New railway completes 2,700km loop of Taklamakan Desert in move to integrate Xinjiang with rest of China
China State Railway Group says new 825km Hotan-Ruoqiang railway will ‘play a role in boosting ethnic unity, strengthening national defence’. ⌘ Read more
Company owned by Hong Kong justice chief Teresa Cheng’s husband sued for price fixing, bid-rigging over air-conditioning works worth HK$2 billion
Competition Commission begins legal action against ATAL Building Services Engineering, set up by Teresa Cheng’s husband Otto Poon, and Shun Hing Engineering Contracting Company. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong raises key interest rate by 75 basis points in lockstep with Federal Reserve hike overnight
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) raised the city’s base rate by 75 basis points to 2 per cent, following the Fed’s most aggressive hike since 1994. ⌘ Read more
Singapore ramps up ‘Wolbachia’ mosquito breeding as dengue crisis escalates
Amid earlier-than-usual surge in cases, which can be fatal, nation will breed 5 million male Aedes mosquitoes a week instead of 2 million. Carrying Wolbachia bacteria, when they mate with female urban mosquitoes the eggs that are laid do not hatch. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong ranks 5th in list of world’s most competitive economies, climbing 2 spots over improved performance amid Covid
City climbs two places to reclaim fifth spot over improved economic performance. ⌘ Read more
the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.
Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.
Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.
Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.
Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).
Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.
**RT by @mind_booster: Exhibition
A century of technology @Europeanaeu
https://www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitions/a-century-of-technology**
Exhibition
A century of technology @Europeanaeu
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user/bmallred/data/2022-06-03-08-18-22.fit: 2.51 miles, 00:14:22 average pace, 00:36:03 duration
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Dragons Lair 1 & 2 for Apple IIgs has been released… with source code!
(No need for a LaserDisc. Just 8 floppies.) ⌘ Read more
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ProcessOne: ejabberd 22.05
A new ejabberd release is finally here! ejabberd 22.05 includes five months of work, 200 commits, including many improvements (MQTT, MUC, PubSub, …) and bug fixes.
– Improved MQTT, MUC, and ConverseJS integration
– New installers and container
– Support Erlang/OTP 25
When upgrading from the previous version please notice: there are minor changes in SQL schemas, the included rebar and reba … ⌘ Read more
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Gajim: Gajim 1.4.2
As promised earlier, releasing new Gajim versions is now much easier! 🎉 Gajim 1.4.2 comes with better performance and an important bugfix. But there is more! After popular demand, we brought back the calendar for browsing history.
Mainly it’s one bug we fixed in this release. We improved how Gajim manages chat messages it displays to you. Before this improvement, messages would sometimes only show after changing focus or resizing the window. This issue has been fixed.
Afte … ⌘ Read more
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Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX (from 1990) ported to Linux
Not a joke. Really happened. The story is fascinating. ⌘ Read more
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LundukeFest Part 2 scheduling update!
Bringing in some backup! ⌘ Read more
Action needed by GitHub Connect customers using GHES 3.1 and older to adopt new authentication token format updates
Upgrade to GHES 3.2 or newer by June 3rd to continue using GitHub Connect. ⌘ Read more
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Caro @govpt , e em particular @padaoesilva , agora que já temos um “novo prazo” (e já só temos 2 meses), já podemos ter aquela tal consulta pública à proposta sobre a transposição da directiva do copyright, que o governo (e bem) considerou necessária?
Caro @govpt , e em particular @padaoesilva , agora que já temos um “novo prazo” (e já só temos 2 meses), já podemos ter aquela tal consulta pública à prop … ⌘ Read more
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DALL·E 2 prompts: The Gateboss of the Girlkeep
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**R to @mind_booster: Foi também em 1997 que saiu o jogo Diablo, cujo impacto nos “novos internautas” vai muito além da comunidade de gaming:
https://twtxt.net/twt/vqon7aa**
Foi também em 1997 que saiu o jogo Diablo, cujo impacto nos “novos internautas” vai muito além da comunidade de gaming:
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RT by @mind_booster: Notas da Semana 09/05/2022 https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/notas-da-semana-09-05-2022/
Notas da Semana 09/05/2022 paulasimoesblog.wordpress.co…
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