How I Met My Father
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A former OpenAI leader says safety has ‘taken a backseat to shiny products’ at the AI company
A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company. Jan Leike,
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Hume-Lind family to sell Daily Gazette to Publisher John DeAugustine
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Colorado Springs Indy returns as a bi
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Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Book Dispels Rumor About Final Flight with JFK Jr.
For decades, rumors have swirled that a spa appointment was the reason John F. Kennedy Jr. , 38, his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, and her sister Lauren, 34, were late to the airport the night
Defeat Is Agonizing. In These 2 Books, It’s Also Thrilling.
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See Meryl Streep Read for SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Childhood Literacy Program
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Opinion | The Truth Hurts — Especially When Bill Maher Dishes It Out
Back in 2013, I got a call from Bill Maher. He was being hit with a lawsuit by Donald Trump and thought it would be “comedy gold” for my column. The host of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” had joke
Lit Hub Weekly: May 13
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In his elegant obituary of Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate who died this week in Port Hope, Ontario, Anthony DePalma writes that her stories “were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of o
Inside Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire
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An Instagram Poet, a Billionaire and the End of the World
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The World’s Simplest Guide to the Stock Market provides a crash course on the essentials of stocks and the stock market. In plain language it gives clear answers to key questions such as: – What is a
Python for Data Science, 2nd Edition » FoxGreat
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A Compendium Of Musical Mathematics » FoxGreat
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Dancing with Qubits - Second Edition: From qubits to algorithms, embark on the quantum computing journey shaping our future » FoxGreat
Unlock the core math and understand the technical nuances of quantum computing in this detailed guide. Delve into the practicality of NISQ algorithms, and survey promising advancements in quantum mach
Sustainable Automated Production Systems: Industry 4.0 Models and Techniques » FoxGreat
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FreeCAD 0.21: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users » FoxGreat
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Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management: Satisfy Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness » FoxGreat
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Painless Docker: Unlock the Power of Docker and its Ecosystem » FoxGreat
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Newspaper conglomerate Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of its articles
Gannett, the media company that owns hundreds of newspapers in the U.S., is launching a new program that adds AI-generated bullet points at the top of journalists’ stories, according to an internal me
‘A small window of opportunity’ as publishers grapple with growing AI use
The news Monday that Google is planning to launch an update to its search engine that includes answers generated by artificial intelligence likely has news publishers, content creators and all kinds o
Two new novels investigate what makes magic, what is real and imagined
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Shop Amazon's Big Book Sale 2024
Searching for the perfect beach read to take on your Memorial Day vacay ? I've got some good news for all you bookworms: *Tons* of popular BookTok books, along with select Kindles and Fire