llm's are random text generators. each one is a different architecture, different training data, or different training recipe.

first off: you probably dont need to fill up your harddrive with every good model in existance. often a url link is sufficient.(unless the owner deletes it. but quants are often still there)

optional second questions: how many links do you have to decent models(excluding low value experiments) how many would you estimate that you have?

optional third question: how much is your divirsity of model usage? assuming you had the compute, how many tested models would you utilize for a single query across different models? average. max.

fourth question: do you still rely on inference compute for non-locally hosted models?

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Summary: Science: A New Golden Age

A Report to the President · July 2026 Author: Michael Kratsios, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology / Director, OSTP

Executive Overview & Core Problem

Eighty-one years after Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report Science: The Endless Frontier shaped post-WWII American scientific architecture, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) delivered a comprehensive overhaul plan. The report responds to a March 2025 mandate from President Donald J. Trump calling for a "Golden Age of American Innovation."

The report diagnoses structural stagnation within America's $886 billion annual R&D system (2024 figures):

• Declining Scientific Productivity: Despite massive funding increases (e.g., in biomedicine), breakthroughs have slowed, and drug approval efficiency per dollar spent has dropped 80-fold since 1950 ("Eroom's Law").
• Bureaucratic Burden: Researchers now spend nearly 40–44% of their working hours on grant paperwork, review cycles, and university overhead management.
• Incumbency & Risk Aversion: The average age of first-time NIH principal investigators rose from 36 (in 1980) to 42+. Standard consensus-driven peer review penalizes radical, unconventional proposals in favor of safe, incremental projects.
• Offshoring & Decoupling: Decades of industrial offshoring severed the link between basic discovery and domestic advanced manufacturing, causing foreign competitors to commercialize and scale U.S. basic research.
• Geopolitical Competition: Near-peer rivals, particularly China, have achieved purchasing-power parity in R&D spending, deploying coordinated, state-backed, all-of-society research strategies.

Key Pillars & Recommendations

1. Revitalizing the Research Ecosystem

• Shift to "People Over Projects": Expand portable graduate fellowships (e.g., NSF GRFP) and long-horizon grants for high-performing individuals (modeled on the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award) to give early-career scientists independence from traditional institutional hierarchies.
• Diversify Funding Mechanisms: Move away from pure consensus peer review. Adopt alternative mechanisms like "golden tickets" (allowing a single reviewer to fund high-risk ideas), fast-track grants (decisions in 48 hours), prize challenges (paying for verified outcomes), and decentralized regranting.
• Launch Novel Performers: Support Focused Research Organizations (FROs) and NSF "X-Labs"—agile, time-bound, mission-driven teams of professional scientists/engineers dedicated to solving specific mid-scale bottlenecks (e.g., brain mapping) rather than relying strictly on rotating graduate students.
• Institutionalize Metascience: Create empowered Metascience Units within every federal funding agency to run controlled experiments on grant allocation methods, track agency performance, and eliminate administrative bloat.
• Enforce Gold Standard Science: Address the reproducibility crisis by requiring open data, replication packages, transparency, and strict adherence to scientific rigor via executive order.

2. Securing Critical & Emerging Technologies

• Restore Permissionless Innovation: Streamline environmental permitting and regulatory reviews across nuclear energy, biotechnology, and autonomous systems. (Highlighted: 2025 Executive Orders capping Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing timelines and prioritizing nuclear power uprates for AI/manufacturing).
• Open Federal Test Infrastructure: Grant startups and private firms streamlined access to Department of Energy (DOE) national labs, NASA centers, and defense facilities through modernized licensing and Other Transaction Authority (OTA).
• Pre-Competitive Consortia & Grand Challenges: Leverage federal convening power to solve shared engineering bottlenecks across strategic sectors (modeled on SEMATECH and EUV LLC for semiconductor manufacturing).
• Cross-Sector Talent Flows: Establish industry Ph.D.s, joint public-private postdocs, and agency-adjacent foundations (like the Foundation for the NIH) to bridge academic discovery with market execution.

3. Rebuilding the Science-Craft Marriage

• Valuing Process/Tacit Knowledge: Recognize that technological strength depends heavily on uncodified skill—the "know-how" living in the heads of experienced machinists, technicians, and process engineers.
• Integrating STEM & Vocational Training: Reform higher education accreditation to count hands-on apprenticeships, industry credentials, and technical externships toward STEM degrees.
• Alternative Research Pathways: Create national fellowships and "practitioner-in-residence" roles for master craftsmen, welders, and machinists alongside Ph.D. researchers at universities and national labs.
• Regional Innovation Clusters: Reconnect R&D facilities with local manufacturing ecosystems via Workforce Pell Grants, community college hubs, and state-level incentives to build regional supply chains outside traditional coastal hubs.

4. The AI for Science Revolution ("The Genesis Mission")

• Scale AI Infrastructure: Fully fund the Genesis Mission as America's flagship initiative to unify supercomputing assets, AI models, and national laboratory datasets, with the explicit target of doubling U.S. scientific productivity within a decade.
• Closed-Loop Autonomous Labs: Accelerate investments in automated hardware, lab robotics, and AI-native publishing/credit systems to run experiments continuous with verification protocols.

Meaning, Significance, and Potential Consequences

Meaning & Philosophical Shift

This report marks a formal policy rejection of the 1945 "Linear Model" of innovation (which assumed basic science naturally leads to economic prosperity through a passive pipeline). Instead, it adopts a "Pasteur’s Quadrant" model—acknowledging that discovery is an iterative, recursive loop where practical engineering challenges constantly catalyze basic scientific inquiry.

Furthermore, it shifts federal strategy from impartial research funder to active strategic allocator, emphasizing state capacity, industrial national security, and domestic economic retention.

Potential Consequences

| Area | Positive Consequences / Opportunities | Potential Challenges / Risks | |

|

|

| | Scientific Productivity | Cutting grant review times and introducing "golden tickets" could drastically accelerate high-risk/high-reward breakthroughs and reduce wasted administrative hours. | Fast-tracking and bypassing consensus peer review could increase funding variance, potentially funding underperforming fringe projects if oversight is lax. | | Geopolitics & Supply Chains | Tighter links between federal R&D and domestic manufacturing could protect American intellectual property and prevent foreign adversaries from capturing critical tech sectors (semiconductors, biotech, nuclear). | Aggressive research security and reshoring mandates might create friction with global research networks and increase domestic manufacturing costs in the short term. | | Workforce & Social Mobility | Elevating technical trades, community colleges, and hands-on apprenticeships broadens the economic benefits of federal science spending beyond elite doctoral institutions to rural/industrial communities. | Institutional inertia in traditional academic tenure systems and higher-education accreditation boards may resist valuing non-traditional credentials. | | Regulatory & Industrial Speed | Deregulating nuclear permitting, biotechnology trials, and drone/autonomous testing grounds could dramatically lower capital costs for hardware startups. | Accelerating approvals requires robust safety/environmental monitoring to ensure speed does not compromise consumer safety or environmental protection. |

Key Data Metrics Summary

• $886 Billion: Total U.S. R&D spending in 2024.
• 70% vs. 40%: The federal share of U.S. basic research funding in the 1960s (~70%) compared to today (~40%), as private industry spending surged to over $700 billion annually.
• 44%: Estimated percentage of time researchers spend on grant administration instead of actual science.
• 40%: Share of STEM Ph.D.s awarded to temporary visa holders with postgraduation commitments.
• $400+ Billion: Capital committed by U.S. industry in 2025 alone to build out AI computational infrastructure.

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title: "EU hits Google with $1 billion fine over its Play app store and search" url: "https://abcnews.com/Technology/wireStory/eu-hits-google-1-billion-fine-play-app-135010885" author: "SAM MCNEIL Associated Press"

The European Union has fined Google $1 billion for breaking digital antitrust regulations

BySAM MCNEIL Associated Press

July 23, 2026, 3:08 AM

BRUSSELS -- The European Union on Thursday hit Google with a fine of 890 million euros ($1 billion) after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers towards its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors.

It was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world’s largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing.

Google had recently lost its appeal of a $4.5 billion antitrust fine imposed by the EU for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system.

The European Commission, the bloc's executive branch and highest antitrust enforcer, said it was acting in the interest of consumers after running an antitrust investigation of Google.

“The best products should succeed because they’re better, not because they’re owned by the company running the search engine. And European consumers have a right to be told by app developers where to sign up to the best offers, even when the app store owner does not get a cut,” said Teresa Ribera, the commission's Executive Vice President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition.

Google’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker blasted the fine as “product degradation driven by a small group of self-serving complainants” that will have a negative impact on European businesses and consumers.

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He said that the EU’s Digital Markets Act forces Google “to strip away real-time search features Europeans love — like instant pricing and direct availability for hotels, flights, and restaurants — and dismantle safety protections on Google Play.”

Brussels has ratcheted up the pressure on U.S. and Chinese tech giants despite the risk of incurring the wrath of President Donald Trump, who has lashed out at the 27-nation bloc’s digital regulations and vowed to retaliate if American tech companies are penalized.

The EU describes the world’s seven tech giants — Amazon, Apple, Google parent Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok owner ByteDance — as “gatekeepers” that control access for consumers.

“In the EU, businesses have the right to compete fairly. Gatekeepers have the obligation to ensure a level playing field and consumers the right to choose for cheaper alternative offers," European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said.

https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2026/06/23/phoenix-could-keep-outdoor-campground-for-homeless/90652251007/ raiderswire.usatoday.com Phoenix could extend 'temporary' homeless campground 4 more years Shawn Raymundo 4 - 5 minutes

Updated June 23, 2026, 8:09 a.m. PT

Phoenix leaders will decide whether to keep a downtown homeless campground open for four more years.
The Safe Outdoor Space provides shelter and services for about 300 people who may prefer it over indoor shelters.
Operating the campground costs Phoenix over $6 million annually through contracts with charitable organizations.
While the city says the project is a success, police data shows a sharp increase in service calls in the area.

Phoenix leaders will decide this fall whether the city’s shaded outdoor campground for the homeless should remain open for at least four more years.

The Office of Homeless Solutions is asking local officials to continue running the Safe Outdoor Space, or SOS, in downtown Phoenix, where roughly 300 people receive services and temporary shelter from the heat.

It’s been operating the site at 15th Avenue and Jackson Street under a temporary permit that expires in October.

Phoenix’s Central City Village Planning Committee, a 15-member advisory board comprising residents in and around downtown, has already recommended that the City Council approve the four-year extension.

Homeless Solutions now needs the city's Planning Commission to weigh in this August. Why is Phoenix keeping open a temporary solution for 4 more years?

The overall concept of the outdoor shelter has been an effective tool for the city to combat the ongoing homeless crisis, Homeless Solutions officials have said.

The office wants to continue operating it for four more years after demonstrating that it can do so without negatively affecting the surrounding area.

Over the past three years, officials said, the city was able to build trust with the community, which initially opposed the endeavor. How did the homeless campground affect surrounding Phoenix neighborhoods?

The city has boasted that neighbors are supportive of the city’s proposal.

Phoenix police’s call logs show there’s been a sharp increase in reported incidents.

Since SOS opened, Phoenix police recorded 334 service calls for things like trespassing, fights and domestic violence along the 1500 block of West Jackson Street.

There were two incidents recorded in 2023, both before the lot became a campground. How much does the SOS shelter cost Phoenix?

Through service contracts with charitable organizations, Phoenix spends more than $6 million to manage the campground.

This coming fiscal year, it’s paying Keys to Change, which operates the nearby Key Campus, Phoenix’s largest homeless services hub, $5 million to operate the SOS shelter, as well as provide round-the-clock security, daily meals and janitorial services.

There’s also Community Bridges, Inc., whose $1.25 million contract allows the nonprofit to provide case management services and connect people to behavioral health, housing, and employment services.

When the shelter first opened, the operation initially cost roughly $13 million, including the price of the property. Why do some people prefer this over shelters?

The campground is largely designed to support those who aren’t comfortable staying at an indoor shelter but still need services and don’t want to sleep on the street.

Some individuals have previously said they don’t like being around a lot of people and prefer the outdoors.

Others said the SOS allows them to store their possessions and stay together with their partners or animal companions. What’s the long-term strategy beyond this campground?

Phoenix’s goal for the outdoor space has been to transition people into housing and indoor shelters.

Officials touted last fall that about a third of the people it had served moved to some form of indoor space. They also said the city was looking to the project as a model for a new way to tackle homelessness, with guests as far as Australia coming to tour the site.

Despite the space's reported success, though, Homeless Solutions doesn't have plans to open additional campgrounds, Couturier said.

Shawn Raymundo covers Phoenix and Scottsdale. Reach him atsraymundo@gannett.com or follow him on X @ShawnzyTsunami.

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seems to use [as little as..] 5% of memory that firefox uses. (pending more testing)
nice features:

• ad blockers
• export bookmarks

I notice that LLMs have a strange way of writing perl.
(strange until you learn it !)

Chaining ternary operators
these seem to be used in places where i would have been more familiar with a simple if/then/else conditional. This one‑liner is useful when you need to assign a value based on a series of mutually exclusive tests without writing explicit if/elsif/else blocks.

Chaining ternary operators for compact conditionals

my $age = 27;       
      
my $category = $age < 13          ? 'child'        
                          : $age < 20          ? 'teen'     
                          : $age < 65          ? 'adult'      
                          :                            'senior';      
       
print "Category: $category\n";           

# Determine a short label for a set of unrelated inputs         
my $label = $age < 13            ? 'child'       
          : $color eq 'red'              ? 'stop'         
          : $count == 0                  ? 'empty'        
          : $mode eq 'debug'        ? 'verbose'         
          : $size > 1000                 ? 'big'         
          : 'default';          

• When condition is true, the part after the question‑mark, becomes the value of the whole expression.
• if true, The rest of the chain (other ternary tests) are never evaluated. also including the last return value is also skipped, in this case.
• therefore, ordering matters.
• finally, The final : supplies the fallback value, acting as the “else” case.
• you must be able to read it easily, but it provides terse syntax.
• Alternatives: if this isnt appropriate for your usecase, then alternatives are: given/when, hash lookup, or simple if/else .

an extra value can be appended to the right side to return a specific false value.
otherwise, it is implied that testing false will be handled/passed by/to the next ternary in the chain.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $score = 78;          # try different values

my $result =
    $score >= 90 ? 'A: Excellent' :
    ( $score < 90 ? 'Not an A, keep trying' :
      $score >= 80 ? 'B: Good' :
      ( $score < 80 ? 'Not a B, try harder' :
        $score >= 70 ? 'C: Satisfactory' :
        ( $score < 70 ? 'Not a C, improve' :
          $score >= 60 ? 'D: Pass' :
          ( $score < 60 ? 'F: Fail – below passing mark' :
            '??' ) ) ) );

print "$result\n";

note:
Operator precedence – The ternary operators (? and :) bind loosely, so you often need parentheses when mixing them with other operators. example: $result = $a > $b ? $a : ($c < $d ? $c : $d);

advanced theoretical use:

Chaining (nesting) ternary operators

Because a ternary expression itself returns a value, you can place another ternary where either the true or false part belongs:

cond1 ? expr1
      : cond2 ? expr2
               : cond3 ? expr3
                        : expr4;

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www.phonearena.com The warning every OnePlus owner ignored is reportedly becoming reality this week Polina Kovalakova 6 - 7 minutes

For months, we've been hearing about OnePlus' departure from international markets. The idea sounded too drastic to believe, and while the company pushed back against some of the early reports, it never fully put the speculation to rest.

But now, it appears that all those rumors may have been pointing in the right direction from Day 1. A new report claims OnePlus is set to announce its withdrawal from Europe and the US this week, delivering a major blow to fans. 'Never settle' may be about to settle

The OnePlus One was the brands first-ever smartphone. | Image by PhoneArena - The warning every OnePlus owner ignored is reportedly becoming reality this week

The OnePlus One was the brands first-ever smartphone. | Image by PhoneArena

An

exclusive WinFuture report (machine translated) published on July 13, 2026, claims that OnePlus may soon become history in Europe and the US. According to the outlet, the company and its parent firm, Oppo, may announce the final decision this week.

In preparation for what has become an increasingly expected development, OnePlus is reportedly selling off its remaining stock from official retail stores and third-party merchants. Once all OnePlus products disappear from distribution channels in Europe and the US, there are reportedly no plans for a restock.

While WinFuture is a reputable outlet, known for sharing highly plausible tech leaks, the current report doesn't disclose the sources behind its claims. It also emphasizes that OnePlus reps haven't revealed any reasons behind this decision even during closed-door press briefings. How we got here

The first signs of trouble emerged back in January 2026, when we heard

reports of OnePlus preparing to scale back its international operations. The company was quick to deny the report, indicating business would continue as usual.

That reassurance didn't last long. In the months that followed, rumors regarding OnePlus' withdrawal from European markets resurfaced, with the company admitting it was reviewing its strategy for select markets.

Just a few weeks ago, an official OnePlus store in Germany started directing customers toward Oppo, indicating that the parent company might be expanding in Europe as OnePlus closes. What happens now?

While no official confirmation has surfaced yet, if OnePlus indeed announces its withdrawal later this week, upcoming OnePlus devices won't be available in the EU and US, while remaining stock will gradually disappear.

In fact, OnePlus phones are already becoming difficult to find through major retailers. OnePlus phones are currently unavailable at Amazon.com, while almost all configurations of the

OnePlus 15 and 15R are unavailable through OnePlus' official European and US stores.

But what happens for fans who already own a OnePlus phone or tablet? Supposedly, the company will continue supporting eligible devices, releasing both Android and security updates according to the official support schedule. Support concerns remain Not every fan has had a positive experience with the OnePlus support community. | Image by lucajuve98 - The warning every OnePlus owner ignored is reportedly becoming reality this week

Not every fan has had a positive experience with the OnePlus support community. | Image by lucajuve98

However, online discussions paint a mixed picture of OnePlus' customer support, with some users reporting issues with repairs, response times, and overall service.

Not long ago, we reported that the company was

offering vouchers instead of repairing devices. Over at Reddit, fans are also complaining about a prolonged repair process that has left one owner with a new issue on their device.

Others have expressed concerns about OnePlus closing its student discount program and other community benefits, which further indicates the company may be actively preparing to exit some markets.

Finally!

The OnePlus 15 may be the last OnePlus phone in some markets. | Image by PhoneArena - The warning every OnePlus owner ignored is reportedly becoming reality this week

The OnePlus 15 may be the last OnePlus phone in some markets. | Image by PhoneArena

When I first read the January report, I felt a profound disbelief. At the time, I still thought OnePlus was one of the most affordable flagship phone brands in the US, offering high-end specs while maintaining a relatively accessible price.

I was genuinely relieved when OnePlus pushed back against those early rumors, only to watch the situation become more complicated as time passed.

Fast forward to today, and my reaction is purely this: finally. I'm not happy about this decision, and I'll miss OnePlus phones, but at least the uncertainty can finally come to an end.

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nypost.com NYC housing crisis hits 'DefCon 1' as rents jump to more all-time highs Greg Carlton 4 minutes

The city’s housing crisis has hit “DefCon 1” — with average rents for a one-bedroom in Manhattan hitting an all-time high of nearly $5,500 last month, and Brooklyn following suit, according to new data and critics.

“We need bold action. This is a crisis,’’ New York City Comptroller Mark Levine posted on X over the weekend, along with a link to the latest figures from the inhabit blog by real-estate giant Corcoran Group.

The dismal June stats reveal that renters paid an average of $5,408 for a one-bedroom in Manhattan, with studio prices not far behind at $4,014.

New York City apartment buildings. Data from real estate giant Corcoran Group revealed that the NYC housing crisis is now at “DefCon 1,” as the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan hit an all-time high of $5,408 per month as of June 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post

In Brooklyn, the average one-bedroom cost renters $4,297 a month.

As for the overall median rent for an apartment in Manhattan, it hit $5,295 last month, while those in Brooklyn shelled out a median $4,350 a month, or a roughly 8% increase for both boroughs year-over-year, according to the data focused on the two areas of the city. Explore More

All of the figures were record highs, continuing a troubling trend.

“NYC’s housing affordability crisis is at DefCon 1,’’ Levine tweeted, referring to the US military’s highest level of alert.

Mark Levine speaking into a microphone at the Hotel Trades Council's rally. New York City Comptroller Mark Levine posted on X, “We need bold action. This is a crisis.’’ Kristin Callahan/Shutterstock

“We need to push harder on every front to address our housing shortage.”

The crisis continues despite the recent approval of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s long-promised and controversial rent freeze on the city’s nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments by the Rent Guidelines Board.

Of those now rent-frozen apartments, a staggering 57,000 sat empty in 2025 — a 5.6% vacancy rate, according to data obtained by The City Reporter.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announcing the "click to cancel" policy. Mayor Zohran Mamdani approved a controversial rent freeze on nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments across the Big Apple, though that hasn’t stopped apartments across the five boroughs from soaring in rent. James Messerschmidt for NY Post

Levine suggested some of his own solutions.

“Update zoning, invest more City $ in affordable units, lower the time & cost City bureaucracy imposes on construction, get 1000s of vacant regulated units back on the market,” Levine wrote.

But most of the rent-stabilized apartments that lie vacant are currently warehoused because their owners can’t afford the needed renovations, considering the frozen rents, according to critics.

“Expense items are not proportional to the income the properties generate,” griped landlord Lav Bauta. Start your day with all you need to know

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Bauta’s firm, Zion Equities, owns about 800 New York City rent-stabilized units and manages thousands more.

“Rent-stabilized properties incur the same, or greater, expenses as their fair-market counterparts: insurance, wages, supplies, elevator service, utilities, etc.” Bauta said, “There is no support or control mechanism to cap expenses while incomes have been capped.”