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I haven't read the actual law, but the description of it sounds like it's limited to things like imitating an artists voice. Certainly it makes sense to not allow a recording that claims to be Luke Combs singing, oh, say his new song "Fast Car"[1]. But, does it mean one couldn't create a voice that sounds a lot like Luke Combs as long as it's well labelled as AI-generated?

[1]Yes, I know it's a Tracy Chapman song.

It's not at all. Source: ex-Tennessean.

In other words, he's parroting articles that have appeared recently in the WSJ, Forbes and other mags. Clever guy.

I found the article interesting. However, the title of the article contains the weasel word "may". I've come to a practice that whenever I see the words may, could, might, etc. in the title of an article, I automatically invert it. In this case "AGI may align with human needs in some unspecified timeframe". This may not reassure you if you believe AGI will kill us all before that time, but it is a quite different implication.

Furthermore, sadly no "science" was presented to actually justify the original title's implication.

I hope not to come across as condescending, but in normal usage a demand issue is one in which there's not enough demand (think: the global financial crisis in 2008/9). When there is too much demand and not enough supply as clearly seems the case here, irrespective of why that's true, that's a supply issue.

Bold statement with no evidence. I can assure you that they're well used in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville during the winter months as well as summer.

Sounds almost recursive.

Totally agree. Allen Downey's work is an under appreciated treasure.

The way you phrased it, yes. But, that isn't what the report was saying. It was using a generalized criteria of disadvantaged meaning low income or non-english speaking. Race based criteria can't be considered, but income can which means poor white kids from Appalachia as well as poor black and latino kids from urban areas.

This makes me think of similar questions 30 or so years ago: Are you seeing the internet used in places where it shouldn't be?

If AI is being used in places it shouldn't be, then presumably after a little (or lot) of money has been wasted, firms will figure out that it's a bad fit for the job. I don't see any good reason to rule anything out before there's been time to evaluate it's efficacy.

That's probably a good policy, but it isn't good English. Any formulation of X has Y characteristic where X is a group implies all members of the group unless the "some" is explicit.

It's a total clickbait headline, but you already knew that hence your policy.

Unfortunately, it seems their president wasn't aware of the connection either: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-says-inter....

Ha! For those of us who were in the Morgan Stanley Fixed Income group for many years in the 1990s and 2000s AW is known for APLus which was used extensively for modeling and application work.

I charged my Tesla on US 110 volts for several years just plugging into an outlet. Overnight, it got me plenty of charge for a normal day of driving. You're building a case based on faulty assumptions.

In most countries where EV adoption is progressing you can count on a turnover of electric power generation from fossil to non-fossil sources. As that happens, EVs become greener and greener. Gas cars are still going to be gas cars.

I had thought of him as megalomaniac, but I recently heard him do a two hour podcast on the Joe Walker Podcast (formerly Jolly Swagman). He came off as relatively normal for someone who earned a Ph.D. in particle physics from Caltech at the ripe age of 20.

Only if you forget to notice that the bottom 20% in the US lives better than the majority of the rest of the world.

And the best part is how reliable and timely the trains and buses are. As a foreigner living there I commuted by bus into Geneva from a suburb. I don't think my bus was ever more than 1 minute late - and this was in the middle of its run. I hate to compare that to my wife's commute here in Boston....

I've found that making tomato sauces from raw ingredients is a really simple and much better than most store bought which, as you say, usually have a lot of sugar added.

Wait till you get to #18. It tells you to set the alarm 30 minutes early!

I quit eating sugar 4 years ago. No specific health problems, but having seen a couple of similar articles I thought it would be a good idea. When I got my first checkup about a year after stopping, my numbers had all improved drastically with essentially no other big changes in lifestyle. Positive reinforcement!

You do have to be careful about your grocery selections. One of my favorite boogeymen is the product called peanut spread which comes in a jar just like peanut butter and looks just like it, but it's loaded with added sugar. Of course, some brands of peanut butter are, too, but this is a thing with the high end products that you'd think wouldn't do that.

But, my advice is just stop adding sugar to recipes and stop eating stuff that is obviously sugar laden (muffins, cookies, etc). Over time, you become somewhat sensitized to foods that have it where you don't expect it. Check labels when in doubt, but basically, don't sweat the small stuff and absolutely don't refuse a small piece of your niece's birthday cake - it won't kill you.

I suspect HMarts in the Boston area should have everything I need. Thanks for the comment.

Which of her books do you recommend for the relatively experienced home cook who's done a little bit of imitation Chinese cooking?

I disagree also, but for a different reason. People are justifiably put off by the lack of decent charging infrastructure in the U.S. for all but Tesla. Lot's of people want a car that is their daily driver that can also drive the kids to grandma's without a lot of hassle.

I noticed that SooperLooper is missing. One of my all time favorites.

Not only that - if you save the content of a Pluto notebook, you've got a julia program that will run in any context that julia programs run.

Reinforcement learning is not LLM. It's the technology that is used in industrial applications (walking, acting robots, etc) and game playing (e.g. AlphaGo to play Go, AlphaChess, etc.)

Classic case of Gresham's Law. Fake reviews drive out the good.

Is this opinion based on experience or speculation? I had a house with garage and it was nice, but I moved to an apt with street parking. I had feared it would be a pain, and I'd be lying if I said it was as convenient, but it really hasn't been very difficult. Moving the car every two weeks for street cleaning has been worse.

As for long distances, I haven't found that to be a big issue. Of course, I have a Tesla which has a very good charging network - and that's the point. For any brand other than Tesla, you're probably right. It amazes me that the legacy car companies each of which are multiples of Tesla's size don't seem to be able to come up with a solution that doesn't involve getting taxpayers involved.

To clarify, except at American companies (in Europe), pay for developers (in Europe) was abysmal compared to pay for developers in the U.S. (irrespective of ownership).