by Jared Hecht (blog, linkedin, twitter)
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There's been a lot written about this (former Chicago Reader editor Martha Bayne's is the best), and I don't need to rehash it all. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.
Ascii Heart Emojis | ♡❤︎♥︎𖹭 | Copy & Paste
We've searched our database for all the emojis that are somehow related to Ascii Heart. Here they are! There are more than 20 of them, but the most relevant ones appear first.
feedle: Search and Discover Quality RSS Feeds from Thousands of Blogs and Podcasts
A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.
Vibe Graveyard
Real tech failures and postmortems from the world of rushed shipping and bad decisions.
LLM cliché highlighter
Paste text below — or load it from a URL — and it highlights sentences that match known LLM clichés, including the tells catalogued in Wikipedia’s Signs of AI writing guide. Chain patterns like “no X, no Y” get a badge counting their items; tap or hover a highlight to see which cliché it hit.
A Model For HHS: New Mexico Measles Outbreak Was Curtailed With Mass Vaccination Campaign
With RFK Jr. and his version of HHS entirely out to lunch on the ongoing measles issue in America, it’s been left to states and local medical professionals to try to figure out how to do comb…
Why on earth would you publish data as RDF? – Pieter Colpaert
A rebuttal to a blog post of Anne Schuth, I which I argue that RDF will earn its place in real neurosymbolic systems. Its best argument is eventual interoperability across organizations.
An Ode to Links
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
COVID antihistamine protocol
This current wave of COVID is bad, and I'm seeing a lot of people who were previously NOVID posting photos of their positive tests. I've been trying fairly diligently to get this information out on social media, because I know I follow the literature a lot more closely than a lot of people, so here
Sid Sijbrandij's Osteosarcoma Data
Explore Sid Sijbrandij's osteosarcoma research data: single-cell transcriptomics, tissue imaging, cell clusters, and gene set enrichment analysis from his own tumor samples.
Researchers published in NEJM about using OpenAI’s o3 DeepResearch to discover strong leads in 18 previously unsolved rare diseases o3 produced *explanations* of old lab results (not diagnoses), which researchers vetted and took to the lab AI is not just a black box openai.com/index/diagnose-rare-childhood…
Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children
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