But the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud, the documents show. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty, according to the documents.

What a way to run a business! I think we could all learn a lot from the zuck.

A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel so they’re already proving useful.

A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel.

After 33-year-old writer Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize last week, she told reporters that a small portion of her book, Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), was lifted verbatim from ChatGPT.

“This is a novel written by making full use of a generative A.I.,” Kudan said in her acceptance speech, according to the Japan Times’ Thu-Huong Ha. “Probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative A.I. I would like to work well with them to express my creativity.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-award-winning-japanese-novel-was-written-partly-by-chatgpt-180983641/

What about publishing a collection of short stories, some of which have human authors and others from LLMs. You could call it, “2 truths and an AI”.

Wouldn’t it be easier to upgrade the hardware so it can keep up with updates? The article mentioned a law that requires manufacturers to offer repairs and recalls for 15 years after sale. That could be expanded to include computer hardware.

Is meta the one that downloaded all the books from anna’s archive?

Because data centers are being built all over the place. Californian almonds are only being grown in California.

Thanks for sharing. It was interesting to learn something new.

No my irritation was with how it was written. Why break the rhythm when listing 3 things? Why mention Vietnam and the Philippines and then immediately move on? The writing was very disjointed.

Some of the embedded links were useful and interesting, others just went to random pages that had nothing to do with what was discussed.

A lot of countries are promoting cash again. If the infrastructure can have problems like that all by itself imagine what it would be like if there was a coordinated and deliberate strike on the server centers, towers and satellites and I’m not just talking about hackers. Bombers will fuck your shit up permanently.

Japan’s MHI, Germany’s Siemens, and GE Vernova

I’ve heard of Japan and Germany but where is GE?

A report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) notes the effect this is having in Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and the Philippines.

What is the effect? Why bring it up if you don’t want to discuss it?

What a poorly written article. I couldn’t follow the author’s incomplete thoughts for much of it.

If your alarm clock needs an internet connection then you need an old alarm clock.

You tax dollars at work. Let’s spend a month investigating something the DA immediately shuts down.

Your primary complaint is that the police wasted their time? I’m sure they’ll get better at identifying what cases are worth pursuing with time and experience.

I love how all of facebook’s privacy settings are set to ‘use and abuse me’ and periodically get reset to such every now and again. It used to tell you what shopping your friends did, like if your boyfriend bought an engagement ring. When asked if he thought this was a good thing Zuckerberg’s answer was basically, “Yes.”

There’s a movement in Spain and people put stickers in their shop windows that say, “You can use my phone” so kids can call home without the need to carry their own phone.

I feel that even if someone succeeds with Maglev it will at best be the Concorde of the railways due to the higher costs and inconvenience of using a niche technology with a limited supply chain and limited number of engineers available to build and maintain lines. Proprietary tech also limits your ability to shop around or negotiate better prices. Remember that Concode was profitable but was retired because it was uneconomical.

I also wanted to draw attention to the diminishing returns higher speeds deliver: 100km/h train = 4 hour journey 200km/h train = 2 hours 300km/h train = 1 hour 20 mins 400km/h train = 1 hour 500km/h train = 48 mins 600km/h train = 40 mins

This ignores acceleration and breaking times and the faster your train the sooner it has to start decelerating in order to avoid overshooting it’s destination. One overlooked time saving that HSR delivers is that the need to build straight tracks and skip stops to maintain speed means a more direct route to your destination delivered at the expense of the places in between. High speed service is actually a downgrade for many communities as the trains no longer serve local stations.