Apr 032025
 

All the news that was fit to print. Image via Wikipedia
In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly every student in the room takes a big whiff of their sheet before setting it down. If you know, you know, I guess, but if you don’t, keep reading.
Those often purple-inked papers were fresh from the ditto machine, or spirit duplicator. Legend has it that not only did they smell good when they were still wet, inhaling the volatile organic compounds within would make the sniffer just a little bit lightheaded. But the spirit duplicator didn’t use ghosts, it used either methanol (wood alcohol),…

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Apr 032025
 

NYU canceled a talk by
Joanne
Liu, former head of Doctors Without Borders
, for reporting on
casualties in Gaza and on the persecutor’s cuts to US foreign
aid.

I have not seen the slides, but this seems like a very stretched
instance of the
“Israel exception“.

Can anyone find NYU’s allegedly “clear” guidelines?
Have they been posted anywhere?

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Apr 032025
 

GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show

Tech textbook tycoon Tim O’Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house’s copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.…

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