I love baked potatoes, but can't eat them because with my Type 2 diabetes, they trigger a hypoglycemic episode a few hours later.
There's a solution: homemade low-carb potatoes! Bake, refrigerate, bake again. It's like magic, thanks to "resistant starch".
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To understand why AI will not inevitably destroy humanity, consider this:
if two heads are better than one, there’s already a superintelligent, inhuman, amoral entity on this planet whose explicit mission is to maximize production of paper clips, named Acco Brands, and it’s failed.
The hate for the new electric Ferrari Luce is amazing, but nobody should be surprised. Fans want a car that has big power bulges for a howling V12.
Jay Leno called it years ago, when he predicted that gasoline powered cars would become like horses, owned for hobby purposes, not for transportation.
In Ursula K. LeGuin's 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven, while they were struggling out of various dystopias, people drove battery powered "batcars".
My next automobile is likely to be an electric one: it's absolutely going to be called the Batmobile.
It's entertaining to watch two (very smart) economics bloggers thrash around asking if AI chatbots are conscious, and miss that datacenters are clocked digital, and brains are asynchronous stochastic realtime systems. Text only is totally sufficient, right?
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Canceling the $0.18 gas tax will barely make a dent in prices that have gone up $1.52 since March.
It's a good example of the political law: "Something must be done. This is something, therefore it must be done."
Why suspending the gas tax won’t help consumers www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
You know that billion dollars that Republicans want to give to Trump for his ballroom? It would pay for 24,000 pounds of solid 14 karat gold. Why, a thousand solid gold place settings would use only 10,000 pounds of that stash. That would leave a mere 14,000 pounds for wall ornaments & such.
Good, but if NIST becomes politicized and is forced to consider partisan bias as part of "AI security", the US is done for.
What's next, repealing the definition of the foot as exactly 12/39.37 meters as "woke" and replacing it by a measurement of the president's shoes?
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Plugin hybrid cars will fade away - they're too complex for marketing, salespeople and ordinary consumers
3 drive modes:
- pure EV, technically "charge depletion"
- classic hybrid "charge maintenance" with braking regeneration
- super hybrid "charge recuperation" optimizing the gas engine
Too much!
Lack of progress on Alzheimer's might be from lack of a simple alternative model. Try this:
Alzheimer's is like a volcano. Volcanos create lava and ash, but clearing lava doesn't cure the volcano. The problem is in weak geology, miles underground.
freakonomics.com/podcast/why-...
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