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  • 2024 Week 29 - Weekly Notes
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    Taking a break from the politics talk this week as there are too many things to be enraged about, we look instead around the technosphere. City walks, reading A System for Writing and coming up new ideas for my workflow, choosing boring technology, looking at new Claude dev and engineer, and how story points being pointless. Around the globe, we examine the 100 books of the 21st century, where the blogs are at, no more free weather reports, the Olympics costumes for summer 2024, and recreating Bell Labs today.

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  • Stochastic Parrots
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    From this ACM paper, On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots, the hypothesis is maybe these LLMs are parroting back what we already know and aren’t learning. We can probably, maybe, safely say that is no longer the case.

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  • Students Have the Right to Protest Apartheid
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    From The Progressive: Students Have the Right to Protest Apartheid. My lovely fiancé wrote a piece about the student protests for Palestine.

    While the Republican-led Congress has used its power to condemn any protests on behalf of Palestinians, where was the same outrage and zealousness when white nationalists came to college campuses?

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