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Insects may feel pain, says growing evidence (qmul.ac.uk)

a year ago | pmoriarty | qmul.ac.uk | newest

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New Zealand Officially Recognizes Lobsters, Octopuses, Crabs as Sentient Beings (bnnbreaking.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | bnnbreaking.com | newest

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The false promise of pay-range listings (bbc.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | newest

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For Hollywood, AI is a threat. For these indie filmmakers, it's a lifeline (latimes.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | latimes.com | newest

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Psilocybin and LSD: What I learnt after experiencing 'psychedelic flashbacks' (bbc.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | newest

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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | scientificamerican.com | frontpage

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California passes right-to-repair act (theverge.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | theverge.com | frontpage

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Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with foreign national (go.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | go.com | newest

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Decriminalizing Drugs Doesn't Increase Fatal Overdoses: Study (vice.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | vice.com | frontpage

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Researchers tried out AI preachers – and it didn’t go so well (zmescience.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | zmescience.com | newest

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Food Delivery Robots Record Camera Footage to Send to the LAPD (yahoo.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | yahoo.com | frontpage

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Richard Stallman Reveals He Has Cancer. GNU 40 Hacker Meeting (reddit.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | reddit.com | frontpage

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Reining in CEO compensation and curbing the rise of inequality (epi.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | epi.org | newest

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Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth? (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | scientificamerican.com | newest

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ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive (evolutionnews.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | evolutionnews.org | newest

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Against LLM Maximalism (explosion.ai)

a year ago | pmoriarty | explosion.ai | best

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Yes, You Can Still Get Free Covid-19 Tests: Here's Where to Find Them (cnet.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | cnet.com | newest

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The puzzling link between air pollution and suicide (bbc.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | newest

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How much it costs to attend the Burning Man festival (bbc.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | newest

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Psilocybin's Fight Against Depression (cortexreport.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | cortexreport.com | newest

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The fight over a 'dangerous' ideology shaping AI debate (spacedaily.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | spacedaily.com | newest

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Stephen King Isn't Afraid of AI – His Books Have Trained It (decrypt.co)

a year ago | pmoriarty | decrypt.co | newest

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Sadistic California Cops Bragged About 'Violating Civil Rights' (rollingstone.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | rollingstone.com | newest

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AI could 'turn good jobs into bad jobs' – labor historians on the future of work (cnbc.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | cnbc.com | newest

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Landlords Are Pushing the Supreme Court to End Rent Control (jacobin.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | jacobin.com | frontpage

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Robotaxi expansion gets green light in San Francisco (bbc.co.uk)

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

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US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK (bbc.co.uk)

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

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UPS driver pay and benefits deal in US to be worth $170k a year, firm says (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Seven AI companies agree to safeguards in the US (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms [pdf] (anthropic.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | anthropic.com | newest

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The Truth About Deinstitutionalization (2021) (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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State of Emacs Lisp on Guile (emacsninja.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | emacsninja.com | newest

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Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) (amusingplanet.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | amusingplanet.com | best

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IBM wants to build a 100k-qubit quantum computer (technologyreview.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | technologyreview.com | newest

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Australia to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin for PTSD and depression (nature.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | nature.com | frontpage

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The Lost Episode of Star Trek [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | youtube.com | newest

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Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized] (youtube.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | youtube.com | newest

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The workers already replaced by artificial intelligence (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Transformer Feed-Forward Layers Are Key-Value Memories (arxiv.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | arxiv.org | newest

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A dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist (bbc.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | newest

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Making AI safe isn't as easy as you might think (bbc.co.uk)

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

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The “Cash on the Sidelines” Myth Is Still Haunting Us (pragcap.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | pragcap.com | newest

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Project Xanadu (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | wikipedia.org | newest

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Solar panels – an eco-disaster waiting to happen? (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Fine-Tuning LLMs in 4-bit with QLoRA (medium.com/lukemonington3)

a year ago | pmoriarty | medium.com | newest

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Let's Verify Step be Step [pdf] (openai.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | openai.com | newest

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Bytes are all you need: Transformers operating directly on file bytes (arxiv.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | arxiv.org | best

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Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models (stanford.edu)

a year ago | pmoriarty | stanford.edu | newest

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Random-Access Infinite Context Length for Transformers (arxiv.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | arxiv.org | newest

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Languages that make maths easier (bbc.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | newest

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Transpersonal Ecodelia: Surveying Psychedelically Induced Biophilia (mdpi.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | mdpi.com | newest

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Can China overtake the US in the AI marathon? (bbc.co.uk)

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

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A psychiatrist reflects on Philip K. Dick’s substance abuse and mental health (thecompanion.app)

a year ago | pmoriarty | thecompanion.app | best

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AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012) (slate.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | slate.com | best

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archive.today (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | wikipedia.org | newest

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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | kalzumeus.com | newest

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Could a US debt default unleash global chaos? (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Chaos-GPT: An AI Tool That Seeks to Destroy Humanity (decrypt.co)

a year ago | pmoriarty | decrypt.co | newest

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Common Diffusion Noise Schedules and Sample Steps Are Flawed (arxiv.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | arxiv.org | frontpage

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Titanic: First ever full-sized scans (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Using ox-hugo To Build Websites with Emacs (kengrimes.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | kengrimes.com | newest

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Golay Codes (johndcook.com)

a year ago | pmoriarty | johndcook.com | newest

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Beyond the Imitation Game (arxiv.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | arxiv.org | newest

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Attention with Linear Biases (ALiBi) (arxiv.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | arxiv.org | best

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One-Electron Universe (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | pmoriarty | wikipedia.org | newest

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Universal Basic Income does not cause inflation (indiatimes.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | indiatimes.com | newest

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Is there such a thing as an addictive personality? (bbc.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | newest

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The plan to explode a nuclear bomb on the Moon (bbc.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | best

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GPT 4 is Smarter than You Think [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | youtube.com | newest

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How the ISS will end its life in orbit (bbc.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | frontpage

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AI creators must study consciousness, experts warn (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Former OpenAI Researcher: There’s a 50% Chance AI Ends in 'Catastrophe' (decrypt.co)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | decrypt.co | frontpage

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Push to unionize tech industry makes advances (axios.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | axios.com | frontpage

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Netflix ends DVD rentals in end of era (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment (plos.org)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | plos.org | newest

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Completing Tasks by Connecting Foundation Models with Millions of APIs (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | arxiv.org | newest

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Washington vows to tackle AI, as tech titans and critics descend (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | washingtonpost.com | newest

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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru (wired.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | wired.com | newest

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Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses (bbc.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | best

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ChatGPT Explains Epigrams on Programming (diaphora.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | blogspot.com | newest

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Utah parent says Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries (sltrib.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | sltrib.com | frontpage

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ChatGPT bug leaked users' conversation histories (bbc.co.uk)

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

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Paid time off is not part of workers' “salary,” U.S. court rules (reuters.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | reuters.com | newest

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Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations (hhyu.org)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | hhyu.org | newest

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Use ChatGPT for compiler error regeneration (nalaginrut.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | nalaginrut.com | newest

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Emacs is not just an editor (2015) (karl-voit.at)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | karl-voit.at | best

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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | drewdevault.com | newest

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Human augmentation with robotic body parts is at hand, say scientists (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | theguardian.com | frontpage

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v9fs: Plan 9 Resource Sharing for Linux (kernel.org)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | kernel.org | frontpage

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Google Japan employees form union as layoff threat looms (nikkei.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | nikkei.com | frontpage

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Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules (bbc.co.uk)

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

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ChatGPT Considered Harmful (karl-voit.at)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | karl-voit.at | newest

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Please help improve Magit (magit.vc)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | magit.vc | best

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The AI emotions dreamed up by ChatGPT (bbc.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | newest

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Super-Cooperators (aeon.co)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | aeon.co | newest

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Teams are becoming smaller (bbc.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | bbc.com | frontpage

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Amazon Takes a 50% Cut of Seller's Revenue (marketplacepulse.com)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | marketplacepulse.com | best

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Google's Chatbot Panic (pluralistic.net)

2 years ago | pmoriarty | pluralistic.net | newest

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The 'permacrisis' hitting Gen Z workers (bbc.com)

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