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im on my phone in the back of the van with my family, we're all heading to visit my grandparents in maryland. on the highway, i look out the window through the windows of other vehicles. two nose-pierced teen girls, one with an afro, one with a wolf cut. an older-twenties looking woman with a buddha bobblehead on the dash. a middle-aged or elderly hispanic husband and wife with bellies that remove negative space from my view's lower half. i wonder where they're going, what they…

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions
Mar\'ia de las Mercedes Carranza Escudero, Christopher J. Conselice, Nathan Adams, Thomas Harvey, Duncan Austin, Peter Behroozi, Leonardo Ferreira, Katherine Ormerod, Qiao Duan, James Trussler, Qiong Li, Lewi Westcott, Rogier A. Windhorst, Dan Coe, Seth H. Cohen, Cheng Cheng, Simon P. Driver, Brenda Frye, Lukas J. Furtak, Norman A. Grogin, Nimish P. Hat…

Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a previously unseen population of compact red objects, known as ``little red dots`` (LRDs). We study a new photometrically selected sample of 124 LRDs in the redshift range $z$ $\sim$ 3 - 10 selected from NIRCam coverage of the CEERS, NEP-TDF, JADES and JEMS surveys. For JADES, the NEP-TDF and CEERS, we compare SED models with and without AGN components and analyse the impact of an AGN component on the goodness of fit using the Baye…

After over 130 yrs of providing food to America, ranging from #Pineapples to #Pears to #Peaches to #PetFoods, modern marketing

Del Monte Foods files for bankruptcy, seeks buyer
The company was founded in 1886 and employs 2,780 people. Del Monte has four plants, two in the United States and two in Mexico.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
More news about the potential collapse of an ocean current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which transfers heat from the tropics to northern Atlantic, giving Europe a much milder climate, controls plankton productivity, and importantly also generates deep ocean circulation by sinking cold dense water. Winter

When I contacted my #bank last time via its web service, I got the reply there, after two days.
This time I've also used the web service, and:
• A week later, got a text that they've started processing my request.
• Further two weeks later, I've got an e-mail asking if I'm interested in "electronic reply". I answer using the formula they give.
• Three days later, they text me that they've sent the reply via traditional mail. 🤦
I wonder why they didn't accept my request to reply via e-mail. Was it that I quoted their original mail, or perhaps they didn't like the encoding my mail client used…

Creatify, an AI video ad platform that reached $9M in ARR just 18 months after launch, raised a $15.5M Series A led by Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo and Kindred (Victor Dey/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91344416/jeffr

Jeffrey Katzenberg bets big on AI video ads with a $15.5 million investment in Creatify
The DreamWorks legend joined Creatify’s board as the fast-growing startup powers a new era of video advertising with AI avatars, real-time testing, and over one million users.

#TIL that blowing vs sucking the same spot on a harmonica produces notes that are roughly a half-step apart, while adjacent blown/sucked notes are roughly a whole step apart. I always wondered why I couldn't play any melodies on harmonicas because there would always be some notes I just couldn't find no matter how hard I tried, and now I know the answer isn't some tricky block-holes-with-your-tongue technique like I used to think.
I always knew blowing vs sucking produced different tones, but I thought that they were whole-step transpositions of each other such that any note in one modality would appear somewhere in the other.
My wife showed me this fact and when I asked where she learned it, she said she just figured it out herself...

That… is quite a number. I wonder what the return on that investment will look like?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-nvidia-played-a-central-role-in-the-306-billion-ai-startup-boom-195741749.html

How Nvidia 'played a central role' in the $306 billion AI startup boom
Nvidia's AI chips laid the groundwork for a massive wave of investment in artificial intelligence.

I thought I'd try out Open WebUI, so I installed it via pip. 20 minutes later we're at 8 gigabytes and compiling a bunch of code from scratch. Folks, it's just a simple chat-style web interface to LLM APIs. I'm wondering if the whole thing was coded by AIs who didn't care at all about footprint.