Links of Interest - March 2024

How AT&T Employees Turned Process Gripes Into $230 Million Saved

AT&T found a way to help workers kill outdated processes and tools that wasted time, energy, and money — one drop at a time - https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-att-employees-turned-process-gripes-into-230-million-saved/

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Artificial intelligence: an action plan to place France at the forefront ?…AI is presented as an essential technological revolution, comparable to electricity or automobiles. If France missed it, we could not only miss the AI economy, which would lead to an increasing capture by others of our economic value, but also see the weakening of other sectors of activity , warn the authors, pointing out a risk of economic downgrading. “If we do nothing, we risk watching the trains go by…” - https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2024/03/13/intelligence-artificielle-un-plan-d-action-pour-placer-la-france-a-la-pointe_6221781_3234.html

Commentary on Gov vs. Apple - https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/216-united-states-v-apple-complaint

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A great refresher on TikTok (Via Ben Page a few years ago) - https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat

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AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead.? Long live AI prompt engineering - https://spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-engineering-is-dead

Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/ ARPA-H Awards Columbia Researchers Nearly $39M to Develop a Living Knee Replacement - https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/arpa-h-awards-columbia-researchers-nearly-39m-develop-living-knee-replacement

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Elon Musk says we may have AGI by next year and by 2030, AI will exceed all human intelligence. Combined. - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/linasbeliunas_this-is-huge-elon-musk-says-we-may-have-activity-7178482339021283330-vm6h/

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New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco - https://tlacuilolli.com/2024/03/21/new-aztec-codices-the-codices-of-san-andres-tetepilco/

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Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16 - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/floridas-desantis-signs-law-restricting-social-media-people-under-16-2024-03-25/

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors - https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.201-3.pdf

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Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/24/playground-bullies-do-prosper-and-go-on-to-earn-more-in-middle-age

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Why Europe is dismantling its dams - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240229-why-europe-is-removing-its-dams

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When analyzing a selected sample from a general population, selection bias can arise relative to the causal average treatment effect (ATE) for the general population, and also relative to the ATE for the selected sample itself. We provide simple graphical rules that indicate: (1) if a selected-sample analysis will be unbiased for each ATE; (2) whether adjusting for certain covariates could eliminate selection bias. The rules can easily be checked in a standard single-world intervention graph. When the treatment could affect selection, a third estimand of potential scientific interest is the “net treatment difference”, namely the net change in outcomes that would occur for the selected sample if all members of the general population were treated versus not treated, including any effects of the treatment on which individuals are in the selected sample. We provide graphical rules for this estimand as well. We decompose bias in a selected-sample analysis relative to the general-population ATE into: (1) “internal bias” relative to the net treatment difference; (2) “net-external bias”, a discrepancy between the net treatment difference and the general-population ATE. Each bias can be assessed unambiguously via a distinct graphical rule, providing new conceptual insight into the mechanisms by which certain causal structures produce selection bias. - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/activity-7176844227115458560-KNyO/

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Google DeepMind unveils AI football tactics coach honed with Liverpool - https://www.ft.com/content/e5a64dd3-7fe0-4db4-9f65-6f7517c2c573

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Of Course America Fell for Liquid Death - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/liquid-death-canned-water-marketing/677752/

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LM4Decompile: Reverse Engineering: Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models - https://github.com/albertan017/LLM4Decompile

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Why Vertical Farms Worldwide are Failing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BXHu_yXVQk

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Abnormal brain structure identified in children with developmental language problems - https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-abnormal-brain-children-developmental-language.html#google_vignette

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How the World’s Biggest Plane Would Supersize Wind Energy - https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/how-the-worlds-biggest-plane-would-supersize-wind-energy-2f116e9b

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Brain Waves Appear to Wash Out Waste During Sleep - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2816616

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Inside a Chinese Ghost Town of Abandoned Mansion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQwc3EBW0Sc

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Airlines Want to Stop ‘Travel Hack’ JSX From Luring Rich Flyers Away - https://www.yahoo.com/news/airlines-want-stop-travel-hack-120028504.html

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Lemonade Stand - https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/lemonade-stand/

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"People with high expectations have low resilience, and resilience matters in success... I don't know how to teach it to you except for, 'I hope suffering happens to you'... greatness comes from character & character... is formed out of people who suffered...I wish upon you ample doses of pain & suffering" ?Jensen Huang - https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7173332688290856960/

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"Oh, for that? It will mean that 95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today will easily, nearly instantly and at almost no cost be handled by the AI — and the AI will likely be able to test the creative against real or synthetic customer focus groups for predicting results and optimizing. Again, all free, instant, and nearly perfect. Images, videos, campaign ideas? No problem." ?Sam Altman - https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/blog/sam-altman-ai-agi-marketing

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The No Symbol: The History Of The Red Circle-Slash - https://tedium.co/2024/03/09/red-circle-slash-no-symbol-history/

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Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac - https://monodraw.helftone.com/

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How We Bypassed Safari 17's Advanced Audio Fingerprinting Protection - https://fingerprint.com/blog/bypassing-safari-17-audio-fingerprinting-protection/

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The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed Everything - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/cystic-fibrosis-trikafta-breakthrough-treatment/677471/

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New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal - https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-breakthrough-brings-matrix-multiplication-closer-to-ideal-20240307/

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My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing - https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/programming/2023/02/21/exponential-smoothing.html

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The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/the-deep-sea-is-filled-with-treasure-but-it-comes-at-a-price

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Take color-accurate timelapses of your screens and cameras on MacOS - https://github.com/wkaisertexas/ScreenTimeLapse

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The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One’s Voice - https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/the-terrifying-ai-scam-that-uses-your-loved-ones-voice

Video showing the first transparent instant translation display that's been installed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government at Tochomae Station. In addition to translations, it can also help people with hearing impairments (via Mario Menti) - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/mariomenti_%E5%85%A8%E5%9B%BD%E5%88%9D%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E9%89%84%E3%81%AB%E7%BF%BB%E8%A8%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4-%E5%A4%96%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E8%A6%B3%E5%85%89%E5%AE%A2%E8%81%B4%E8%A6%9A%E9%9A%9C%E5%AE%B3%E8%80%85%E3%81%AB%E5%AF%BE%E5%BF%9Cnations-activity-7171475825416998912-Y-DL/

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THE ART AND HISTORY OF LETTERING COMICS - https://kleinletters.com/Blog/the-art-and-history-of-lettering-comics/

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Sky lapse in two tone - https://blog.datadesk.eco/p/sky-lapse-in-two-tone

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Something Like Fire - https://www.city-journal.org/article/something-like-fire

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Leaving LinkedIn Choosing Engineering Excellence Over Expediency - https://corecursive.com/leaving-linkedin-with-chris-krycho/

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Hair-loss breakthrough found in keratin microspheres - https://newatlas.com/science/keratin-gel-hairloss/

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3D printed titanium structure shows supernatural strength - https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2024/feb/titanium-lattice

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FDA Approves First Medication to Help Reduce Allergic Reactions to Multiple Foods After Accidental Exposure - https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-medication-help-reduce-allergic-reactions-multiple-foods-after-accidental

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How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned What Life Would Look Like in the Year 2000 - https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/how-french-artists-in-1899-envisioned-what-life-would-look-like-in-the-year-2000.html

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The Invisible $1.52 Trillion Problem: Clunky Old Software - https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/the-invisible-1-52-trillion-problem-clunky-old-software-f5cbba27

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Old vs. New Growth Trees and the Wood Products they Make - https://hullworks.com/wood/

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Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Apple Vision Pro - https://youtu.be/hOWor6lu5Pk?si=aMuG9b0d3OmVXAvS

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