The Large Language podcast
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Thirty-nine autistic children in Florence were treated with a device two of the study's authors invented, in a study their own institute approved, measured by a questionnaire their parents filled in, published with a fee paid by the society named after the technology. All of it is printed on the page. That is what makes the paper worth reading closely.
A 1,235-pound camera arm, a hallway, and the one take that did not survive the screening room.
Two Uber drivers on a bench in Tottenham were offered the same job at the same second, one for £23 and one for £27. A claim filed in Amsterdam for about 241,000 drivers says pay is now set person by person — and argues it under privacy law, because privacy is the only lever that can see inside the algorithm. Uber denies it, specifically.
At a youth baseball game, the official scorekeeper records an error against her own son.
In 1904 a psychologist proved a horse wasn't doing arithmetic, then found that knowing his own tell didn't retire it — he kept giving the same unconscious signal away long after he'd learned to produce it on command.
Cetacea AI says 10,000 agents cracked a 90-year-old fluid-dynamics problem on their own, after 9,984 of them independently spent 79 straight hours on the same community-college instructor's blog.
Denial appeals reverse the original decision at rates that would end a career in any other line of work. Almost nobody finishes one. In insurance, in disability, and on the platforms, the number that would explain why has gone missing.
A hundred and four degrees on a trestle over the Row River, a locomotive that only goes over once, and a simulation that can take it back.
Buster Keaton met each new machine by standing where it could hit him. On the nine-strip matte box, the metronome, the nail in the ground, and why a new medium's first product is always commentary.
A decade of treating owner conduct as a public-relations problem, not a governance one, ran out of road on the Jed York arrest.
When the scoring system fails at a candlepin bowling alley, a fifteen-year-old keeps the only exact record of who really won, and decides alone what the group gets to know.
Bomb-test carbon dates a single human cell. Both futures available to us destroy the instrument: one makes the record lie, the other makes it silent.
England, 1943: a wireless interceptor knows one enemy operator only by the way he sends.
Halcyon says Echo can write your emails, book your travel and sell your car, and it has already done all three for 4,000 people who did not ask.
Clearing her mother's house, a woman finds two signed letters giving two different reasons her grandmother left home for good, and learns that choosing which one to pass down is how a family's history gets made.
A rehearsal accident makes a better rockslide than the render, so we build the accident again on purpose.