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  • Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers

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  • As students work through lessons on subjects like math, reading, and science, the AI system will analyze their responses, time spent on tasks, and even emotional cues to optimize the difficulty and presentation of content

    This will be a nightmare for any neuro-divergent students, or really any student with atypical learning needs.

  • David Gerard: "Microsoft refuses pull request to put documentation in readable table form because LLMs are bad at parsing tables…"

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  • I thought they would give some meaningless response and people prodding them for a real reason would get the truth out eventually. But no, they just come out and say it in their first response:

    Thanks for the contribution here and appreciate your attention to detail. We have decided to keep as-is.. part of that decision is that more and more folks are using AI chat to access guidance and tables don't always translate well in that context.

  • Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid to buy Alex Jones' Infowars

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  • They didn't put in the biggest bid. They put in a bid that was a smaller amount of cash bundled with a waiver from the Sandyhook families that were to get a damages payout that they forgo their damages claim.

    The third party evaluating the bids decided this was a better deal for Infowars' creditors, as that meant more of the bankruptcy money would be going to them, so that's why it was chosen.

  • Are there good uses for the blockchain?

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  • Not OP, but in my circles the simplest, strongest point I've found is that no cryptocurrency has a built-in mechanism for handling mistakes. People are using these systems, and people make mistakes. Without built in accommodations, you're either

    1. Creating real risk for anyone using the system, because each mistake is irrecoverable financial loss, and that's pretty much the definition of financial risk, or
    2. Encouraging users to subvert the system in its core functionality in order to accommodate mistakes, which undermines the entire system and again creates risk because you don't really know how anything is going to work with these ad hoc side systems

    Either way, crypto is just more costly to use than traditional systems when you properly factor those risks. So the only people left using it are those who expect greater rewards to offset all that additional risk, which are just speculators and grifters.

  • 'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' Google Searches Spike on Election Night, Suggesting Many Americans Had No Idea He Wasn't Running

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  • It's an education system and culture problem. You can't force a 40-year-old woman to be curious and critical, but you can plant the seed and encourage the growth of those skills and behaviors in children. That confusion at hearing something different followed by the attitude of putting it in a box and dismissing it ("I don't know what that is, but we have regular hot tea") comes from a lifetime of being told to accept whatever over simplified answer they are told and be quiet whenever they ask questions.

  • The Stop Wall Street Landlords Act has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Ro Khanna. The bill would raise taxes on the purchase of single family homes by private equity and corporations.

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  • No chance it will even come to the floor for a vote.

  • 50% survival rate

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  • How would you scientifically measure a difference between those two definitions?

  • The Recap: Harris’ big media week, plus why the right keeps mispronouncing her name

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  • plus why the right keeps mispronouncing her name

    I mean, it's just racism, right?

    It serves as a racist dog whistle and a cowardly way to slight the vice president without resorting to overt name-calling.

    Yeah, same as always. Important to keep pointing it out, but not exactly an earth-shattering revelation.

  • Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton

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  • If it's dangerous to repair it, it's dangerous to own. That's the domain for regulations by the government, not arbitrary software restrictions by software manufacturers.

    They don't implement these to keep you safe. They do it purely to make more money.

  • Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

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  • The judge also noted that the cited study itself mentions that GitHub Copilot “rarely emits memorised code in benign situations.”

    "Rarely" is not zero. This looks like it's opening a loophole to copying open source code with strong copyleft licenses like the GPL:

    1. Find OSS code you want to copy
    2. Set up conditions for Copilot to reproduce code
    3. Copy code into your commercial product
    4. When sued, just claim Copilot generated the code

    Depending on how good your lawyers are, 2 is optional. And bingo! All the OSS code you want without those pesky restrictive licenses.

    In fact, I wonder if there's a way to automate step 2. Some way to analyze an OSS GitHub repo to generate inputs for Copilot that will then regurgitate that same repo.