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Before leaving Britain, I lived in an area that had a ~50% poverty rate. The number of betting shops, small and large brands, just on the local high street alone was ridiculous. It…

She gave a talk at my then employer during the pandemic, I think that was my first time listening to her. Well deserved.

And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.

This was listed as a hallucination but is the most accurate for my name: “A NAME THAT MAY REFER TO AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT I CAN’T IDENTIFY A SINGLE WELL-KNOWN PERSON WITH CERTAINTY FRO…

Slight correction here. It is fraud if you intend to stay after getting married. Nobody cares if you get married on a tourist visa and leave the country after.

In DC too. Usually associated with political campaigns, although I recently saw one advertising Uber Teens outside a school.

Yes, the government has concocted a dastardly conspiracy to cut health system costs by reducing access to a known cause of illness.

I’ve recently been unwillingly exposed to this side of things. It’s truly an insane, there must be a better way?

And it is not impossible the posts ended up in the training corpus.

It looks like a clone of present-day Reddit to me.

A couple of podcasts in my rotation had Sarah Wynn-Williams on as a guest [1] [2], with the caveat that she was unable to talk about the book or comment on the Meta. Absurd. I need…

Is "30 under 30" one of those schemes that require people to put themselves forward and maybe pay a fee? I've seen a bunch of "awards" (particularly for companies) that follow the …

Quote from the article subheading: "The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation." It seems like a perfec…

What do you mean by “scientific”? These concepts aren’t discoverable in nature. However, they’re transparently defined in the code book and the “opinions” are available for analysi…

The fine tuning endpoint is deprecated according to the API docs. Is this the replacement? https://docs.mistral.ai/api/endpoint/deprecated/fine-tuning

The simpler explanation is that we live in a world that is more connected than ever so politicians, campaigners and the rest can get policy ideas almost instantly. There is no gran…

For high-level football/calcio/soccer at least, Reddit is and has been better for a long time. Often goal and other key highlights are uploaded before the broadcasters.

People will always need shoes.

Could this escalate to the point that Anthropic exits the US and sets up shop elsewhere? Or would the company cease to exist before it got to that point?

The bitcoin entry is off. jdoliner‘s criticism ended up being more true than false; it isn’t wildly trusted as a medium of exchange and it being an “asset class” doesn’t disprove t…

1Password wrote a response to the paper: https://1password.com/blog/eth-zurich-zero-knowledge-malicio...