EPA. 2021. Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 430-R-21-003. “Climate change affects all Americans—regardless of socioeconomic status—and many impacts are projected to worsen. But individuals will not equally experience these changes. This report improves our understanding of the degree to which four… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2023
ChatGPT and Fake Citations
Duke University Libraries: “…ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched for public use in November 2022. While other AI chatbots are also in development by tech giants such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft, OpenAI’s early rollout has eclipsed the others for now – with the site reaching more than 100 million… Continue Reading
ChatGPT for Data Science Cheat Sheet
KD Nuggets: “…The problem that we are currently grappling with is one of expectations: some expect that ChatGPT is nothing more than a stochastic parrot that produces rubbish and is completely useless, while others seem to think (either pessimistically or optimistically, depending on who you ask) that ChatGPT will be taking over the world, while… Continue Reading
Key Agencies Missing from Central Freedom of Information Act Portal
Congress Required Common FOIA Website in 2016, We’re Still Waiting. National Security Archive Sunshine Week Audit Names and Shames Delinquent Agencies. Justice Department and Office of Management and Budget Must Act Decisively to Ensure Portal’s Success National Security Archive: “The public still cannot submit Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the CIA or other… Continue Reading
The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing
Nieman Lab: “…Gannett has eliminated 59% of its jobs in four years. It’s as if, instead of merging America’s two largest newspaper chains, one of them was simply wiped off the face of the earth. That’s a cut substantially deeper than the rate of newspaper revenue decline. Why? Well, one reason is that to get… Continue Reading
How to Track Your Tax Refund in 2023
ProPublica – “The IRS offers a few simple ways to track the status of your tax refund. Here’s when and how you can keep an eye on it. Online: You can check your refund status on the IRS website. See below for the information you’ll need to have handy. App: The IRS2Go app is available… Continue Reading
The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble
Pluralistic / Cory Doctorow: “…Blockchain was a solution in search of a problem. So is AI. Yes, Buzzfeed will be able to reduce its wage-bill by automating its personality quiz vertical, and Spotify’s “AI DJ” will produce slightly less terrible playlists (at least, to the extent that Spotify doesn’t put its thumb on the scales… Continue Reading
NIH Plan to Enhance Public Access to the Results of NIH-Supported Research
“Open science is a priority at NIH and across the U.S. Federal Government. Earlier this year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) declared 2023 to be the Year of Open Science. This OSTP announcement included details on actions being taken across the Federal Government to advance national open science policy, provide… Continue Reading
ChatGPT Created Its Own Puzzle Game
Lifehacker: “and You Can Play It Right Now..ChatGPT’s new game is the result of a back-and-forth between the AI and one Daniel Tait, who was interested in seeing if the ChatGPT could recommend him a puzzle like Sodoku. ChatGPT responded with a list of five alternatives, all of which Tait had tried already. So, he… Continue Reading
The Quick and the Dead: building up cyber resilience in the financial sector
“Introductory remarks by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the meeting of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures, Frankfurt am Main, 8 March 2023 – “The proliferation of cyber threat actors combined with an increase in remote working and greater digital interconnectedness is raising the risk, frequency… Continue Reading
Grammarly’s new ChatGPT-like AI generator can do a lot more than proofread your writing
Digital Trends: “Grammarly, one of the biggest names in writing tools, is adding AI-generated text to its repertoire on the heels of the wild popularity of ChatGPT. Known as GrammarlyGO, this new tool is focused on improving writing rather than replacing the writer. GrammarlyGO will roll out in beta form to existing users in April.… Continue Reading
How you could build a search that the fediverse would welcome
Anil Dash: “Mastodon and the fediverse are clearly taking off, bringing in millions of new users, and also organically inspiring a wave of technical innovation that dwarfs all of the efforts that the bribes and empty promises of the Web3 crypto bubble couldn’t touch. I’m even enjoying having settled into a relatively permanent new fediverse… Continue Reading
