So maintain chip volume, but switch production from memory chips to corn chips.

The account starts reporting unexpected transactions.

TASS is Russia’s state-owned news agency, so there’s no expectation of neutrality or journalistic best practices.

It can still be informative, as long as the stories are taken as the best plausible narrative they can construct to account for whatever it is that actually happened.

as well as a Nobel laureate in economics

So a fake Nobel, then.

I thought Homo sapiens and Denisovans were both descended from Homo erectus as well.

Are they talking about some late-surviving Homo erectus lineage that was contemporary with Denisovans and Homo sapiens?

If one is opposed by 53% and the other is opposed by 71%, a title suggesting that either is “popular” is a bit misleading.

I think the group of people spending the majority of their lives communicating online would be the first to insist that people who spend their lives online shouldn’t be put in charge of anything in the real world.

Good point.

Is the publishing journal a better indication of low-quality research than the research institution that conducted the study (the Tokyo University of Science, in this case)?

The killer feature is the lack of connection to Meta.

What if the risk of self-harm is a result of using ChatGPT?

Also, the specific combinations that had the strongest effect were capsaicin (chili peppers) plus either cineole (eucalyptus) or especially menthol (mint). (The latter two have similar pathways, while the capsaicin is distinct; the benefit comes from using both pathways together.)

Are there any culinary sources of eucalyptus (or cineole)?

Confusion is a notification of prediction failure.

Brain imaging studies show that in people with congenital cortical blindness, this area is often repurposed for tasks such as language, memory and reasoning. … Without visual input generating a constant stream of ambiguous or unpredictable signals, the brain may settle into more stable ways of interpreting the world, reducing the risk of the misfiring predictions that characterise schizophrenia.

If that’s true, do congenitally bind people show improvements in general prediction tasks? Could that be why there are so many legends about blind soothsayers?

RSS feeds seem like the obvious replacement—how is your vibe-coded solution better?

So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to. […] These properties then contain a Collection with a property called totalItems and not a list of the people who actually voted

What’s to prevent the author from faking upvotes, if the votes themselves aren’t public?

Your self is the private reservoir of knowledge and experience you draw on to interact with the world in a way that’s distinct from anyone else (and that couldn’t be predicted without access to that internal knowledge).

So a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking?
A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking?

“Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.

Did he try offering them FIFA Peace Prizes?

Nah, they’ll just add a “for entertainment purposes only” disclaimer to the government itself.