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2025-04-02

Margaret Sullivan on “the need for straight talk right now. Enough with...

Margaret Sullivan on “the need for straight talk right now. Enough with soft-pedaling from the media. Clarity! Courage! The truth!”

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NaNoWriMo Goes Bankrupt After Embracing AI

Less than a year after its "full-throated" defense of artificial intelligence in writing, the literary challenge National Novel Writing Month — or NaNoWriMo for short — is shutting down. Kilby...

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How Giza Is Transforming DeFi with Autonomous AI Agents: The Rise of Autonomous Finance

Discover how Giza is revolutionizing DeFi with AI agents, yield optimization, semantic abstraction, and secure smart accounts. Renç Korzay reveals what’s next.

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'I Want to Make You Immortal:' How One Woman Confronted Her Deepfakes Harasser

“After discovering this content, I’m not going to lie… there are times it made me not want to be around any more either,” she said. “I literally felt buried.” 

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This ProPublica story about ICE deportation flights, with intel from flight attendants...

This ProPublica story about ICE deportation flights, with intel from flight attendants who work them, is horrific. “Don’t talk to the detainees. Don’t feed them. Don’t make eye contact.” The...

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Training AI to Understand Legal Texts in Different Domains

This section evaluates how rhetorical role classifiers generalize across domains, showing that methods like prototypical learning and discourse-aware contrastive learning improve cross-domain performance. Prototypical models prove robust in preventing overfitting...

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Vibe Coded AI App Generates Recipes for Cyanide Ice Cream and Cum Soup

A Y Combinator partner proudly launched an AI recipe app that told people how to make “Actual Cocaine” and a “Uranium Bomb.”

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Tesla Just Got Some Absolutely Horrible News

Elon Musk's Tesla has posted its first-quarter deliveries — and the numbers are even worse than analysts feared. The carmaker said it delivered 336,681 vehicles for the January-March period, a...

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How Will Stables’ Tezos-Powered Game Shake Up Horse Racing?

Stables expands to North America with Equibase partnership, adding U.S. racehorses and gameplay upgrades to its Tezos-based fantasy horse racing platform.

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How Sentient’s Reasoning Agent is Outsmarting the Competition: Inside Look

Sentient’s Himanshu Tyagi reveals how blockchain and AI unite in a community-owned revolution, powering Sentient Chat and Dobby.

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Enhancing Rhetorical Role Labeling with Training-Time Neighborhood Learning

This section shows that contrastive learning, discourse-aware loss, and multi-prototype methods improve rhetorical role labeling by enhancing embeddings and addressing class imbalance, particularly in low-data settings.

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How to Process Large Files in Data Indexing Systems

Learn best practices for handling large files in data indexing systems. Understand processing granularity, fan-in/fan-out scenarios, and strategies for efficient processing of large datasets like patent XML files. Discover how...

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"Everyone is way better than they think"

#ceo #founder #shopify #potential

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How Long Can AI Companies Maintain a $20 Monthly Subscription Fee?

AI companies like OpenAI are struggling to balance subscription costs and usage-based pricing. While DeepSeek claims a 545% profit margin, other companies face the high cost of GPU usage, leading...

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The TechBeat: Hallucination by Design: How Embedding Models Misunderstand Language (4/2/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...

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Why product managers are getting fired – Dave Wascha (CPTO and Advisor)

Product management is facing a crisis — and Dave Wascha calls it The Reckoning. In this episode, Dave joins Lily and Randy to unpack the growing backlash against the product...

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Oh man, rest in peace to Val Kilmer....

Oh man, rest in peace to Val Kilmer. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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“Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his more than 25-hour long...

“Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his more than 25-hour long Senate speech.”

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Product Management in the Twilight Zone

How to Stay Effective When Uncertainty is the Only Constant

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2025-04-01

Octopus v2: An On-Device Language Model for Super Agent

Language models have shown effectiveness in a variety of software applications, particularly in tasks related to automatic workflow.

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