"The safest way to complain about work is live and in person, says Rita J. King, founder of workplace consulting firm Power Pairs. “Anything that you say in a digital format could easily come back to bite you,” she says"
"Sometime this year, after—you guessed it—a software update, you’ll be able to long-press on that button to launch Visual Intelligence. That lets you use the camera to snap photos of the world, say, a restaurant, and then use AI to search for info about it."
“The company also recently launched AI laptops that use dozens of AI models for search and image generation. The models require so little data that they can be run on a device and don’t require access to massive cloud-based supercomputers as ChatGPT does.”
“Unlike foundation models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4—which cost more than $100 million to develop and uses more than one trillion parameters, a measure of its size—smaller models are trained on less data and often designed for specific tasks. ”
"If I wanted to try to induce seizures in someone, I would sleep-deprive them, show them a bunch of flashing lights and give them a bunch of caffeine,” she says.
"But Harding had the last laugh. Two words from that bloated sentence—“Founding Fathers”—became the phrase used by anyone who writes about the nation’s origins"
"There were women who wrote that they’d grown up in European boarding schools and spent family vacations skiing the Alps, or that they’d given up modeling careers to pursue higher learning and more mentally stimulating work."
“There’s now quantitative data that shows what I’ve been saying for 10 years, which is that anyone can buy mustard, but who’s the one noticing that the mustard is running low?”
"To override this instinct, Bohns suggests having a diplomatic “no” script handy. Even a few trial “no’s” should demonstrate how drawing boundaries and indulging in some self-care often improves relationships."
"Scientists familiar with China’s fusion facilities said that if its current pace of spending and development continues, the country will surpass U.S. and European magnetic fusion capabilities in three or four years."
"It takes a chunk of money from working people’s paychecks beyond the amount spent on current pension costs, then converts some of those yen into dollars to buy assets such as American stocks and bonds."
"It also became bad taste to wear a new “it bag” every season when the economy was on the ropes. This played to the strength of no-logo designs like the Birkin. Rubinger established the handbag departments of both Heritage Auctions and Christie’s and built them into multimillion-dollar busi "
"An emulsifier called datem, made of tartaric acid and other chemicals, strengthens a dough’s protein network. Mono- and diglycerides, made from soybean and other oils, offer softness and volume. Preservatives like calcium propionate extend bread’s shelf life by preventing the growth of mold."
"Duolingo’s secret weapon is a string of code known as a multi-armed bandit algorithm, which tests different messages and sends the best one at exactly the right time to maximize the number of people who open it. "
"If you want to be an influencer and work with brands and get paid, you have to work with the algorithm, and it all works with how many people like and engage with your post,” "
"But banks have other issues that keep them from lending as much to apartment builders this year. Many regional banks are souring on the commercial real-estate loans already on their books. "
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