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Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up(wired.com)
243 points by gavman 3y ago|149 comments
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The persistent cognitive limitations of DALL-E(garymarcus.substack.com)
2 points by gavman 3y ago|0 comments
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by gavman 3y ago
On the "glass half full" side, even if the price hasn't gone down, tech's managed to offer better products for the same price, which in itself is a positive. - Streaming is a much better experience than cable. I can watc
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by gavman 3y ago
> MusicGen, which was trained with Meta-owned and specifically licensed music, generates music from text-based user inputs, while AudioGen, which was trained on public sound effects, generates audio from text-based user inputs. Meta is r
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How Allbirds Lost Its Way(wsj.com)
2 points by gavman 3y ago|2 comments
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Thousands of Solana Wallets Hacked(wsj.com)
3 points by gavman 4y ago|0 comments
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by gavman 4y ago
Not myself, but my brother works for Microsoft on the Azure security team and my mom tells people he's "like a police officer but of the internet".
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Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg(wsj.com)
14 points by gavman 5y ago|1 comments
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by gavman 5y ago
I don't have a direct answer to your question, but in thinking about these issues here's a quote I heard that has always resonated with me: > When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to cha
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Federal Judges or Their Brokers Traded Stocks of Litigants During Cases(wsj.com)
7 points by gavman 5y ago|0 comments
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The 'Dead-Internet Theory'(theatlantic.com)
81 points by gavman 5y ago|38 comments
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Elon Musk denies Autopilot was active before deadly crash in Texas(arstechnica.com)
3 points by gavman 5y ago|0 comments
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by gavman 6y ago
For a simple, easy to understand overview of git, nothing beats The Git Parable [1]. Every time I talk to someone starting out with Git I recommend they read it first. Once they understand Git through that lens, usually I find the rest fall
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by gavman 6y ago
This sort of gaming is rampant on Amazon. My own experience: A friend of my wife introduced her to a woman who was a representative of a well known brand for home goods/kitchen gadgets. If you bought an item off Amazon of their brand,
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Emily Oster Is Helping Parents Stay Sane in the Pandemic(bloomberg.com)
1 points by gavman 6y ago|0 comments
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Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010(arstechnica.com)
6 points by gavman 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Magic Leap Failed(bloomberg.com)
2 points by gavman 6y ago|0 comments
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by gavman 6y ago
> “At what point do we take responsibility for enabling hate filled bile to spread across our services?” As long as there's so much money to be made, Facebook has no incentive to. As long as they know they can give you and other dev
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by gavman 6y ago
The article also does not mention the definition of "children". Under 10? Under 18? Under 21? If you count teenagers hanging out and spreading it as children, the number for very young children could still be as low as we thought
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Utah and Georgia Install Tech That Lets Roads Talk(wsj.com)
1 points by gavman 6y ago|0 comments
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by gavman 6y ago
The one question about UBI I haven't seen a satisfactory answer for is what's stopping landlords from raising rents to match the UBI? If everyone suddenly has an extra $1000/month, what's stopping my landlord (together w
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Palantir Files Confidential Plans for Public Listing(forbes.com)
2 points by gavman 6y ago|0 comments
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A teenager’s guide to building the world’s best pandemic and protest trackers(technologyreview.com)
2 points by gavman 6y ago|0 comments
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by gavman 6y ago
This was discussed by one of the game's creators in the Ultima Online episode of Ars Techica's War Stories (around the 5:10 mark) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNxJVTJleE
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by gavman 6y ago
The idea is definitely cool (and important/impactful at this time if successful). That said, in the midst of a global pandemic where human density is inherently dangerous and social distancing is espoused, naming a product "Safe b
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Exam anxiety: how remote test-proctoring is creeping students out(theverge.com)
4 points by gavman 6y ago|0 comments
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Fed aid program for corporations won't require them to preserve jobs(washingtonpost.com)
106 points by gavman 6y ago|81 comments
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Yelp to Stop Auto-Creating GoFundMes for Businesses Without Asking Permission(theverge.com)
3 points by gavman 7y ago|0 comments
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The Quest for the Best Amusement Park Is Ever-Changing and Never-Ending(theringer.com)
1 points by gavman 7y ago|0 comments
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Taxpayers Decide Some States Aren't Worth It(wsj.com)
2 points by gavman 7y ago|0 comments

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