20 June 2024

Woke Emerson College is laying off people due to decreasing enrollment, due to campus protests.  Hopefully this will happen to a lot of pocket elite colleges.

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The news always focuses on record-setting hottest days. But record-setting coldest days are happening, too.  So is it really "global warming"?

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Is the Perplexity search engine a "bullshit machine"?
The magic trick that’s made Perplexity worth 10 figures, in other words, appears to be that it’s both doing what it says it isn’t and not doing what it says it is.
If you're a user of Perplexity, this article is worth your read. It seems that the Perplexity bot scrapes websites, even when told not to, and conducts searches on search engines for you, just like a human would.

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet just came out. Faster and better than Claude 3 Opus.

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Someone used unsupervised machine learning techniques to see how the Supreme Court justices vote, namely, are there clusters of agreement amongst them. The answer is yes, there three clusters of justices that seem to vote in agreement with each other.
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Ilya Sutskever has formed his own company, Safe Superintelligence.  The article doesn't list any other big names. Jan Leike has already joined Anthropic, so he isn't a partner there.  Good luck, Ilya.

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Driving in Seattle is becoming more dangerous, actually in King County as a whole. What's going on?

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