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This was about a year ago, and it was pretty rudimentary. I'd just drop in jpegs into ChatGPT and ask for a translation of small sections. If I were doing it today, I'd probably do…

I had ChatGPT translate some old, handwritten French legal documents for family history purposes. It was far more accurate than I expected. At scale, with better models, we might h…

1. "Conversation" is purely anthropomorphism. It's software input and output. If the client makes an excel spreadsheet about the cost benefit of ripping off people, it's not work-p…

I’d guess Lexis did that to itself. Usually the “deal” is that West or Lexis provides codification and reporting services for zero dollars, if they are named the official printer. …

They were caught flatfooted between being Wal-Mart and Amazon. Sears had shifted so firmly into retail by the 80s. Then Wal-Mart ate their lunch on low price retail logistics. Then…

"...777 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure ... and also before Dulles engine failure, for reasons having nothing to do with the Dulles engine failure." To …

Yes,I noticed Kansas City is prominently featured on all the maps, which makes sense for rail hubs. But strange, then, that the north/south line (Kansas City Southern / Canadian Pa…

So - even bigger tomorrow? Tonight was pretty amazing.

Always buy the warranty with Samsung refrigerators. After three failed attempts to repair our ice maker, the insurer refunded the purchase price.

Snoopy was popular among the astronauts, and Schultz liked NASA. All the Apollo 10 modules had Snoopy related call signs, chosen by the astronauts. “ The command module was given t…

Error at step 4: cd frontend && npm install && cd .. doesn't grok on my mac.

I’d guess the idea was about generalizing the team’s efforts to spot fakery across the internet, in-browser. But that horse has left the barn. Before AI, a lot of search result gam…

In our lifetimes, I predict some of us will choose to be governed (at least in part) by Sam Altman's benevolent, everlasting machine.

I'd think ambiguous statements about the scope of your AI would make it hard to prove fraud, if you were being careful at all. "Involving AI" could mean 1% AI. So it's doubly surpr…

The sentence from the article is: "While the total amount the Greens have made in charitable contributions has been kept private, former Oral Roberts University president Dr. Mark …

It’s fine to be inexperienced with Christianity, but it skews the reporting. For example “kingdom giver” is not someone who gives kingdoms, it’s someone who gives to Christ’s kingd…

These arguments sometimes reach juries, who are asked to award damages based on "physical harms," in a separate category from "mental anguish." The argument that "brains are rewire…

“Recognizing personal and institutional bias” sounds nice, until someone has to decide which biases or differences to overcome, and at what cost. There’s a bias against tattoos. Wh…

Most people grasp the reasonableness standard for running a disease lab: you were negligent if the diseases break containment, because lab standards should be in place to prevent t…

Right. It fits well with the Anglosphere’s concept of compensible negligence. China had a duty to run the lab safely, it breached that duty, and so China is responsible for the har…

“ We believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone," Steve Jobs declared in an email to a customer. "Folks who want porn can buy an Android."

All laws force morality on people.

Alexa has dropped off. Every echo device I have was better in the past. My wife is lucky to trigger them half the time. They have always done better with male voices, but it’s wors…

I understand Elon and Pmarca to be saying that this behavior is programmed in by 'safety teams' at Meta. It is an odd way of calcifying late-20th century American upper class anxie…

GM can’t match the lobbying power of local dealers in the state houses. Every state rep has a dealer or two in their district, and they employ staff who vote. And, to be fair to th…