As someone on Twitter observed: it seems a bit silly to try banning sales of these when a Starbucks frappuccino will likely top them: > Labour will ban under-16s from buying energy drinks such as Prime and Monster https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-ban-energy-drinks-children-33000704

> The Verge: Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24171315/apple-messages-rcs-ios-18-imessage-green-bubble

Awesome coolness: https://github.com/dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need Via: I recreated an entire GPT architecture in a spreadsheet. It is a nanoGPT designed by @karpathy with about 85000 parameters, small enough to be packed into a spreadsheet file. It is great for learning about how transformer works as it...

Is it possible for the cyber industry to actually become unwound and made proportionate? > For several years, Maschmeyer has been at the fore of efforts by a small band of scholars to highlight the message that cyber power—albeit an important tool of modern statecraft for both authoritarian and democratic regimes—cannot do magic. This...

I was a huge Martin Gardner fan during my teenage years – I still have the books and almost a complete set – so I was delighted to find my former Sun colleague Pavel Anni recapping the essentials of machine learning through an old “mathematical recreation” of matchboxes and beads: https://medium.com/@pavelanni/machine-learning-with-matchboxes-436e98edd929...

A very interesting retrospective of how safe we are today versus how unsafe we were at the turn of the 20th century. (NYT Gift link via Kottke) > In early 20th-century America, political bombings became a constant menace — but then helped give rise to law enforcement as we know it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/magazine/dynamite-terrorism-anarchists-law-enforcement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE0.NiL8.Yfv7WAR_lmls...