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A Man with an Impossible Memory

newyorker.com

On an April afternoon in 1929, a timid-looking man with a broad face appeared at Moscow’s...
On an April afternoon in 1929, a timid-looking man with a broad face appeared at Moscow’s Academy of Communist Education and asked to see a memory specialist. The man, who would become known in the psychological literature as S., had been sent by his boss, a section editor at a Moscow newspaper where S. was a report...

alexander luria mnemonics psychology russia solomon shereshevsky
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OpenAI putting 'shiny products' above safety, says departing researcher

theguardian.com

A former senior employee at OpenAI has said the company behind ChatGPT is prioritising “shiny products”...
A former senior employee at OpenAI has said the company behind ChatGPT is prioritising “shiny products” over safety, revealing that he quit after a disagreement over key aims reached “breaking point”.Jan Leike was a key safety researcher at OpenAI as its co-head of superalignment, ensuring that powerful artificial i...
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Malleable software in the age of LLMs (2023)

geoffreylitt.com

All computer users may soon have the ability to author small bits of code. What structural...
All computer users may soon have the ability to author small bits of code. What structural changes does this imply for the production and distribution of software? It’s been a wild few weeks for large language models. OpenAI released GPT-4, which shows impressive gains on a variety of capabilities including coding. ...
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Tegelwippen

nk-tegelwippen.nl
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38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

pewresearch.org

Pew Research Center conducted the analysis to examine how often online content that once existed becomes...
Pew Research Center conducted the analysis to examine how often online content that once existed becomes inaccessible. One part of the study looks at a representative sample of webpages that existed over the past decade to see how many are still accessible today. For this analysis, we collected a sample of pages fro...
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Ilya Sutskever: learn these 30 papers to know 90% of what matters [in ML] today

arc.net

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Google's AI could accelerate the Web's decline

axios.com
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DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM

justice.gov

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced yesterday to 14 years and seven months in prison for possessing...
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced yesterday to 14 years and seven months in prison for possessing deepfake child sexual abuse material (CSAM) depicting numerous child celebrities. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, on two separate occasions, James Smelko, 57, of Pittsburgh, possessed and ac...
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Gio UI – Cross-Platform GUI for Go

gioui.org
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NIH Deputy Director acknowledged NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan

house.gov

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Overseeing the Overseers:...
WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Overseeing the Overseers: A Hearing with NIH Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak” to examine the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) process for funding and overseeing scientific research as well as investigate NIH’s relationship wi...
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Whoosh reloaded – Python full text searching library

github.com
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Japanese court rules that AI cannot be issued patents

yomiuri.co.jp

Yomiuri Shimbun file photoThe Tokyo District Court in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo The Yomiuri Shimbun 15:45 JST,...
Yomiuri Shimbun file photoThe Tokyo District Court in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo The Yomiuri Shimbun 15:45 JST, May 17, 2024 The Tokyo District Court has dismissed a claim by an American engineer regarding an AI-generated invention, saying inventors provided for under the Patent Law are limited to natural persons. Presidin...
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Truemetrics (YC S23) is hiring a back end engineer

ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: What are problems only Windows, macOS, or Linux has?

ycombinator.com
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GPT-4o hit 54% accuracy on CodeContests with AlphaCodium, up from 48% for GPT-4T

github.com
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Write Plain Text Files

sive.rs
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Do it yourself: stop looking for a cofounder

demo.fun
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A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial

thenameless.net

[ assumed audience ]Individuals with a basic understanding of AI who are interested in exploring the...
[ assumed audience ]Individuals with a basic understanding of AI who are interested in exploring the capabilities of language models. Familiarity with technical terms, such as APIs, is required. Welcome to the Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial! Course introduction and goals This course is intended to provide y...
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wxHexEditor — a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or Devices

wxhexeditor.org

disk editor disk sector forensic hex editor low level
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South Korea to ban Chinese online products without KC certification

kedglobal.com

A customs official in Incheon checks goods purchased from Chinese online shopping malls (Courtesy of News1)...
A customs official in Incheon checks goods purchased from Chinese online shopping malls (Courtesy of News1) South Korea will ban products purchased online through overseas shopping platforms but without the KC certification amid growing concerns about product safety, particularly goods on Chinese online shopping mal...

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The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers

grumpyolddev.com

This was several years ago in grumpy old dev’s career back when he was still enthusiastic...
This was several years ago in grumpy old dev’s career back when he was still enthusiastic young dev. Someone above the CTO had signed a sweetheart deal with one of the large contracting companies to buy a fixed amount of development time and services each year. And so all the technology executives were scrambling to...
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CFPB readies crackdown on predatory lending after Supreme Court win

msn.com
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Elevating Sentiment Analysis: Fine Tuning LLaMA 3 8B

medium.com

Elevating Sentiment Analysis: Fine-Tuning LLaMA 3 8B with Unsloth (Ideogram)Open source large language models (LLMs) like...
Elevating Sentiment Analysis: Fine-Tuning LLaMA 3 8B with Unsloth (Ideogram)Open source large language models (LLMs) like Meta’s LLaMA-3 8B, with its 8 billion parameters, are designed to tackle complex language tasks such as sentiment analysis. In this article, we explore how to fine-tune LLaMA-3 8B for financial s...

ai fine tuning llm python sentiment analysis
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First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black holes in space

ox.ac.uk
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