Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI The firm will take data from the way employees work for its artificial intelligence models.

Meta to track workers' clicks and key strokes to squeeze every last second out of them.
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I read TCS first and found it shocking. More so than HMS U, but perhaps I thought the latter detivative.

I recently watched the otherwise utterly egregious film of The Naked Ape for the three animated sequences about the prehistoric origins of human behaviour: pair bonding in a palaeolithic Eden, voyeurism and shame in secondary sex charactetistics, aggression in hunting. Much male gaze...

How do you think it compares with The Cruel Sea?

P.Cockshott, L. Mackenzie and G. Michaelson, `Physical constraints on hypercomputation′, Theoretical Computer Science (A), Vol. 394, No 3, April 2008, pp159-174

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I will dig out the paper I co-authored on how to build a Turing machine with a potentially infinite tape from cosmic dust in a starship with a FAB plant and a team of unemployed mathematicians on-board, but, whoops, I've revealed my inner Atistotelean...

The only "real" numbers we have equations for are sums of rationals. Dinnae mess wi us finitists, Jimmy...

Does 355114 appear before or after 227 in the expansion of pi? Indeed, what is the longest expansion of pi that appears in the expansion of pi?

Given all his speeches are the same, that's easier to establish than it might seem.

But pi is a rational number. 22/7.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

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I just came across a 1927 book by Henderson called Prehistoric Man:
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Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos AI model Experts say Mythos potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity weaknesses.

Experts have warned that the model potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity weaknesses.
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Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.

China is the new Japan?
BBC News - Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'
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They could have done with your advice for episode 2 of Art Detectives where thry find a gold hoard in a Neolithic Bronze Age barrow with a Nordic burial recorded in an illuminated manuscript. One find was half a torc. Fitting the spear blade into the cuts between two loose ribs really clinched it.

Help to Buy mostly helped high earners, IFS says People with lower incomes benefitted less from the house-buying scheme than those with high incomes, the influential think tank says.

There's a surprise.
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A reddish image of a protest with text that reads "An evening of Protest Poetry and discussion Tuesday 14th April, 7PM" and the Lighthouse Bookshop logo of a lighthouse. To the left there is a photo of the book cover, which reads "Shouting in the Tunnel, Poems of Protest - Ruth Aylett, Culture Matters (the publisher)"

Tonight! @ruthaylett.bsky.social will read from her new protest poetry collection 'Shouting in the Tunnel', joined by friends @zainrishi.bsky.social from Readers and Writers Against Genocide and a representative from Woman Life Freedom Edinburgh.

Join us from 7pm!

I recently reread it. It's a curious notion that one character can make plans in their head, and the others can't, but know he's doing it

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Rotten outcome.

For sure. I wonder how often this happens.

Birmingham pastor charged after man drowned during baptism Robert Smith, 61, died from drowning at an address in Erdington in October 2023.

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Cardiff lecturer interviews 160 Bigfoot hunters over three years There have been thousands of reported Bigfoot sightings since it rose to prominence in the 1960s.

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Baidu's Apollo Go self-driving cars stop mid-traffic in China Baidu has not responded to a request for comment about the outage, which affected at least 100 cars.

BBC News - Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city
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Why tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass layoffs More tech leaders are pointing to job cuts caused by AI tools - and a need for more investment cash.

Although the expense of, for example, 30,000 corporate Amazon employees is dwarfed by that company's AI spending plans, firms of this size will now take any opportunity to cut costs, Rohan says.
BBC News - Tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass job cuts. Why?
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