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Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to "a country of geniuses in a data center", how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dario-amodei-2

"Rare Species of Pink ‘Fairy Club’ Fungus Discovered in UK for First Time"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Plants

Rare Species of Pink 'Fairy Club' Fungus Discovered in UK for First Time
The "exceptional" discovery was made by a group of Naturewatch volunteers from Somer Valley Rediscovered in England's southwest.

Student promotes getting tested to donate blood-forming stem cells for life-saving stem cell therapy in front of Willard Straight Hall
#photo

Just a little one and a half hour walk nearby before it was supposed to be raining (and rugby starts).
It was a nice walk and good to be out. Strangely, my old GPS device refused to get a location despite having lots of satellites. Just 10min before coming back (after a couple of restarts and taking the batteries out and back in) it worked.
Fortunately, I only had it with me to test if my heart rate monitor also connects to it.

Slowly getting into a rhythm to start the day with doing a print each morning, each time still tweaking either negatives, concentrations and/or durations of different processing stages to adjust tones/hues... A new adventure with some back and forth each time!
This print is of Langkofel / Sassolungo, one of my favourite mountain massifs, just such interesting features and so many dear memories, here seen from the east (around half and hour before sunset)...

Everyone is prototyping (sometimes, instead of doing their actual jobs). But the amount of insights has not increased.
A prototype is a research tool. These prototypes just getting shopped around as demos to stakeholders. When they are used for research, it is only as a tool of confirmation bias.
And if the prototype didn't change any decisions, then it doesn't matter how fast you made it. It was waste.

Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn
We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.

Ein Jabber Client von den Machern von ejabberd, der aussieht wie Discord. Okay? Find ich jetzt grundsätzlich erst mal gut! 😆
Und nachdem ich websockets an meinen Server geflanscht habe, kann ich mich damit sogar verbinden!
https://www.process-one.net/fluux/

#GoodNews #GuteNachrichten
Kostenloser Musikunterricht für ärmere Kinder. Manfred Schrader (89) hat 100.000 Euro an die Musikschule in Tübingen gespendet

Großzügiger Spende: 100.000 Euro von 89-Jährigem für Musikunterricht sozialschwacher Kinder
Ein 89-Jähriger überrascht mit einer großzügigen Spende an die Musikschule. Kinder aus ärmeren Familien dürfen sich über kostenlosen Unterricht freuen.

Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Xbox Game Pass ‘has become too expensive,’ says Microsoft’s new gaming chief in leaked memo
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief is getting ready to improve Game Pass pricing. A leaked memo suggests that a “better value equation” is coming soon.

"Numbers of Rare Butterfly Eggs are Best on Record After Hedges are Allowed to Grow Wild"
#Butterflies #Insects #Animals

Numbers of Rare Butterfly Eggs are Best on Record After Hedges are Allowed to Grow Wild
Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild to help the Brown Hairstreak survive.