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NEW RESOURCES
RTL Today: New Luxembourgish translation app goes online . “The translation functionality extends bidirectionally, allowing users to translate both from Luxembourgish into English and vice versa. Scheduled for release next week on GCore’s website, this versatile application will be accessible through standard web browsers.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
DigitalNC: The 2000-2010 Issues of The Carolina Times Now Available!. “The next decade of The Carolina Times (Durham, N.C.) is now available online at Digital NC, thanks to our partner UNC Chapel Hill…. These volumes also offer commentary on a myriad of issues affecting the Black community, both in Durham and nationwide. Prominent topics range from civil rights, societal and political inequality, and police brutality.”
How-To Geek: ChatGPT’s Store of Custom Chatbots is Finally Live. “OpenAI’s GPT Store is finally launching, as announced by the company. The store will be home to both GPTs developed by OpenAI’s partners as well as ones made by third-parties, and users will be able to search for them in different categories such as writing, lifestyle, among others.”
USEFUL STUFF
Lifehacker: Supercharge Your Browsing Experience With Mouse Gestures. “Sometimes it’s the less widely used, more niche browsers that have the best ideas. Take, for example, mouse gestures, which let you perform actions like going back a page or closing a tap with a swipe of the mouse (or a swipe across the trackpad). That means no need to keep looking down at the keyboard to find shortcut combinations, or hunting around on screen for a toolbar button or menu option. Once you’re used to them, mouse gestures can really speed up the way you get around the web.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
NBC News: Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe. “Tech billionaire Elon Musk drew a swift rebuke from two of the nation’s best known civil rights organizations Wednesday, after he criticized efforts by United Airlines and Boeing to hire nonwhite pilots and factory workers. The criticism came after Musk claimed in a series of posts on X that efforts to diversify workforces at those companies have made air travel less safe. He offered no evidence for the claim, and one of his replies directed attention to a post by someone else speculating about the IQ of Black airline employees.”
Hackaday: Adding AI To NPCs Is Easy, Doing It Well Is Hard. “Adding natural language interfaces to software is easier than ever, and that led [creikey] to prototype a game that hinges on communicating with NPCs. The prototype went through multiple iterations during which he mainly discovered things that did not work well. Ultimately, it led to [creikey] settling on a western-themed game called Dante’s Cowboy which he hopes to release as an experiment.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
BBC: Eight ‘suspicious’ US deaths in Colombia linked to dating apps. “US citizens travelling to Colombia have been warned against using dating apps in the country after the ‘suspicious deaths’ of eight American tourists in two months. The US embassy in Bogota said some victims were drugged and robbed after meeting people on these apps.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Dartmouth University: Zeroing In On the Origins of Bias in Large Language Models. “In a recent paper published in the Proceedings of 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, co-authors Weicheng Ma, a computer science PhD candidate at the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, and Soroush Vosoughi, assistant professor of computer science, look at how stereotypes are encoded in pretrained large language models.”
Northeastern Global News: Who believes ‘fake news’? Regardless of age and politics, people who endorse lies are aware they could be made up, research says. “Northeastern researchers say that when confronted with ‘fake news,’ Republicans and younger people are more likely to say they believe the false headlines than Democrats and older people. But across the board, participants who were incorrect about news headlines being true or false had an inkling they were wrong, lead author and Northeastern professor Briony-Swire Thompson says.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Boing Boing: An interactive map of tiny islands around the world. “The Obscure Islands website contains a map of them around the world, and it’s so much fun to explore. Each island on the map comes with a description about its land and history.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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January 13, 2024 at 02:33AM
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