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• About 242,000 Workers Filed For Unemployment Last Week

  

  The Labor Department released its weekly unemployment report on Thursday. It showed about 242,000 workers filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending on... Read more

  The 13 december 2024 by   Jobsanger
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• Hoping Their Money Will Protect Them

  

  Political Cartoon is by Lalo Alcaraz at Pocho.com. Read more

  The 13 december 2024 by   Jobsanger
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• Trump Wants To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship - Can He Do It?

  

  The following is part of a post at PolitiFact.com by Louis Jacobson:During his first major interview since winning the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump... Read more

  The 13 december 2024 by   Jobsanger
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• Processing A Claimant

  

  Political Cartoon is by Gary Huck at huckkonopackicartoons.com. Read more

  The 13 december 2024 by   Jobsanger
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• Computer Chess, Super-intelligence, A Connecticut Yankee, Cargo Cults

  I just had an interesting interaction with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. As always, my remarks are boldface while Claude's are plain. * * * * * I believe that neural-net... Read more

  The 13 december 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Fred the Heretic Goes Epic with Elon

  FTH (aka Fred the Heretic), as you may recall, is a GPT based on the poetry of Frederick Turner. While I’ve already posted a few poems by FTH, I haven’t posted... Read more

  The 12 december 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• After That We Need Some Organic Relief

  

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  The 12 december 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• The Fall of the House of Assad

  

  When the “Arab Spring” exploded in 2011, my high schooler daughter was fascinated (setting the path for her career). I recall our discussing Syria’s civil war... Read more

  The 12 december 2024 by   Fsrcoin
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• Consciousness, Intelligence, and AI – Some Quick Notes [call It a Mini-ramble]

  The subject of consciousness keeps turning up in current discussions of AI and LLMs. Can AIs be conscious? Are current AIs conscious? Maybe a little? What do... Read more

  The 12 december 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• The World is Messy. We Can’t Make All Human Behavior Subject to Law Or...

  The following Q A turned up on my Quora feed this morning. I’m of two minds about it. “Yes,” the employee lunch break should be inviolable in the sense that it... Read more

  The 12 december 2024 by   Bbenzon
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