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What happens when people don't understand how AI works
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The Atlantic
What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
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FSE meets the FBI
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The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)
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Atlas Obscura
The Wire That Transforms Much of Manhattan Into One Big, Symbolic Home
Maintaining one very long wire that defines a holy space.
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Riding high in Germany on the world's oldest suspended railway
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the Guardian
Riding high in Germany on the world’s oldest suspended railway
Still gliding above the town on an overhead track 125 years after it was built, the charming Schwebebahn in Wuppertal has lost none of its magic
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The Coleco Adam Computer
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The Silicon Underground
Coleco Adam computer
Coleco only could produce 100,000 units and the defect rate was far too high
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Kagi Reaches 50k Users
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Kagi
Kagi Search Stats
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
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Scientists Show Reforestation Helps Cool the Planet Even More Than Thought
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University of California, Riverside
Does planting trees really help cool the planet?
Replanting forests can cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won’t cancel out human-generated warming.
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Web designs are getting too complicated
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Websmith Studio
Website designs are getting too complicated — Websmith Studio
Sick of over-designed websites that take forever to load? A straight-forward take on why designers need to stop showing off and start solving problems.
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How to get started with writing tech video essays
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Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
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The Register
Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
Interview: Security, not model performance, is what's stalling adoption
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EU OS for the Public Sector
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EU OS Proof-of-Concept
EU OS
Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU
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Finding Shawn Mendes
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Unexpected Values
Finding Shawn Mendes
In this day and age, celebrities have a lot of influence over our politics. Garthwaite and Moore estimated that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 netted him an extra 1 milli…
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Generating Pixels One by One
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Tuna Meral
Generating Pixels One by One
Your First Autoregressive Image Generation Model
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So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything
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Medium
So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything.
A letter from your future self on dropping “UI design” tools…
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LLMs are cheap
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www.snellman.net
LLMs are cheap
A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.
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Ex-FCC Chair Ajit Pai is now a wireless lobbyist
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Ars Technica
Ex-FCC Chair Ajit Pai is now a wireless lobbyist—and enemy of cable companies
Pai’s return as CTIA lobbyist fuels industry-wide battle over spectrum rights.
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Software Is About Promises
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Bram Adams
Software is About Promises
(to JS programmers: not that kind)
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Analyzing IPv4 Trades with Gnuplot
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ipv4a-5539ad.gitlab.io
Analyzing ipv4 trades with gnuplot.
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Defiant loyalists paid dearly for choosing wrong side in the American Revolution
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Smithsonian Magazine
Meet the Defiant Loyalists Who Paid Dearly for Choosing the Wrong Side in the American Revolution
American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives
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Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
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brutecat.com
Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user
From rate limits to no limits: How IPv6's massive address space and a crafty botguard bypass left every Google user's phone number vulnerable