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2025-04-22

The FB-22 Stealth Bomber Was Designed for 1 Mission

Summary and Key Points: The proposed FB-22 was Lockheed Martin’s ambitious plan to transform the F-22 Raptor into a stealthy, medium-range bomber.  –It was built for 1 mission: This fighter/bomber...

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Thrustmaster T598 direct drive racing wheel review

You've heard of direct drive, but how about direct axial drive?

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The 1994 Computer Dealers Expo via Computer Chronicles

Video tour of the huge COMDEX convention show floor and its many marvels through the lens of Stewart Cheifet and the Computer Chronicles TV show, with LGR commentary along the...

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China’s New J-36 6th-Generation Fighter Has 1 Big Advantage over the U.S. Military

China’s Big Advantage: The J-36 Might Fly from Aircraft Carriers – With aircraft carriers comes the need for high-quality aircraft to launch and land from the decks with aplomb. The...

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Corsair Frame 4000D review

A compact case with a lot of hidden features and designed from the ground up for Corsair's own ecosystem.

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Problems with Bayesianism: A Socratic Dialogue

Published on April 22, 2025 2:09 PM GMTCrossposted from my blog In this fictional dialogue between a Bayesian (B) and a Non-Bayesian (N) I will propose solutions to some pre-existing...

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JPMorgan CEO Says Something Everyone Can Agree On: "Kill Meetings" and Corporate Jargon

As much as we wish it weren't so, the heads of big banks like JPMorgan get paid the big bucks for a reason — and the latest missive from Jamie...

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Tragedy as Hollywood runs out of videogames to adapt, forced to make OutRun movie fronted by Sydney Sweeney and Michael Bay

Sega has taken a look at the Sonic movies' box office earnings and decided that, yes, it would like to make several hundred million dollars please.

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How We Built a Semantic Search Engine for React Components Using AI

We developed a retrieval system for UI components that combines transformer-based embeddings with generative pre-processing. This approach enables latent semantic querying with natural language expressions rather than strict term matching,...

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Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt

Published on April 22, 2025 1:21 PM GMTJoel Z. Leibo [1], Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets [1], William A. Cunningham [1, 2], Sébastien Krier [1], Manfred Diaz [3], Simon Osindero [1][1] Google...

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Iran Meets the Art of the Deal

The Trump administration is using economic pressure and military threats to bring Iran back to nuclear negotiations, hoping to replace or update the original JCPOA nuclear deal. Tehran faces severe...

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China’s J-20 Fighter Has 1 Massive Advantage over the F-22 and F-35

Summary and Key Points: China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter, despite being individually outmatched by U.S. F-22 and F-35 jets, could soon surpass them in sheer numbers. -With production set...

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The Best TV Series Set In Post-Apocalyptic Wastelands

Post-apocalyptic wastelands play a key role in the movie/TV industry. Humankind is battling to survive in the aftermath of some cataclysmic event. Navigating familiar tropes like the quest for power,...

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Children Starving to Death After Elon Musk Cut Their Food

The Trump administration's budget cuts to international humanitarian aid have proven devastating for large swathes of the globe. As the New York Times reports, cuts to the United States Agency...

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You Better Mechanize

Published on April 22, 2025 1:10 PM GMTOr you had better not. The question is which one. This post covers the announcement of Mechanize, the skeptical response from those worried...

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Experimental testing: can I treat myself as a random sample?

Published on April 22, 2025 12:34 PM GMTTL;DR: Several experiments show that I can extract useful information just by treating myself as a random sample, and thus a view that...

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