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The Esperanza, the most valuable diamond ever found in the US, is currently up for sale. https://agta.org/the-most-valuable-diamond-found-in-america-esperanza-is-up-for-sale/

They've confirmed that the Mesha Stele contains a reference to King David. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/inscriptions/the-mesha-stele-and-king-david-of-the-bible/ Bit of Background: The Mesha Stele is a ~2900-year-old 2x3 foot basalt slab with the longest and...

Alright, something lighter then.

We're halfway to Sword Art Online. While the true VR part is still not functional, some Madlad went and made a VR headset that will kill you if you die in the game.

https://www.stylist.co.uk/news/permacrisis-word-of-the-year-2022/726451

Now I'm just saying, if it were me, I would have put it further away so that the power outlet wasn't in machete range.

The funny thing to me is, this appears to just be a "Screw White People, they didn't build that empire they claim!" conspiracy theory that misses on every level. It's far more impressive if "white people" managed to bury millions of artifacts, construct ruins all over two continents, set up a...

So we already know that Finland never existed and it's entirely a hoax to fool Russians into invading frozen bits of ocean, whereupon they fall through the ice and drown. However, TikTok has uncovered an even greater hoax: Ancient Rome never existed. Turns out, all those buildings, artifacts...

I will note I was considered a touch below average in HS at Math, pulling in lower grades than my other subjects. Today people younger than me think I'm some kind of math wizard for being able to do fractions and percentages in my head. I imagine it's what somebody might feel like if they got...

The bigger worry to me is how this could be abused to keep the party in power. "The CDC has determined that excess testosterone is dangerous, and now testosterone-suppressing pills will be issued to all male children as part of a new school health regimen."

A new study reveals that when Democrats are given testosterone therapy, they become happier and more conservative in their politics. Strong Democrats also average 19% less Testosterone than Moderate Democrats. https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/155441/version/V1/view

https://actahort.org/books/92/92_3.htm This is quite interesting to me. It's one of those areas where I realized that, from experience, I actually already knew the truth from experience but hadn't ever bothered to actually internalize it. I always let grass grow to the bottom of my fruit...

Hmmmmmm, well Imma gonna say my gut reaction is that curing wounds and making teenagers behave via hyena sh#@ is nonsense. However, if hyenas can be made as pets and made to profit people, their long-term survival is ensured because as long as some huckster can make a buck off them he'll also...

Yeah, the issue is that the AI will only try to meet the goal set before it and does not consider any other possible issue. If the goal set is just "get from point a to point b" falling over to point b is a viable method because it makes no consideration of what happens after it gets to point...

Well it does make the Cylons less threatening if they think the optimal movement strategy is to fall over...

This is a bit long, but an interesting look at how AI can be simultaneously amazingly brilliant and incredibly dumb due the nature of problems presented to it. Given a pile of robot parts and instructions to move from point A to point B, the researches expected the AI to assemble the robot and...