Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

In Patagonia, los puesteros look after other people’s livestock for not very much money, and sometimes go months without seeing anyone else.

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

India's UPI may finally face merchant fees, raising questions over who pays and whether users will resist.

I just had the realization that I spend more time facing my computer than family members, and now I feel haunted.

This is really screwed up. Like really s...

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have not been so low since 1957, underscoring a water crisis that plagues seven states that rely on the Colorado River.

The secret is humble UITextField.

Store and share code on Origin, Cursor's git forge. Create repos, mirror from GitHub, and browse at cursor.com/codebase.

Canada is starting from a position of strength. We have what the world wants.

The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump.

The pale is growing

$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP

Network effect" can run in reverse.

just Claude writing a MacOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows support