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Daily Inspiration: "The best way to find creative solutions to your real-world problems is to listen to the wisdom of those who have already found them!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
You know you've been a real road-warrior speaker when you check into your Hilton hotel in San Jose and get a feeling that you've been here before! You look back in your email, and realize that it was once a Fairmont hotel and that you spoke in this exact hotel at an event in 2006!
I look…

Daily Inspiration: Innovation Leadership – “The best way to find creative solutions to your real-world problems is to listen to the wisdom of those who have already found them!”

Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats

This article by a former OpenAI employee makes a powerful case that AI exploits the same clever game design that can make Furbies, dinosaurs, and even triangles seem sentient. It's not about modeling a brain's complexity; simpler systems can ironically feel more intelligent.
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“A sign of the scale of #’Twitter’s bot problem is the thriving #botindustry. Bot makers from around the world advertise their services on freelancer websites.
A computer scientist in Pakistan, sells "ChatGPT Twitter bots" for $30 to $500, depending on complexity.
In an interview with the ABC …he said could make a "fully fledged" bot that could "like comments o…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

*sarc
Sounds great over there!
P.S. Twitter is NOT the “Internet” fgs….
#TwitterEnding #Twitter #Mastodon

When you set your paperclip optimizers to optimize for "engagement," this is the obvious, inevitable result.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-fl…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts that call for violence against trans people and describe trans and gender nonconforming people as "satanic" and more (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/27…

Meta is failing to curb anti-trans hate, new report says
In the report, GLAAD catalogued dozens of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets, that it said Meta had not acted against.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10616 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLO_…

One is all you need: Second-order Unification without First-order Variables
We consider the fragment of Second-Order unification with the following properties: (i) only one second-order variable allowed, (ii) first-order variables do not occur. We show that Hilbert's 10$^{th}$ problem is reducible to this fragment if the signature contains a binary function symbol and two constants. This generalizes known undecidability results. Furthermore, We show that adding the following restriction: (i) the second-order variable has arity 1, (ii) the signature is finite, and (iii)…

Counterexamples to generalizations of the Erd\H{o}s $B B t$ problem
Ethan Ackelsberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17383 https://arxiv.o…

Counterexamples to generalizations of the Erdős $B+B+t$ problem
Following their resolution of the Erdős $B+B+t$ problem, Kra Moreira, Richter, and Robertson posed a number of questions and conjectures related to infinite configurations in positive density subsets of the integers and other amenable groups. We give a negative answer to several of these questions and conjectures by producing families of counterexamples based on a construction of Ernst Straus. Included among our counterexamples, we exhibit, for any $\varepsilon > 0$, a set $A \subseteq \math…

Pensioenfondsen willen flink investeren in energietransitie, maar: ‘Wij zijn geen pinautomaat’ | de #Volkskrant
https://www.volk…