R.I.P. Pariser Klimaabkommen

"Berlin is not a pretty place. The winters are a total nightmare, no sunlight, no warm face. Its cuisine is all about fast food. Large parts of town smell like a public toilet; overdosed tourists randomly pass out on the street. It’s not a city where you would sit out on a cafe terrace to people-watch. But also it’s now nearly impossible to find an affordable flat you could call home"

the youngest ever world champion on Thursday in Singapore

Eurostar is the worst-performing rail service on the continent and Germany’s Deutsche Bahn is one of the least reliable, according to a ranking of 27 European operators

the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "depressed" to "bright"

Let us start with how odd it is to be imposing bans on the most popular and effective aid for quitting smoking that we currently have

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

Google is killing independent websites by burying them in the search results, even when we perfectly follow their guidelines.

Nobody" is sure what is going on, but their search engine started breaking down about 16 months ago

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech

haha, heute Retro