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California needs real math education, not gimmicks
A guest post by Armand Domalewski.
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Superrational
“Will Vicktoreya Keyneslee Beauxpensees please come see the principal right now?” said the voice over the intercom.
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Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift
Digital advertising is a scam from top to bottom. In fact, it’s several scams stacked on top of each other, wearing a trenchcoat, and some of the foundations of fibs are so effective that oth…
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I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
The current Threads experience
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TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells it to various clients. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian company that provides interconnection services
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Stop trying to make social networks succeed
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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The many ways that digital minds can know – A better way to think about LLMs
LLMs do all the things people say they do at once, even if those people vociferously disagree, and they’re all useful.
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Introducing Superalignment
We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for excellent ML…
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Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site
Firefox version 115.0 was released on July 4, but I'm not celebrating. I'm concerned about a new "feature" in the release notes .
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Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
Read about the demoscene joining the Dutch national intangible cultural heritage inventory, with links to the entry and safeguarding plan.
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How many people have ever lived on Earth?
The global population milestone of 8 billion represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.
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Dark Waters of Self-Delusion: The crash of Transair flight 810
The full story of the 2021 ditching of a Boeing 737 cargo plane off Honolulu.
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Companies must stop using Google Analytics
Vi arbetar för att skydda alla dina personuppgifter, till exempel om hälsa och ekonomi, så att de hanteras korrekt och inte hamnar i orätta händer.
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CJEU declares Meta's GDPR approach illegal
In today's decision, the CJEU declared Meta/Facebook's GDPR approach largely illegal - similar to noyb's previous litigation before the EDPB leading to a fine of € 390 million.
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Against Alcohol (2022)
A review of ‘Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health’
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Disabling Matrix Portalling
Portalled channels will be going away on 2023-07-31. Details below.
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Self-driving cars are surveillance cameras on wheels
Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence: While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement and a new method for encroachment on privacy, advocates say. Crisscrossing the city on their routes, self-driving cars…
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Googling for answers costs time (2020)
When I’m learning a new language, I tend to take a very dumb approach (and I don’t mean that in some enlightened way). I’ll usually try out a tutorial or two, but if the language is similar to another language that I know, I’ll basically just start coding without investing a lot of time learning the language features…
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Commuters prefer origin to destination transfers
It’s an empirical observation that rail riders who are faced with a transfer are much more likely to make the trip if it’s near their home than near their destination. Reinhard Clever&#…
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Google search's death by a thousand cuts
Reddit communities are still private in protest of new API rules. Twitter moved beyond a login wall and is rate-limiting users. Users are frustrated but still using these sites.
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Chinese Tech Terms Explained in English
Learn about five Chinese tech terms: Huidu, Lunzi, Chendian, Dapan, and Maidian, frequently used in companies like Tencent and ByteDance.
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A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)
The Privacy Whisperer, by Luiza Jarovsky
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A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married
As of 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, a significant increase from 20% in 2010.