Author: tokyokevin

  • Rotating Sandwiches

    Rotating Sandwiches

    At least 6, and maybe 8, of these Rotating Sandwiches are not sandwiches. But controversy aside, this is a great resource for language teaching. Besides our yes/no, we can compare, we can guess the prices, we can list ingredients, we can make recipes. I’m sure there is more. Thanks to Kottke for the link.

  • Liar, liar, pants on AI

    “The paper adds to a small but growing body of evidence that today’s most advanced AI models are becoming capable of strategic deception.”

    From Time Magazine, 3 days before publication of the article. Is this interpretation inflammatory or just exaggerated?

  • Watch your Ps and Questionable Garbage

    “Under Fukushima’s new rules, if the rubbish remains unsorted for a week, city workers can go through it and try to identify the offenders via items such as mail. The violators will be issued a verbal warning, followed by a written advisory, before the last resort: having their names published on the government website.”

    From BBC.

  • Seaweed for Cows

    Got too much red algae? Feed it to the cows. It reduces methane by 40%.

  • AI Whistleblower Dead

    US media is not following this development in AI. A whistleblower from OpenAI who recently left the company is found dead. Police say it is suicide, but it is not revealed for more than a week. And it takes the BBC to report on it before it makes news in the US.

    NYTimes interviewed him a few weeks ago, but has not printed anything about his death yet. Mysterious.