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"These findings suggest that companies may benefit from shifting their marketing efforts and product development toward consumers with lower AI literacy. In addition, efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal."
https://thearf-org-unified-admin.s3.amazonaws.com/MSI_Report_24-132.pdf
OK, Ollama and Magistral and I are getting along better. I've made a model file with
PARAMETER num_ctx 16384
PARAMETER num_predict 16384
to give it more memory for input and output, and I've put a lot of background knowledge for the task in the system prompt. And I've remembered to invoke the new version and not the default one. The development is still experimental, and Magistral's explanation of its reasoning is very helpful so far. We'll see how long the honeymoon lasts.
Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to 600 programs cut, nearly 10,000 job losses, union says
« Union says it's 'one of the largest mass layoffs in #Ontario's history' »
« The document showed 23 of 24 colleges in Ontario have reported a 48 per cent decrease in first-semester enrolment of international students from September 2023 to September 2024. »
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-college-layoffs-1.7581037
Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start.
For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the pressure for shareholder profits.
#tech #cloud #datacenters #cdnpoli #cdntech #canada #markcarney
During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partner for a 25-year cloud computing contract for the federal government. The contract’s length should have set off red flags of its own, but the…
No subheadings See also: Abstracts: 3 Abstracts 11 Cleveland Morning Leader, 31 March 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original p.2, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm 11 - L. Mar. 31; ed:2/4 - Dr. MacGowan, surgeon in the U. S. "army, con- templates the introduction of two cold-enduring animals of northern China, the Thibetan goat and the yak of the Himalayas. They may be naturalized in corresponding climates in this country.
Five years ago (?!) I worked on parsing metadata out of the OCR text of a 1930s newspaper index, with references like this: "11 - L. Mar. 31; ed:2/4", parsed with regexes like this:
([a-zA-Z]+)[\\.,]?\\s # 'H' newspaper
(\\S+)\\s # 'Dec.': month
(#{OCRDIGIT}+)#{OCRCOLON}+\\s? # '2:' day
([a-zA-Z]*)#{OCRCOLON}?\\s? # 'ed' type (ed, adv)
(
(?:
#{OCRDIGIT}+[/\"']#{OCRDIGIT}+ # '2/3' page/column
(?:[,-]#{OCRDIGIT}+)?
(?:,\\s)?
)+
)
(.*)$ # ',2' or '-3': sequence or range
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