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Billed by the Line: Obituary Inflation, the Emptied Obit Desk, and the Last Working Vanity Press
The Sunday death notices all carry the same sentence. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family, after a courageous battle with cancer....
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The prevalence of criminal activity and making it easy for criminals by the Republican party is pitiful.
"More than 990,000 households that received food assistance last year had benefits stolen. (The reason it’s necessary to use data from a private company: The federal government has stopped tracking rates of this crime.)"

Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.
Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it.

The code repo is here:
https://github.com/shriram/liquid-shplait
Installing gives you full docs. Examples are here:
https://github.com/shriram/liquid-shplait/tree/main/shplait/liquid/examples
Racket package here:
https://pkgd.racket-lang.org/pkgn/package/liquid-shplait ↵

Interesting article: what is currently known as "reasoning" in LLMs really isn't. The author suggests to introduce a new form of reasoning inspired by how AlphaGo did it (on which the author worked on).
I think that the last two or three years that has been already happening, although on a much less tighter loop: the recent improvements in coding and math can be traced back to such approaches. The question is how to generalize this to the general domain. The article doesn…

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible.

Het lijkt toch slimmer om een paar cruciale knooppunten te vernielen dan om massaal burgers te bestoken
Far-right bot accounts 'fall silent' as Ukraine strikes cripple Russian data centres
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics

When we buy salmon, I save the trims until I've got enough trims to grind into mince. Make wonderful meatballs.
No, that implies beef or pork, at least to me. This is fish.
Fishballs.
No that sounds terrible.
What's it called? Patties?

Zugegeben, es war nicht meine beste Idee, ausgerechnet bei 36 Grad nach Mailand fahren zu wollen. Aber wenn ich nun mal quasi auf der Ecke bin …
Sonst hätte ich auch nicht das wunderschöne Städtchen Como mit der riesigen Altstadt entdeckt, das auch noch direkt an einem See liegt. Und direkt hinter der Grenze zur Schweiz.

Vad händer med aspartam efter att du fått i dig det i kroppen? https://traningslara.se/vad-hander-med-aspartam-efter-att-du-fatt-i-dig-det-i-kroppen/

Vad händer med aspartam efter att du fått i dig det i kroppen?
Det finns en hel del oro kring sötningsmedel men rent forskningsmässigt finns det egentligen ingenting som pekar mot att det skulle vara dåligt för hälsan. Det är definitivt bättre att dricka lightdryck än att dricka sockersötad dryck. Den här infografiken visar vad som händer när du får i dig sötningsmedlet aspartam. Aspartam i sig kommer […]

"Lüneburg - tiefstehende Sonne: E-Scooter-Fahrer beim Abbiegen übersehen - leicht verletzt"
Abkürzung ist, wenn die motornormative Polizei die sogenannten mildernden Umstände gleich an den Anfang stellt.
Aus dem Ticker: https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/59488/63…

#PennedPossibilities 1154: MC POV: Name a time you laughed the hardest. With whom, and why?
Prefrontal Cortex looks you up and down. 'That is not protocol. Humour?'
'Yes,' Hippocampus interjects, 'difficult to classify, challenging to predict, and virtually impossible to explain without ruining the punchline. Useful to defuse situations, or bond with someo…