Zink is a python library that supposedly wraps around your data and anonymizes it before submitting it to a public LLM. It's not that easy to use, and I don't see many people wanting to go to the trouble of using it. But the article highlights the temptation for people to just give an LLM like ChatGPT all their data, which lets it train on it, making it forever public. Who knows if the data will be sanitized first.
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What happened when some techies decided to help medical AI tools use more diverse data? There was no market for it. Either they didn't have the money to pay for it, or they didn't think it was important enough. Sad.
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This writer thinks that coffee shops should embrace remote workers. Extend the time these workers can be allowed to be there. Add quiet spaces, collaborative areas. Uh isn't that what offices are for? Looks like this person doesn't mind working in an office, as long as it's not the office of the company that the writer works for. Maybe offices just need to change into something different from cubicle farms. Rather than build office space for people who just want to work in a different office. But how do you plan for how big you need to make it? This is something that sounds great in the conception stage, but falls apart when you consider the details. You'd hate to own a large space that's barely occupied, and you have an espresso and snack bar ready to serve, but there's not enough traffic. Just work at your office, man. That's what it's there for.
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Holy fck! Intel is going to lay off 2400 workers, not 500. That's going to make a big impact in Hillsboro and Orenco Station. Another piece from the Jenga stack that is Oregon's economy.
And Higgins Restaurant announced today that they are very near having to close permanently because they can't make a go of it.
“While our menu is still the same James Beard quality, downtown Portland has changed,” Higgins and Mallory wrote. “Recovery has been slow. Office vacancies are at historic highs — among the worst in the nation. Business travel is down. Arts and culture events are in their summer lull.
Yeah, that's on Portland. And if you manage to stay open, you will pay higher taxes for the privilege. Doom Loop.
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