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by Veen 4y ago
I've read arguments that food prices are unsustainably low, largely because of the pressure supermarkets put on their suppliers (the farmers). It seems that higher food prices are just something we're going to have to accept, whic
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When I’ve talked to professional writers, they say the best way to become a good writer is reading the work of writers you admire. And not just reading their work but analysing and dissecting it. Find sentences and paragraphs you admire and
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It seems to me the difference in this case is that it complains about content promotion, not content publishing. The issue is that YouTube's algorithms promoted extremist content to people who were prone to extremist behavior. That&#x2
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What value does the email have if it's written by an AI? I assume its point was to reaffirm the community's values following a horrible incident. To help people feel that those in authority are doing all they can to make students
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I'd be interested to see what the NFTs MOMA bought are worth now. The NFT market is a fraction of the size it was during the highs of 2021.
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There are services to identify LLM output, like GTPZero and a classifier from OpenAI, but they aren't very reliable even at this early stage in the development of LLMs—lots of false positives and negatives. They'll likely be usele
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Let's hope it and echelon's conversational style are parodies.
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The case against AI in classrooms(matthewbutterick.com)
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The Case Against A.I
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I find it useful to have the Mac's built-in text-to-speech read my work. I don't catch misspelling this way, but it does help me to spot repeated/missing words and ungrammatical sentences. It's quick too: the shortcut is
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This reminds me of an episode of Star Trek: TNG where Geordi is using the Enterprise’s computer to solve a problem. The computer is helpful for running simulations, answering research questions, and suggesting solutions, but Geordi does mos
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It's probably bad editing. I'd guess that the original sentence made sense, but they changed the end without going back to change the beginning. It happens often when writers and editors are in a hurry.
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The name change indicates Akamai’s intentions for the Linode platform. Linode is a well-established brand with developers, smaller agencies, small businesses, hobbyists,and so on. Akamai is an enterprise brand that serves large businesses.
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I think of these tools as "first draft writers". You can't rely on OpenAI's GPT models to do your research for you or replace knowledge of a particular domain, but they significantly accelerate the initial content drafti
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Maybe, but, as it stands, BUSD's market cap can't grow, because no more coins can be minted. Therefore, the market cap either stays the same (unlikely) or shrinks as people redeem their coins for dollars (and then, and this is spe
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Shill or not, she's right.
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I understand that some people don't agree with First Past the Post systems, but it's a little overblown to say it's fundamentally undemocratic. And I don't see how a coalition government formed through horse trading and
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> We will also add section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971 to the priority offences list in schedule 7. Although the offences in section 24 cannot be carried out online, paragraph 33 of the schedule states that priority illegal content in
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What does a 'minority of the votes' mean? In the 2019 general election, the conservatives got 13,966,000 votes and the next largest party got 10,269,000.
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I don't see how it has been advantageous to the incumbent party since they have conspicuously failed to prevent the problem.
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That's not true at all. The Online Safety Bill simply designates as a priority content that breaks an existing prohibition against aiding, abetting, counselling, and conspiring to carry out offenses under the Immigration Act 1971. Left
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There are 59 Scottish MPs in Parliament, many of whom support the Online Safety Bill. In fact, SNP MPs have consistently argued for stronger 'protections' than the Bill's proposers originally wanted. How is Scotland not repre
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This bill has cross-party support. It's not a conspiracy by the Tories—Labour, the LibDems, and the SNP want it too.
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They want to crack down on people traffickers advertising their services.
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> UI isn't a fashion show. Yes, it is. At least, it is for UI designers.
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Idlewords is a better model of good writing than Paul Graham. Maciej might be bloody annoying at times, but I find his writing far more interesting than Graham's, both in its topics and its style.
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I will second the Style recommendation. It explains how to write elegant sentences, whereas Strunk and White is just a list of the writers' prejudices. I'd also recommend Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style by Virginia Tufte (wh
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I've also found that the best way to avoid search spam is to ignore the web entirely and go to well-reviewed books about my topic of interest. I tend to search for books on Amazon or Abebooks, check out the reviews, and then buy them i
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But then you jump up another level, where someone is making a hundred thousand or a million times what the burger flipper makes. Are they generating enough value to warrant that? Elon Musk's current net worth is roughly what 100,000 bu
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But most cryptocurrencies are terrible for payments because they are so volatile. The ones that are useful for payments are stablecoins, which are scams in a different way—when Tether falls a lot people are going to lose their shirts.

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