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The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A” [pdf] (owainevans.github.io)

a year ago | mellosouls | github.io | newest

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Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | best

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Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp chairman (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | best

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A transparent AI future: a call for less regulation on open-source AI in Europe (laion.ai)

a year ago | mellosouls | laion.ai | newest

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Google Reportedly Nearing Release of GPT-4 Competitor, Gemini (uctoday.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | uctoday.com | newest

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Social media platform X could go behind paywall (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Newgen Bikes has ceased trading (newgenbikes.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | newgenbikes.com | newest

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I’d been fired once; it didn’t hurt: Melvyn Bragg – 1000 episodes of In Our Time (theguardian.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Rogue Russian pilot tried to shoot down RAF aircraft in 2022 (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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[flagged] Tim Gurner: Australian tycoon calls for layoffs to fix worker attitudes (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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I am not sure RLHF was used for training GPT-3.5 and GPT4 (tweet) (twitter.com/yampeleg)

a year ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Spotify denies 30-second trick could make you rich (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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The Modern Movement to Exonerate a Notorious Medieval Serial Killer (2017) (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | atlasobscura.com | newest

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Web3: The next big online revolution or just a big hoax? [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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No bids for offshore wind in government auction (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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A scientist manipulated climate data. Conservative media celebrated (eenews.net)

a year ago | mellosouls | eenews.net | frontpage

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Time100: Most Influential People in AI (time.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | time.com | newest

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Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Birmingham City Council declares itself effectively bankrupt (bbc.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | newest

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‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men (theguardian.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | best

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War games: Battlefield strategy and the game of chess (thearticle.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | thearticle.com | frontpage

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How did Stripe come up with its name? (2015) (quora.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | quora.com | best

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Inventor Behind Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient (wired.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | wired.co.uk | newest

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Gravity and dark matter, a bond beyond distances (phys.org)

a year ago | mellosouls | phys.org | newest

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Future Fund was meant to save British startups. Now it risks bankrupting them (sifted.eu)

a year ago | mellosouls | sifted.eu | newest

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Report on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery (voice-online.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | voice-online.co.uk | frontpage

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Why are no Royal Navy attack submarines at sea? (navylookout.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | navylookout.com | newest

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Carlsen and Niemann settle dispute over cheating claims that rocked chess (theguardian.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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One win, 17,000 defeats – life as a Washington General (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Europe significantly lags the US and China as a tech power (tweet) (twitter.com/scienceisstrat1)

a year ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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I’ve never seen so many crap startups (techcrunch.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | techcrunch.com | newest

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If the Hubble tension is real, what’s the solution? (bigthink.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | bigthink.com | newest

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Fresh evidence of ChatGPT’s political bias: study (uea.ac.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | uea.ac.uk | best

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How did Netflix know I was gay before I did? (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Facebook's spread not linked to psychological harm, study finds (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Texas woman seriously injured after hawk drops snake on her (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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LK-99: The Case for Skepticism (twitter.com/andercot)

a year ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | frontpage

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Immersed Announces 'Visor' Compact Productivity Headset with 4K OLED Displays (uploadvr.com)

a year ago | mellosouls | uploadvr.com | frontpage

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Voyager 2: NASA fully back in contact with lost space probe (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | best

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Man bought private jet with borrowed council money (bbc.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | newest

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Extraordinary photos of July's extreme weather (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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The Openness of AI (contrary.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | contrary.com | newest

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What “Barbie” Gets Right About Male Psychology (psychologytoday.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | psychologytoday.com | newest

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The secret messages behind the lab-leak cover-up (unherd.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | unherd.com | newest

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Accelerationism Is Back (Twitter) (twitter.com/jmrphy)

2 years ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Kylian Mbappe transfer to Al-Hilal would wreck football as we know it (telegraph.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | telegraph.co.uk | newest

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Notes on e/acc principles and tenets (2022) (beff.substack.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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Fundraising Advice (tracy.posthaven.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | posthaven.com | newest

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Throwing (Cricket) (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | wikipedia.org | newest

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Building a Minecraft Gateway to the World of Books (blogs.bl.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bl.uk | newest

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American Airlines barred teen for 3 years for "skiplagging" claims his father (insider.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | insider.com | frontpage

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Commonwealth Games: Australia drop out could be 'death knell' (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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How Physical Strength Affects Mood, Behavior, and Politics (psychologytoday.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | psychologytoday.com | newest

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Lack of NHS dentists causing pain and distress – report (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Texts of a five year relationship, year by year (reddit.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | reddit.com | newest

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Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers (bbc.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | best

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ME/CFS and Long Covid similarities: road map to the literature (frontiersin.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | frontiersin.org | frontpage

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Impossible quantum drive scheduled for “do or die” October space flight (thedebrief.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | thedebrief.org | frontpage

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What AI can do with a toolbox: Getting started with Code Interpreter (oneusefulthing.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | oneusefulthing.org | newest

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Bigscreen Beyond: Far and away the smallest and lightest PC VR headset (Tweet) (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

2 years ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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The Big Penis War (texasmonthly.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | texasmonthly.com | frontpage

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Hachiko: The world's most loyal dog turns 100 (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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AR Startup Brilliant Labs Gets $3M Seed Funding from Oculus and Siri Co-Founders (roadtovr.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | roadtovr.com | newest

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Enhanced Games: audacious plan for sporting event without drug testing (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest

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Why are orcas suddenly ramming boats? (bbc.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | frontpage

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Major research lost after cleaner turned off fridge, lawsuit says (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Stability AI Head of Research Resigns from Startup (bloomberg.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bloomberg.com | newest

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Stephen Lawrence: How the Met Police Failed to Spot Suspect Matthew White (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Decades-long bet on consciousness ends (nature.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | nature.com | best

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Is AI tech good enough for bike fitting? AI vs. human bike fit at my local shop (cyclingweekly.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | cyclingweekly.com | newest

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Was the British Empire Evil? (cieo.substack.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | substack.com | newest

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New touch-activated laser lane to keep cyclists safe (techxplore.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | techxplore.com | frontpage

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Global network of sadistic monkey torture exposed by BBC (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Maloka: Our beautiful journey is coming to an end (playmaloka.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | playmaloka.com | newest

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Statement by the CTOs of seven of the world’s major aviation manufacturers (rolls-royce.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | rolls-royce.com | newest

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Whistleblowing banker who went to prison speaks out (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates (bbc.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | best

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'Dead' woman found breathing in coffin (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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In Largest-Ever Turing Test, 1.5M Humans Guess Little Better Than Chance (artisana.ai)

2 years ago | mellosouls | artisana.ai | frontpage

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Why Books Are My Metaverse: The Startup Behind the Sol Reader (solreader.substack.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | substack.com | frontpage

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Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in US prison cell (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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The workers quitting digital nomadism (bbc.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.com | frontpage

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Mines Rescue Memorial Site (healeyhero.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | healeyhero.co.uk | newest

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Kathleen Folbigg: Woman jailed over infant deaths pardoned (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Self-Encounter: A Study in Existentialism (1961, video) (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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How Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman Became Sobriety’s Biggest Zealot (vinepair.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | vinepair.com | newest

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The Metaverse Is Dead, and We Have Killed It (xrtoday.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | xrtoday.com | newest

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Replit Boss: Launching on Replit is more impactful than places like HN (tweet) (twitter.com/amasad)

2 years ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | newest

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Andy Rourke: The Smiths bassist dies aged 59 (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | best

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[flagged] My comments on BasedCon (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

2 years ago | mellosouls | twitter.com | best

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I tried Logitech’s Project Ghost video chat booth and laptop calls can’t compare (theverge.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theverge.com | newest

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New York City passes law barring weight discrimination (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Malcolm Hardee (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | mellosouls | wikipedia.org | newest

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How to Quickly Improve Focus – Andrew Huberman [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | youtube.com | newest

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NPM audit: Broken by Design (2021) (overreacted.io)

2 years ago | mellosouls | overreacted.io | newest

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A Run of One’s Own by Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb (runningpast.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | runningpast.com | newest

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Coronation Order of Service [pdf] (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Where did the “Best Price” badges go? (camelcamelcamel.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | camelcamelcamel.com | newest

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The Students who stole the Stone of Destiny (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | mellosouls | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Emergency alert test UK: phone alarms sound at 3pm (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | mellosouls | theguardian.com | newest