Lush the Content Agency via Filament: “…Writers typically don’t use more than two or three adjectives at a time, and we don’t seem to struggle much in getting their order correct. But occasionally there can be some confusion. This is where the royal order comes in. But, what’s an adjective? Let’s back up and start… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
New evidence suggests dogs may ‘picture’ objects in their minds, similarly to people
PopSci: “When a dog follows a command or fetches a ball, it’s hard to know what’s really going on inside its canine cranium. Do dogs understand and respond to tone of voice, the syllables of words, accompanying hand motions and body language, or just the situational context? Behavioral studies have offered some clues, but new… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Ideology and the Press
Andersen Jones, RonNell and West, Sonja, Supreme Court Ideology and the Press (March 15, 2024). University of Georgia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-3, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4760952 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4760952 “Among the elected branches and the broader public, positivity toward the press skews deeply ideological. The data make clear that most liberals… Continue Reading
Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms
Engel, Christoph and McAdams, Richard H., Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms (February 6, 2024). MPI Collective Goods Discussion Paper, No. 2024/5, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4718347 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4718347 “We report on our test of the Large Language Model (LLM) ChatGPT (GPT) as a tool for generating evidence of the ordinary meaning of… Continue Reading
The Anxious Generation and an Epidemic of Mental Illness
This is not a promotion and I have no association with the author, Jonathan Haidt, or the book. The data is noteworthy. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness – In the summer of 2022, I was working on a book project — Life After Babel:… Continue Reading
WHO The state of the climate in 2023
WHO Climate Report – Climate change indicators reached record levels in 2023. The state of the climate in 2023 gave ominous new significance to the phrase “off the charts.” Key messages: State of Global Climate report confirms 2023 as hottest year on record by clear margin Records broken for ocean heat, sea level rise, Antarctic… Continue Reading
Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow
Via LLRX – Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed packs and benches are filled with potted annuals and perennials. But some plants that… Continue Reading
Review – Law Democratized: A Blueprint For Solving The Justice Crisis
Via LLRX – Review – Law Democratized: A Blueprint For Solving The Justice Crisis – Jerry Lawson rhetorically asks Is anyone in the country better qualified than Renee Knake Jefferson to write about access to justice? Professor of Law at the University of Houston, co-reporter for the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services,… Continue Reading
Copernicus Climate Change Service
“The EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by ECMWF, has provided new tools to make it easier for users to explore how the climate has been changing and how it could change in the future. They include the Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas, which enables data from a variety of sources and over various timeframes… Continue Reading
Financial Times tests an AI chatbot trained on decades of its own articles
The Verge: “Subscribers can use Ask FT to answer questions about recent events or broader topics covered by the Financial Times. The Financial Times has a new generative AI chatbot called Ask FT that can answer questions its subscribers ask. Similar to generalized AI bots (like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini), users can expect a curated… Continue Reading
FBI Crime Data Explorer
“The Crime Data Explorer (CDE) is the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s dynamic solution to presenting crime data in a more immediate venue that reflects the constant change in the nation’s crime circumstance. The CDE pages provide a view of estimated national and state data, reported agency-level crime statistics, and graphs of specific variables… Continue Reading
Claude 3 Generated a Law Review Article
Via Sarah Gotschall, LinkedIn: Claude 3 Generated a Law Review Article – “While taking a break from writing memos and analyzing news articles, Claude 3 wrote a law review article on a randomly chosen topic – Bloodlines Over Merits: Exposing the Discriminatory Impact of Legacy Preferences in College Admissions. I gave old Claude a fancier… Continue Reading
