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by akolbe 4y ago
A similar story published by the Washington Post a few years ago, about an inventively named aboriginal deity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04... On topics like this it is ne
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The Dark Risk of Large Language Models(wired.com)
2 points by akolbe 4y ago|0 comments
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It would be odd if Musk's antics had no effect on the desirability of the Tesla brand, given that EVs primarily appeal to environmentally aware progressives. Perhaps that's the reason why Tesla is offering big discounts right now.
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I think "habitable environments" and "thriving ecosystems" have a lot to do with the answer. I believe it's for the same reason that we instinctively like brooks and rivers – a steady supply of water is essential to
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One thing to bear in mind is that dogs devote much more brain power to their sense of smell than we do. To them, it's a fundamental part of how they perceive the world. https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-smell-is-tightly
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by akolbe 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
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What If Your Mood Depends on the Bacteria in Your Gut?(lab.cccb.org)
1 points by akolbe 4y ago|0 comments
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We recently learnt that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has meetings with the DHS as well. What really surprised me was when someone in a position to know mentioned in a related discussion on Wikipedia that "The WMF has also worked reg
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by akolbe 4y ago
An IP-based tool is still useful to catch casual malfeasance. The various Twitter bots logging edits from various government IP address ranges for example did highlight interesting edits sometimes. It's just important to remember that
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by akolbe 4y ago
See also the Wikipedia article on the Search engine manipulation effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_manipulation_eff... The fact that Google appears to change its search results depending on where us
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by akolbe 4y ago
Of course, this only catches the relative "amateurs". Proper professionals change IP address before making their edits, or they register a "volunteer" account (this also prevents routine disclosure of the IP address, but
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Ukraine war: Russians kept in the dark by internet search(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by akolbe 4y ago|1 comments
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Insincere and bad in which way? (The writer regularly covers this topic area for Slate.)
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The Huge Fight Behind Those Pop-Up Fundraising Banners on Wikipedia(slate.com)
2 points by akolbe 4y ago|3 comments
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Thanks, good to know. "Thermal processes for hydrogen production typically involve steam reforming, a high-temperature process in which steam reacts with a hydrocarbon fuel to produce hydrogen. Many hydrocarbon fuels can be reformed to
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Move fast and break things ...?
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English Wikipedia editors: “We don't need no stinking banners”(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by akolbe 4y ago|1 comments
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Certainly there was an entire cottage industry of well-paid consultants popularising these ideas around the 80s and 90s and yes, there was something distinctly cult-like about the scene and the Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt trainings
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by akolbe 4y ago
Deming's quality management ideas (SPC specifically) were widely adopted in the US automotive industry by the 1980s and 1990s. Later on this entire field came to be known as Six Sigma, but Shewhart and Deming are still the bedrock unde
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by akolbe 4y ago
Covid definitely was a game changer for us (I am married). It reduced the number of in-person contacts with people outside our household by an order of magnitude, decimated the number of car miles we drove, and changed our attitude to being
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Shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article(theconversation.com)
3 points by akolbe 4y ago|0 comments
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That's a good point. Teslas might be significantly less "cool" this time next year. Might bring some solace to competitors who badly underestimated Tesla four or five years ago.
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The disbanding of Twitter's Brussels office has sparked concerns whether Twitter will be able to comply with EU rules on online content (e.g. disinformation code). Two remaining Brussels executives left last week after Musk asked staff
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The Fake Scorsese Film You Haven’t Seen. Or Have You?(nytimes.com)
1 points by akolbe 4y ago|0 comments
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by akolbe 4y ago
I remember watching Terminator ... it all seemed very far-fetched. By now, a good part of that gulf between reality and dystopian fantasy has been bridged.
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‘Part of the kill chain’: how can we control weaponised robots?(theguardian.com)
2 points by akolbe 4y ago|1 comments
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Better link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28prop...
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Indeed. Thoughtful essay laying out why the changes at Twitter might in the end be rather less stark than some people anticipate – due to the influence of the legislative environment and the leverage of Apple's and Google's app st
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Well, that went rather more quickly than expected then. :/ Per the article, in early 2011 there were fewer than 7 billion people. The world population was expected to grow to 9 billion by 2045 . But given that we have just passed 8 bi
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Crows Perform Mental ‘Recursion’ as Well as Kindergarten Kids(haaretz.com)
4 points by akolbe 4y ago|0 comments

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