Firstdog OnthemoonNot even the people who send their children to private schools want to send their children to private schools. Or do they?! A cartoon. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/many-parents-would-prefer-to-send-their-kids-to-public-schools-but-sadly-those-schools-are-too-wretched
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@TheConversationUS It has been 50 years since the topic of involuntary exposure of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke was first considered in Surgeon General Jesse Steinfeld's 1972 report. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44319/#:~:text=The%20topic%20of%20involuntary%20exposure,for%20lung%20cancer%20was%20clear. Why hasn't action been taken sooner on this deadly habit in many places?
Preface from the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Twenty years ago when Dr. C. Everett Koop released the Surgeon General’s report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking, it was the first Surgeon General’s report to conclude that involuntary exposure of nonsmokers to tobacco smoke causes disease. The topic of involuntary exposure of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke was first considered in Surgeon General Jesse Steinfeld’s 1972 report, and by 1986, the causal linkage between inhaling secondhand smoke and the risk for lung cancer was clear. By then, there was also abundant evidence of adverse effects of smoking by parents on their children.
@jeffjarvis We owe him nothing. The history of his enterprise is a demonstration of systemic failure in controlling the excesses of press barons.
Australia court fines Facebook owner Meta $14 mil for undisclosed data collection through a VPN app on both Apple and Android devices. https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-court-fines-facebook-owner-meta-14-mln-undisclosed-data-collection-2023-07-26/
The judge said "... the penalty amount is not such as to be regarded by the parties or others as simply an acceptable cost of doing business."
The judge said "... the penalty amount is not such as to be regarded by the parties or others as simply an acceptable cost of doing business."
Australia court fines Facebook owner Meta $14 mln for undisclosed data collection
An Australian court ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/META.O" target="_blank">(META.O)</a> to pay fines totalling A$20 million ($14 million) for collecting user data through a smartphone application purporting to protect privacy without disclosing its actions.
Jeff JarvisLeave it to Musk to turn something sweet, charming, and likeable with tangible value into something foreboding, unlikeable, meaningless, and valueless. #X
"LLMs also demonstrate a strong confirmation bias when the external evidence contains some information that is consistent with their parametric memory"
Well, maybe they do act human. 🧐
Unraveling the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Clashes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13300?utm_source=tldrai
Well, maybe they do act human. 🧐
Unraveling the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Clashes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13300?utm_source=tldrai
Adaptive Chameleon or Stubborn Sloth: Revealing the Behavior of Large Language Models in Knowledge Conflicts
By providing external information to large language models (LLMs), tool augmentation (including retrieval augmentation) has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the limitations of LLMs' static parametric memory. However, how receptive are LLMs to such external evidence, especially when the evidence conflicts with their parametric memory? We present the first comprehensive and controlled investigation into the behavior of LLMs when encountering knowledge conflicts. We propose a systematic framework to elicit high-quality parametric memory from LLMs and construct the corresponding counter-memory, which enables us to conduct a series of controlled experiments. Our investigation reveals seemingly contradicting behaviors of LLMs. On the one hand, different from prior wisdom, we find that LLMs can be highly receptive to external evidence even when that conflicts with their parametric memory, given that the external evidence is coherent and convincing. On the other hand, LLMs also demonstrate a strong confirmation bias when the external evidence contains some information that is consistent with their parametric memory, despite being presented with conflicting evidence at the same time. These results pose important implications that are worth careful consideration for the further development and deployment of tool- and retrieval-augmented LLMs. Resources are available at https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/LLM-Knowledge-Conflict.
@sister_ratched Walk across the top level of the Dom Luís I Bridge, cable car down to the wine warehouses then(slightly tipsy) back across the lower level of the bridge to take the funky Guindais Funicular up the cliff. https://www.introducingporto.com/funicular-dos-guindais
@jeffjarvis Extending the previous version of the quotation, in 1956 Aldous Huxley in 1956, introducing the radio version of his Brave New World said: “The price of liberty, and even of common humanity, is eternal vigilance.” https://archive.org/details/OTRR_CBS_Radio_Workshop_Singles/CBS_Radio_Workshop_56-01-27_ep01_Brave_New_World_Part_1.mp3
CBS Radio Workshop - Single Episodes : Old Time Radio Researchers Group : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
CBS RADIO WORKSHOP CBS Radio Workshop was a revival of the Columbia Workshop of the late thirties. All 86 episodes survive today. The series aired from 27...
@sister_ratched Hope you get to the less crowded Porto and especially if you rail it. The concourse at the Sao Beno station is a special place in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Bento_railway_station
