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53,798karma·6,821submissions·October 11, 2007
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There used to be a space science mags for kids . Odyssey was published by the same person who operated Astronomy magazine, and in my tweens and early teens I gobbled up the stories about the spac…
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Van Kerkhove says Débarre’s analysis is “interesting,” but cautions that the provenance of the data is unclear. “The way in which the information is identified is highly suspect,” she says. This has…
39 pts
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Just to be clear: The bootleg site is pointing to the Amazon listing of the actual book (ISBN 9781501153648, Simon & Schuster, published 2021). The Amazon link is not pointing to an AI slop vers…
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Craigslist also undermined the entire newspaper classifieds business, which paid for local news reporting in communities of all sizes. Yes, someone else would have addressed this niche eventually, or …
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The first priority should be an agreement between the two heavyweights of ai: America and China. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping should affirm the principle that humans must remain stewards of ai systems…
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What's really amazing is that they still don't know the "why" other than some interesting speculation: religious purposes, places for psychadelic trips, "the creation of surpl…
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Pelley and Garcia-Navarro spend a lot of time talking about the shortcomings of Weiss and Bilton, and really seem to give David Ellison the benefit of the doubt. It should be the other way around. Ell…
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> I spend a decent amount of time trying to advise people away from this career field for college. So so so so so many people are going to college for cyber not realizing when they graduate, they a…
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If you think that's bad, 5 years ago you had to call someone on the phone to cancel NYT subscriptions (the boiler room retention script always gave you an option to extend at the cheaper rate, …
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> This was presumably because Microsoft and the NFL had a deal where everyone on the sidelines were using Surfaces and they thought it was a good idea. Everyone except Bill Belichick, who famously …
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> Now, the LLM is a "built-in context expert," and they don't need to vet the output anymore. Serious orgs are going to have to figure out the human layer. It will be needed, no matt…