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Fact check: Earth is not flat or surrounded by an ice wall (reuters.com)

6 months ago | hhs | reuters.com | frontpage

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What a filmmaker learned from taking flat earthers seriously (2018) (gq.com)

6 months ago | hhs | gq.com | newest

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Mars to buy Hotel Chocolat in £534M deal (ft.com)

6 months ago | hhs | ft.com | newest

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Culture jamming: subversion as protest (2020) (harvardpolitics.com)

6 months ago | hhs | harvardpolitics.com | newest

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The pūteketeke has won Bird of the Century 2023 (birdoftheyear.org.nz)

6 months ago | hhs | birdoftheyear.org.nz | newest

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Elsevier and OpenEvidence partnership aims to help doctors harness AI (axios.com)

6 months ago | hhs | axios.com | newest

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Can online rating platforms direct patients to higher-quality physicians? (ama.org)

6 months ago | hhs | ama.org | newest

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Ken Griffin sees Miami possibly replacing NYC as finance capital (bloomberg.com)

6 months ago | hhs | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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AI companies are running out of training data (futurism.com)

6 months ago | hhs | futurism.com | newest

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Epic Games sues Google as both spend on antitrust lobbying (opensecrets.org)

6 months ago | hhs | opensecrets.org | frontpage

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Interpreting the ambiguities of Section 230 (brookings.edu)

6 months ago | hhs | brookings.edu | newest

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Does ubiquitous computing need interface agents? (1992) [pdf] (liv.ac.uk)

6 months ago | hhs | liv.ac.uk | newest

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Revived Fortnite dance suit explores rare use of copyright law (bloomberglaw.com)

6 months ago | hhs | bloomberglaw.com | newest

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Saving persuasion (2019) (claremontreviewofbooks.com)

6 months ago | hhs | claremontreviewofbooks.com | newest

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Investors use AI to glean the truth behind executives' soothing words (ft.com)

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Top evil computers (2009) (cnet.com)

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The future of the work ethic (2019) (claremontreviewofbooks.com)

6 months ago | hhs | claremontreviewofbooks.com | newest

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Platforms and the transformation of the content industries (wiley.com)

6 months ago | hhs | wiley.com | newest

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Time Lords and Terminators (ft.com)

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[flagged] Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’ (theguardian.com)

6 months ago | hhs | theguardian.com | best

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The English plan to colonise Russia (historytoday.com)

6 months ago | hhs | historytoday.com | newest

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‘Father of cell phone’ reflects on making first call and history 50 years ago (whyy.org)

6 months ago | hhs | whyy.org | best

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Machine-learning the skill of mutual fund managers (law.harvard.edu)

6 months ago | hhs | harvard.edu | newest

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The rise of brain-reading technology (nature.com)

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Grounding natural language commands for temporal tasks in unseen environments (openreview.net)

6 months ago | hhs | openreview.net | newest

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AI maps icebergs 10,000 times faster than humans (esa.int)

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Ted Chiang and Eric Heisserer respond to Marc Andreessen's AI optimism (geekwire.com)

6 months ago | hhs | geekwire.com | newest

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SAG-AFTRA & studios reach tentative deal on new three-year contract (deadline.com)

6 months ago | hhs | deadline.com | frontpage

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Blastar for HTML5 (blastar-1984.appspot.com)

8 months ago | hhs | appspot.com | newest

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Thomson Reuters will head to trial in AI model copyright battle (bloomberglaw.com)

8 months ago | hhs | bloomberglaw.com | newest

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MFA in acting to be tuition-free starting in 2024-25 (juilliard.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | juilliard.edu | newest

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The debt-fuelled bet on US Treasuries (ft.com)

8 months ago | hhs | ft.com | newest

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The ConceptARC benchmark: Evaluating understanding and generalization (arxiv.org)

8 months ago | hhs | arxiv.org | newest

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Visual analogies for AI: study (santafe.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | santafe.edu | newest

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Is Math Real? (maa.org)

8 months ago | hhs | maa.org | best

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Copyright liability for generative AI pivots on fair use doctrine (bloomberglaw.com)

8 months ago | hhs | bloomberglaw.com | frontpage

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WGA, AMPTP reach historic contract agreement to end 146-day writers strike (variety.com)

8 months ago | hhs | variety.com | frontpage

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Stochastic mathematical systems (arxiv.org)

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Why I’m stepping down (spectator.co.uk)

8 months ago | hhs | spectator.co.uk | best

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ChatGPT usage is rising again as students return to school (bloomberg.com)

8 months ago | hhs | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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ML models can produce reliable results even with limited training data (cam.ac.uk)

8 months ago | hhs | cam.ac.uk | newest

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UFC fighters test antitrust law to escape ‘perpetual’ contracts (bloomberglaw.com)

8 months ago | hhs | bloomberglaw.com | frontpage

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‘Optimal Illusions’ review: Efficient to a fault (wsj.com)

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Monetary policy and innovation (nber.org)

8 months ago | hhs | nber.org | newest

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Retooling the status quo (sequoiacap.com)

8 months ago | hhs | sequoiacap.com | newest

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Artificial intelligence to assist mathematical reasoning (nationalacademies.org)

8 months ago | hhs | nationalacademies.org | newest

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Schema-learning and rebinding as mechanisms of in-context learning and emergence (arxiv.org)

8 months ago | hhs | arxiv.org | newest

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Robotics start-up helps artists make near-identical copies of original paintings (ctvnews.ca)

8 months ago | hhs | ctvnews.ca | newest

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A contract law historian looks at personalized contracts (2022) (ox.ac.uk)

8 months ago | hhs | ox.ac.uk | newest

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‘Popularizing the past’ by Nick Witham review (historytoday.com)

8 months ago | hhs | historytoday.com | newest

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Government by the people: Iowa’s book-ban law and direct democracy (harvardlawreview.org)

8 months ago | hhs | harvardlawreview.org | newest

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Wall Street is furious over rising fines from SEC (wsj.com)

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Clean data must be as much of a right as clean water (ft.com)

8 months ago | hhs | ft.com | frontpage

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The world keeps turning: me and the Luddites (recorder.com)

8 months ago | hhs | recorder.com | newest

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Deutsche Bank continued to push risky derivatives years after probe (ft.com)

8 months ago | hhs | ft.com | frontpage

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Richard Dreyfuss: Americans’ ignorance of Constitution, disrespect for opposing (foxnews.com)

8 months ago | hhs | foxnews.com | newest

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Many Americans don’t know key facts about U.S. Constitution: study (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)

8 months ago | hhs | annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org | newest

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Paul Goldstein on artificial intelligence and the creative process (stanford.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | stanford.edu | newest

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Spreading sunshine in private equity: Agency costs and finance disintermediation (ox.ac.uk)

8 months ago | hhs | ox.ac.uk | newest

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New York City and Oregon pension funds sue Fox (axios.com)

8 months ago | hhs | axios.com | frontpage

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PwC puts partner pay on line in bid to boost faith in audits (bloombergtax.com)

8 months ago | hhs | bloombergtax.com | newest

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Groups ask Texas courts to end judge shopping with new rules (bloomberglaw.com)

8 months ago | hhs | bloomberglaw.com | newest

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The real stakes of the Google Antitrust Trial (newyorker.com)

8 months ago | hhs | newyorker.com | newest

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Incentivizing innovation in open source: Evidence from GitHub Sponsors program (nber.org)

8 months ago | hhs | nber.org | newest

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Voting online is risky. But hundreds of thousands of people are already doing it (npr.org)

8 months ago | hhs | npr.org | frontpage

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McKinsey and its contradictions (nationalreview.com)

8 months ago | hhs | nationalreview.com | frontpage

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Proceduralism: Delaware’s legacy (law.harvard.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | harvard.edu | newest

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Efficient training for artificial intelligence (mpg.de)

8 months ago | hhs | mpg.de | newest

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The danger of building strong narratives on weak data (ft.com)

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Aberrant decoding (wikipedia.org)

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Why Kant wouldn't fear AI (time.com)

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What is the line between self-interest and selfishness? (2021) (chicagobooth.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | chicagobooth.edu | newest

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Dodge v. Ford: What happened and why? (2021) (law.harvard.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | harvard.edu | newest

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How to negotiate your salary in the age of pay transparency laws (hbr.org)

8 months ago | hhs | hbr.org | frontpage

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Opposites don't actually attract: meta-analysis study (colorado.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | colorado.edu | best

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Kavanaugh ‘hopeful’ Supreme Court will act soon on ethics (bloomberglaw.com)

8 months ago | hhs | bloomberglaw.com | frontpage

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‘Droplet battery’ could pave the way for miniature bio-integrated devices (ox.ac.uk)

8 months ago | hhs | ox.ac.uk | newest

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Disney heiress leads call to address a ‘rise in extreme inequality’ (telegraph.co.uk)

8 months ago | hhs | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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Leading the fight against scraping-for-hire (fb.com)

8 months ago | hhs | fb.com | newest

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X Corp. sues Bright Data over site scraping (jdsupra.com)

8 months ago | hhs | jdsupra.com | newest

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The world has a big appetite for AI – but we really need to know the ingredients (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | hhs | theguardian.com | newest

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How Borges, Kant, and Heisenberg expanded our understanding of reality (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | hhs | nytimes.com | newest

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The Containment of George Kennan (2022) (claremontreviewofbooks.com)

8 months ago | hhs | claremontreviewofbooks.com | frontpage

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Where is the wealth of nations in the 21st century? (economicsobservatory.com)

8 months ago | hhs | economicsobservatory.com | newest

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Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands (wikipedia.org)

8 months ago | hhs | wikipedia.org | newest

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What is the role of storytelling in economics? (economicsobservatory.com)

8 months ago | hhs | economicsobservatory.com | newest

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The South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash (hbs.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | hbs.edu | newest

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Muscovy Company (wikipedia.org)

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The importance of the mesoscale: study (santafe.edu)

8 months ago | hhs | santafe.edu | newest

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Doctors ghost patients, charge for surgeries left to residents (bloomberglaw.com)

9 months ago | hhs | bloomberglaw.com | frontpage

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Chinese robot waiters fuel Korean anxiety over labour shortages (ft.com)

9 months ago | hhs | ft.com | newest

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Retail marketers will continue using deceptive pricing practices to drive sales (wsj.com)

9 months ago | hhs | wsj.com | newest

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The blurb problem: Publishing has come to depend on fawning endorsements (theatlantic.com)

9 months ago | hhs | theatlantic.com | newest

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Millions of carbon credits are generated by overestimating forest preservation (cam.ac.uk)

9 months ago | hhs | cam.ac.uk | best

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[flagged] Fox News apologizes for false Gold Star family story (military.com)

9 months ago | hhs | military.com | frontpage

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Social media companies should pursue serious self-supervision (harvardlawreview.org)

9 months ago | hhs | harvardlawreview.org | newest

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Best-performing stock of the past 25 years isn’t Apple, it’s Monster Beverage (barrons.com)

9 months ago | hhs | barrons.com | newest

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Ham radio enthusiasts vs. High-frequency traders: A battle for the airwaves (wsj.com)

9 months ago | hhs | wsj.com | best

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[flagged] Britain’s failed experiment in boosting low-wage sectors (economist.com)

9 months ago | hhs | economist.com | frontpage

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Subscription services make lots of money when you're not paying attention (morningstar.com)

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