The Arcade video, taking several seconds to load a few low resolution images, causes me pain.

That's why virtually every renderer stochastically discards indirect paths with low contribution. Looking at the source code, this one computes every subsequent bounce, even those hitting the perfectly blue sphere after hitting the perfectly green one.

The lack of rare earths could pretty much collapse the entire US' electronics industry.

Who has ever wanted that?

Why does a static blog need to store user information?

arXiv was built over a good faith assumption, where a long paper meant at least the author had put some effort behind, and a every idea deserved attention. AI generated text breaks that assumption, and anybody uploading it is not acting in good faith.

And it's a unequal arms race, in which generating endless slop is way cheaper than storing it, because slop generators are subsidised (by operating at a loss) but arXiv has to pay the full price for their hosting.

Actual papers are as good as ever. This is just trying to stop the flood of autogenated slop, if anything because arXiv hosting space is not free.

It is actually great because it shows how well it works as a system. Screening is really important to keep preprint quality high enough to then implement cool ideas like random peer review/automated reviews etc

> we are developing a whole new method to do peer review

What’s the new method?

I mean generally working towards changing how peer review works.

For example: https://prereview.org/en-us

Anecdotally, a lot of researchers will run their paper pdfs through an AI iteration or two during drafting which also (kinda but not really) counts as a self-review. Although that is not comparable to peer review ofc.

The point is rewriting the articles that matter to Musk. Nobody cares about the rest of the articles, they are there just to justify Grokipedia being an encyclopedia at all.

And Jobs was probably right. Apple was a bad fit for Bungie (and games in general). There is a reason Marathon is virtually unknown when it was one of the best "Doom clones" of the era.

Yeah I agree with it too - plus they were hurting financially, that’s a lot of risk to assume. And frankly what we got with FPS halo seems way better to me anyway. It’s hard to imagine the Apple version would’ve been a better game, but admittedly I am speculating.

Is it really just a ballroom? I see few people mentioning the East Wing was actually covering the White House's underground bunker. Maybe Trump wants a more future-proof nuclear refugee.

Maybe I’m mistaken but I thought I had read somewhere that nukes are now so powerful that bunkers don’t really work, even Cheyanne Mountain not considered safe anymore. If so, not sure if that’s a possible upgrade.

They can gate to the alpha site if the danger is serious enough.