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by smarm52 2y ago
heh that's good. A headline about replacing writers with LLMs in the style of those clickbait headlines generated by LLMs.
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This would result in a sharp increase in the quality of CEO decisions. I haven't seen anything like that. ;)
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Interesting. I wonder if we'll see more of these with LLMs and Deepfakes in the future. It doesn't look that hard to duplicate the process. There's plenty of training text out there of people telling other people what they wa
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Not one link or citation to back that up. A fun story sure, but hard to believe.
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Weird statement. Some of the best work relationships I've ever had were in a remote setting.
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Not clear if they offer a path to permanent residence or citizenship through this program. They may want a UK-style immigration, where foreign workers come in to do the work for cheaper than local workers, and then can get kicked out at a m
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by smarm52 2y ago
A good summary of modern work. No real recommendations or research, and so fairly limited.
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by smarm52 2y ago
The article doesn't seem to cite the paper (grumble), but this looks like it: Blundell, J., Finlayson, G., Axelsen, M., Flint, A., Gibbons, C., Kvist, T., & Hjerpsted, J. B. (2017). Effects of once‐weekly semaglutide on appetite, e
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by smarm52 2y ago
> How close is too close to live to a large fracking operation? Yes. As you can imagine there's not a lot of work on that, since that's a very profitable industry with a lot of reach. But here's something: Meng, Q. (2015).
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> ...to custody crypto Weird turn of phrase, haven't seen "custody" as a verb before. Pretty sure they mean: https://www.investopedia.com/selecting-a-qualified-crypto-cu...
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by smarm52 2y ago
They don't define "M&A" (which bugs me), so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergers_and_acquisitions
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by smarm52 2y ago
Not really surprising. There's probably going to be an uptick in violent terrorist activity as a result. And so here's some resources from the Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-em
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Good for them. Other people are probably not so lucky to be able to do that.
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Sure, France recently had a panel of scientists make recommendations on screen time: https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/01/french-experts-reco... https://www.theguardian.com/world&#x2F
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I look forward to finding out their nuclear weapons are made out of wood. Russia does love a good bluff, since they fail at most everything they try.
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by smarm52 2y ago
And at least according to De Mesquita if the US slips farther from being a "flawed democracy" then they can expect an uptick of violence as the country slips farther into authoritarianism. De Mesquita, B. B., Smith, A., Siverson,
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Some good transcription solutions: https://zapier.com/blog/best-text-dictation-software/#window... https://otter.ai/ (Haven't actually tried Otter, but it gets a LOT of good reviews.)
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For example, if you need LLMs to ouput valid JSON; This appears to help train LLMs to do similar tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13364
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Small coalition governments like China don't work together with others, they exploit and conquer. De Mesquita, B. B., Smith, A., Siverson, R. M., & Morrow, J. D. (2005). The logic of political survival. MIT press.
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by smarm52 2y ago
Good response, I think "Feature Creep" might capture some of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep
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by smarm52 2y ago
Ads are intrusive, and in some cases, overtly harmful [1]; Especially YouTube. YouTube does have stated guidelines about these things (as well as scams, malware-advertisements, etc.), but these aren't effective, as seen in the article;
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by smarm52 2y ago
> Researchers have fretted that generative AI, which can quickly and cheaply produce human-like text, imagery and audio, could lead to more effective disinformation campaigns and sway elections. Really cool to see (one of) the first real
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by smarm52 2y ago
Huh strange, can't check his background easily. The only article that mentions his parents (the no 1 predictor of extreme wealth) comes from the "Globes" in Israel. And it, strangely, has no repute information on Ground News
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by smarm52 2y ago
Peat fires, bad stuff. But wetting the area should resolve it. Maybe with artificially induced rainfall? Rein, G., Cleaver, N., Ashton, C., Pironi, P., & Torero, J. L. (2008). The severity of smouldering peat fires and damage to the for
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by smarm52 2y ago
Well either way, a good Pearl Harbour does wonders to galvanize public support.
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Huh, TIL there was a chat thing in Maps.
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> Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former *investment banker at Goldman Sachs*, he was a *mergers and acquisitions lawyer* ... No one with that many nerdy titles has any right to be that funny. That man missed his calling.
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There's a lot of people out there looking for work. Labour power is diluted because of it. There have been massive tech layoffs, which implies that companies are looking to cut costs; Which makes no sense on the face of it, but at the
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There's this, and then on the next page ... Mortgages Stuck Around 7% Force Rapid Rethink of American Dream https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-28/american-... So strange to the see the disco
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> a haven for school choice Oof, the author comes out swinging right out of the gate. This is a great end-run around "Separate but equal". Poor communities can't afford, and so they opt for homeschooling as public school c

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