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It's a word I've barely heard of, though I did write a post about it two years ago ("A fancy way to say 'fancy'" [9/22/24] — with lengthy, learned discussion in the comments). Yet this morning it turns up at the top of "America's most...
When I last wrote about AIs (well, technically, LLMs), I have noted that I’ll never use LLMs to…
There are a lot of people who are very excited about AI operating fully autonomously and entirely replacing human jobs. My take is that agents are going to replace a lot of tasks but that they largely aren't going to replace jobs.
Every year on domain renewal day I wish I could go back 25 years and talk to younger me about his online identity choices.
You know that you can drag and drop an image directly into the WordPress Block Editor. And you know it’s a really, really good idea to put alt text on it because screen readers and other assistive tech. So, you type (or apparently you...
This court summarizes: “At the core of Taddeo-Waite’s complaint is his desire to hold X liable for allegedly maintaining a graphic and upsetting post on its platform, amplifying the reach of that post, and hampering the extent of...
The vagaries of the weather, compounded by unexpected events, are what make beekeeping so endlessly fascinating … and challenging. Don't get flustered. Just keep calm and carry on and things should be OK.
CLONE EMPEROR PALPATINE STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE II (KENNER) *Sigh* …Somehow Palpatine returned… Hey, so, you guys remember when I reviewed the Millennium Minted Coin Emperor Palpatine and I remarked that reviewing him meant I...
by Jason Sacks Please note: I will be discussing the endings to all the Planet of the Apes films in this review. If you don’t want to have the endings ruined for you, go to your local theater and watch the latest film, then come back to...
It has been about a year since I have read a book by Ethel Lina White. My copy of The Third Eye is from the Paperback Library Gothic series, a series whose covers have not done White any favours. Instead, I feel this style of art has put...
Thomas Dietterich, Chair of the Computer Science section of the preprint server arXiv.org, recently clarified the site’s policies towards “hallucinated” citations and other signs of careless use of AI in a post on X. If your paper...
I admit this story is insider stuff for those with experience of academic seminars for economists. But it made me laugh, so I pass it along. It’s how Jesse Tack, Jisang Yu, and Roderick M. Rejesus introduce their review essay “Recent...