Clickbait: A car that will ditch you if you miss your payments.

Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed Timely application as delinquencies rise with interest rates. A patent application from automaker Ford was published last week for embedded vehicle systems that facilitate an automobile’s repossession, including autonomously moving it to a repossession agency. The patent [PDF], which was filed in August, covers more ways […]

Making Cheese for the First Time

Homemade Mozzarella Recipe Ingredients15L Whole Milk1/4 tsp Mesophilic Culture1/4 tsp Thermophilic Culture3/4 tsp Rennet1/2 cup Cool Distilled Water Tools2 Large PotsThermometerRubber GlovesLarge ColanderCheesecloth InstructionsAdd 15 L of milk to double-boiler water bath.Stir in a figure 8 motion, while heating slowly over low heat. After it reaches 30 degrees, turn heat off.Sprinkle 1/4 tsp Meso culture […]

How ChatGPT Works: The Model Behind The Bot

by Molly Ruby | Medium-Tech A brief introduction to the intuition and methodology behind the chat bot you can’t stop hearing about. This gentle introduction to the machine learning models that power ChatGPT, will start at the introduction of Large Language Models, dive into the revolutionary self-attention mechanism that enabled GPT-3 to be trained, and […]

A stunning shot of an octopus carrying her eggs.

Ocean Art 2022 Winning Images (Large Images) Best of Show The Story: This photo shows a Caribbean reef octopus guarding her eggs, found off the coast of West Palm Beach, Florida.  Like all other species of octopus, this mother does not eat while she tends to her eggs, and she will die after they hatch.  It […]

‘Be Kind to Yourself’

by BREITBART NEWS Dec. 30 (UPI) — Revered actor Anthony Hopkins has been sober for 47 years and in a just-released video, he celebrated the accomplishment, while providing encouragement for others. In the video, Hopkins shared how his past struggles with alcohol took a toll on his life. “I just had to acknowledge one day […]

Bronze Age shipwreck provides evidence of complex, long-distance supply chains built around trading tin ore.

Evidence hints miners in Central Asia provided a crucial metal to Mediterranean rulers By Bruce Bower Long-distance supply chains, vulnerable to disruptions from wars and disease outbreaks, may have formed millennia before anyone today gasped at gas prices or gawked at empty store shelves. Roughly 3,650 to 3,200 years ago, herders and villagers who mined tin […]