https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/, the recent findings of bypass of certificate pinning [0], wireguard creator doesn't trust f-droid himself [1], continued harmful attacks to GrapheneOS devs [2] and a few more points regarding their build infra using a deprecated debian release.
Just yday learned something about microwaves (kitchen appliance). First produced by Raythreon in 1947 were big and expensive ($68,000 in 2023 dollars). By 1986, roughly 25% of households in the U.S. owned a microwave oven, up from only about 1% in 1971. Same goes with solar - it's so cheap now everybody can get small installation. So it's breaktroughs, then incremental improvements in efficiency and production cost. Commercial availability allows scaling and further fall in production cost. It takes time...
Memory is sometimes considered as a network where "pieces of memories' are pulled together to create a memory for "present you". Traumatic memories from the past aren't that traumatic after many years after, and are being changed every time when being recalled (that's one of the theories).
You can lisen to recent Lex podcast with Charan Ranganath, i got it timestamped when talking about child memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuepdI3wCU&t=885s
a bit of sidetrack, but i think interesting;
there are some people with aphantasia (which is lack of mental imagery), and they seem to be doing fine (Craig Venter is one of those people).
On this distinction, what exactly is abstract shape? I can imagine cube quite easily, but tesseract is a lot harder. Would it be helpful not to have this visual preconceptions in the mind?
One of the channels I check frequently is Closer to Truth. ~10min interviews with scientists about physics, neurobiology and religion. Quite stimulating if you ask me...
Photonic processor is coming out this year, claiming to be up to 10x faster than nvidia A100 in BERT and using 90% less energy - https://lightmatter.co/products/envise/
Another vote for inoreader. I glady pay inoreader at a higher level than features that I need in order to help ensure I never go thru a google reader debacle again. Inoreader also integrates in facebook pages, twitter accounts and youtube subscriptions to your RSS list.
I got a pro subscription and I read all my news feeds and twitter through it. I am willing to pay 50 euros per year for such a great service. I also like the android and ios apps which do a great jobs reading news on mobile devices.
