Research Buzz Search Gizmos: “Do you want local news? I mean LOCAL news? Enter a US address. StreetScoop will find the nearest large city, query the FCC for the television stations in the area, and aggregate those domain names along with your street name into a Google search, which then opens in a new tab. If the address you entered is not found you’ll get an error. Please don’t use abbreviations for street types — use Street not St, Road not Rd, etc. Do not use suites, apartment numbers, or commas in your address. If your address is not found you’ll get an error message. Sometimes it’s finicky for a reason I haven’t determined yet and I apologize. Many thanks to SimpleMaps for the dataset that I needed to get this doing right…”
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Daily Archives: June 1, 2023
AI Bots Are Coming to Finance
Bloomberg [free link]: “Also direct listing lawsuits, SPAC lawsuits, unemployed Harvard MBAs and the CEO of Goldman Sachs is also a DJ. AI is also expensive, both to develop and to run. Estimates show the costs of using large language models to answer a question can be as much as $14 per query, compared with… Continue Reading
What Number Comes Next? Ask the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
The New York Times [free link] “This year the “mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files” enters its 50th year, with 362,765 entries (and counting)…This year the OEIS, which has been praised as “the master index to mathematics” and “a mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files,” celebrates its 50th anniversary. The original… Continue Reading
World Energy Investment 2023
MIT Technology Review: “The world saw about $2.8 trillion of investments in energy in 2022, with about $1.7 trillion of that going into clean energy…” See also: “The report provides a global benchmark for tracking capital flows in the energy sector and examines how investors are assessing risks and opportunities across all areas of fuel… Continue Reading
Top EU Tech Regulator – Twitter to Face Stress Test This Month
WSJ [free link to article]: “European Union regulators plan to subject Twitter to a stress test to determine how well it complies with Europe’s new digital-content law, a top EU tech regulator said, ramping up the bloc’s preparations for enforcing the West’s most far-reaching digital-content law. A team of roughly five to 10 digital specialists… Continue Reading
Rule-Of-Law Judge? That’s Code for Ideologically Conservative Judging
Kimble, Joseph, Rule-Of-Law Judge? That’s Code for Ideologically Conservative Judging (February 15, 2023). Michigan Lawyers Weekly, February 15 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4436620 “Judges often proclaim—typically during a political campaign—that they are a “rule-of-law judge.” This commentary calls that description “a clichéd truism.” Beyond that, though, what’s wrong with the description? First, it’s hopelessly simplistic.… Continue Reading
Beyond Factory Farms: A New Look at the Rights of Animals
Yale Environment 360: “Philosopher Peter Singer’s book, Animal Liberation, helped launch the animal rights movement nearly 50 years ago. He talks with Yale Environment 360 about how we now better understand how animals feel pain and how other species are not so different from humans as we thought.” Continue Reading
Re-Evaluating GPT-4’s Bar Exam Performance
Martínez, Eric [Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Re-Evaluating GPT-4’s Bar Exam Performance (May 8, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4441311 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4441311 “Perhaps the most widely touted of GPT-4’s at-launch, zero-shot capabilities has been its reported 90th-percentile performance on the Uniform Bar Exam, with its reported 80-percentile-points boost over its predecessor, GPT-3.5, far exceeding that for… Continue Reading
When do your employees need to disclose their use of ChatGPT?
HR Brew: “…As ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies provide a helping hand to employees, HR teams are grappling with policies regarding its use, including disclosure. Some companies have banned or restricted employees from the tech. Others are embracing the possibilities the tech can offer to employee productivity and see it as a tool to… Continue Reading
