Mercedes jumps into the ChatGPT fray and Toyota plays catch-up
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Read moreA parabola, a triangle, and a circle
Let P be a parabola. Draw tangents to P at three different points. These three lines intersect to form a triangle. Theorem: The circumcircle of this triangle passes through the focus of P. [1] In the image above, the dashed lines are tangents and the black dot is the focus
Read moreSpotify does nothing as Joe Rogan peddles vaccine misinformation
Nick Barclay / The Verge After Baylor microbiology professor and public health advocate Peter Hotez, MD Ph.D. tweeted out a Motherboard article about Spotify’s lack of moderation of Joe Rogan’s misinformation after a podcast episode with guest Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Rogan challenged him to debate Robert F Kennedy, Jr,
Read moreEquation of a circle through three points
A few months ago I wrote about several equations that come up in geometric calculations that all have the form of a determinant equal to 0, where one column of the determinant is all 1s. The equation of a circle through three points (x1, y1), (x2, y2), and (x3, y3)
Read moreMicrosoft says June Outlook outages were a DDoS attack
Microsoft Outlook was subjected to a DDoS attack. | Illustration: The Verge In early June, complaints began cropping up on Twitter that Outlook was down for as many as 18,000 users at the peak of what, it turns out, was a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, according to a story in
Read moreWe should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work
A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service appear to have “cheated” when performing a particular task assigned to them, as they used tools such as ChatGPT to do some of the work. If
Read moreYou.com looks to innovation to chip away at Google’s search dominance
You.com CEO Richard Socher may not be a household name, but if you travel in AI circles, chances are you know who he is. Beginning in 2014 when he wrote his influential doctoral thesis about natural language processing, he has helped pave the way for today’s headline-grabbing AI technology, a
Read moreMojocare investors uncover financial irregularities, unsustainable business model
Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the health and wellness startup and are move to scale down its operations, they said in a statement Sunday. The move follows the Bengaluru-headquartered Mojocare, backed by Peak XV, B Capital and Chiratae Ventures, laying off some 150 employees earlier this week. In
Read moreHow I Built the CI/CD Build Pipeline for My Smart Home
Photo by R ARCHITECTURE on UnsplashThe Current SetupI’ve been working ad hoc on a Smart Home Integration system for my house for about 7 years. The system consists of a few parts, including a Web UI, Chatbot, and API Server (I’ve documented it in detail previously). As the system has grown, I’ve
Read moreExploring Swift Macros
Generate boilerplate codePhoto by Michael Dziedzic on UnsplashMacros are finally here in 2023 and it's adding a lot more expressiveness, less boilerplate, and fulfilling what property wrappers couldn’t.Just looking at the available macro roles and knowing we can combine them too, there is a lot to talk about here. So in
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