8.12.2023
"Guardrails"…
Stanford University just schooled Congress on AI
Back in D.C., legislators are crafting guardrails around this technology. The White House is preparing an AI-related executive order and introduced a voluntary pledge instructing AI companies to identify manipulated media, while Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is commandeering an “all hands on deck” effort to write new rules for AI.
…and "content," as applied to anything published in any form, are both words misused, overused, useless, and outright exasperating (are you listening, Lake Superior State?) and should be summarily banned, IMHO.
Otherwise, this seems like something moderately useful going on in Washington.
8.09.2023
Unleaned somewhat
The Leaning Tower of Pisa was once tilting dangerously. Today it’s a different story
The latest report by the surveillance group that monitors the monument “highlighted that the inclination has decreased by about 460 millimeters, said Maestrelli, adding that the lean has returned to that of the early nineteenth century.
18.11 inches, that is.
8.08.2023
Following up on an earlier pop quiz
The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why?
“There is this sense of, well, if you show that physician incomes put them at the top of the income distribution, then you’re somehow implying that they’re instead going into medicine because they want to make money. And that narrative is uncomfortable to people.”
Who wudda thunk?
8.07.2023
Long live the serial comma!
"[A] real example from text about a documentary on the late Merle Haggard:
"Among those interviewed, were his two-ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall."
–Merriam-Webster on style
[The serial comma, also called the Oxford comma or the Harvard comma, is the comma before "and last item" in a series. With a serial comma, the example sentence above would read, of course:
"Among those interviewed, were his two-ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson, and Robert Duvall."
Whew.]
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