The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

It turns out the Blackstone story is deeply connected to almost all the themes that come up on Decoder every week. Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. In fact, grilling is out, and griddling is in. That’s griddling, as in on a griddle — a large flat sheet of metal like you would see in a diner or a hibachi restaurant.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

You will learn cool new things. DEF CON is 30 years old this year, and it’s bigger and better in part because of topic-specific villages. Here’s an inside look at four of the most popular villages. In each you will find people with like interests. And … you won’t be disappointed. In Sin City, it's the Insect Invasion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2022

The latest developments in the cloud space are pushing existing boundaries, especially now with how machine learning and AI are transforming business intelligence. We’ve asked him to share his vision for Cloudera in APAC and reflect on his past few months since taking up the mantle. Why did you choose Cloudera as your latest destination?

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

A new investigation from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue , a think tank that focuses on countering extremism, finds that there are hundreds of active and inactive domains that point to websites associated with Natural News. Various fact-checking organizations have repeatedly flagged Natural News content as false.

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Vox

JULY 17, 2023

RLHF stands for “reinforcement learning with human feedback,” a very common machine learning method used in language models, where a model of human preferences, based on crowdsourced judgments from workers hired by AI labs, is employed to train the program. It’s easier said than done. The scientists want the AI to lie to them.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

As such I thought it would be useful to compile a list of the world’s top female futurists, for those who are looking for diversity in their insights into the future. Hichert is a director of the Southern African node of the Millennium Project and helped organize the first African Futures Conference. Summary list. Tanja Hichert.

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Vox

AUGUST 1, 2023

AI is getting seriously good. And the federal government is finally getting serious about AI. The White House announced a suite of artificial intelligence policies in May. More recently, they brokered a number of voluntary safety commitments from leading AI companies in July. I hear you loud and clear.” Principles, rather than programming.

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Vox

AUGUST 8, 2022

Seven years ago, I was invited to my first EA Global , the flagship conference of the effective altruism movement. I was fascinated by effective altruism (EA), which defines itself as “using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible,” in large part because of the moral seriousness of its practitioners.

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