May 6, 2024

Monday

This year’s report is a measure of good news for the millions of Americans who depend on Social Security, including the roughly 50% of seniors for whom Social Security is the difference between poverty and living in dignity — any potential benefit reduction event has been pushed off from 2034 to 2035,” Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley said in a statement.

Literally the year I’ll turn 65....

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Boeing has publicly admitted that record falsification did occur.

What the actual hell is going on at Boeing?

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OpenAI will have access to Stack Overflow’s API and will receive feedback from the developer community to improve the performance of AI models. OpenAI, in turn, will give Stack Overflow attribution — aka link to its contents — in ChatGPT.

Interesting. Stack Overflow is the single best repository for coding knowledge on the web. Hard to believe the company is only receiving attribution for giving OpenAI access to its mountain of content.

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“My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to M.I.T. and to make sure they thrive once here,” Dr. Kornbluth said in a statement. “We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.”

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