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TinyBig

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    Comment #48855863

    The law you've cited only applies for "emergency transport". Falck has found a workaround: Bill emergencies as "non-emergency" so they can balance bill. This is, of course, fraud. …

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    Comment #48078700

    On top of token tracking, they're also scoring employees on how much they teach Ai to their colleagues. As bad as the token dashboard sounds, employees being forced to try to mine …

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    Comment #47643963

    There are many hyper-credentialized, gatekept systems but most of them don't share the feature of producing structurally worse outcomes as literary fiction. I believe this system i…

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    Comment #46877543

    A game-theoretic model of why AI automation might be a trap: each firm's rational choice to automate erodes the aggregate demand all firms depend on. The Nash equilibrium is slow-m…

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    Comment #46847323

    Tariffs continue to be a major topic of debate. The author examines what happened to countries that closed their borders and protected domestic industry with the promise of strengt…

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    Comment #46619057

    When Saks Fifth Avenue put out feelers to sell off pieces of BergdorfGoodman, I took it as a very bad sign. Bergdorf is the crown jewel in that portfolio. Anytime you see a corpora…

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    Comment #46578282

    I'm working on an app to make testing available to all brick and mortar retailers (proofpod.ai). The most difficult technical challenge has been designing a pipeline to fully autom…

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    Comment #46571601

    A phrase I liked to describe what we're doing with LLMs is "building a personal panopticon". The benefits are immense but you're placing a huge bet on the landlord of the tower.

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    I've taken one of the electric roll-on/roll-off ferries that cross from Denmark to Sweden over the Øresund strait. Zero fumes, zero vibration, incredibly quiet. Awesome to see this…

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    Comment #46149021

    James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State is a useful lens here. Scott argues that modern states flattened human complexity into legible categories so they could govern: surnames, maps,…

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    Comment #45954758

    If you already know how to touch type, I recommend using software to mirror your keyboard when the spacebar is held down. I lacked the use of my dominant arm for a few months while…

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    Comment #42963534

    Muscle mass is lost quickly during detraining, but the additional myonuclei gained when someone puts on muscle are retained for much longer, potentially years. Myonuclei govern pro…

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    Comment #42660232

    How would it be possible to fix the problem at the expense of the lower working class?