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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Announced in the middle of last week, these two new books are two outstanding accounts of remarkably different histories. In the fictional "The News from Paraguay," author Lily Tuck weaves romance and imperial ambitions into an intricate and imaginative portrait of life in 19th century Paraguay.

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DeltaX wants to digitize the Andean region’s trucking sector

TechCrunch

Millions of tons of cargo are transported each year via the Pan-American Highway and its branches across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. and Latin America: Magma Partners , out of Chile, which led the round; Duro Ventures , from California; 99 Startups , from Mexico; and Cibersons , from Paraguay.

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

The Verge

GPT-3 is very much a commercial project for OpenAI, which began life as a nonprofit but pivoted in order to attract the funds it says it needs for its expensive and time-consuming research. What makes GPT-3 amazing, they say, is not that it can tell you that the capital of Paraguay is Asunción (it is) or that 466 times 23.5

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