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• Governors Island as a World Resource Center

  

  I spent a good deal of time early in the millennium working with Zeal Greenberg, of the World Development Endowment Foundation, on a plan to develop Governors... Read more

  The 23 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Gary Marcus Vindicated on the Limits of Scaling?

  He seems to think so, and I agree. Though I also believe that LLMs probably have won a permanent place in the repertoire of techniques for AI devices. We just... Read more

  The 23 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Making a (large) Epoxy Table

  

  While I've been watching Cam's videos for a few years. While I have no particular interest in these tables, I enjoy these videos. So I've watched a bunch of... Read more

  The 22 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Time for Another Ramble: Melancholy, Claude, Bloom, Claude, Ring Composition, an...

  It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these; May 29th was the last one. If you look over there to right at the Blog Archive you’ll see I’ve been on a... Read more

  The 22 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• CFP: SMS Annual Conference at Lugano, 30 June – 2 July 2025

  The Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be hosting its 10th Annual Conference on 30 June -2 July 2025 in person at USI in Lugano, Switzerland. Read more

  The 22 november 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• It Will Be Interesting to See How AI Affects Medical Practice

  Not too many years ago Geoffrey Hinton confidently predicted that radiologists would soon be replaced by AI. That didn't happen. But now... Read more

  The 22 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)

  I really hate generative AI, because there are many reasons to hate it. It's abilities depend on stolen data; it uses so much electricity it's messing with... Read more

  The 22 november 2024 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• 3QD Catch-Up: Affective Technology, Georgia on My Mind

  

  Whenever I publish a new article at 3 Quarks Daily I also publish a somewhat shorter post here at New Savanna. That post links to the 3QD post and comments on... Read more

  The 21 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Coca-Cola and AI: It's the Real Thing! [Still] [Media Notes 144]

  

  Alex Vadukul, Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I., NYTimes, Nov. 20, 2024. The opening two paragraphs: With temperatures dropping... Read more

  The 21 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Why is Cobra Kai Better Than One Might Have Expected? [Media Notes 143a]

  When Cobra Kai first showed up on Netflix back in 2020 I noticed it – Oh, the karate kid continues, that’s nice – but had no interest in watching it. Read more

  The 21 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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