Now we know how they’ll get from serving coffee, to this prediction from 2006:

Another explanation for the observed results could be that enzymes, loosed from the irradiated cells, might be hanging around in the soil and continuing their biochemical jobs. Even when degraded, enzymes have stable backbones that might be capable of catalyzing reactions, said Sudha Rajamani (opens a new tab), an astrobiologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune who wasn’t involved in the study.

Sounds more plausible. Even without cells containing them to optimize the process, if enough of the biochemical components remained in the soil, even with broken up DNA and RNA strands, it seems plausible that the processes of life could continue for as long as there is an energy input, like keeping them in an incubator. Even to the point of going through most of the motions of life, including the assembly of enzymes.

They would need to either try with a mixture of minerals that never had any contact with any biological spillover (hard to do on Earth), or catalogue all the chemical compounds present in the breathing soil samples.

Didn’t this happen in September 2025?

This one seems to be more up to date, from 27 March, 2026:

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/03/27/flock-removes-final-two-license-plate-cameras-from-evanston-after-roundtable-inquiry/

US-based nodes

Tor has nodes all over the world: https://tormap.org/

Probably more helpful to say “Stop using VPNs to watch porn”… helpful for VPN providers’ sales, I mean.

Could be. Don’t worry anyway, we’ve been in Ministry of Truth territory since the moment news outlets started going online. I’ve checked on Archive.org, and the only snapshot is from after the update, so… yes, that’s the world we live in 🤷

It made me wince too. But right now, the article’s headline says:

‘It just breaks my heart.’ Death of man fleeing immigration raid at Home Depot sparks anger, grief

Was it different before (it says “Updated Aug. 15”), or is it heavily edited in this post?

Education is supposed to teach “how to learn to learn”.

Left to his own devices, then, without knowing quite what to ask or how to interpret the responses, the man in this case study “did his own research”

The whole thing with “do your own research”, is kind of funny:

• some use it to avoid explaining their points
• others use it to come up with a lot of nonsense
• while the proper way to begin any “research”, is to… ask an expert.

Nobody has ended up in a psych hold, just by reading a bunch of Wikipedia articles, asking ChatGPT… then consulting a doctor.

Not sure if I’m not explaining myself, or you’re choosing to not understand me. I’m going to leave it here.

Kind of like saying that ChatGPT is people adding an AI player to the deterministic program of a chat… nah, I’m not going to discuss that. Tic-tac-toe is a classical example problem for neural networks 101, kind of a “hello world”.

Good news: advances in medicine have reduced “physical” natural selection so much, that “intellectual” natural selection is overtaking it.

Now, if only all countries could say the same.

TACO Tuesday?..

(sorry, it’s hard to read this with a straight face)

Keywords: NPU, unified RAM

Apple is doing it, AMD is doing it, phones are doing it.

GPUs with dedicated VRAM are an inefficient way of doing inference. They’ve been great for research purposes, into what type of NPU may be the best one, but that’s been answered already for LLMs. Current step is, achieving mass production.

5 years sounds realistic, unless WW3.

If the current rate of execution of Project 2025 is an indicator… no, there are no “decades” left.

chain-of-thought models

There are no “CoT LLMs”, a CoT means externally iterating an LLM. The strength of CoT, resides in its ability to pull up external resources at each iteration, not in dogfooding the LLM its own outputs.

“Researchers” didn’t “find out” this now, it was known from day one.

As for who needs to hear it… well, apparently people unable to tell apart an LLM from an AI.

It still is: https://www.google.com/search?q=tic+tac+toe+ai

Plenty of examples out there.

Looks fine so far.

Truth

[sarcasm] Too many words bad… next time, try this one: “Whaaat?” [/sarcasm]

Seriously, people really need to learn to use AI as a tool, not as an omniscient oracle, and not as an idiot baby.

Makes you reflect on how fewer and fewer people who went to the Moon, are still alive. If we don’t fix that soon, it might turn into a legend, then a myth, then a fairy tale.