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LLMs are what they eat
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Today is the publication day of Cory Doctorow’s latest book. It’s a critique of the commercial internet. In the past, he has written insightfully about the trechery of social media’s…
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Game theory proves cooperation is a successful survival strategy
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I’m fascinated by evolutionary biology — the study that examines unexpected ways we have evolved through the millennia. You may recall from high school science that natural selection favors traits…
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My 2025 Super Bowl prediction revisited
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Subtitle: The power of powerful use cases I’m a terrible futurist. In the mid-90s I proudly made these predictions: Both embarrassingly wrong. And that was just the As! I was…
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In praise of data journalism
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As our country — and much of the world — moves away from a collective agreement on basic facts, it’s even more important for journalism, the fourth pillar of democracy,…
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Last week I heard an AI hallucination
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I’ve never liked the term hallucination for AI errors. They’re lies. Last week, when I listened to my Spotify Wrapped report for the year, I was shocked by this whopper:…