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"First studies from new faith-based university coalition find systematic religious bias in AI models

Researchers at Baylor, BYU, Notre Dame, Yeshiva find vast gap between user expectations of religious representation and answers from ChatGPT"

For clarity, he has a master's degree, not a Ph.D.

Via NYTime Nov. 16, 1998 article "Compressed Data; Stanford Gave Writer A Start, but Not a Ph.D." -

"The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that Mr. Stephens had not been a professor at Stanford University and had not earned a doctorate there, as he had claimed."

"A university spokeswoman said that Mr. Stephens had worked as a teaching assistant and earned only a master's degree."

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/16/business/compressed-data-...

"The parent said, 'Only through questioning teachers and school administrators did we learn the researchers would put stickers on children who opted out, but no further information was provided on whether they would still be filmed.'"

That labeling I'm sure would have social consequences- singling out people and giving them a label is a path toward exclusion in other activities and make wearing a sticker a sigma... :(

"the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude in a last-gasp effort."

Claude has limits that would make this simple statement be much more complicated-

Via Claude "So the chat upload file size limit is actually 500MB per file (not 30MB as many third-party sources claim - those appear to be outdated). The 20-file-per-chat cap and the 30MB-per-file limit in Projects remain consistent across plans. The real constraint at any subscription level remains the context window - how many tokens Claude can hold in memory at once during a conversation. "

FYI Page certificate is bad (expired, wrong, etc.).

Thanks for the details :)

I was half expecting you to find the Pixter Color VM to be a Forth like interpreter ;)

"The deal with the hackers included the return of stolen data and digital evidence that copies had been deleted, Instructure said."

does "yes, I deleted the data" in an email count as digital evidence?

"The deal with the hackers included the return of stolen data and digital evidence that copies had been deleted, Instructure said."

does "yes, I deleted the data" in an email count as digital evidence?

Archive version https://archive.is/59wEu

Time to start a project to make a handcrafted lacquer face for some other calculators; I have a few HP-80 (https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp80.htm) to test the idea on ;)

Opera was better on page reading... safari was crashing a bunch

For an easier interpretation of the Science.org article, see "Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find"

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-antarctica-sea-ice-collapse-dr...

National Center for Health Statistics Deaths and Mortality

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

When culture & movie makes a technological title ;)

My work on DoD ADA projects tended to focus on DoD STD 2167 (mid to late 1980s).

Sadly the review meetings focused on document structure instead of thoughtful software design and analysis. ADA didn't help; it was cumbersome to get working well, and ADA experience in the contracting agencies was low. The waterfall approach made the projects slow to implement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOD-STD-2167A?wprov=sfti1

https://www.edwardtufte.com/product/napoleons-march/

Via Edward Tufte

"Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales."

This is just writing; terse maybe and maybe not grammatically correct, but people write like that.

"Written by an LLM" based on what data or symptom?

Why? =>

"Moment Engineering by Moment Technology wants to access your {GitHub account name} account Personal user data Email addresses (read-only), profile information (read-only) This application will be able to read your private email addresses and read your private profile information."

We are back to colors! https://appleclamshell.wordpress.com/color-guide/

Do we get digital stickers for the numbers we found? ;)

This is fun to see :) thanks!

Duh!

Yes, governments are going to track.

Kellanova, formerly known as the Kellogg Company, got the message and are now making Pop-Tarts with extra protein ;)

https://www.poptarts.com/en_US/products/new/pop-tarts-protei...

For some more APL history see the "50 Years of APL" at the Dyalog URL

https://www.dyalog.com/50-years-of-apl.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia

Vs

https://grokipedia.com/page/Wikipedia

"“When you read content on X, you should be able to verify its authenticity. This is critical to getting a pulse on important issues happening in the world,” posted Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, back on October 14, 2025."

That feature of showing where an account was created was on for a bit and then turned off... it highlights that many accounts implying they are in the USA are actually not and probably not who they claim to be.

Like the writers that are looking for the best {pen, keyboard, paper} before they start to write... and they continue to look for the best thing to make them great writers ...

"Biocomputing could help address the skyrocketing energy demands of AI, which threatens climate emissions targets and led some tech giants to resort to nuclear power"

I'm reminded of the Battlestar Galactica episode "You Can't Go Home Again" where Starbuck repairs a crashed Cylon ship to get home. The main element she had to figure out is how the biological brain of the Cylon controlled the hardware.