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Goodhart's law isn't as useful as you might think (2023)
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Commoncog
Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
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Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
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The weak science behind psychedelics
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The Atlantic
The Weak Science Behind Psychedelics
If vulnerable patients are going to take powerful hallucinogens, they deserve better evidence.
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"We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B"
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Bbc
The couple who took on Google and cost the tech giant £2bn
Shivaun Raff and her husband, Adam, describe their long court battle with technology giant Google.
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Canvas Fingerprinting
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Canvas Fingerprinting
Canvas fingerprinting is a tracking method that uses HTML5 Canvas code to generate a unique identifier for each individual user. The method is based on the fact that the unique pixels generated through Canvas code can vary depending on the system and browser…
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Shrunked JavaScript monorepo Git size by 94%
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Jonathan Creamer
How we shrunk our Javanoscript monorepo git size by 94%
We really did this! We work in a very large Javanoscript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS. Using some new changes to the git client it went from 178GB to 5GB.
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Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
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Order and orient the keys on your keychain
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Order and orient the keys on your keychain
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California is torn between clashing Anglo traditions?
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UnHerd
California's woes were born in England
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Olivetti’s Ivrea
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Medium
Olivetti’s Ivrea: How an Italian Tech Giant Built the World’s Most Progressive Company Town
If you trace the path of the Dora Baltea River in early spring, when it swells with melting snow from the Matterhorn, you will quietly…
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James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation
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SciTechDaily
James Webb Telescope Discovers Quasars Where They Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. They appear to have few cosmic neighbors, raising questions about how they first emerged more than 13 billion years ago. A quasar is an incredibly bright…
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Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number
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Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text
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Pete Warden's blog
Introducing Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text
Can you imagine using a keyboard where it took a key press two seconds to show up on screen? That’s the typical latency for most voice interfaces, so it’s no wonder they’ve failed…
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Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
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Bert Hubert's writings
Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech - Bert Hubert's writings
Now that we’re increasingly concerned about the dominance of ‘big tech’, Open Source is often mentioned as an alternative, especially since our governments are carrying out a Total Migration to Microsoft.
This is the English version of this Dutch piece.
In…
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Writes and Write-Nots
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Crossing the USA by Train
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blinry.org
Crossing the USA by train
Today, I get to start a train trip I've always wanted to do: Going from New York to San Francisco!!
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Debugging my wife's alarm clock
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Using a BCI with LLM for enabling ALS patients to speak again with family
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The VC Corner
From Sci-Fi to Reality
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Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
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First scientific study of the Paris catacombs
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the Guardian
‘Bodies were dropped down quarry shafts’: secrets of millions buried in Paris catacombs come to light
Researchers hope to uncover how people died and how diseases have developed over 1,000 years
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Codeberg Reconsidering OSI License Approval in Terms of Use
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Codeberg.org
[RfC] Reconsidering OSI license approval in Terms of Use
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## Background
As of today, Codeberg's [Terms of Use](https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse.md) (ToU) require repository contents to be licensed under a license approved by the [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/)…
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Typeset: An HTML pre-processor for web typography
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