What are Large Global Banks Doing About Climate Change? Daniel O. Beltran, Hannah Bensen, Amy Kvien, Erin McDevitt, Monica V. Sanz, and Pinar Uysal. January 2023 – We review the “climate action plans” of Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs) and the progress they are making toward achieving them. G-SIBs have identified the drivers of climate… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2023
The 3 Best Alternatives to ChatGPT
MakeUseOf: “Since its public launch in November 2022, ChatGPT, the mesmerizing AI chatbot by OpenAI, has grown in popularity like wildfire. Social media feeds are filled with incredible things people are doing with the chatbot. Jobseekers, programmers, high school teachers, content creators—professionals in almost every field are finding good uses for the tool. However, when… Continue Reading
Unleash Your Gmail Account’s Infinite Addresses
Lifehacker: “One Gmail, one address. That seems right. After all, you have one phone number, and one home address. The same should be true for your email addresses, Gmail included. As it happens, though, your Gmail account has an unlimited number of addresses you can use whenever you want, fooling everyone from Netflix to spammers… Continue Reading
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
MIT Technology Report: “…While the images shared with us did not come from iRobot customers, consumers regularly consent to having our data monitored to varying degrees on devices ranging from iPhones to washing machines. It’s a practice that has only grown more common over the past decade, as data-hungry artificial intelligence has been increasingly integrated… Continue Reading
Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition
Harvard Business Review: “The Great Resignation and a highly competitive labor market have made attracting and retaining talent a major challenge for employers. To meet it, many are following a basic strategy: Ask people what they want and try to give it to them. Temptingly simple as this response is, it can be a trap.… Continue Reading
Government watchdog spent $15,000 to crack a federal agency’s passwords in minutes
TechCrunch: “A government watchdog has published a scathing rebuke of the Department of the Interior’s cybersecurity posture, finding it was able to crack thousands of employee user accounts because the department’s security policies allow easily guessable passwords like ‘Password1234’. The report by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of the Interior, tasked… Continue Reading
How to keep your phone charged and working in extreme storms
Washington Post: “More storms are expected to drench the West Coast this week as parts of California are still dealing with flooding, destruction and power outages caused by recent atmospheric rivers. It’s the latest extreme weather to hit the country this winter. A powerful winter “bomb cyclone” pummeled the central U.S. and Great Lakes region… Continue Reading
Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
80,000 Hours: “Big machine learning models can identify plant species better than any human, write passable essays, beat you at a game of Starcraft 2, figure out how a photo of Tobey Maguire and the word ‘spider’ are related, solve the 60-year-old ‘protein folding problem’, diagnose some diseases, play romantic matchmaker, write solid computer code,… Continue Reading
What the January 6th Report Is Missing
The New Yorker $: “The investigative committee singles out Trump for his role in the Capitol attack. As prosecution, the report is thorough. But as historical explanation it’s a mess…Two years ago, the President of the United States attempted to overturn an election for no reason other than that he had lost. A mere handful… Continue Reading
EU Law in Force
EU Law in Force – Publications Office of the European Union: Find EU Treaties, EU Legislation, International Agreements and Case Law of the European Court of Justice. If there has been a change to an act and this change has been consolidated, you will find the latest consolidated version of the text. If you are… Continue Reading
Tableau Public’s Viz Wrap: Interesting Data Visualizations from 2022
“Most weekdays, the Tableau Public team features a Viz of the Day that showcases how to see, understand, and share data insights using Tableau. We love the conversations these vizzes spark and enjoy shining a spotlight on the creativity and curiosity of the Tableau Community. There’s nothing quite like the DataFam and Tableau Public is… Continue Reading
A.I. Is Becoming More Conversational. But Will It Get More Honest?
The New York Times: “In late November, OpenAI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence lab, unveiled a bot called ChatGPT that left more than a million people feeling as if they were chatting with another human being. Similar technologies are under development at Google, Meta and other tech giants. Some companies have been reluctant to share… Continue Reading
