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How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on what the industry is getting wrong about AGI The head of Microsoft’s AI division on competing with Google and how to define superintelligence.

I am glad that Nilay Patel asks these questions in his Decoder podcast! I found the episode with Mustafa Suleyman truly insightful www.theverge.com/24314821/mic...

You will doubtless hear more of Palantir in coming years. If you didn’t read this interview with its founder Alex Karp at the time may I recommend it to you. It’s one of the most interesting things I’ve read (and not easy to put in a box)
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Autumn leaves are staying green for longer in Britain – here’s why Plus, how trees can be tricked into ‘thinking’ it is another season.

Autumn leaves are staying green for longer in Britain – here’s why https://theconversation.com/autumn-leaves-are-staying-green-for-longer-in-britain-heres-why-243224

Thank you!

Summary of latest statistics

Or the UNHCR definition of a refugee differs somewhat from the UK government's definition. I am just a bit suprised by the high number for the UK. Compare with www.gov.uk/government/s..., though I didn't read this document in detail.

I think you might be mixing/confusing total immigration numbers with the number of refugees. Looking at the UK, the 600k number is the total net immigration, including economic/job/study immigration, I believe?

My background is in geometry, so for me covariance is an inner product of vectors, and inner product of a vector with itself is norm squared. But that just rephrases the question in the language of vector spaces and understanding of the inner product. Still, it might give some visual-ish intuition.

Additionally, there is a very useful and simple R package here.r-lib.org that handles relative paths effortlessly. Famously recommended by Jenny Bryan github.com/jennybc/here..., who might come and set your computer on fire otherwise :-)

Gavin, you probably already tried but there is a way to ask Royal Mail to correct their database - www.royalmail.com/personal/rec... . It worked for me years ago when my address was missing.

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Are companies making more money from their customers? We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever

Turns out the bit tech monopolies do get more money from customers than ever before. Shocking at first, but not surprising after all :-/ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

E and B; I find A to be similar to B, just more specific to the mission of particular people

Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? Two new electric trains are just a drop in the bucket.

Wait, what?! Basically no major railways in the USA are electrified yet? www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24...