The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Jessica Leigh Hester joins us on a deep dive into the sewer, the subject of her appropriately-titled book, Sewer. She and Dylan talk about some of the interesting (and disgusting) things she found there… like fatbergs.
All this week, we’re heading underground to discover the stories beneath our feet.
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The app can also run a variety of other models using MLX, including embers of the Gemma, Llama 3.2, and and Qwen families.
Tags: apple, ios, ai, generative-ai, local-llms, llms, mlx
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I’m usually pretty go-with-the-flow as far as OS updates go, but iOS 26 / Liquid Glass is terrible: incoherent, ugly, and difficult to use. Obviously a massive design effort, but they missed the mark IMO.
Physics of Fluids journal article: ‘Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce’. The authors found the dish entered the “Mozzarella Phase” when starch concentrations (relative to cheese) dropped below 1%, “corresponding to an unpleasant and separated sauce”.
“AI developers haven’t figured out a way to train their models not to scheme. That’s because such training could actually teach the model how to scheme even better to avoid being detected.” (The same is true for children.)
