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Let me introduce Bayesian networks to this discussion. It's irrelevant here because we're supposed to make fun of the study, sure. But when we talk seriously about correlation vs. causation, there's nothing more relevant. Given enough correlations, true causality is revealed.

See, these are the compliments I like best. Bitter, hopeless and clearer than the void above.

Theora cannot include audio codecs, since it is a video codec already. But yes, the combination of Theora (video) and Vorbis (audio) should fit very snuggly inside the Ogg container. In theory, you can pick your favorite video codec, audio codec and container, then you can mix and match as you...

No, definitely not. R&D companies dig into the unknown. It's hard as fuck. Maybe what they find is trivial or boring, maybe it's brilliant and game-changing. Either way, it's valuable and worth every penny (and more). But I wasn't talking about R&D companies. Instead, I'm talking about...

Minor nitpick: Vorbis compresses audio only. The video compression format you're looking for is Theora, both fitting very well together in the Ogg container (but both Vorbis and Theora can be put into whatever container you need).

The article is very well-written, yet I feel I can't follow who owns what and why. It probably means that this segment of the industry is infested with Business Leeches. You know, Business Leeches, the companies that simply "own". And want to "get paid". For no other reason than "owning"...

From TFA: From another FA, https://meincmagazine.com/space/2026/04/after-a-saga-of-broken-promises-a-european-rover-finally-has-a-ride-to-mars/: The two articles are published 6 hours apart. I can't help but feel that OpenAI is trying to steal some SciFi marketing-aura by latching its...

I thought it sounded more like Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, an idea started by Sir Roger Penrose. It's a really cool hypothesis, but apparently it's very crazy, very unlikely and also very hard to find anything that empirically supports it. It's also my personal favorite cosmological hypothesis...

Yes, we can clearly conceive a data center in space. We can discuss the challenges in a rational manner. It can be done. Yes, it will be a tough compromise, but the advantages are worth it in the long run. And if you think of all the thi... huh? What? You mean it's the grifters trying to sell...

I can't exactly figure out why, but I love the header image. It's a snapshot of very careful work-in-progress with amazing machinery. It's high-tech (at the time), yet photographed on film. It's like retrofuturism turned up to the highest setting, then into overdrive and way off the charts.

I just stretched my arms and cracked my knuckles, ready to intervene. But you were faster. Thank you for your service,

Exactly the cultural reference I had in mind when correcting your Latin.

LLMs delenda sunt. Also, I'm sure this will also need some correction.

Probably the best joke of the last 256 years.

Then, regulation should be avoided on the following? Developint artificially-biased LLMs towards "engagement"? When unregulated, this aspect of LLMs will result in mental health issues, radicalization, suicide attempts and more in otherwise sane people. See recent articles on Ars Technica on...

Excellent question. I'm convinced the answer is "no", but I'm open to a change of mind. But asking good questions require understanding, or at least knowledge. While LLMs can definitely formulate questions by the thousands, we shouldn't fool ourselves.

Shannon was way ahead of this — 77 years ahead. No, not Claude Shannon, Betty Shannon. Claude was her husband. See Composing Music by a Stochastic Process, in Bell Telephone Laboratories Technical Memorandum. And no, you don't "prompt" it; you're supposed to use it as a tool.

Emphasis mine. Brainstorming / exploring ideas with an LLM has always seemed very silly to me. Almost dumb. Don't do that. Because that's not brainstorming; it's just letting yourself dragged along in random directions by a random number generator that happens to echo back the words you used in...

We're finally getting the gears turning (again) for psychedelics. I would have loved to see a brief comparison here between DMT and psilocybin. It's the first time I'm reading about the very short time in which the body eliminates DMT; did not know that. On the other hand, psilocybin stays with...

I think a great part of the consternation comes from a feeling of "Et tu, Brute?", when in our case Brutus (Benj) was supposed to be very well aware of the golden hammer he was using as a surgeon's scalpel.