💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: If you asked most people to name a defining feature of AI-generated writing, they’d probably say the em-dash — like this. Language models use em-dashes so much that real humans who like em-dashes have stopped using them out of fear of being confused with AI. It’s also surprisingly hard to prompt models to avoid em-dashes: take this thread from the OpenAI forums where users share their unsuccessful attempts. Given all that, it’s kind of weird that we don’t really know why language models use…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from The Verge 📖 📂 Category: Gaming,Mobile,News,Tech 💡 Key idea: Ayaneo is known for its retro mobile gaming consoles, but the company has now confirmed that its first phone will be available soon. Ayaneo briefly announced it was working on a phone in August during an event where it unveiled the dual-screen Pocket DS. Of course, many of the company's portable gaming devices run custom Android, so putting a cellular modem in one isn't that difficult.We don't know much about his hand. The video gives a quick glimpse of a pretty standard-looking rectangle. There…
✨ Check out this must-read post from Sportskeeda 📖 📂 Category: Shows 💡 Key idea: Stranger Things has been capturing the attention of global audiences and critics with its supernatural storyline and unique characters. Released in 2016, the four seasons explored the story of Eleven and her friends as they face the dark powers from the Upside Down. With Stranger Things 5 around the corner, many await to witness how the Netflix series will come to an end. From chilling antagonists to intriguing subplots, the journey has been full of losses and dangers so far. What began with the vanishing…
💥 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: “There is a lot of talent in T20 and the coming period will be important to attract these players to cricket and prepare them for the World Cup.“Mitch [Santner] He's a great captain and leader - he's really had success with this team.“Now is the time to push the Black Caps forward like this and I will be supporting them from afar.”The T20 World Cup begins in India and Sri Lanka in February.Williamson made his T20 debut for New Zealand in 2011 but has not…
🚀 Read this insightful post from The New Yorker 📖 📂 Category: Culture / Photo Booth 💡 Main takeaway: You could tell he was going back to work when the drinking stopped and the partying stopped. He would sit in uneasy silence—he hated to be alone, but he was always lonely spiritually—he would place a sheet of yellow lined paper on his clipboard, and begin to write down with his strong, courtly hand a world that would honor his imagination and his dead.The dead were always with Owen, Owen Dodson, the poet, theater director, and professor at Howard University, who…
🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: I'm impressed with the level of compatibility of the new memory-safe C/C++ compiler Fil-C (filcc, fil++). Many libraries and applications that I've tried work under Fil-C without changes, and the exceptions haven't been hard to get working. I've started accumulating miscellaneous notes on this page regarding usage of Fil-C. My selfish objective here is to protect various machines that I manage by switching them over to code compiled with Fil-C, but maybe you'll find something useful here too. Timings below are from a mini-PC named phoenix…
🚀 Explore this must-read post from The Verge 📖 📂 Category: Deals,Gadgets,Google,Smartwatch,Tech,Wearable 📌 Main takeaway: There are a lot of good smart watches out there, and... The latest generation of the Pixel Watch 3 from Google He is one of them. Right now, the 45mm/Wi-Fi model is available at Amazon, Walmart, and Target for $199.99 ($100 off), which is a new lower price and $150 less than the Pixel Watch 4. In her review, our own Victoria Song noted how much she liked the longer battery life of the larger size, as well as how versatile it is as a…
🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: Maldon and Tiptree captain Jack Cowley says he enjoyed the task of juggling life as a black cab driver as they reached the first round of the FA Cup.The eighth-tier minnows - the lowest-ranked club remaining in the competition - will attempt to upset League One rivals Port Vale at Vale Park on Sunday having already won six ties to get this far.Maldon's squad includes many players with experience in the NRL and above, including Freddie Sears, Macaulay Bone, Gary Hooper, Anthony Wordsworth and Tom Eastman,…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,Culture 📌 Key idea: Wool Game: Britain's best knitters8pm on Channel 4Tom Daley and his colorful dream coat welcome you to the spinning barn, where 10 knitting obsessives compete for the title of best. But how entertaining can people who knit clothes be? Well, this is a group of quirky characters with stories to tell, and the end results are truly amazing. First, they must make a sweater before splitting into teams to knit sofa covers. Our referees are Dee Gilpin and Sheila Greenwell.…
✨ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Cossington and Van Genhoven hope to take advantage of the $115bn (£87bn) available to them via the Sixth Street umbrella company.Their ambition is big but simple: to do everything they can to help their clubs win football matches. When Cossington, who described herself as feeling like “a kid in a candy store,” was tasked with hiring “the best in the world,” Van Genhoven was at the top of her list.The former FA General Manager worked with England coach Sarina Wegman during their three European Championship…