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Commonplace Newsletter #71

If Meta is not given the option to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers, Facebook and Instagram may be shut down across Europe, the social media giants’ owner reportedly warned in its annual report. The key issue for…

Update Jan 13: This post is discussed on Reddit


Update Feb 7: This post is discussed on Hacker News


As software developers, we’ve all come across those annoying, not-so-useful error messages when using some library or framework: "Couldn’t parse config…

EBNF specification of the BBC's shipping forecast. Contribute to jamespwilliams/ebnf-shipping-forecast development by creating an account on GitHub.

As part of my ongoing attempts to create some nice datasets for training large code models for C/C++ , I've recently been attempting to buil...

An interview with Connor Leahy, an AI researcher focused on understanding large AI models and aligning them to human values, and a co-founder of EleutherAI

“Let’s be honest, nobody, nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uighurs” — that’s the Canadian billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya, talking recently on his po

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If we try, we'll violate the social compact and disrupt the founding logic of our republic.

Meta states in an SEC filing it is considering leaving Europe if it can no longer exchange data from European users with the United States, following the Schrems II decision. This story is evolving, a...

The Cancer Moonshot is marshalling resources across the federal government to speed progress in cancer research and lead to improved cancer prevention, detection, and treatment.

Abstract. During the 1918–19 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools. We use newly digitized data from newspaper archives on the length of school closures for 165 large U.S. cities during the 1918–19 flu…