Daily Shaarli
June 18, 2023
Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the EU AI Act?
Authors: Rishi Bommasani and Kevin Klyman and Daniel Zhang and Percy Liang
Stanford researchers evaluate foundation model providers like OpenAI and Google for their compliance with proposed EU law on AI.
This page will show you how to turn a $199.95 (Canadian – Suggested Retail) pair of Sennheiser HD 555 headphones into a pair of Sennheiser HD 595‘s that cost $349.95. And all you need is a screwdriver.
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social - There was a stretch when Elon Musk took over twitter and started charging for blue checks (lmao) and some of his sycophants started talking about “Veblen goods.”
A Veblen good is something for which demand increases as price increases, in contact to the neoclassical orthodoxy that demand decreases axiomatically with price.
Veblen goods are things that rich people buy to signal their wealth and status. Jewelry, fancy watches, yachts, Ivy League degrees. Things that cost many thousands or millions of dollars.
The idea that an $8 verification on twitter would ever be a status symbol for the rich was fucking ludicrous.
1/8
OER Videos für die Schule unter Creative Commons Lizenz ohne Tracking