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How To Use NotebookLM As A Research Tool | by Steven Johnson | Feb, 2024 | stevenberlinjohnson
This sounds like fun, but it is …so I shall just soldier on with Emacs and Pandoc. https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/how-to-use-notebooklm-as-a-research-tool-6ad5c3a227cc
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“There Is No General First Amendment Right to Distribute Machine-Learning Model Weights” | Lawfare | Poppycock…
Prediction: ML model weights to be printed on t-shirts by 2026 https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/there-is-no-general-first-amendment-right-to-distribute-machine-learning-model-weights
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Neovim
%s/vim/emacs/g %s/lua/elisp/g Still, looks like fun… https://neovim.io/
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US FTC (temporarily) declines to approve “Age Estimation” as a proxy for parental consent; @GetYoti “disappointed”
Various peers are reporting, even crowing about this as a “take the win”-kind of victory, but I am not going to celebrate yet: reading between the lines, the FTC has basically kicked the ball of approving AI-based “Age Estimation” technologies for use in the USA into the long grass, awaiting a likely positive report from…
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Visit Sunny San Serriffe!
This is awesome: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/week-2-1-charting-nonsense-land
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Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Easter Egg in Numberblocks
Watching series four of Numberblocks with the toddler this morning, and in the finale song I finally spotted how they represented 42: Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, with towel and tea
Fediverse reactions
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Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews | bellingcat
If you’re going to change your identity and go underground, stop posting restaurant reviews on Google. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/30/kinahan-cartel-wanted-narco-boss-exposes-whereabouts-by-posting-google-reviews/
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Essential Sunday Reading: danah boyd (@zephoria) and @candice_odgers rebut @JonHaidt’s “Anxious Generation”
Thought: if we are “losing our kids to smartphones” perhaps we as parents should first go looking for them, and then lead the way? In the same vein as my yesterday’s post, the redoubtable danah boyd comments on Jon Haidt’s new book: It is deeply frustrating to watch Haidt cherrypick and twist research that I…