll put my comment here. I used to follow the literature on this subject up to a few years ago, the key issue was that most of the studies had bad datasets. It's one of those things where it's impossible to run a randomized controlled trial. As an example of the issues you would often find in studies, if you dug into the comparison population of non-drinkers it included people that were non drinkers because of severe health issues, severely skewing the data. The few papers that did serious data-cleaning efforts were mostly unequivocal about alcohol just being bad no matter what.