This chart is a great rebuttal of the view that RAG will solve hallucination. In the legal domain, it turns out that it does improve precision somewhat, but at the expense of recall. Really great paper by Stanford & Yale researchers assessing legal AI. dho.stanford.edu/wp-content/upl…

Excited to see the continued expansion and maturity of the "studying up" literature!

`I believe the columns are self-explanatory`. Sigh

BREAKING: A federal court has ruled Mississippi's state legislative maps must be redrawn to make sure that Black voters are fairly represented. This is a win for voting rights.

This feature of GitHub has to be one of the biggest operational security risks. Why when you're searching to add people do a repo does it search the entire corpus of users?! Show me the people in my org first!

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All of my friends who think through the sociology and economics of software talk about how breakdowns like today's are a matter of when, not if. It's gonna happen. It's like monocultures in agriculture or relying on a single supplier or piece in mass production (see airbags).

🚨Last year, South Carolina defended its racist U.S. House map by claiming they were only gerrymandering against Democrats, not Black people. Seriously, they said it out loud. Now the state's high court will decide if that's ok. Spoiler: it's not, no matter what party you are.

Why does bigquery **default** to case sensitive schemas? I get they are cool and want to implement the pipe in SQL, but get the basics right for g-ds sake

a lot of people are doing this

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I really love this - it captures what most frustrated me when I took this class. Some problems are easier to formally model - these are the scenarios in which optimization methods "work". But there's so many other types of problems where we're pretty much just fooling ourselves.

This is incredible - each of these cases are AI scams that have been alarmingly normalized in the past couple years (including DoNotPay, a "robo-lawyer"; several AI enabled financial/business services, etc). Glad to see all of this being finally called out!

In an election this close, every voter that the ACLU adds back to the rolls matters.

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I don't think I'll ever get over the anti immagrant crowd cheering for the guy from South africa who came here illegally, made a fortune through government subsidies then bought an election so he could take away their benefits.

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My sense is that Trump 2.0 is heavily influenced by the Travel Ban Experience, which taught Trump that the Court will allow him to start off with the most extreme version of something and then gradually adjust its scope and rationale until the Court says "that's good enough."

I love Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's idea that nuclear weapons are the worst possible analogy for AGI. They are different in almost every important respect and if you are reasoning based on this analogy you are very likely to reach bad conclusions.