Is your Kindle e-ink?
The general issue with e-ink-based readers and scrolling is that e-ink is designed to be mostly static, with sporadic (preferably partial-page) refreshes; but scrolling needs to have a very high refresh rate that updates the whole page simultaneously if it’s going to be usable.
Seems like they could have avoided this by having the Sandy Hook families join the bid with an arbitrarily high dollar amount—which they’d immediately get back as creditors.
My understanding of quantum algorithms is that they set up parallel computations in such a way that incorrect solutions cancel out and correct ones reinforce each other. They indicate the existence of multiple universes to the same extent that the double slit experiment does.
In addition to looking for the killer, police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.
This is definitely where they need to focus their resources first.
Getting the street wrong is how we know it was him.
Pretty sure that’s Donald Trump—he even discussed his plan to shoot a man on 5th Avenue.
Non-title-gore version:
Trump nominates Jared Isaacman—Shift4 CEO, commercial astronaut, and Musk friend—to be next NASA administrator.
One thing to bear in mind is that, whenever someone accustomed to one platform explores another, they’ll tend to ascribe any differences between the communities to the other platform being an echo chamber of some kind.
Seems like an effective strategy—someone write that down!
Presumably there was something in the training data that caused this pattern. The difficulty is in predicting beforehand what the exact effect of changes to the training data will be.
Is it a simple error that OpenAI has yet to address
Since even their own creators can’t understand or control LLMs at that level of granularity, that seems to go without saying. Although calling it an “error” implies that there’s some criterion for defining correct behavior, which no one has yet agreed on.
or has someone named David Mayer taken steps to remove his digital footprint
Sure—someone gained a level of control over ChatGPT beyond that of its own developers, and used that power to prevent it from inventing gossip about himself. (ChatGPT output isn’t even a digital footprint, it’s a digital hallucination.)
A quick Google search of the name leads to results about British adventurer and environmentalist David Mayer de Rothschild…
Oh, FFS.
Wild boars, on the other hand, are a serious problem in Japan.
I learned that from watching Princess Mononoke.
Also the green truck down the street, and the blue car in the driveway.
Because we think of every life as a story, and every story needs narrative closure. So if someone’s life seems like an unfinished story we feel like there’s some kind of lingering agency trying to finish it.
It’s to be expected that an industry would want to study the safety of its own products—although it could point to the need for more independent research. What is a cause for concern is this:
Another study published in Scientific American found that meta-analyses by industry employees were 22 times less likely to have negative statements about a drug than those run by unaffiliated researchers.
That does suggest that the meta-analyses (as opposed to primary studies) are being used more for marketing than for product improvement.
When politicians refuse to talk about it.
Enshittification is defined as the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.
I think that’s overly broad in comparison to Doctorow’s original meaning (which they also cite in the article). The critical element missing from their definition is that the enshittified product/service never had a viable business model to begin with: it uses the hype cycle to sell users and investors on an unsustainable mirage before inevitably collapsing.
A reverse clepsydra: an air-filled container that releases bubbles at a constant rate.
Instead of trying to detect and block it, just disincentivize it.
Most AI spam on social media tries to exploit various systems intended to predict “good” content on the basis of a user’s past content by tracking reputation/karma/etc. Bots build up karma by posting a massive amount of innocuous (but usually insipid) content, then leverage that karma to increase the visibility of malicious content. Both halves of this process result in worse content than if the karma system didn’t exist in the first place.