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From Problem Child to Genius—Energizing Chapters

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The comments on my Facebook page tell an interesting story. The post From Problem Child to Genius—Energizing Chapters appeared first on.orgSource. Yesterday the CDC announced that anyone who is fully vaccinated need not wear a mask in most circumstances. Everyone isn’t jumping on Open Table or heading to the movies.

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End-of-Year Fundraising Problems (And How To Solve Them)

Bloomerang

With many nonprofits raising as much as 50% of their budget in December alone, there’s a lot at stake — and a lot of end-of-year fundraising problems to overcome. This is the problem your donors can solve. What end-of-year fundraising problems are you dealing with? Let us know in the comments. Is it believable? (If

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Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.

Ars Technica

While human understanding of this internal LLM "decision" process is still rough, this kind of research could lead to better overall solutions for the AI confabulation problem. Read full article Comments

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DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world

Ars Technica

Researchers at DeepMind have been working on this problem and have released a new technical paper (PDF), which you can download at your convenience. Read full article Comments If today's AI systems are on a path to AGI, we will need new approaches to ensure such a machine doesn't work against human interests.

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Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

Ars Technica

Which suggests, in their words, that the problem is "animus" against minority drivers. Read full article Comments The results confirm that minority drivers get more tickets, and they pay higher fines when they do. And the results also show that minorities aren't in any way more likely to speed or engage in unsafe driving.

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Parents give kids more melatonin than ever, with unknown long-term effects

Ars Technica

In Denmark, as in many countries, the hormone melatonin is a prescription drug for treating sleep problems, mostly in adults. Doctors are supposed to prescribe it to children only if they have certain developmental disorders that make it difficult to sleepand only after the family has tried other methods to address the problem.

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Oops: Google says it might have deleted your Maps Timeline data

Ars Technica

Google has been investigating the problem, and the news isn't good. Read full article Comments Users started piping up over the past several weeks, posting on the Google support forums , Reddit , and other social media that their treasured Timeline data had gone missing.

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