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We've done recent work on using a transformer to generate fake cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and found that a set of cybersecurity experts could not reliably distinguish the fake…

cf. Byron the Bulb in Thomas Pynchon's book Gravity's Rainbow http://lukedanger.blogspot.com/2009/02/story-of-byron-bulb.h...

Like the one that Beatrix Potter imagined? https://imgur.com/a/tjktk

I've found the when teaching, I sometimes work on an example program too much, producing what I think is elegant and compact code, but that the students find hard to understand. I …

I took his AI class, 6.258, 45 years ago, in the Spring of 1971. It was probably the first or second time he taught it. He's a great teacher and inspired me to focus on AI. One asp…

wait, what?!?

Trenchard More of Dartmouth was also a participant and is, as far as I know, still alive

THE LISP DIFFERENTIATION DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM, K. Kaling, Artificial Intelligence Project, RLE and MIT Computation Center, AI Memo 10, 1959. https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_m…

The current service returns a ranked (with scores) list of up to 200 entities. You can specify a type in your query or filter the results to select types of interest (e.g., Person,…

http://www.skunkieacres.com/images/rabbit_box.jpg A picture of a rabbit in a wooden box => "a cat looking into a bin full of apples" Mistaking a rabbit for a cat is not too bad. A …

There are many nodes and edges missing. It would be great if the underlying graph was on a wiki. Maybe this content could be added to Wikidata ( http://www.wikidata.org/ ).

Factoid is a word coined by Norman Mailer for "an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid

I recall DEC's TOPS10 operating system for the PDP-10 using three character extensions. It was introduced in 1970. I think the older PDP6 and ITS systems at MIT-AI had a different …

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You can see a scanned version of The Tech from November 20, 1963 in the paper's archives at http://tech.mit.edu/V83/PDF/V83-N24.pdf .

interpeter => interpreter

This post on Language Log identifies ways in which Orwell violated his own rules in the essay. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992

Yes, the lisp machnes used CRTs, but they did not look like the classic terminals from that era. IIRC they had much higher resolution and were black and white.

I'd guess that he composed that message on a Lisp Machine and not a CRT, e.g., something like this: http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/500004885-03-01 ?