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Nonalcoholic beer sales in U.S. grocery, convenience and liquor stores have nearly tripled since 2019, and its market share in groceries specifically has grown from 0.8% to 2.2%, according to Bump Williams. But in Whole Foods, it is already 10%.

It is more popular across the globe, especially Western Europe, where nonalcoholic and low-alcohol beers account for almost 8% of beer consumption, according to Euromonitor. It is even big in places where dressing up in lederhosen to celebrate the glory of beer is a national pastime. In Germany, 10% of beers will soon be brewed without alcohol, according to the German Brewers’ Association, and Oktoberfest attendees can hardly taste the difference between a Pilsner and a Pilsner Alkoholfrei.

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/athletic-brewing-non-alcoholic-beer-864caa20

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The company said it would spend an additional $50 billion on repurchasing its own shares. In the quarter ending in July, it spent $15.4 billion on share repurchases and dividends.

Nvidia now supplies more than 90 percent of the chips essential to building A.I. It is raking in sales as bigger companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, pour more than $50 billion into building A.I. data centers to support endeavors as varied as chatbots like ChatGPT and pharmaceutical companies using the technology to develop new drugs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/technology/nvidia-earnings-ai-stocks.html

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None of this will happen rapidly. As of February 2024, only about 5 percent of businesses in the United States have reported using A.I., and the technology itself is far from perfect (Google’s A.I. struggled initially with questions about whether it’s smart to eat rocks). Its spread in the economy will be slow, and its true impact won’t be felt until the mid-2030s. The nature of that impact will depend on the readiness of corporations and workers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/economy-us-aging-work-force-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S04.a9dj.GYc6qEzZocnA&smid=url-share

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Sales growth of about 25% in 2025 looks feasible, based on our calculations, supported by TSMC’s leadership in 3- and 5-nm nodes, and its advanced CoWoS proprietary semiconductor packaging technology.

Yet even before ASML, some investors have grown cautious about the trajectory of global AI spending. They question whether big tech firms like Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. will continue to splash out on chips and data centers without a truly killer application.

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AI subscriptions are, so far, the tech industry’s favorite idea for making money from AI. This is conceptually simple — your customers are paying you for access to a new product. The problem is that compute-heavy cloud services like ChatGPT and Copilot remain extremely expensive to run, meaning that in some cases even paying customers might be costing them money. Computing costs are likely to fall, and AI-model efficiency could improve, but, much like the basic assumption that there’s a huge market for these things just waiting to be tapped, these are bets and not particularly safe ones.

Maybe customers flock to new AI features, in which case Microsoft will have shifted computing expenses back to its billions of customers, improving margins on subscription products and selling lots of Windows licenses in the process.

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“I don’t believe that Ozempic is the drug that caused this problem. I think it’s just reduced your ability to use the drug you were using to soothe yourself for so long — food. You can stop taking the Ozempic, sure. Stop if you want to. But these issues will still be driving you. Use this as an opportunity to figure out why you ate in the way you did and change it.”

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Lots of people use food primarily to manage their emotions. When a group of scientists was investigating comfort eating, one person said, “Food is like a sedative to me. It knocks me out, almost like a drug. When I feel any little bit of sadness or anger, I eat. It’s almost like being fed as a baby. I will eat and eat until I can’t move.”

Le Roux believes that for some patients, overeating has performed a psychological function, and afterwards there’s “this hole, this space, left in their reward areas that’s not filled any more”.

In addition, some people believe that losing weight will solve all their problems and set them free to become who they really want to be, but when they actually lose weight, many of them, he said, then realise, “I have the same job and I drive the same car and I live in the same house and I have the same partner. Actually, it wasn’t the disease of obesity that made my life terrible. It was all this other stuff.”

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It's moving faster than any of us ever imagined it would. It's moving fast...

What did you mean, "get left behind"?

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guy who thinks he's a nepo baby because his dad is the Gruffalo

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A polarized light micrograph of glycine. Glycine is one of the building blocks of proteins, but it can also form outside cells in a few chemical reactions.

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The Order of National Heroes is the supreme honour within the national honours system of Barbados and was established by the Order of National Heroes Act 1998 by the Parliament of Barbados.[1] Members are referred to as National Heroes, and are accorded the style "The Right Excellent". The Order recognises the most prominent figures in Barbados' history. As of June 2024, Sir Garfield Sobers and Rihanna are the only two living persons conferred with the title.

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In more than a dozen interviews with Ukrainian entrepreneurs, engineers and military units, a picture emerged of a near future when swarms of self-guided drones can coordinate attacks and machine guns with computer vision can automatically shoot down soldiers. More outlandish creations, like a hovering unmanned copter that wields machine guns, are also being developed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/technology/ukraine-war-ai-weapons.html?utm_campaign=dfn-ebb&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sailthru

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This is like a real life sandrider in the Pacific Ocean

"Star lore is the foundation of non-instrumental navigation, but stars, as Sharp had pointed out, are visible only at night, and so another method was required for navigation by day. Navigators could steer by the sun for a few hours at the beginning and end of the day (otherwise it was too high in the sky) and at noon (when the shadow of the mast will give north and south). But they also used another very important—and, to Westerners, much less familiar—technique: that of reading the ocean swells. Swells are not the same as waves. Waves are a local phenomenon thrown up by winds in the immediate vicinity; swells, by contrast, are waves that originate far away and travel beyond the winds that generate them. The important swells, those created by enduring weather patterns like the trade winds or the westerlies in the South Pacific Ocean, tend to have long wavelengths and to move past the boat “with a slow, swelling undulation.” This does not necessarily mean they are easy to recognize, for in practice the actual pattern of waves and swells at any particular point will be a complicated mix of “systems that differ in height, length, shape, and speed moving across each other from different directions.”"

Thompson, Christina. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (pp. 266-267). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

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The act of focusing is both possible and valuable, researchers say, no matter how intimidating or pointless it might seem.