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Drought Reveals 113M-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks in Texas(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
In what sense are the summary and headline incorrect?
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Cesium-soaked truffles may keep fallout in an environment’s food web(science.org)
48 points by akolbe 3y ago|49 comments
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Our Human Ancestors Nearly Went Extinct 900k Years Ago, Genetics Suggest(smithsonianmag.com)
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Taking It Sleazy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by akolbe 3y ago
Given the site's propensity for hoaxes I thought I had better check that the 1827 book cited there actually exists. ;) And lo and behold: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hVm4lHMT3VwC&pg=PA18
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Scientists engineered a see-through squid with its brain in plain view(npr.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Astute observation, given that the cat hole clearly predated Henry VIII.
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World’s Oldest Cat Door Has Let Working Cats Enter the Cathedral Since 14c(mymodernmet.com)
101 points by akolbe 3y ago|22 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Deming's philosophy was a big part of my professional life in the 1990s. It's good to learn more about the man. Thanks for your article!
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Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money ...(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia should focus on content creation – not social justice campaigns(telegraph.co.uk)
52 points by akolbe 3y ago|31 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
You're welcome. :) Yes, in the Tides Form 990 nothing is broken down, so you can't see what the revenue and spending was. Jimmy Wales actually acknowledged that in this discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/i
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Wikipedia Will Survive A.I(slate.com)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|1 comments
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Scientists Witnessed the Birth of a New Accent in Antarctica(iflscience.com)
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by akolbe 3y ago
There is no Form 990. The Endowment was set up as a Collective Action Fund with The Tides Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation promised many times that it would convert the Endowment into a standalone 501(c)(3) filing an annual Form 990 but
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by akolbe 3y ago
Would you say it is trustworthy for a charity funded by readers' donations to have a $120 million Endowment that has never, in 7.5 years of existence, published its revenue and expenses? (The latter seem to have run at about $2 million
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by akolbe 3y ago
Not too long ago, the Wikimedia Foundation spent nearly $1 million on two executives' severance pay. One had only worked there for 2.5 years: Signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost&#x2
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by akolbe 3y ago
As the 2nd story on the linked page discusses, the $120M Endowment has never published one of those. It's completely non-transparent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... https:&#x
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Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Well, there is also the fact that if you train LLMs on LLM output the quality degrades very quickly. It is not a good thing to do.
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by akolbe 3y ago
The trend with Google and other search engines over the past ten years has been for them to incorporate more and more content on their own pages. It's hard to remember that not so long ago Google search results pages were just lists of
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by akolbe 3y ago
There is a very real risk that we end up with an inferior product cannibalizing a superior one and driving it out of business. Moreover, AI would seem to be even more susceptible to capture and manipulation than conventional media. When it&
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Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?(en.wikipedia.org)
96 points by akolbe 3y ago|74 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Going by the number of hits Google displays on the first search results page is really not clever. That number is notoriously unreliable. When I did the same Google search, Google told me on page 1 there were "104,000 results". An
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Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether(en.wikipedia.org)
51 points by akolbe 3y ago|62 comments
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Jimbo promises improvements for Wikimedia Endowment's lackluster transparency(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akolbe 3y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 3y ago
Not a problem really, given that they gave due credit to HN. For what it's worth, nytimes.com links in t.co load at normal speed for me right now.
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How to find images for your articles, check copyright, upload and restore them(en.wikipedia.org)
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by akolbe 3y ago
Since Hunter Biden is mentioned tangentially in the piece, this was published today by Lee Fang, another former Intercept contributor: https://www.leefang.com/p/emails-show-hunter-biden-hired-spe... Fang claims emails

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