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Spotted yesterday, on the promo screens in a major supermarket at the big mall near my studio:
Obesity is an illness. It should be treated as such.
This definitely-not-a-sotto-voce-advert-for-a-prescription-drug was brought to me, out of the kindness of their hearts, by Eli Lilly.
Spotted elsewhere in the same supermarket: a Red Bull...
A few things lend a particularly zeitgeist-y heft to this Graun essay about “cellular agriculture”, better known (perhaps to its due detriment) as “lab-grown meat”.
One...
Christopher Butler spends some time here rethinking the question of the energetic cost of LLM usage by comparing it to the always-on wattage of a human brain.
There are more than eight billion devices on this planet that learn continuously from almost no...