Mamdani is the mayor/artist formerly known as Young Cardamom.
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OpenAI pioneered a $20-per-month subscription three years ago, a price point many competitors matched. That price has not changed, even as features and performance have improved substantially.
One recent analysis found that “GPT-4-equivalent performance now costs $0.40/million tokens versus $20 in late 2022.” That is the equivalent of a 70 percent annual deflation rate — remarkable by any standard, especially in a time when affordability has become a dominant public concern.
And this is only the foundational model layer. On top of it sits a sprawling ecosystem of consumer applications, enterprise tools, device integrations and start-ups aiming to serve niches as specific as gyms and hair salons.
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Another AI metaphor: Suppose you are the best maker of horse carriages in Belgium around the time the automobile is invented. You might want to take on as many orders as possible for new carriages because you know your future is precarious. Or, maybe you get your hands on one of these new-fangled automobiles as soon as possible and learn how fix them. Both options require you to WORK HARDER but these seem to be the two best options available. Paradoxical but true.
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Vegas came back last night!
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Only five of the Starship spacecraft’s six engines ignited, preventing it from reaching the correct orbital path, although the trajectory remained “within bounds” for a suborbital flight.
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SatStats
The fertility rate in the Central African Republic is about 6 births per woman.
The fertility rate in China is about 1 birth per woman.
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Only 30 percent of NYC's residents report being “happy” with Mamdani’s performance.
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More than 500,000 American adolescents reported inhalant use in the past year,
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Drawing on a wide-ranging new dataset, we estimate that at least five million people were captured from hundreds of locations across Eastern Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. We hypothesize that, over time, raids encouraged an economically advantageous process of defensive state-building linked to raided societies’ resistance to and lack of integration into the slave trade. Using difference-in-differences and instrumental variables strategies, we find that exposure to raids is positively associated with long-run urban growth and related indicators of demographic and commercial development. --Cambridge
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The City of Pittsburgh gained the highest number of new residents statewide between 2020 and 2025. More than 4,500 people were born or moved into the city in that period, an increase of 1.5%
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Cumbria Police made 7.7 arrests per 10,000 people for 'malicious speech' over two years, about 2.5 times the national average. So 'malicious speech' can vary with region?
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The Debt was 30% of GDP at the beginning of the Depression, 41% at the beginning of World War II, 122% in 1946, at the end of the war . . . and then fell gradually back to 30% by 1981.
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In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results.
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Bonded servants had virtually disappeared in America by 1800.
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