when are sports statistics sites going to start adding medians to everything so journalists can start quoting them instead of being like "well besides this outlier,"

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

is the iphone air light? no, not really. the whole generation is on the heavy side.

It may be true (I don't know enough neuroscience to say) that LLMs & human brains use similar techniques to make connections between concepts & learn. But most humans don't speak confidently & coherently about something unless they actually know it. The ones who do... well, we have words for them.

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.

But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

ooh neat! dropping my display frame rate, and thus game frame rate (adaptive vsync), from 165 to 120 roughly halves gpu power draw. and what do you know, (120/165)^2 = 0.53.

Framework Desktop pricing seems... way closer to industry/diy than the Framework 16, at least.

Framework Desktop (Strix Point 8c, 32gb): £1270+os
Minisforum 795S7 (7940HX+4060, 32gb): £909+os
ThinkCentre Neo Ultra (14500+4060, 32gb): £1471
Legion 5i g9 (14650HX+4060, 16gb)*: £1099

*a few weeks ago

obligatory updated "weight of every iphone" table

strangely, this seems to remove a slight green cast from one of my monitors. can't imagine what's going on there

I miss anandtech. @ryansmithat.bsky.social would be all over explaining to me why the 5060 spec sheet looks like it justifies its 26% tdp increase over the 4060 but inexplicably performs basically the same.

I've been debating exactly what to do with this account. the most obvious thing to do would be to continue what I used to post on twitter under this handle, so...