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> Maybe the goal is to force the U.S. Census to publish statistics that actually enable re-identification, to help with future gerrymandering efforts? In case you were wondering wh…

> The new SECURE proposal includes language ... [that does] not allow people to sue companies for violating their privacy rights.... In case you wanted to know what this was about

Right, this is what I remember seeing. Overall, inflation didn't increase much last year even after the tariffs because a lot of companies had stockpiled inventory and were able to…

I mean, we need all the electricity we can get to run all of these datacenters, right? So I think this might be one of those things that the Republicans quietly allow to continue s…

The LLMs are not uncorrelated, though, they're all trained on the same dataset (the Internet) and subject to most of the same biases

> “DeepSeek is more humane,” my mother told me in May. “Doctors are more like machines.” Now there's a quote

> As of Saturday, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said it had confirmed 5,459 deaths and is investigating 17,031 more. The 30,000 number comes from the Ministry o…

If hallucinated citations are making it to top conferences, do we just have to accept that no one is willing to do the work to ensure that our research is grounded in reality? Perh…

If hallucinated citations are making it to a top conference, Is there anything we can do to stop this rampant abuse of AI? Or do we just have to accept that research is no longer g…

Not building enough housing? It seems like they've built 164,121 housing units too many. I think that the more correct explanation is that speculative investors are holding onto pr…

The only way for cooperation to be a winning strategy in a prisoner's dilemma is if people have memory/reputation/trust. However, that is very difficult to build in the modern digi…

I went to a school in the suburbs with kids from middle class families and lower-middle class families. Many of us wanted to get into the Ivy League schools, but what I saw was tha…

Two key caveats: 40% of people said their arthritis got better with the placebo treatment, while 70% got better with the radiation. Yes, that's clearly a difference, but it also me…

Slightly amusing, perhaps, but accurate and concise? Definitely.

> at least ChatGPT attempts to give a paid option. Again, I don't think that'll stop them... Netflix also attempted to give a paid option, but now we have an "ad-supported" plan. I…

But wasn't that also true in 1979 when the ban was first put in place? Obviously, yes, money is the main force driving this country toward sports betting, but I argue that there us…

I actually agree with your take, that a model trained on a dump of the Internet will be left-leaning on average, BUT I want to reiterate that obvious indoctrination (see the incide…

yeah, but they benefit from convincing people not to dump everything in context, because the alternative is to dump everything in a db (like Chroma) and then retrieve only the rele…

IME, ports generate way more income than workers, so I go for pretty much fully soldiers

This addresses the key problem. The lack of access to therapists is due to lack of therapists, because the demand far outweighs supply. It is simply not possible to train the numbe…

> The older students consistently scored higher on tests... The findings were true for children of all backgrounds, but especially for boys and for children from low-income familie…