Monthly Archives: December 2024

Pernicious Balance

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Robert Basil

Scholarly journals hide everything from people who can’t afford to read them. Large language models steal everything from people who can’t afford to lose anything.

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Retirement

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Robert Basil

Reposted from basil.CA: 2025 Next year, at summer’s end, I will be retiring from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. I will remain open to other contract opportunities elsewhere after that, but this will be it for me as a full-time prof. The … Continue reading →

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“AI-powered bias meter”

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Robert Basil

Watching owners of once-great American newspapers destroy their own property has been truly shocking to me.

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