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Applebaum on Autocracy Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist."

More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

in a very real sense, freedom of the press is ending in the US because the legacy political media simply doesn’t want it any more

Harry Weatherill, a tailor who draws portraits on cloth using tailors chalk (1955)

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If you enjoyed the story about Hey Geraldine, the healthcare chatbot in The Week in Data on Friday, then check this out!
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The Future of Data and AI Governance: Insights from Our Expert Panel Find out what's in our European Data and AI Policy Manifesto and examine the key issues.

We recently launched our European Data and AI Policy Manifesto - a timely intervention as Europe stands at a crossroads on the road to shaping its digital future. Find out what was discussed at a webinar on the topic.

Please bring this to my PS5...

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication.

At first, what we found was very confusing!

But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks

doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736

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85% of Gaza is on the brink of death due to starvation. Israel could let aid in at any moment. And some people (like these men tried to do with me on Friday) are still trying to justify this atrocity.

There is no justification. This could stop at any moment. End the blockade now.

Discover the latest news from our Research team including our latest publications: A framework for AI-ready data & Mapping the role of data work in AI supply chains, and webinars: Unveiling AI-Driven Collective Action for a Worker-Centric Future & Local Authorities, Data, and AI.
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#TheWeekinData: Spud-u-like
* OpenAI deal with UK government
* AI to identify child migrants
* The ODI European Data and AI Policy Manifesto
The government announced this week that it has signed a deal with OpenAI to use AI to increase productivity in public services across the UK.
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I want to know if the President of the United States is a pedophile. And I know the American people do too.

I'm shocked that Republicans would rather shut down Congress than stand up to a dead pedophile.

So why not release the files?

We're looking for talented individuals to join our team as we accelerate our exciting work on the Solid project. We want a proactive and organised Community Manager to support and expand a global open-source community focused on decentralised web technologies.
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Please always also include a link to the original project, not just the download site...

Finding Consensus on Arctic Ocean Climate History - Eos Understanding the effects of a “blue” Arctic Ocean on future climate requires a coordinated effort to study Earth’s past warm periods using a variety of classical and cutting-edge methods.

Making sense of geological data describing how the Arctic has responded to past climatic changes is essential for understanding how the region will evolve in the coming decades.

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

Have a look around at the SEN Labs home on Github and consider sponsoring the project if you like what you see. Progress is made and the project is on track for the Tech Preview by end of summer.
github.com/sen-laborato...

The Japanese word "shoji" refers to the typical sliding doors, and forms a nice analogy to the project: wooden frames form a structural template, paper stands for transparency and lightweight design, and the sliding doors symbolize flexibility and dynamic, opening up your data.

Lastly, not strictly a SEN module, but a closely related project, shoji provides a simple template-based metadata-driven entity editor that blends in nicely with Haiku and SEN, allowing you to work with native file types like objects, with a form-based lightweight customizable UI

SENPAI - like a good senpai, the SEN #Personal #AI module is there at your side when you need an AI agent, e.g. for entity and relation extraction or inference. SEN comes with a simple but effective rules-based #reasoning engine.

sen-tracker: currently just some #extensions to the @haikuos.bsky.social file manager "Tracker" to integrate some SEN features into everyday file navigation. I have a better name coming up for a more substantial friendly fork for later.

SENSEI - like a guide and good spirited teacher, this module provides the semantic infrastructure for _S_emantic _E_xtraction, _N_avigation, _S_earch, _E_nrichment and _I_nference.

SEN ONI - the #Ontology Native Interface. Providing the #semantic #foundation in a native textual description format, defining #file and #relation types. No coincidence with the slightly evil Japanese ghosts, as #ontologies can be quite tricky.

SEN Core - the kernel of the #semantic #infrastructure, burning like the sun, providing light and warmth, giving live to all other sub projects.

please take a moment to appreciate the new #logo #designs for the #SEN sub projects I just did, using @grok
AI image generation and my own thoughts and initial logo. They all resemble the knot but adapt to the topic of the sub project... (there was also quite some progress in code:)

Today, at the summer #solstice (northern hemisphere here), I'm closing a long circle and finally added UI support for creating #relations in Tracker with SEN.💪 simple but powerful, next up: labels and context.

Tomtom-lite: Accelerating Tomtom enables large-scale and real-time motif similarity scoring Summary Pairwise sequence similarity is a core operation in genomic analysis, yet most attention has been given to sequences made up of discrete characters. With the growing prevalence of machine lear...

I wrote a quick application note on Tomtom-lite, a Python implementation of the Tomtom algorithm for comparing PWMs against each other. This implementation can be 10-1000x faster and, as a Python function, can be integrated into your workflows easier.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Never forget that the same man who called the January 6th insurrection a “beautiful day of love” and refused to lift a finger for 187 minutes to stop the horror unleashed on our Capitol has deployed the National Guard to intervene in Los Angeles to “address the lawlessness in California.”

I think it's also the ego getting in the way, or building something to scratch your own itch, not really caring about what others say, but with a strong urge to build our own vision.

Hey we early founders share the pain, keep up the great work and be patient. They will come💪🙏😏

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

AI "reasoning" models just memorize patterns really well.

This is why I call them poetry machines behind closed doors.

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