NIH to resume issuing grants - which will still include previously negotiated indirect rates. For now. popular.info/p/breaking-n...
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NIH to resume issuing grants - which will still include previously negotiated indirect rates. For now. popular.info/p/breaking-n...
“Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads” - a very interesting hands-on blog post about contemporary location data flows and sales timsh.org/tracking-mys...
I had been wondering how or when the effects of the latest government would directly affect my academic and professional life- but I was surprised how the immediate consequences were to have many of my online meetings for the next two weeks be suddenly canceled. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
“Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets … put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform.”
www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2024/bluesky-boom-worries-chinese-media
Trending in the Bay Area
Amiga was sort of the Raspberry Pi meets Steamdeck of its day
The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.
Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
Standing room only in the Epic and AI section - I remember when Epic didn’t attend AMIA. They must need us more now #AMIA2024