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Medical Roundup #1

Posted on January 16, 2024 by TheZvi

Saving up medical and health related stories from several months allowed for much better organizing of them, so I am happy I split these off. I will still post anything more urgent on a faster basis. There’s lots of things … Continue reading →

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AI #46: Meet the New Year

Posted on January 13, 2024 by TheZvi

[NOTE: I forgot to post this to WP/LW/RSS on Thursday, so posting it now. Sorry about that.] Will be very different from the old year by the time we are done. This year, it seems like various continuations of the … Continue reading →

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2024 ACX Predictions: Blind/Buy/Sell/Hold

Posted on January 9, 2024 by TheZvi

My 2023 ACX predictions showed a clear lack of confidence in taking on the market. I won 30 markets for an average of +185 each, and lost 12 for an average loss of -185 each1. When one goes 30-12, hitting … Continue reading →

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2023 Prediction Evaluations

Posted on January 8, 2024 by TheZvi

It is that time of the year. One must ask not only whether predictions were right or wrong, whether one won or lost, but what one was and should have been thinking, whether or not good decisions were made, whether … Continue reading →

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AI Impacts Survey: December 2023 Edition

Posted on January 5, 2024 by TheZvi

Katja Grace and AI impacts survey thousands of researchers on a variety of questions, following up on a similar 2022 survey as well as one in 2016. I encourage opening the original to get better readability of graphs and for … Continue reading →

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AI #45: To Be Determined

Posted on January 4, 2024 by TheZvi

The first half of the week was filled with continued talk about the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI, which I covered in its own post. Then that talk seemed to mostly die down,, and things were relatively quiet. We … Continue reading →

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Copyright Confrontation #1

Posted on January 3, 2024 by TheZvi

Lawsuits and legal issues over copyright continued to get a lot of attention this week, so I’m gathering those topics into their own post. The ‘virtual #0’ post is the relevant section from last week’s roundup.

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Dating Roundup #2: If At First You Don’t Succeed

Posted on January 2, 2024 by TheZvi

Developments around relationships and dating have a relatively small speed premium, also there are once again enough of them for a full post. The first speculated on why you’re still single. We failed to settle the issue. A lot of … Continue reading →

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AI #44: Copyright Confrontation

Posted on December 28, 2023 by TheZvi

The New York Times has thrown down the gauntlet, suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Others are complaining about recreated images in the otherwise deeply awesome MidJourney v6.0. As is usually the case, the critics misunderstand the technology involved, … Continue reading →

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AI #43: Functional Discoveries

Posted on December 21, 2023 by TheZvi

We get innovation in functional search. In an even more functional search, we finally get a Nature paper submitted almost two years ago, in which AI discovered a new class of antibiotic. That’s pretty damn exciting, with all the implications … Continue reading →

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