Favorite Rejects 2023-07-18

– Calls for a UC in San Francisco are getting serious (src)
– Canada's program to accept H1-B holders filled up in less than 48 hours. (src)
– Confidence in US Higher education is falling (src)
– GPT4 really may be getting dumber, not clear if OpenAI even realizes. (src)
– Llama-2 released (src)
– Sadly 'stop-as-yield' once again didn't pass the CA legislature. (src)
– Significant advancement in geothermal announced (src)
– Since ChatGPT was introduced, folks have stopped asking questions on StackOverflow (src)
– Tesla won the charging cable format war because everyone else's stuff is terrible (src)
– The US has 9 cities with over a million people, Canada has 5 despite having a far smaller population (src)