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  • Doomsday serpent

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  • Alfred Hitchcock's film making secrets

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  • Mayoral Candidate: let AI bot run the city

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    wtgW
    Remarkable.
  • Keeping up with Kamala

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    Judge Michael Luttig, lifelong Republican, (remember him from the January 6 hearings?) endorses Harris. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25050952-luttig-endorsement
  • Cicadas

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    I had a random bite on my legs after tuning in an area that had cicada swarms. I though a mosquito got me... Now I have a few more up around my shoulders. Mom confirms the mites are nasty in her neighborhood, where I stop by once a week... At least I know what they are! Way itchy...
  • Perseids!

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    The photo featured in this article has everything...Perseids, the Milky Way, and Stonehenge... https://petapixel.com/2024/08/13/photographer-captures-perseid-meteor-shower-raining-down-on-stonehenge-josh-dury/?utm_placement=newsletter
  • Girls in Tech is no more ...

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  • The silent cycling revolution

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  • If you're in the market for a basic iPad

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    You thought that $224.99 was a screaming deal? How about $199.99? https://www.macworld.com/article/2430759/the-ipad-9th-gen-is-a-jaw-dropping-199-right-now.html
  • Pareidolia - our brains see things ...

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    JodiJ
    @Axtremus This one is called sleeping giant - it’s up in Helena. (Photo from wiki) [image: IMG-5085.jpg]
  • Archive of print ads

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    The 2CV is something of a French icon. A terrible car that broke constantly but was easy to fix. The engine would run on damned near anything - including a trunk full of pig poop. Only the French would tolerate it.
  • The Great Orator

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    AdagioMA
    I admire the self-confidence, that he thinks he’s a better looking person than Harris.
  • A plea deal?

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    A plea would feel like losing, and the loser does not like that feeling.
  • Data breach

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  • Should I allow my book to be used to train AI?

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    AxtremusA
    Thinking about this more generally ... "Training AI and LLMs" is the machine version of getting an entity to learn something. The flesh-and-blood analog is "getting a person (student) to learn something." If a human-person reads your book, presumably you get a bit of royalty (roughly that of selling one copy of your book). The human-person then goes on to do whatever with whatever he learnt from reading your book -- short of that human-person making additional copies of your book or quoting substantial content from your book (to the point of violating copyrights), you derive no "residual" income from that human-person who has read your book. So maybe the AI developer is thinking/arguing "ok, I buy one copy of [your] book from the publisher to train my LLM", akin to "*I buy a copy of [your] book from the publisher/author to train my human-employee." You get no further share of whatever economic value generated by the LLM just like you get no further share of whatever share of whatever value generated by the human-employee. Of course an LLM is not the same as a human-employee -- the LLM can be duplicated into a billion exact copies, will never quit its job, has perfect memory, and will effectively live forever. I.e., the long-term potential economic that can be generated by the LLM may be "infinite" compared to a human-employee. Will that argument work? Is the arrangement "fair"? I suppose that's the billion dollar question to be shaken out in the years to come.
  • Who Needs Elections?

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    BTW re that tweet "all we need is our Constitution" ... [image: 1723939061490-3697fad5-18d8-4f05-ba62-89a2a0075f6a-inigomontoyameme.jpg]
  • Sculpting a cello

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  • Le Creuset sale

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  • Rockhouse

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    Spectacular!
  • Harris/Walz policy proposals

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    Brooks and Bennett on the proposals. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/brooks-and-capehart-on-harris-economic-policy-proposals