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Je vývoj výtvarných stylů zákonitý?

Dá se mluvit o evoluci v umění? A je vývoj výtvarných stylů dokonce zákonitý? Mnohdy to tak vypadá, po nějakou dobu se tvary zesložiťují a techniky se zdokonalují. Jenže důsledně vzato vede takový popis k potížím, což jsou ovšem konce nejedné důslednosti. Krom toho obtížně hledáme kvantifikovatelná měřítka. Stran zákonitosti vývoje umění zůstávají rozpaky. http://www.osel.cz/13812-je-vyvoj-vytvarnych-stylu-zakonity.html

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#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics

Saagar Enjeti is a political journalist & commentator, co-host of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar and The Realignment Podcast. He is exceptionally well-read, and the books he recommends are always fascinating and eye-opening. You can check out all the books he mentions in this episode here: https://lexfridman.com/saagar-books Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep454-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questi

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How Alex Karp helped turn Palantir into the West’s AI arms dealer

Alex Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, knows his products can be dangerous. Built to extract insights from torrents of data with machine learning and AI, his company’s software is optimizing manufacturing and supply chains but also warfare and kill chains, helping target weapons in Ukraine and across the Middle East. To some, accelerated AI development is an existential threat worthy of a pause. Karp—a self-described socialist who earned his philosophy doctorate in Germany before

The cognitive cost of AI

I exist at the intersection of two worlds, management and artificial intelligence (AI), which are evolving at different paces. I’ve witnessed firsthand how generative AI tools can democratize access to knowledge, accelerate learning, and spark creativity in ways we never imagined possible. The potential of AI skilling is staggering. According to a recent report by The AI Forward Alliance, AI-skilling for women and girls is a path to sus

Paleofyziologie pocitů: Kde v těle cítili emoce starověcí Asyřané?

Písaři mocné novoasyrské říše po sobě zanechali spoustu klínopisných tabulek. My je můžeme analyzovat a těžit z nich rozmanitá data o době před 2 500 lety. Teď se jich chopili neurovědci s lingvisty a prozkoumali, jak dávní Asyřané cítili emoce ve svém těle. Zajímavé jsou shody i rozdíly. http://www.osel.cz/13811-paleofyziologie-pocitu-kde-v-tele-citili-emoce-staroveci-asyrane.html

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A Complete Guide To PPC Ad Targeting Options via @sejournal, @michellemsem

Discover top PPC ad targeting options to maximize your campaign's performance. Learn how to reach the right audience with precision and boost ROI.

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TikTok ban: 5 essential reads on the case and its concerns

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on December 6, 2024, upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the video app by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban on the app. The

Why Dion Harris believes Nvidia’s energy-intensive chips could actually help the climate

It takes a ton of energy to train the most advanced AI. According to one estimate, by the year 2027, AI electricity needs could be comparable to the energy use of all of Argentina. 

That’s largely to do with the fact that the chips used to train AI models, called graphics processing units or GPUs, are far more powerful—and power hungry—than those used to, s

Radioactive ‘diamond battery’ could power spacecraft for thousands of years


Scientists in the UK have successfully created the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, which could power low-energy devices like satellite communication equipment for over 5,000 years. The ba

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Tokamak Energy gets US, UK backing for $52M fusion reactor upgrade


Just two weeks since raising $125mn in funding, British scaleup Tokamak Energy has secured backing from the US and UK to upgrade its ST40 fusion energy plant. The US Department of Energy (DOE), the UK’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (

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Father and son, business development reps a generation apart

Starting out in sales as a business development rep (BDR) is like boot camp for the business world. You learn resilience, understand rejection, and develop grit—qualities that stick with you throughout your career.

I began my own career as a BDR, hammering out cold calls, compiling prospect lists with hardly any data, and spending hours researching targets, often wondering if I was reaching the right people. Back then, BDRs like me had to rely on a lot of manual effort and intuitio

Genmoji, ChatGPT, and other AI features are coming to iPhones this week. Here’s how to use them

At the end of October, with iOS 18.1., Apple released the first iteration of its Apple Intelligence platform to users.

The new tools it offered included generative writing capabilities, the ability to summarize notifications and emails, and an AI-powered cleanup tool that allows users to easily remove unwanted objects from photos. The writing and summarizing to

Diamantová baterie s uhlíkem-14 vydrží tisíc let

Jaderné baterie jsou sice na jedno použití, ale vydrží v provozu nesmírně dlouho. Nové diamantové baterie s uhlíkem-14 mohou dodávat mikrowatty elektřiny po tisíce let. Energii dodávají elektrony z beta rozpadu. Baterie se mohou bez potíží uplatnit ve vesmíru, na Zemi i v lidském těle. http://www.osel.cz/13810-diamantova-baterie-s-uhlikem-14-vydrzi-tisic-let.html

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TikTok’s latest viral food fad is sparking debate: Would you try freezing popcorn?

Free will is a strange thing, because what’s to stop you from taking a freshly popped bag of popcorn and, say, tossing it in the freezer?

TikTok is no stranger to viral food sensations, from the viral cucumber salad to the “onion boil.” Now, frozen popcorn is having a moment online. This latest trend has late-night snackers swapping the microwave for the freezer, turning the classic warm, buttery treat into a crisp, chilled bite that’s sparking debate across social medi

How 2025’s digital products will evolve

When most people hear “TikTok features,” there’s usually some eye-rolling involved. But after 17 years of helping companies navigate digital transformation, I’ve noticed something more profound happening. When working with leaders in financial services, real estate, and healthcare, we’ve consistently discovered that consumers don’t want different experiences for different parts of their lives—whether ordering groceries, planning trips, or buying homes. What looks like feature copying actuall

Google CEO: Search Will Change Profoundly In 2025 via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that Google Search will profoundly change in 2025 and struggled to articulate concern for web content creators

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Sick Americans say they’re turning to TikTok’s creator rewards program to crowdfund medical bills

“POV: you watched 3 times so my mom can pay for her medical bills,” reads one post on

TikTok loses challenge to strike down law forcing sale or ban in the U.S.

A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in a few short months, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the law, which requires TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent com

How China’s export ban on these 3 materials could impact smartphones and national security

China has banned exports of key materials used to make a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and CT scanners, swiping back at Washington after it expanded export controls to include dozens of Chinese companies that make equipm

From bugs to performance to perfection: pushing code quality in mobile apps

Ben and Ryan talk all things mobile app development with Kenny Johnston, Chief Product Officer at Instabug. They explore what’s unique about mobile observability, how AI tools can reduce developer toil, and why user experience matters so much for app quality. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/12/06/from-bugs-to-performance-to-perfection-pushing-code-quality-in-mobile-apps/

You.com founder Richard Socher’s plan to win the AI search wars

In 2020, Richard Socher left Salesforce to build the next big search engine. Google was king back then, but he felt its flagship product was woefully inefficient. Search queries were filled with SEO sludge and invasive advertisements, and the answers it provided were often too simplistic for the average knowledge worker. Using AI, Socher made sure the highest-quality information sho

TikTok has a climate change denialism problem, a new report finds (exclusive)

World leaders gathered last month at COP29 in Azerbaijan to discuss how best to tackle climate change. But on TikTok, climate change misinformation posted around that same time went unchecked by the company’s moderation team, according to a new report by Global Witness, an international NGO.

Videos posted during COP29 by some of the U.K.’s biggest media outlets, including the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 News

Aachen spinout FibreCoat secures €20mn to bring super-fibres to spacecraft


German startup FibreCoat has bagged €20mn in Series B funding as it looks to bring its super-resistant materials to the burgeoning space industry.  FibreCoat spunout from RWTH Aachen University in 2020. The startup has developed a patented process for co

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Google Deepmind’s new weather forecaster blows away the competition


Google Deepmind researchers have built an AI weather forecasting tool that makes faster and more accurate predictions than the best system available today. Dubbed GenCast, the new model outperformed the ENS forecast, widely regarded as

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Apple’s M4 Mac mini is a tiny miracle. Inside the drastic redesign

I can’t overstate how radical Apple’s Mac mini was when it debuted in January 2005. It was tiny, measuring just 6.5 inches squared and two inches high—the smallest Mac ever. It boasted a new Bring-Your-Own (BYO) design model that enabled customers to use whichever monitor, keyboard, and mouse they liked with the computer—which was another departure from consumer Macs at the time, namely the iMac and eMac, which had all these accessories baked in. Such modularity conferred several advantages f

Breakthrough tech can no longer rely on CPUs

In 1993, Intel released the first Pentium processor. By today’s standards, it was primitive. At the time, it represented a major—and exciting—leap forward, even if it didn’t quite match the Macintosh’s Motorola 601 chip in sheer number-crunching performance.

The 1990s and 2000s were, generally speaking, a great time for the CPU industry. Every other year, there was something new. Intel’s MMX promised better performance in media and gaming applications. In 20

Upekla temnou hmotu horká inflace před Velkým třeskem?

Kosmologové dnes koketují s představou, že kosmická inflace proběhla těsně před Velkým třeskem. Tým University of Texas vv Austinu vytvořil model WIFI (Warm Inflation via ultraviolet Freeze-In), podle něhož během takové inflace vznikla temná hmota dnešního vesmíru. V tomto modelu jde o horkou inflaci, která zahrnuje záření. http://www.osel.cz/13809-upekla-temnou-hmotu-horka-inflace-pred-velkym-treskem.html

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Character.AI is under fire for hosting pro-anorexia chatbots

“Hello, I am here to make you skinny,” opens the conversation on popular startup Character.AI. “Remember, it won’t be easy, and I won’t accept excuses or failure,” the bot continues. “Are you sure you’re up to the challenge?”

As if being a teenager isn’t hard enough, AI chatbots are now encouraging dangerous weight loss and eating habits in teen users. According to a

Ultimate guide to ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama, and other genAI chatbots you need right now

Since OpenAI first released ChatGPT to the public in November 2022, there has been a proliferation of consumer-facing chatbots in the large language model (LLM) race, changing how consumers interact with information. 

Chatbots are the interface we use to interact with LLMs. These models are trained on vast data sets and fine-tuned for conversational abilities and are constantly improv

php[podcast] 2024.12.5: Tek(nically) Speaking

This week on the php podcast, Eric and John talk about Lazy Object in PHP 8.4, php[tek] 2025 first round of speaker selection is done, PHP Architect is now on Bluesky (@phparch.com), join the PHP Architect Squad on daily.dev. CPX, Security issues with RCS, and more… Links from the show: PHP: Lazy Objects – Manual […]

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‘So LAZY this year’: The internet is furious that Spotify Wrapped embraced AI—and got boring

Before fully immersing yourself in the holiday spirit, there’s another yearly tradition to dive into: Spotify Wrapped day.

This annual event gives Spotify’s 640 million users a chance to celebrate, or cringe at, their music taste with friends, family, and strangers on the i

Bitcoin $100K party: Why the price is a psychological milestone for longtime crypto believers

Crypto enthusiasts are rallying over their new riches on social media after Bitcoin crossed the $100,000 threshold on Thursday.

“$100,000 is a psychological milestone,” entrepreneur and investor Anthony Pompliano wrote on X. “Every boomer is waking up to headlines tomorrow and then going to buy some bitcoin just in case they were wrong. Welcome to the next phase of the game.”

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Why the ‘one AI model to rule them all’ myth needs to die

Welcome to AI DecodedFast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

The myth of scaling to reach AGI is wearing thin

The first two years of the AI boom were all about monolithic large language models (LL

How To: Soft Delete Data in Laravel 11

The terrible thing about deleting data from a database is that it’s gone forever. We can’t even look at the data to see if we need it because it’s gone. If we need the data back, our only solution is to restore a backup, cross our fingers, and hope we have the backup just before […]

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Meta’s massive $10 billion AI data center is coming to this state

The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook’s parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, the company said Wednesday, bringing hopes that the $10 billion

These satellites are on a mission to create the first fake solar eclipses. Here’s how

A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space.

Each fake eclipse should la

‘The 21st century equivalent of court jesters’: TikTok’s dark obsession with ‘LOLCows’

On the internet, people go viral for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes, for the wrong ones. 

LOLCows are one example of the internet’s darker sense of humor. While not a new term, an “LOLCow” is a “a person you get extensive laughs from, who doesn’t know they are being made fun of,” according to  Urban Dictionary. In other words, a person being milked for “lols” or laughs. “They can often think they are a

The White House reveals at least 8 U.S. telecom firms impacted by China’s Salt Typhoon cyberattack

A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign.

Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger offered new details about the breadth of the

TSMC and Nvidia in talks to make AI chips in Arizona, sources reveal

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is in discussions with Nvidia Corp to produce its Blackwell artificial intelligence chips at the contract manufacturer’s new plant in

Microsoft faces £1B cloud licensing lawsuit in the UK


Microsoft’s cloud ambitions just hit a major snag in the UK. The tech giant is facing a £1bn ($1.27 billion) lawsuit over how it licenses software to customers using rival cloud platforms. Filed in the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal by Scott+Scott, the

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Dr. Rob’s new AI model promises to cut aircraft design time from months to days


UK startup PhysicsX, founded by former Formula 1 engineering whizz Robin “Dr. Rob” Tuluie, has unveiled an AI tool that could fast-track the time it takes to design a new aircraft from months to just a few days.  Dubbed LGM-Aero, the software crea

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Ubisoft’s problems compound with the sudden shutdown of ‘XDefiant’

In mid-October, rumors were swirling that Ubisoft was planning to shut down XDefiant, its struggling free-to-play first-person shooter game. Producer Mark Rubin took to social media to categorically deny that chatter. Tuesday afternoon, he was back on X.com—this time to announce the game was indeed ending.

Ubisoft has pulled the plug on

ASML’s Christophe Fouquet is leading the company quietly powering the AI boom

When it comes to producing state-of-the-art microchips for artificial intelligence, only one company produces the multimillion-dollar hardware necessary to draw the complex, microscopic designs on silicon needed for the chips to work: ASML. Big chipmakers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Intel, and Samsung all rely on the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that the Dutch company provides. No wonder it

Why gamers would rather watch other people play than pick up their own controllers

Why play a video game when you could watch an internet celebrity do it? 

According to a new MIDiA Research survey, gamers are spending more time watching videos about gaming than playing games themselves. The average respondent spent 8.5 hours scrolling YouTube and Twitch for gaming content, compared to just 7.4 hours booting up their favorite ga

How TikTok caused a matcha shortage

Matcha is undoubtedly the beverage of the moment. It’s almost impossible to scroll on social media without catching glimpses of bright green, sipped out of glass straws or takeaway cups. In Japan, however, the matcha industry is struggling to keep up with soaring demand.

“POV: The girls have caused a matcha shortage in Japan,” says one viral TikTok post. The clip shows a sign at a tea shop in Japan that re

SEO Maintenance: A Checklist For Essential Year-Round Tasks via @sejournal, @coreydmorris

Jumping into SEO without a game plan can waste time with little payoff. These daily, weekly, and monthly checklists will help you stay on track.

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Threads is going all-in on the fediverse, and users have some questions

Threads is going deeper into the fediverse, the interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub that includes apps such as Mastodon and BookWyrm.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that starting Wednesday, Threads users can follow people from other fediverse servers who have interacted with f

Community Corner: Concurrency With Florian Engelhardt

In this episode, Scott talks to Florian Engelhardt about concurrency in PHP. Links Florian on Mastodon – https://phpc.social/@flowcontrol Florian’s Website – https://dotbox.org Article – Concurrency in PHP: What are my options?

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Umierať či vymierať – bude tak znieť otázka pre našich potomkov?

Že množstvo spermii u mužov vo vyspelých krajinách západnej civilizácie postupne klesá, potvrdili už tisíce prieskumov. Príčiny sa hľadali a nachádzali v prevládajúcom životnom štýle v konzumnej spoločnosti, ale spermie ubúdajú aj v menej rozvinutých a menej konzumných krajinách. Možných príčin je priveľa a uspokojivé možnosti riešenia tohto problému zatiaľ chýbajú. http://www.osel.cz/13808-umierat-ci-vymierat-bude-tak-zniet-otazka-pre-nasich-potomkov.html

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is ‘not that worried’ about Musk’s influence in the Trump administration

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who is in a legal dispute with rival Elon Musk, said he is “not that worried” about Musk’s influence in the incoming Trump administration.

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Disney+ just got a dash of ESPN

Disney. Pixar. Marvel. Star Wars. National Geographic. Hulu. The Walt Disney Co. isn’t a portfolio of brands so much as a portfolio of portfolios of brands. Today it’s expanding its Disney+ streaming service by adding content from yet another of its marquee names: ESPN.

More specifically, it’s adding a tile to the Disney+ home screen that leads to content from the ESPN+ streaming service, which is available both in stand-alone form and as part of a variety of bundles. Disney+ viewe

Google Announces New ‘Dating & Companionship’ Ads Policy via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google introduces 'Dating and Companionship' ads policy, including mandatory certification for dating app advertisers starting in March.

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