The article says there are other (perhaps older) similar regional breads that later came to be considered types of ciabatta. Maybe that’s what they’re referring to?

I’m sure the thinking is that art appearing in both Europe and Indonesia suggests that they both inherited it from their common ancestors in Africa.

But when the earliest art was thought to have been European, the idea that art originated in Europe and spread from there via cultural diffusion was considered a reasonable hypothesis. Now that earlier art has been found outside Europe, the flip scenario—that art spread from Indonesia to Europe via cultural diffusion instead of shared ancestry—isn’t even mentioned.

“This find reinforces the idea that representational art was first produced in Africa, before 50,000 years ago, and the concept spread as our species spread.

Representational art arising first in Africa seems plausible, but how does finding art a quarter of the way around the world reinforce that location specifically?

He was just an excitable boy!

All ai projects should be forced to show the entirety of their training data.

Agreed—but note that in this case the information was only discovered because the organizations involved (Common Crawl and LAION) do show their data. We should assume that proprietary data sets have similar issues—but this case should be seen as an opportunity to improve one of the rare open data sets, not to penalize its openness and further entrench proprietary sources.

Michaels, 79, told Vanity Fair in an interview published Wednesday that he was initially “very skeptical” of the proposal from NBCUniversal executives — until he heard the AI-generated version of his speaking voice, which is capable of greeting viewers by name.

Was this a phone interview, by any chance?

It’s true—“Loan relief” is beyond “Lawless” and “Dangerous” in the alphabet.

Plus... this isn’t a remote area—you can walk across the whole range from Santa Cruz to Los Gatos in less than a day. Even if you were too panicked to think of an obvious strategy like “follow a stream” or “always walk downhill” and were essentially stumbling around blind, it seems like you’d be bound to run into a hiking trail or other landmark by chance alone within a day or two.

For Jimmy Sharman’s boxers it’s no better if you win

It sounds like a rehash of Plato’s Euthyphro dilemma... which Smith must surely have been familiar with, yet never references?

The Emperor’s New Stigmata.

I propose detecting atmospheric anomalies induced by their infinite improbability drives.

I considered that, but couldn’t think of any actual examples.

Is it the same thing, though?

Technically, any independent blogger or YouTuber is a “content creator”. But (at least in my impression of normal usage), an influencer is specifically a content creator trying to leverage their “influence” over the purchasing decisions of their followers.

The word “influencer” doesn’t appear in any quotes from party sources or the linked convention material—it’s just editorializing on the part of the Washington Post.

Is WaPo just inserting the term to discredit non-corporate media?

While the labels give retailers the ability to increase prices suddenly, Gallino doubts companies like Walmart will take advantage of the technology in that way. “To be honest, I don’t think that’s the underlying main driver of this,” Gallino said. “These are companies that tend to have a long-term relationship with their customers and I think the risk of frustrating them could be too risky, so I would be surprised if they try to do that.”

How to tell if an academic doesn’t get out enough.

See the talk page on his Wikipedia article—they’re currently comparing sources (including the New Statesman article you linked to), but don’t yet consider it conclusive.

Yes, but in the meantime you no longer have a vehicle to get from the car dealer to the bike shop.

When

• the expected return becomes negative, or
• the risk/return ratio moves away from the efficient frontier with no other motivating factor.

Other than the fediverse support, are there any other differences from last year?