Le Meraviglie (The Wonders), not as strong as the others, in the loose triology by Alice Rohrwacher. 3.5/5
Stay strange, stay weird, stay dark, be happy, and above all, stay safe. We parents - we adults - love and need you and value you above all else, even though this love may sometimes feel imperfect. You are the best of us. You keep the sky from falling.
— Nick cave
ToS about! – “Many companies today take advantage of their users. (…) They write long, legally binding contracts (i.e. Terms of Service, Terms and Conditions, Terms of Use, and more) that nobody reads. (..) We try to fight back using the very technology they use to reduce, and justify their reduction of, our rights.” Interesting concept.
Humanity’s Last Exam – “we introduce Humanity’s Last Exam, a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge, designed to be the final closed-ended academic benchmark of its kind with broad subject coverage. (…) these questions, while maintaining a private test set of held out questions to assess model overfitting.”
Recent interesting reads on DeepSeek - DeepSeek FAQ from Stratechery and The Short Case for Nvidia Stock by Jeffrey Emanuel.
Neil deGrasse Tyson in discussion with Laurence Fishburne on “The Science of the Matrix” and Richard Dawkins on “Science, Religion & Evolution”.
It’s so freeing and beautiful in a way, to have a great failure. There’s nowhere to go but up.
— David Lynch