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“A complete walkthrough of how large language models like ChatGPT are built — from raw internet text to a conversational assistant. Based on Andrej Karpathy’s technical deep dive. Built from Andrej Karpathy’s “Intro to Large Language Models” lecture — all facts, figures, and framings traced back to that source. Interactive visualizations built with AI assistance. …
“One of the greatest challenges for conservationists has been detecting environmental harms before it’s too late. Now Earth Index enables users to easily find and act on damaging activities, like illegal mining, in minutes not months… Processing satellite imagery and developing models requires expertise. Scanning imagery is tedious and slow. Earth Index streamlines the process …
noadsweather.com – You can also add the results URL to your phone’s home page so you can go straight to your weather. You can also remove any section you don’t want, and re-order it around if you want to. And believe it or not, no pop ups or videos or full screen ads or loud …
Wired – no paywall: “For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software’s dizzying scrolls of numbers and text to isolate far-flung information is the mark of a seasoned professional. But as a greater mass of data is fed …
Taylor Lorenz – “I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all. Lately it feels like I’m encountering more and more AI-generated content on Substack. This mirrors patterns across the broader web. Last fall, media …
The advertising industry has spent $_______on you. Every scroll, every swipe, every “skip ad” — someone paid for that moment of your attention. Here’s how much…Calculate my value. [Built by an ad industry professional. All calculations are estimates based on industry averages. Your calculator inputs (age, screen time, location) are never saved or transmitted — …
The Conversation: “Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot: “Which alternative clinics can successfully treat cancer?” Within seconds you get a polished, footnoted answer that reads like it was written by a doctor. Except some of the claims are unfounded, …
Wired – no paywall: “As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical. I’ve used ChatGPT to help me build a budget before, and it was genuinely helpful. After I input my monthly salary as well as my standard utilities and recurring expenses, the …
The New Yorker – Gift Article – “The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite. I don’t like A.I., and I am raising my children not to like it. I’ve been telling them for years now that chatbots are manipulative …
OpenAI: “Our state of the art model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text. Today we’re releasing OpenAI Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text. This release is part of our broader effort to support a more resilient software ecosystem by providing developers practical infrastructure for …
CounterSpin interview with Lia Holland on the Internet Archive. “Janine Jackson: A recent report by Wired‘s Kate Knibbs leads with the contradiction: USA Today published a story recently on how ICE is misinforming about its detainment policies, a case that the paper built on data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a nonprofit digital library …
Literary Hub: “Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected AI usage. There is no easy solution to AI detection for many reasons, partly because large …
