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Bookmate.ru has been sufficiently absorbed into yandex by now that the url just redirects to "books.yandex.ru".

It's funny how they've cannibalized the Bookmate logo and incorporated it into their own one. A testament to the genius of Bookmate's designer.


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Jeff Sutherland, the half-mad cofather of scrum, not only is writing his latest book with a heavy involvement of AI, but has also recently started to release an AI-generated podcast based on the chapters of his book.

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A professor in political studies complains that Routledge is refusing to publish his book that it has signed a contract for.

He writes:

I can cancel the contract and publish the open access book with another academic press. But the peer-review and publishing process would take close to 1 year and would significantly delay the publication of my ( Read more... )

Well, here is LLM hallucinating. It cannot, of course, be trusted with the knowledge of the current world.

1) Easily changes its mind:


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Developer's reaction to last week's drama:


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Yes.


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The 30-second video fragment in that tweet might of course have been taken out of context; but I was surprized to see how different the discourse was back then when it started:


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Someone shared a joke about async functions


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