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Data to view after voting, see above post
I found lots of websites (¹ ² ³ ⁴) claiming the correct answer is "specced" and only two (Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com) that referred to the punctuated "spec'd", naming it as an alternative to "specced" with the same pronunciation. (Dictionary.com also named "specking" as a second alternative. I found nothing referring solely to "spec'd".)
However, Google Books Ngram Viewer has "spec'd" as the most common printed form until recently. Continuing the trend past 2019, "specced" should now have a narrow lead. In British English books (not shown), it overtook "spec'd" in 1997 and began a commanding lead in 2010.
Google web searches put "specced" at 3.01M results and "spec'd" at 8.69M, though almost all of the hits refer to "Spec-D" headlights. This is one major advantage of the Ngram Viewer, which doesn't trip over differing punctuation types (it shows "spec-d" at a trickle). It might be more fair to compare "specced out" (348k) with "spec'd out" (739k)

Truecaller partners with Microsoft's Azure AI Speech to let its AI Assistant users create an AI version of their voice to answer calls based on a recorded clip (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/22/24162753/trueca…

Truecaller and Microsoft will let users make an AI voice to answer calls
Truecaller will use Microsoft Azure AI Speech’s personal voice feature for its AI Assistant, allowing customers to generate an AI-generated version of their voice to answer calls.

Data to view after voting, see above post
I found lots of websites (¹ ² ³ ⁴) claiming the correct answer is "specced" and only two (Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com) that referred to the punctuated "spec'd", naming it as an alternative to "specced" with the same pronunciation. (Dictionary.com also named "specking" as a second alternative. I found nothing referring solely to "spec'd".)
However, Google Books Ngram Viewer has "spec'd" as the most common printed form until recently. Continuing the trend past 2019, "specced" should now have a narrow lead. In British English books (not shown), it overtook "spec'd" in 1997 and began a commanding lead in 2010.
Google web searches put "specced" at 3.01M results and "spec'd" at 8.69M, though almost all of the hits refer to "Spec-D" headlights. This is one major advantage of the Ngram Viewer, which doesn't trip over differing punctuation types (it shows "spec-d" at a trickle). It might be more fair to compare "specced out" (348k) with "spec'd out" (739k)

Another few trick questions on that form:
"Is this the first time a disability amount has been claimed for yourself, spouse or common-law partner or dependant?" Yes or No
(There is no claim for any of this, so is the answer yes or no? )"
Next
Does CRA already have an approved disability certificate, form T2201, for your spouse or common law partner? Yes or No
(Huh? See above)
Next
Do you choose to claim the disability transfer (if applicable) from your spouse? (Huh again?)

"My Answer is C": First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models
Xinpeng Wang, Bolei Ma, Chengzhi Hu, Leon Weber-Genzel, Paul R\"ottger, Frauke Kreuter, Dirk Hovy, Barbara Plank
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14499

"My Answer is C": First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models
The open-ended nature of language generation makes the evaluation of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) challenging. One common evaluation approach uses multiple-choice questions (MCQ) to limit the response space. The model is then evaluated by ranking the candidate answers by the log probability of the first token prediction. However, first-tokens may not consistently reflect the final response output, due to model's diverse response styles such as starting with "Sure" or refusing to …

Telekommunikationskonzerne leiten Internetverkehr im Roten Meer um
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"Yes, #generativeAI is cause for concern for #website builders — after all, why would someone visit #websites if they can get answers from an

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Not getting into an argument over a #RandomPedantry point, but as a matter of objective fact, we are leaving our kids cleaner air on a global basis than we inherited with the exception of CO2 levels. Sulfur, fine particulates, NOx, etc. are all *down* in a multi-decadal scope.
Which is part of why we seeing a tipping point in temperatures. Fuel oil used in large ships has gotten much c…

Slicing and Dicing the Bits: CPU Design the Old Fashioned Way
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-01bbb710-3012261f6e5b90a3
Slicing and Dicing the Bits: CPU Design the Old Fashioned Way Writing for Hackaday can be somewhat hazardous. Sure, we don…

I knew stuff was bad, and my family still there are ok but angry.
As always I wonder (now), why people aren't marching in the streets with anger, and yet, when I lived there I don't suppose I would either.
Maybe living in Denmark has radicalised me not to accept such conditions as normal..?