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Nov 19, 2023

Perpetual Life Party Celebrating 10 Year Anniversary! Bill Faloon presents “Ten Year History”

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You’re invited to the Perpetual Life 10th anniversary hybrid party!Join us for our Perpetual Life Hybrid Party live from our new location at 950 South Cypres…

Nov 18, 2023

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

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LOL they couldnt take the heat for One Day LOL. Pile It On 😂


Altman is “ambivalent” about coming back.

OpenAI’s largest investor, Microsoft, said in a statement shortly after Altman’s firing that the company “remains committed” to its partnership with the AI firm. However, OpenAI’s investors weren’t given advance warning or opportunity to weigh in on the board’s decision to remove Altman. As the face of the company and the most prominent voice in AI, his removal throws the future of OpenAI into uncertainty at a time when rivals are racing to catch up with the unprecedented rise of ChatGPT.

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Nov 18, 2023

Understanding the intelligence of decision making

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New research into how humans and animals use complexity to make decisions offers some tantalizing insights into the nature of intelligence.

Nov 18, 2023

This Book-Filled Swedish Cabin Is a Bibliophile’s Dream

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Architect Fria Folket positioned a Billy bookcase from Ikea along almost every wall to house the owners’ expansive library.

Nov 18, 2023

Cryogenic Industries Founder Pledges To Give Nearly All Of His More Than $400 Million Fortune Away To Caltech

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Engineer Ross M. Brown, who built and sold an industrial conglomerate for more than $400 million, is donating nearly all his wealth to promising mid-career chemistry and physics professors at a range of universities.

Nov 18, 2023

How did time begin, and how will it end?

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Most things have a beginning and an end, including time itself. What was the spark that made it begin, and what will one day bring it to an end?

Nov 18, 2023

Polestar to test StoreDot’s 5-minute fast-charging battery tech

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StoreDot’s extreme fast charging (XFC) tech delivers 100 miles of range in just five minutes of charging.

Nov 18, 2023

2023 Fundraiser

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LEVF are proud of what we’ve achieved in our first year of operation, and we hope you’ll agree. Click through for a summary of our work so far, as well as details on our 2024 plans — and please help us to make those plans a reality, by contributing to our end-of-year fundraiser!

Nov 17, 2023

Tipping once rewarded good service. Now it determines how consumers are treated

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With more opportunities to tip and predetermined point-of-sale options for each transaction, gratuity has become less about rewarding good service.

Nov 17, 2023

Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein—Including Children, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg

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Over the years, Einstein received a lot of letters from children. “I am a little girl of six,” one announced in large letters drawn haphazardly across the full width of the writing paper. “I saw your picture in the paper. I think you ought to have a haircut, so you can look better.” Having given her advice, the girl, with model formality, signed it, “Cordially yours, Ann.”

“I have a problem I would like solved,” wrote Anna Louise of Falls Church, Virginia. “I would like to know how color gets into a bird’s feather.” Dear Mr. Einstein was asked the age of Earth and whether life could exist without the sun (to which he replied that it very much could not). One child asked him whether all geniuses were bound to go insane. Frank, from Bristol, Pennsylvania, asked what was beyond the sky—“My mother said you could tell me.”

Kenneth, from Asheboro, North Carolina, was more philosophical: “We would like to know, if nobody is around and a tree falls, would there be a sound, and why.” Similarly, Peter, from Chelsea, Massachusetts, drove straight to the heart of human inquiry: “I would appreciate it very much if you could tell me what Time is, what the soul is, and what the heavens are.”

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