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Cannon’s Online Auctions & Estate Sales – Cannon’s Auctions
07/28: F & L Auctions, Oakview Ave, Henrico VA 23228
AI Oversight Is Becoming a Board Issue
Both AI and ESG encompass a wide breadth of corporate issues, with considerable overlap, including:
Environmental—As AI models grow in size and complexity, so does the necessary computer processing power, which can carry a very large carbon footprint.
Social—Companies that deploy AI for hiring, lending, housing, or insurance decisions need to consider ways to assess and, if necessary, remediate potential discrimination associated with those initiatives. Some AI applications have also been criticized for exacerbating income inequality, displacing large numbers of jobs, facilitating human rights abuses, and manipulating individuals’ behavior.
Governance—For AI programs to meet increasing regulatory requirements, as well as emerging ethical standards, the risks described above must be identified and mitigated through appropriate corporate governance, including policies, procedures, training and oversight.
Kagi Search – A Premium Search Engine
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10 Amazingly Affordable Canon-Compatible Lenses Worth Buying | Fstoppers
Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary
It compares the number of unique words used by some of the most famous artists in hip hop (that is, an example of a quantitive view of lyricism, once proposed by Tahir Hemphill). I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. This way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, can be compared to newer artists, such as Drake.
The Astronomer CEO’s Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
There are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video.
Documenting what you’re willing to support (and not)
The idea is that I’ll be able to point at it and go “that, right there, see, I’m not being capricious or picking on you in particular… this represents a common problem which has existed since well before you showed up”. The items are short and sweet and have unique identifiers so it’s possible to point at one and say “do it like that”.
Noteable – Computational Notebook Platform for Education
Create and share engaging coding lessons with Noteable, a cloud-based computational notebook service which works in your browser from any device.
Developed by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, Noteable hosts your computational notebooks in one simple online hub and can integrate with your VLE.
Let Your Kid Climb That Tree – The Atlantic
Childhood might be a particularly costly time to not move, because this is when developing brains prune unused potential. “One extreme view” of this neurological dwindling “would be that you start out wired up for every possible contingency,” the Harvard neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman said in an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—but as you age, unused connections in the brain get permanently disconnected through a process known as synaptic pruning, leaving you with “a narrower nervous system.”