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Distributed systems, computer networks, formal methods, ethical CS, free/libre software, world history.

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How Eugenics shaped statistics

https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014/

via @timnitGebru

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Emmanuel Todd interviewed (in french):
https://m.youtube.com/live/R4HRWQPV6BU?si=mbqnn-9XJ58lCaMe

Latest book: La Défaite de l'Occident
https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Hors-serie-Connaissance/La-Defaite-de-l-Occident

via @rnaudbertrand

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Exclusive: Google Workers Revolt Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel

https://time.com/6964364/exclusive-no-tech-for-apartheid-google-workers-protest-project-nimbus-1-2-billion-contract-with-israel/

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Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’

Published in Financial Times, available here w/o paywall:

https://timesnewsnetwork.com/news/business/sci-fi-writer-ted-chiang-the-machines-we-have-now-are-not-conscious/

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"Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media

Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/13/1089729/lets-not-make-the-same-mistakes-with-ai-that-we-made-with-social-media/

By Nathan E. Sanders & Bruce Schneier

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Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

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https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

by Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal

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"We discuss how psychology interacts with generative AI in problematic ways."

Young minds that ask first an LLM and receive convincing wrong answers in an anthropomorfized way will be easily convinced and it will be later more difficult to prove they wrong by adults trying to teach them the right answers.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi0248

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The western manufacturers ain't anymore

From industrial engineering to financial engineering

The case of Boeing

"The past 30 years may well be remembered as a dark age of U.S. manufacturing. Boeing’s decline illustrates everything that went wrong to bring us here."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/boeing-corporate-america-manufacturing/678137/

cc @bert_hubert

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Linux Foundation launches TLA+ language foundation

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3694136/linux-foundation-launches-tla-language-foundation.html

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NY Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for infringing copyrighted works

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/ny-times-sues-openai-microsoft-infringing-copyrighted-work-2023-12-27/

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The thin waist of the internet architecture and the end-to-end principle fostered innovation: anyone could conceive and deploy new services: e-mail, file transfer, WWW, P2P sharing, search engines, videoconferencing,... but also private info collecting apps, attention seeking apps, unsafe+unethically developped AI enabled chatbots,...

In the early times bad outcomes affected very few people but today the whole humanity benefits and suffers the consequences.

The time to regulate more has come.

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@bert_hubert https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/

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AT&T mobile network fails.

HW fault, SW fault, Heissenbug?

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/index.html

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Digital neoliberalism

By Evgeny Morozov ( @evgenymorozov )

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/artificial-intelligence-danger.html?smid=url-share

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Really good review of what Niklaus Wirth contributed to IT https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary

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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them

https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/

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I think this Stephen Wolfram article about neural nets/machine learning/LLMs/ChatGPT is really good: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

It can be used to learn if you don't know, or to learn how to explain if you already know. Explanations from scratch of LLMs, embeddings and ChatGPT are really good IMHO.

I add it to the learnable cathegory:

3blue1brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk

Chris Olah et al. https://distill.pub/

Michael Nielsen http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

Chris Karpathy https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1615398117683388417

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FizzBee is a formal specification language and model checker to specify distributed systems.

https://fizzbee.io/

https://thenewstack.io/introducing-fizzbee-simplifying-formal-methods-for-all/

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About pointers, Rust differentiation between mutable and aliased state, history before Rust, formal methods, LLMs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40375341#40379428

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Is Stack Overflow Obsolete? An Empirical Study of the
Characteristics of ChatGPT Answers to Stack Overflow Questions

PDF: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642596

via @garymarcus

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Jamming in Ukraine war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/24/russia-jamming-us-weapons-ukraine/

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"The purpose of this primer is to publicly expose Microsoft’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide against the people of Palestine, and to connect technology workers to the No Azure for Apartheid campaign."

https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/a-marriage-made-in-hell-an-introduction-to-microsofts-complicity-in-apartheid-and-genocide-d7dfad65a196

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AI being used to modify the behavior of employees.

Risks:

1/2 https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-hazards-of-putting-ethics-on-autopilot/

2/2 https://hbr.org/2022/10/where-ai-can-and-cant-help-talent-management

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