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The Exponential Enshittification of Science
Yesterday I wrote about the nonsensical GenAI big-balled rat and how Generative AI was enshittifying science....
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OpenAI's Lies and Half-Truths
The internet has gone bananas over Wall Street Journal reporter Joanna Stern’s interview of OpenAI’s CTO...
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The Mythical Non-Roboticist
I worked on this idea for months before I decided it was a mistake. The second...
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Everything is espionage: Things I learned researching Assange
Who is this Julian Assange guy? Is he good or bad? Did he do espionage? Why...
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What is China's future? Economic decline, or the next industrial revolution?
By Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Mick DunfordPolitical economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined...
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On Migraine Scintillating Scotomas
Woman on sofa obscured by c-shape scotoma with black, 1987. How to describe a scintillating scotoma?...
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The spreadsheet is a simulation machine
From Creative Computing in 1980.In the course of working on my book project, the following little...
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Implementing Scoped Defer in C
Note: Before reading this post, you should read my post on implementing generators in C because...
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Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same basic challenges
Two years ago today I published my most infamous article:I don’t think many people read it...
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Bring Back Private Offices, Part II
Last week I published an article that’s gotten over 10,000 views, and appeared on the front...
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The hottest new programming language is English Or maybe not
Surely one of the hottest, and maybe smartest tweets of 2023, came from the AI star...
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Moore on Moore – The past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law
Gordon Moore (1929 - 2023) CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED via OnInnovationNote this is quite a long...
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mRNA vaccines: let's eradicate herpes, cure cancer, and be sick a whole lot less
Is there a healthcare topic you’d like to see covered, or a health question you need...
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The Existential Relief of Having Children
I work with two kinds of clients in my practice: those with kids and those without.I’m...
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The Ugly Business of Monetizing Browser Extensions (2023)
Always remember: If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.Earlier this year, I...
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"I am to human consideration what the generated images are to actual sandwiches"
Last week, Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Media reported on the ghost kitchens that use AI-generated images...
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The Race to 2nm: RISC-V Chips in Japan – By Dr. Ian Cutress
One of the sidelines in the semiconductor industry that’s flying under the radar a bit is...
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"AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T
tldr: AI poses a huge threat to ad-based platforms by slashing how many ads we seeSo...
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OpenAI's "Own Goal"
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI may fail, or even get dismissed. But it’s already brought some...
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On Claude 3.0
Claude 3.0 is here. It is too early to know for certain how capable it is,...
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Campus Deplatforming: A Data Bonanza
Whenever people argue that we’re exaggerating or overemphasizing the free speech crisis on campus, we have...
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Stop Treating AI Models Like People (2023)
By Sasha Luccioni and Gary Marcus The ELIZA effect is still with us, more than half...
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Covert Racism in LLMs
From Allen AI and Stanford and others, an incredibly important new paper:I shouldn’t be surprised, knowing...
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Parent shaming causes the demographic collapse
Part 2 in a series of 3 on the fertility crisis. Part one here. In the...