by Molly Ruby | Medium-Tech A brief introduction to the intuition and methodology behind the chat bot you can’t stop hearing about. This gentle introduction to the machine learning models that power ChatGPT, will start at the introduction of Large Language Models, dive into the revolutionary self-attention mechanism that enabled GPT-3 to be trained, and […]
This year’s funniest wildlife photos. Jennifer Hadley (USA) Not so cat-like reflexes“This 3 month old cub and his sibling were in a tree. The other lionesses were in other trees and on the ground. He wanted to get down and walked all over the branches looking for the right spot and finally just went for […]
EU privacy regulators say Facebook and Instagram must not force users to agree to tracking by putting this requirement into their terms. This business model is illegal according to the GDPR. Meta’s business model – to force users to agree to tracking via their terms – has been declared illegal in the EU. Facebook, Instagram […]
A true story. He is a once and former CEO. His name is Thomas Oscar. He was a 17-year-old high school senior in Australia, who spent his free time hanging with friends and playing in a punk rock band. When he was bored, he created Facebook groups. He intentionally made the most boring ones he could think […]
MacKenzie Sigalos | Lillian Rizzo | Rohan Goswami Distressed crypto firm BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey following the implosion of putative acquirer FTX. In the filing, the company indicated that it had more than 100,000 creditors, with liabilities and assets […]
Mastodon is “subtly designed to reduce the huge, viral surges of attention we see on Twitter” and others, which have “deformed people’s behavior… coaxed people to constantly try to hack the attentional marketplace… incessantly making posts … operatically theatrical… enrage … [other] high-voltage reaction”. Hence “antiviral design”, of which Mastodon is a great example, engineered […]
by Zahra Tayeb | Business Insider Apple is now worth more than fellow tech giants Alphabet, Amazon and Meta combined, after it ended trading Wednesday with a market value of $2.307 trillion. At the same time, the market caps of its three tech giant peers added up to $2.306 trillion at the close of trading […]
I knew it the minute I opened my eyes. Once again I crossed the line. Yep, I let alcohol get the better of me. August 24, 2019 was my come to Jesus day. That sad day started and ended with the same question in my head and my heart. Why do I take it so […]
‘Theo, drop the knife!’: Dog walker begs armed pup to surrender weapon He was armed to the teeth. Theo, a fluffy and innocent-looking Great Pyrenees gave his dog walker plenty of agita this week by picking up a sharp knife while out on a stroll. “I thought he grabbed a stick as usual,” Matt Paprocki, who was […]
by GAURAV SHUKLA | REVIEW GEEK For years, consumer-grade devices used single-frequency GPS receivers to determine their location. But that is changing as newer gadgets have started adding support for a second GPS frequency called L5. Here’s everything you need to know. The GPS Signal Although initially designed for the United States military, the Global Positioning System or […]
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