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- Want to study major energy and environmental challenges? Next Tuesday is the deadline to apply to Breakthrough Generation: paid summer fellowship. t.co/cP7fN3TxG1
- When I was an undergrad, ELIZA (1960s pseudo-AI, using canned responses to snippets) was the demo of how users can easily be fooled without actual lang understanding. Amazing how the trick is still being used in "Turing tests" and even AI apps. t.co/Bzysnow0Ru
- First astrology, now “energy healing” and other Paltrovian quackery: The New York Times has become strangely sympathetic to pseudoscience. t.co/4jjx9eZrRp
- I am a page on the Police Wiki (the rock group with Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland; nothing to do with cops, fuzz, gendarmes, or state monopoly on the legitimate use of force). t.co/mRYrLbjY00
- A brief rant: Is there any reason to use the word "murine," besides sounding fancy and scientific? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't think of any context in which you'd lose something by just writing "mouse."
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The Enlightenment Is Working


