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Remember Facebook’s chatbot, ‘M’[0]?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(virtual_assistant)

If your research requires access to heavy duty machinery then it makes sense to partner with an institution already in possession of the goods. Be that university, national lab, or as a sole practitioner. Of course there’s some premium overhead built in to the rate. Hardware and institutional backing ain’t cheap.

call me a cynic, but in the age of government underinvestment in science, isn’t this how google could actually change the world?

Equally fascinating observation:

“But many also say something small stays behind — a slight awareness of being a person in a body on a planet, a residue of the view from the cupola that never fully fades.”

Can’t wait for the companion piece.

I think they mean: I feel like using [Sonnet/Opus/Fable] in the name [URL] is a mistake, who knows how long that model will be around

> Computer chips that cram billions of electronic devices into a few square inches have powered the digital economy and transformed the world.

Much power so chip

From reading it appears all parties are invested in the outcome of children. So this becomes interesting for other reasons.

What is the current state of the art in this type of testing? Why is a definitive result too far off but also too expensive?

i may be a wallflower here, but please do more with your account than leave this one comment. think about posting! show us what interests you. spread some karma around.

I’d say that ‘commiserate’ is a euphemism for complain. How do you understand it?

Is SCMP a reputable, or otherwise trustworthy news source?

Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire.

your thoughts are echoed in the comments, which are SO much fun. check em out.

my favorite might be the guy explaining how he subscribed to all comments, that he misses inbox zero, and that he needs help unsubscribing. poor guy

that’s some tough SF…http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2020/07/tethers-all-way.html

the ai is not reconstructing sight. it’s guessing which frame of a video the mouse is currently watching. based on training data created by recording the lit up brains of other mice watching the same video

Might be an extreme example, but I thought you’re not allowed to use the word in the definition:

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/extremology/eyJ3IjogI...

Although the software mentioned is pretty good at scoring, a fair percentage of applicants to any university have had no prior interaction with that institution ("stealth applicants"). Moreover the jobs of admin staff are literally dependent on a high volume of qualified applicants. I doubt any admissions operation would use the absence of a score to preclude or penalize otherwise qualified applicants.

I work in higher ed admissions, using Slate, which is also used by at least 3 of the 4 schools mentioned. Fortunately or not admissions operations no longer rely on spreadsheets and mailchimp to collate data and score applicants (interest, merit or otherwise), and the software supporting them is getting pretty advanced.

While I agree this tidbit is newsworthy and icky, what's more disturbing to me is the lack of interest demonstrated by those responsible for educating students...faculty. Any university admin can attest to this. The people most qualified to judge an applicant's merits are surprisingly unwilling to do so in a fair, objective and consistent way. Anecdotal evidence, but I've gotten requests from professors of engineering (including CS faculty) not only to print application PDFs but sort spreadsheets by GPA. As if they can't figure out how to do that themselves.

I believe part of this trend is actually a response to that: admin staff look for more tools/metrics to inform admissions decisions. Misguided or not it's a sign of the times.

The participants (less Nasa leadership) are all researchers with expertise in: atmospheres of exoplanets and biosignatures.

I wager the announcement will be about TRAPPIST-1b and/or c having atmospheres capable of supporting life.

My moonshot bet is that they'll announce the discovery of evidence of biosignatures.