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"Investigating #trainingsets is an essential avenue to understanding how #generativeAI models work; the ways they see and re-create the world."

How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem
In the years after Donald Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden, Trump sent 🔸so many emails 🔸and text messages asking for money that Republican consultants warned his mailing lists could become #useless.
The former president’s friends told him that they were being asked for too much, too often, and Trump himself ordered aides a…

How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem
Small-dollar donations to Donald Trump and the GOP are way down since 2019 and 2020. But the former president’s team says they see a turnaround.

A New Way of Looking at Depth: Tables Supplement
#MLB #Baseball #Fangraphs

Raiders select Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders in way-too-early 2025 NFL Mock Draft https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/2024/05/01/raiders-select-colorado-qb-shedeur-sanders-in-way-too-early-2025-nfl-mock-draft/

Raiders select Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders in way-too-early 2025 NFL Mock Draft
Raiders select Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders in way-too-early 2025 NFL Mock Draft

Models All The Way Down #tceajmg #edtech

In tonight's #meditation the sense was #Zen shikantaza ("just sitting") is about us just not doing things (e.g., "just don't contrive") while what does do things is the way things are.
The way things are is what does the meditation.
And ... that's just the way …

Ex-Florida #GOP chair asserts crime victim’s law shields him amid 3-way sex scandal - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/florida-gop-chair-2667158604/

Ex-Florida GOP chair asserts crime victim’s law shields him amid 3-way sex scandal
Christian Ziegler, the former Republican Party of Florida chairman ousted after an accusation of rape by the woman he and his wife engaged in a three-way sexual relationship with, is invoking a law meant to protect victims of crimes.Ziegler’s wife Bridget is the co-founder of the far-right anti-LGBT...

“We treat the Supreme Court the way we do because people don’t understand how the court operates, and blithely assume there’s a valid reason for it.”
Elie Mystal, as usual, is out ahead of the nat’l conversation. Let’s spread this word now.
https://www.thenation.com/article/ar…

The Supreme Court Must Be Stopped
The court is fundamentally antidemocratic—and the only way to limit the damage it can do is to reduce its power, budget, and lack of accountability. 

Way-too-early Dallas Cowboys 2024 NFL Draft preview https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/way_too_early_dallas_cowboys_2024_nfl_draft_preview/s1_13132_40046771

Way-too-early Dallas Cowboys 2024 NFL Draft preview
The 2024 NFL Draft is April 25-27 in Detroit. Here is the first-round order, per Tankathon.  After another disappointing playoff loss, Cowboys fans are losing patience. These potential draft picks could give them hope. 2023 record: 12-5 | First-round pick: No. 24 | Team needs: OL, LB Potential first-round picks: Tyler Guyton, OT, Oklahoma; Amarius Mims, OT, Georgia; Edgerrin Cooper, LB, Texas A&M With their starting center (Tyler Biadasz) and starting left tackle (Tyron Smith) becomi…

“The recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as large language models enable the design of the Faster than LIght speed Protocol (FLIP) for Internet. FLIP provides a way to avoid congestion, enhance security, and deliver faster packets on the Internet by using AI to predict future packets at the receiving peer before they arrive.”
RFC 9564
Faster Than Light Speed Protocol (FLIP)