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by erehweb 4d ago
See also the BBC kids show "Horrible Histories" which gives an Abba-song parody of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuZsueUBvdU
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'Don't ask me to print your ChatGPT birthday card': Hitting back at AI 'slop'(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by erehweb 23d ago|2 comments
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by erehweb 1mo ago
Crucially, the FAA is not a part of United Airlines, and the FDA is not a part of Pfizer. If there weren't any FDA, then the safety group in Pfizer would be a lot weaker.
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by erehweb 2mo ago
As the article notes, the sentence "This sentence is written in English" is well understood, and true. "This sentence is written in French" is also well understood and false.
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by erehweb 3mo ago
It's difficult to tie changes in customer retention to not having a doorman in a "hard data" way. Ideally you'd want to do an A/B test of doorman vs non-doorman, but you'd need multiple hotels for that to work.
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by erehweb 4mo ago
This seems like a logical error. I don't understand how an internal combustion engine works, but I know it doesn't come from goblins jumping up and down inside.
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AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates(theregister.com)
5 points by erehweb 4mo ago|0 comments
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Woman's Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court(proofnews.org)
2 points by erehweb 5mo ago|1 comments
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Has the Era of the Mega-Layoff Arrived?(wsj.com)
5 points by erehweb 5mo ago|3 comments
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Man quit tech job after 60 to become professional poker player(theguardian.com)
2 points by erehweb 5mo ago|0 comments
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A Stanford Experiment to Pair 5k Singles Has Taken over Campus(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 7mo ago|0 comments
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OpenAI Executive Who Opposed 'Adult Mode' Fired for Sexual Discrimination(wsj.com)
22 points by erehweb 7mo ago|12 comments
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Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers(theguardian.com)
43 points by erehweb 8mo ago|13 comments
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by erehweb 8mo ago
This link https://wismuth.com/chess/longest-game.html from the article talks about the 2014 changes (75-move rule and draw by 5-fold repetition) that make it no longer infinite.
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by erehweb 9mo ago
Looking at the actual article, the people suggesting taxes on AI are American Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps, and Bill Gates, founder of MSFT. The Europeans suggest more general taxes on capital instead.
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by erehweb 1y ago
See (listen?) also the Radiolab episode https://radiolab.org/podcast/slippery-mystery
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Empty homes in England on rise, but not being used to solve housing shortage(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by erehweb 1y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 1y ago
The OP thinks that candidates spending a lot of time on applications is OK, as long as the company shows respect by spending a lot of time themselves. I think this is mistaken - I care about how much time I have to spend, and am a lot less
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Publish or Perish: The Board Game of Academic Survival(the-scientist.com)
3 points by erehweb 1y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 1y ago
This is an interesting use of AI. If we just want to know what Charles III looks like, photography has solved that problem. So a portrait is interesting because it's saying something about him, rather than being a photo-faithful likene
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Making hard choices? Try thinking less(npr.org)
3 points by erehweb 1y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 1y ago
Trivially, the measure of how much it costs in dollars to drive into Manhattan along the affected routes has gone up. So there are likely some people who are worse off. It's rare to have a completely free lunch, but this one looks pret
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by erehweb 1y ago
Number of people saying that you should just make sure you have backups. That's true, but there's still a role for government to play to prevent this sort of thing. We don't let companies sell poisonous food - why do we let t
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by erehweb 1y ago
We've heard of Chesterton's fence. This is a rare example of Chesterton's non-fence.
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by erehweb 1y ago
There are a number of industries where you may need experience to become more productive than AI, but nobody wants to hire you when AI is more productive in the first couple of years. Is there a good equilibrium for this, or does it end up
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The "Great Hesitation" that's making it harder to get a tech job(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 1y ago|0 comments
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I would love to work with you(robconery.com)
7 points by erehweb 1y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 1y ago
Peter already replied to this elsewhere in the thread. To a question "Maybe a dumb question, but... I'm a Canadian who would qualify for a TN visa if I worked in the States, but don't currently have a visa or green card. On t
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Meta Battles an 'Epidemic of Scams' as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook(wsj.com)
74 points by erehweb 1y ago|54 comments
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Everything You'll Ever Need to Know About Semantic Bleaching(merriam-webster.com)
4 points by erehweb 1y ago|0 comments

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