The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

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Disney Animation remade three songs for ASL. For these, we resurrected the original data and pipeline version (which took a ton of work), reanimated (from near scratch in some places), relit where needed, and re-rendered. Probably the hardest way to do this, but definitely the right way to do it, so that's what we did!

No AI shortcuts or anything, just doing it properly all the way.

Hey everyone, looks like having actual "standards" and sticking to them works! Or we are just total jerks who will not blindly accept whatever a random person types in to a textbox. One or the other. Who can say, really?

The Importance of High-Signal Data Modern AI research has definitively proven that data quality is vastly more important than data quantity. Microsoft's landmark 2023 paper "Textbooks Are All You Need" (which introduced the phi-1 coding model) demonstrated that aggressively filtering out low-quality "noise" from training data leads to dramatically better coding models."

The Subsidy of Human Labor: Stack Overflow's notorious moderation policies—closing duplicates, downvoting broken code, and demanding minimal reproducible examples—did exactly this human-labor-intensive data filtering for over 15 years. Without this rigorous gatekeeping, LLMs would have ingested vast amounts of broken, insecure, or poorly formatted code, which would have severely degraded their baseline performance. The assertion that AI companies are "subsidized" by the unpaid labor of diligent forum moderators is a widely accepted critique in the fields of AI ethics and data provenance.

BTW, just in case it wasn't clear: the Disney ASL song remakes were not AI generated or anything like that. Just a ton of hard work from a dedicated team of artists and TDs who cared deeply about doing this properly, with ASL choreography by the Deaf West Theatre.

My wife was one of the TDs who worked on this! Believe you me, things got weird with resurrecting the 8+ year old Frozen 2 pipeline; we're not even on the same OS as back then.

(Behind-the-scenes video is from Cartoon Brew)