Climate: Chocolate will go extinct
Good grief: Climate change could make chocolate go extinct (msn.com)
Demographics: Births in Japan reach record low
Births in Japan fall to a record low as fewer couples marry Reminder: 75% of the world’s population lives in countries whose population is shrinking. Some demographers think peak world…
Google’s Gemini AI is broken
Gemini AI's architecture is fundamentally broken - is it even fixable? I have doubts.
Bias against women in male dominated jobs has decreased, but bias against men in female dominated jobs remains
Study finds that discrimination against females in male dominated jobs has mostly ended or reversed, but that discrimination against males in female dominated jobs remains.
Demographics: Hungary to abolish lifetime income taxes for women having >= 4 kids
Hungary to abolish income taxes for life, for women having 4 or more kids, and will add other subsidies. Hungary's fertility rate is 1.6.
Follow up: European wildfires in 2023
Southern European wildfires were at normal levels in 2023, contratry to media hype, says one skeptic.
Public health: 1 in 5 who get measles are hospitalized
The CDC says 1 in 5 who get measles will be hospitalized, but historically, per their own data, it was 1 in 62. Why that large difference?
AI: Summary of AI going crazy
Read the whole thing. AI is not yet ready. From Black Nazis to female Popes and American Indian Vikings: How AI went ‘woke’ (msn.com)
Society: The culture of perpetual outrage
The "culture of perpetual outrage" is now everywhere. Sort of like The Force, it surrounds us and penetrates through us.
AI: Microsoft Copilot conflates two different people
I used to work with the Eric Larsen described in the first two paragraphs. The last paragraph is a completely different Eric Larsen (see that person’s bio here). The errors…