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53,798karma·6,821submissions·October 11, 2007
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If you have the time, read the judge's response to the motion: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43... The big deal for publishers and authors is the…
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> We took papers submitted in 2021 and 2022, before ChatGPT, treated them as ground-truth human How is the author so sure that people or companies weren’t already using early tools at that time?
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> The circumstances in which you actually need to physically present your Social Security card are quite rare indeed. In my state, it's one of the allowed document types for proof of social se…
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But it’s a problem to be dependent on China. The U.S. should pass a law that (1) makes explicit that collecting data for training models is fair use, and (2) bars terms of service that forbid distill…
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Same. No way I am uploading data to a PRC company. It's not just an IP issue ... there's a very high likelihood such companies will be restricted in the United States, even if they try "…
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You know, at one time Amazon was grouped in with all of the other big tech companies as a member of FAANG, as if the company has a culture of solid engineering at its core like Google or Apple. It doe…
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"Fantastic fiction" .... that's actually a very apt way to describe Ballard's work. His memoir presents a vivid but not fantastic view of his life in the suburbs of southeast Engla…
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I think you would appreciate Munich's science museum ( https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/museum-island/visit ). They've done a solid job of balancing accessibility …
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Yes, 滷肉 ("braised meat") is highly concentrated. You can't eat the sauce by itself like a stew, it would be too rich. So it's usually served on white rice or in this case noodles. …
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Many years ago I saw a Japanese TV program that explored the food of southern Taiwan and one of the stops was a restaurant that had a 106-year old vat of broth. It was tall and narrow and had a giant …
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Paywalled. But it's not just a Netflix problem. Many of the studios and streamers seem to make the similar mistakes when it comes to timing, writing, and audience targeting. Westworld is the post…
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If the names of the ships that sank there are known, along with the numbers of sailors who perished, does that mean there were some survivors? Or other ships witnessed the sinking but managed to make …
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In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s bets on the new s…
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Bogleheads (made up of investors who follow Bogle's indexing philosophy) recently had a thread about the decline in traffic to the forum, which some people attributed to AI. ( https://w…
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Japanese Yen is now 162 to USD, the lowest exchange rate since 1986.