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December 2022

Neville Medhora @nevmed

It's neat to visually see "The Current Thing"

Wow, I can't believe Wordle was *this year*, and for that matter, it's sorta amazing that so many people continue to play it on a regular basis.

Leon Sit @politicsmaps

The US Census Bureau released 2022 population estimates today. We can roughly project what the 2030 reapportionment will look like using linear extrapolation over the next eight years to determine population estimates for April 2030 and the apportionment formula to assign seats.

This is just a linear extrapolation, but we have to build a lot more homes in the next 7 years. One reply "Local dems not allowing housing is causing a problem for national dems"

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I really appreciate ChatGPT’s commitment to plausible-sounding bullshit

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

1. There is no Voyager episode by this name 2. There is an Original Series episode with a very similar name but a totally different plot 3. This absolutely sounds like the plot of some forgettable Trek episode

If you're wondering, as Yglesias was, how OpenAI feels about this output, they really don't like it, and they're trying to figure out more ways to keep it from hallucinating like this.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

AI is already generating new ideas for drugs. Is this "predictive" or "generative" AI? Was there ever really a difference?

science.orgDreaming up new proteins, AI churns out possible medicines and vaccinesInstead of predicting the shapes of naturally occurring molecules, software designs original ones

I don't think generative vs predictive is the right way to divide AI models. Probably something about architectures?