Fogel, Jeremy and Hoopes, Mary and Liu, Goodwin, Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights From Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals (November 30, 2022). Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4290102 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4290102 “Judicial clerkships are key positions of responsibility and coveted opportunities for career advancement. Commentators have noted that the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2023
Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context
Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context. Freda Shi, Xinyun Chen, Kanishka Misra, Nathan Scales, David Dohan, Ed Chi, Nathanael Schärli, Denny Zhou. [current version in PDF] “Large language models have achieved impressive performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, so far they have been evaluated primarily on benchmarks where all… Continue Reading
calligrapher.ai
Calligrapher.ai will deepfake it in handwriting. Choose: Speed, Legibility, Stroke Width, and Style (9 from which to choose). After making these choices, enter your text in the box in the left hand corner on the bottom of the page. Quite useful for those who never learned cursive. Continue Reading
25 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try
PC Mag: “Google Maps has changed how we navigate the world. Its desktop and mobile apps have become more than just a way to get from point A to B via car, public transportation, or on foot: The ubiquitous Google service is also a geospatial search engine for the world around us. Google continues to… Continue Reading
Texas asks Trump judge to declare most of federal government unconstitutional
Vox: “Earlier this month, Texas’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit claiming that the $1.7 trillion spending law that keeps most of the federal government — including the US military — operating through September of 2023 is unconstitutional. Paxton’s claims in Texas v. Garland, which turn on the fact that many of the… Continue Reading
How to delete your Twitter account and protect your data, too
ZDNet: “Even before all of the turmoil that’s plagued Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover, there were many reasons why people wanted to leave it. From social media detoxes, to simply migrating to a new platform, the transition happens more than you might think. Now, since Elon Musk appears to be failing in his promise not to turn Twitter… Continue Reading
Section 230 Won’t Protect ChatGPT
Lawfare, Matt Perault: “The emergence of products fueled by generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT will usher in a new era in the platform liability wars. Previous waves of new communication technologies—from websites and chat rooms to social media apps and video sharing services—have been shielded from legal liability for content posted on their… Continue Reading
Why Fox News Lied to Its Viewers
The Atlantic – “Fox News lies to its viewers. Its most prominent personalities, among the most influential in the industry, tell their viewers things they know not to be true. This is not accusation, allegation, or supposition. Today, we know it to be fact…Sometimes, though, you have proof that someone knew one thing and said… Continue Reading
Linux Foundation Europe launches the OpenWallet Foundation to power interoperable digital wallets
Tech Crunch: “The Linux Foundation‘s European off-shoot has formally launched the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), a new collaborative effort designed to support interoperability between digital wallets through open source software. The launch comes some five months after the Linux Foundation first revealed plans to set up the OWF, shortly before it spun out a region-specific entity… Continue Reading
NSA Releases Best Practices For Securing Your Home Network
“The National Security Agency (NSA) released the “Best Practices for Securing Your Home Network” Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) today to help teleworkers protect their home networks from malicious cyber actors. “In the age of telework, your home network can be used as an access point for nation-state actors and cybercriminals to steal sensitive information,” said… Continue Reading
Teaching to the Tech: Law Schools and the Duty of Technology Competence
Brescia, Raymond H., Teaching to the Tech: Law Schools and the Duty of Technology Competence (February 16, 2023). Washburn Law Journal, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4361552 “As a result of a wide range of emerging technologies, the American legal profession is at a critical inflection point. Some may argue that lawyers face dramatic threats not… Continue Reading
AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmar
AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark, 26 November 2021 – “There is a tendency across different subfields in AI to valorize a small collection of influential benchmarks. These benchmarks operate as stand-ins for a range of anointed common problems that are frequently framed as foundational milestones on the path towards flexible… Continue Reading
