*what* exactly is happening? the lesson here is not that we are getting closer to AGI; it’s that we are we are increasingly being fooled by database mimics that talk about things they don’t know about (& hence frequently confabulate).

Here I was thinking it was 2022. [ Sanas, the buzzy Silicon Valley startup that wants to make the world sound whiter sfgate.com/news/article/s… via SFGATE ]

Love can be defined as a wish that others be happy; compassion is the wish that they be free from suffering. If you cultivate love and compassion within yourself, it will ensure happiness, good health and peace of mind.

Dear people who read URLs in podcasts: are you absolutely sure that's a backslash? Asking for a friend.

So is an attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House, which severely injured her husband, and seems to have reflected right-wing extremism, going to be a one-day story? Really?

1. By week’s end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory positing that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his leftist gay lover. Allow me to explain.

Just discovered how to classify Gen X vs. Gen Z: ask the person what the *NewsHour is.

PhD who have exited academia: any regrets?

Performed a thorough search of my house. Zero classified documents. FYI to a future special counsel.

craig newmark donated $250,000 to Women and Military Veterans in Tech at the University of San Francisco USF Women in Tech University of San Francisco USF CS linkedin.com/pulse/craig-ne…

Do you know anyone who listens to podcasts at _regular_ speed?

Am I being trolled? bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Bad entity resolution --- in itself, an algorithm, though rarely as invested in as the final predictive optimization --- behind so many harmful downstream deployment algorithm errors. Other problems with tenant screening of course, but bad ER is strikingly common.

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English dialects make themselves heard in genes theconversation.com/english-dialec… via The Conversation U.S.

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ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak openai.com/blog/chatgpt-c…

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