Color Kindle

"Amazon finally has a color Kindle, and it looks pretty good"

A Syllabus For Generalists

"A Syllabus for Generalists"

Investing Knowing The Future Headlines

WSJ: "Would a Time Machine Make You a Great Investor?  According to some experiments, the answer is "no":

The latest is the “Crystal Ball Trading Game.” Players are given $1 million in play money and are shown 15 Journal front pages following big economic news randomly selected over the past 15 years. With up to 50 times leverage, multiplying that pot of money sounds like shooting fish in a barrel. Yet it wasn’t, and many players instead shot themselves in the foot. Through Thursday, more than 8,000 mostly financially savvy players had taken a crack at the game. Their median ending wealth after 15 rounds was just $687,986 according to data provided by Elm. Many lost everything.

Here is a non-paywall link.

Stealth Fighter Blunder

"Warplanes: Billion Dollar Stealth Fighter Blunder"

Wimbledon Robot Judges

"Wimbledon: All England club to replace all 300 line judges after 147 years with electronic system next year"

Apple Password Formats

"Apple Passwords' Generated Strong Password Format"

Your Resume On A Pizza Box

"Pizza Hut Will Deliver Your Resume Printed on a Pizza Box to Prospective Employers"

Waffle House Storm Center

"Waffle House has its own hurricane index and storm center". (From last week.)

The chain also developed the Waffle House Storm Index, which was started after former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said, “If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That's really bad. That's where you go to work.”

Waffle House has labeled Milton, a Category 4 storm, as a "Code Red," which means the company has closed its locations in the path of the storm. A "Yellow" rating means that the location will have a limited menu and that the area might not have power. A "Green" index means the store is operating as normal.

Flawed LLM "Reasoning"

"Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs' 'reasoning' capabilities". (Via H.R.)

AI Stand-In For Congressman

"Congressman Refuses to Debate, so His Opponent Is Using an AI Stand-In"

Moon Photo

"An Enormous Photo of the Moon Zooms in on the Cratered Lunar Topography in Incredible Detail"

Treating Autoimmune Disease

"World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission"

Musk Promises

Ars Technica: "Elon Musk makes bold claims about Tesla robotaxi in Hollywood backlot"

COVID Risks

CNN: "Covid-19 may increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths for three years after an infection, study suggests"

Idiot's Apostrophe

"Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets official approval". (Via A.D.)

Not Dyson Spheres

"Those Aren't Dyson Spheres, They're HotDOGs". (Via W.R.)

More Military AI

"US military to deploy 500 AI-guided UAV jets that rapidly hunt drones and return home"

Forming Water

"For the first time ever, researchers have witnessed -- in real time and at the molecular-scale -- hydrogen and oxygen atoms merge to form tiny, nano-sized bubbles of water."