Klaus McForkface, a lifting robot developed by German manufacturer Linde AG, performed a stunning 1200-kilogram (2646 lb) overhead lift in Hamburg, beating the human world record by more than 300%
I think it was @mattwall.bsky.social who said, “if you can’t be bothered to write it, I can’t be bothered to read it”👏🏽
I am so sorry to read this, sounds really difficult! I would be hurt and angry too!
Indeed! :D I have many friends and former colleagues who did Econ at UBA - some of the best economists I know.
100%! And what a great description, I'm so impressed with all my friends who went through all that. No easy feat!
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
That is a great idea! I think there are so many of the parts that are important everywhere, like the history, the part about languages, etc. that would be useful so many places. And then maybe take out the very specific parts on IEPs and specific US educational stuff.
Yes, this was a big part of it and it was so heartbreaking.
If you advocate for and actively promote the use of LLMs, you should live near a data centre, have one family member working as a data worker and another, a teenager, using the LLM as a psychologist.
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
Ah, den var fin! Kunne ikke vært mer enig. Og i tillegg er disse selskapene kjipe for restaurantene, fordi de mer eller mindre tvinger dem til å gi rabatter o.l. Og det er jo kun veldig store aktører, som Peppes, som har råd til egen levering.
Well well well guess who just got their copy off of the Bloomsbury UK site? ME! Yay! (US site required a US phone number but the UK site was open to all.) Can't wait to dive in and then I will come with my opinion on translations too.
I can definitely see that!
There is even a public oralist deaf school inside a hospital! At the same time, most public deaf schools have adopted the bilingual-bicultural approach, but still, lots of kids get access to language way too late. So, long story short I think the book would be great for Argentina!
Argentina, especially Buenos Aires, has and has had some strict oralist secular schools too, like Instituto Oral Modelo, which still prohibits signing. They are closely linked to especially one CI surgeon, and they have a lot of influence. They very much push the "speech is the only way" agenda.
So he started these very strict oralist schools, that came to Argentina as well. (Side note but two of the Argentine Provolo schools had 40 years of horrible abuse cases in the church. www.bbc.com/news/world-l...)
These are Catholic schools for the Deaf, named after the Italian founder, Fr. Antonio Provolo, who lived in the first half of the 19th century. His "thing" was that he did not believe God could understand prayers in sign language (the way the French did, Abbé De l'Épée and all that).
Oooh, where should I start! :D Argentina has a vibrant Deaf signing community, but it also has a history of the very anti-sign oralist tradition that came out of Italy (lots of Italians came to Argentina.) So both secular and religious oralist schools, among them, the Provolo Schools.
> Not only [are LLMs a scam], but guardrails [the concept] is a scam too. This strategy — from tobacco with filters to petroleum with the carbon footprint and now to AI with guardrails — to propose non-solutions to buy time and save face in order to push their agenda, is ubiquitous
The Jedwabne pogrom of 1941 was one of the most brutal acts in the entire Shoah, committed by Poles against Polish Jews, not by the occupying Germans. Now the local government and people are denying that Poles committed this act. www.timesofisrael.com/polish-towns...
US tech giants pressured the EU into making environmental data about the impact of individual data centres confidential - so journalists, activists and local politicians CANNOT know the actual environmental toll of the local data centres confidential. www.techpolicy.press/how-big-tech...
The thing that always gets me with this is:
"Embrace AI!"
"OK, how? Why?"
"You just should!"
"You haven't provided any way in which it will be useful."
"You should still use it! It's REALLY IMPORTANT!"
You know, I'm not sure it is.
This is lowkey one of the most important things happening in the Middle East rn and very few people are paying attention to it
It would be great for the Latin American market and Spain too! Of course some specifics are different, but the research on language etc. applies everywhere. (And especially Argentina has a strong oralist tradition that still does a lot of harm; they need these kind of resources!)
AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit. www.wired.com/story/backch...
That is rather scary...
The trap is simple:
AI makes code generation cheap, but it does not make correctness cheap.
Once that asymmetry exists, every software engineer using LLMs to generate code is forced into a binary that guarantees madness.
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