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by ilamont 3mo ago
It seems like most of the collection is post-1960, leaving out many earlier types of media such as the ediphone and graphophone cylinders. https://obsoletemedia.org/ediphone/
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by ilamont 3mo ago
Unfortunately, the article says that you basically need to be rich in order to experience this work of art: “Today, donors can pay a thousand dollars or more to visit with a small group, or sponsor a stair for six figures.” It sounds like t
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Buyer: eBay AI Pop-Ups Disrupt Shopping Experience(ecommercebytes.com)
2 points by ilamont 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
If you have the time, read the judge's response to the motion: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43... The big deal for publishers and authors is the payout per eligible title is $3k. For a
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Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement, reduces class counsel fees to 6.8% [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
10 points by ilamont 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
> We took papers submitted in 2021 and 2022, before ChatGPT, treated them as ground-truth human How is the author so sure that people or companies weren’t already using early tools at that time?
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by ilamont 3mo ago
> The circumstances in which you actually need to physically present your Social Security card are quite rare indeed. In my state, it's one of the allowed document types for proof of social security number, required to get a real ID
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by ilamont 3mo ago
But it’s a problem to be dependent on China. The U.S. should pass a law that (1) makes explicit that collecting data for training models is fair use, and (2) bars terms of service that forbid distillation, for U.S. companies at a minimum.
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by ilamont 3mo ago
Same. No way I am uploading data to a PRC company. It's not just an IP issue ... there's a very high likelihood such companies will be restricted in the United States, even if they try "Chinawashing" stunts like Bytedanc
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China's C919 passenger jets to enter service on first international route(msn.com)
5 points by ilamont 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
You know, at one time Amazon was grouped in with all of the other big tech companies as a member of FAANG, as if the company has a culture of solid engineering at its core like Google or Apple. It doesn't anymore, if it ever did. Read
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IMAX CEO: We haven't made new IMAX projectors in 50 years(gamesradar.com)
18 points by ilamont 3mo ago|5 comments
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Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests AI copilots(news.mit.edu)
5 points by ilamont 3mo ago|0 comments
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The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry with It?(nytimes.com)
17 points by ilamont 3mo ago|2 comments
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Texas factory cost $469M using old equipment, makes zero artillery shells(taskandpurpose.com)
24 points by ilamont 3mo ago|14 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
"Fantastic fiction" .... that's actually a very apt way to describe Ballard's work. His memoir presents a vivid but not fantastic view of his life in the suburbs of southeast England, like a British Cheever. I felt surpr
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CNN duped by parody account on Twitter posing as California politician(sfgate.com)
4 points by ilamont 3mo ago|0 comments
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U.S. Eyes Offshore Spaceports with First-Ever Call for Industry Input(gcaptain.com)
5 points by ilamont 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
I think you would appreciate Munich's science museum ( https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/museum-island/visit ). They've done a solid job of balancing accessibility and hard science, and updating many of t
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Hudson News self-checkout terminals add 3% "employee benefit" surcharge in NY(twitter.com)
3 points by ilamont 3mo ago|2 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
Yes, 滷肉 ("braised meat") is highly concentrated. You can't eat the sauce by itself like a stew, it would be too rich. So it's usually served on white rice or in this case noodles. The ingredients are typically finely min
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by ilamont 3mo ago
Many years ago I saw a Japanese TV program that explored the food of southern Taiwan and one of the stops was a restaurant that had a 106-year old vat of broth. It was tall and narrow and had a giant hump of crust on one side. If it's
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by ilamont 3mo ago
Paywalled. But it's not just a Netflix problem. Many of the studios and streamers seem to make the similar mistakes when it comes to timing, writing, and audience targeting. Westworld is the poster child for poor writing and audience t
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The Graduate-School Dropout Toppling a Country's Academic Stars(wsj.com)
4 points by ilamont 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
If the names of the ships that sank there are known, along with the numbers of sailors who perished, does that mean there were some survivors? Or other ships witnessed the sinking but managed to make it home? That part of Ireland in 1588 wa
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by ilamont 3mo ago
In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and that the company’s bets on the new structure “haven’t come to fruition yet.”
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by ilamont 3mo ago
Bogleheads (made up of investors who follow Bogle's indexing philosophy) recently had a thread about the decline in traffic to the forum, which some people attributed to AI. ( https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewto
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Are readers generating fiction with AI models?(arxiv.org)
37 points by ilamont 3mo ago|62 comments
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Buyers Disappointed as eBay Pulls Gift Cards Again(ecommercebytes.com)
1 points by ilamont 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
Japanese Yen is now 162 to USD, the lowest exchange rate since 1986.

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