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Interesting probing at how LLMs "think". Read their comment about running the model at temperature 0 to get raw logits

Anthropologist's view that hunter-gatherer societies were affluent, that people had everything they needed to live well

Some basic realities about why it's a terrible idea to put computing facilities in orbit

Rest of World: Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood. “Genuine Chinese supermarkets and restaurants weren’t always available to residents in Nuevo Planco and nearby neighborhoods. The abundance of Chinese food and commerce options has arrived hand in hand with big Chinese tech corporate offices in the last…

Mashable: ChatGPT might be serving you ads soon, leak suggests. “In a post on X, Tibor Blaho, an engineer at AIPRM who has found leaks like these in the past, showed some coding from the ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta. It includes ‘new references to an “ads feature” with…

Hollywood Reporter: OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits. “In a controversial decision that was appealed by OpenAI on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ona Wang found that OpenAI must hand over documents revealing the company’s motivations for deleting the datasets. OpenAI’s in-house…

MakeUseOf: I never expected an open-source app to beat IFTTT and Zapier — but this one did. “I’ve used more automation platforms than the average person — IFTTT (If This Then That), Zapier, Make, n8n — plus a few obscure ones that never went past beta. What every one…

I turn in my dissertation manuscript this Friday, which means last week was mostly editing my own sentences. Given the deadline, the I'm aiming for "defensible" sentences in the manuscript more than perfect, so it's not been a very inspired week. Thanks for all of the submissions covering my limited…

Sundays are for writing your first ever Sunday Papers. Though your excitement, like mine, may slip a little when you realise you've been reading almost anything but gaming articles this week. So, I shall be leaning quite heavily into the "(mostly)" in the column's mission of rounding up "great writing…

Changemakers: Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising by Jane Holgate and John Page was an interesting read about organising. A much more traditional activist perspective than any of the work I do. Plenty of food for thought on topics of building power, developing successive and additional leaders, and more.

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