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Reflections on Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guam has special building codes for typhoons, kind of like California's earthquake-inspired building codes. But the dried version I had on Guam was better, and gives you a warm feeling. At least two of us will be back this summer to do training and follow-up. Apparently, typhoons are a big deal in Micronesia.

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How a bruising Microsoft lawsuit fueled the fight for fair pay

The Verge

An indigenous Chamorro woman from an island just north of Guam, Anuncia worked as an infertility specialist, researching in vitro fertilization and stem cell techniques. Part of her work meant training other doctors, many of whom went on to far more lucrative practices on their own.

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Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges

Top Nonprofits

States that protect employees from being retaliated against for engaging in “political activities” include California, Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia plus the territory of Guam, the cities of Seattle, Washington and Madison, Wisconsin.

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

Cloudy with a chance of hyperbolic growth Meanwhile, OpenEye is busy training U3. As U2 trains, it sculpts more challenging and realistic tasks from github repositories on the internet. Models are learning to train themselves. During most of 2024, these RL training runs cost around $1 million, sometimes $10 million.