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@SemlangU

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1/35 More plagiarism, misuse of sources and flawed argumentation in “Abraham Fulfilled: A Biblical Study of God’s Plan for Ishmael and Arabia”? (Sapience Publishing 2024). By @AbuZakariyaMPOM, @MrAdnanRashid and @ZakirHussainMDI. Read on and judge for yourself....

@N01ennn

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Last month I paid seven different companies $340 for the privilege of using AI. Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, Cursor, Perplexity, Granola, Midjourney, a meeting transcriber whose name I cannot remember, and three other line items I genuinely could not identify on the credit card statement....

@geoffreylitt

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Hot take: I think it's still important to understand the code that our agents write! In this mega thread (based on my AIE talk today), I will explain why that's the case, and show some ideas for how to efficiently understand code. Alright, let's dive in. 1/ ...

@Electrarythm

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There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online. He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history. He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing. His enti...

@johannesmboehm

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@thomas_chaney and I updated our working paper on "Trade and the End of Antiquity" (which recently got some airtime here). A short re-cap: 1/n ...

@kyronis_talks

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Apple has just published a paper with a devastating title: *The Illusion of Thinking*. And it's not a metaphor. What it demonstrates is that the AI models we use every day - yes, ones like ChatGPT - don't think. Not one bit. They just imitate doing so. Let me explain: 🧵👇 ...

@DrJimFan

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The power of the Claw, in the palm of a robot hand. Agentic robotics is here! Today, we open-source CaP-X: vibe agents, alive in the physical world. They incarnate as robot arms and humanoids with a rich set of perception APIs, actuation APIs, and auto synthesize skill libraries as they go. CaP-X is...

@PhilOfLife_

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10 Documentaries that will change your Life + Mindset 1. Man on Wire ...

@pyquantnews

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Turn $1 into $14,000,000. (You could have if you invested with Jim Simmons in 1988.) The most successful hedge fund ever, trading bots, and the 9 steps to build an automated trading system. The 6 blog posts to read now:...