Lex Fridman has done many long interviews on his popular podcast. Even so, the episode with the legendary programmer John Carmack has an unhinged director’s-cut feel to it. Over five hours, Carmack dishes on everything from vector operations to Doom. But it’s something Fridman says, offhand, that really justifies the extended run time: “I think
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Three passengers aboard the Alaska Airlines flight which suffered a door plug ejection Jan. 4 shortly after taking off are suing the company and plane manufacturer Boeing for $1 billion for “systemic risks,” according to a press release. Passengers on Alaskan Airlines flight 1282 were en route to Ontario, California, from Portland, Oregon when a
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Sasha Luccioni, an AI researcher in Montreal, responded to WIRED’s story to say it was “10,000 percent true!” She added that over-the-top interviews are a long-established problem in parts of the industry. During a past job search, she tweeted, one Big Tech company “made me do *12* interviews and a take-home assignment.” (Luccioni declined to
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New York City police reportedly shot a man holding his mother in a chokehold, apparently using her as a human shield, according to a recently released bodycam video from Dec. 23, 2023. New York City Police Department (NYPD) Officers Alex Morgese and Mohammad Hossain responded to a 911 report at about 11:22 a.m. concerning a
New York City police reportedly shot a man holding his mother in a chokehold, apparently using her as a human shield, according to a recently released bodycam video from Dec. 23, 2023. New York City Police Department (NYPD) Officers Alex Morgese and Mohammad Hossain responded to a 911 report at about 11:22 a.m. concerning a
New York City police reportedly shot a man holding his mother in a chokehold, apparently using her as a human shield, according to a recently released bodycam video from Dec. 23, 2023. New York City Police Department (NYPD) Officers Alex Morgese and Mohammad Hossain responded to a 911 report at about 11:22 a.m. concerning a
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Anywhere else in the world, more trees would be a blessing. But in the far north of Alaska, they’re a reckoning. As the Arctic warms up to four times as fast as the rest of the planet, white spruce trees are now spreading into tundra that was once inhospitable. Bully for the white spruce, but
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Hait’s government declared a state of emergency Sunday during a weekend of extreme violence, including the storming of the country’s two biggest prisons, allowing thousands of inmates to escape. Police and prison staff were killed and injured in the “criminal acts,” the country’s government said in its announcement, which also included a nighttime curfew until
Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz Reveals He Never Spoke With Biden or Harris During Tenure About Border Crisis (VIDEO) by Jim Hᴏft Mar. 3, 2024 10:00 pm Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz (Screenshot: CBS News) In an interview on “60 Minutes” with Cecilia Vega, former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz
Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz (Screenshot: CBS News) In an interview on “60 Minutes” with Cecilia Vega, former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz disclosed that throughout his tenure under the Biden regime, he never once spoke with either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris regarding the escalating border crisis. Ortiz, who served as