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- 'Surreal Arithmetic, Lazily',
- John Conway's surreal numbers were aptly named by Knuth.
This note examines how far one can get towards implementing
surreals and the arithmetic operations on them so that they
execute efficiently. Lazy evaluation and recursive data structures
yield a considerable speed up.
— [www].
"AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic? ..." — Nature 652, pp.848-850, 2026, [www]. #risks #fakenews, #AIslop #politics #LLM
"Graduate job vacancies drop by almost 50% in a year,
survey suggests ..." —
[bbc][24/8/2026].
"'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in
the AI transition ..." —
[bbc][5/8/2026].
"Stanford graduates rethink their futures as AI transforms tech ..." —
[bbc][24/6/2026].
"Tech giant Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it embraces AI ..." —
[bbc][23/6/2026].
"Standard Chartered to cut thousands of roles as AI use
increases ..." —
[bbc][19/5/2026].
"Meta says it will cut 8,000 jobs as AI spending soars ..." —
[bbc][24/4/2026].
"Snapchat owner cuts 1,000 jobs as says AI will reduce
repetitive work ..." —
[bbc][15/4/'26].
"Thousands lose their jobs in deep cuts at tech giant Oracle ..." —
[bbc][1/4/'26].
"Tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass job cuts ..." —
[bbc][30/3/'26].
"Did AI really take their jobs? ..." —
[abc][25/3/'26].
- "Meta trial that could reshape Facebook and Instagram gets
underway in California ... A coalition of US states ... claims the
Facebook and Instagram apps have been designed to addict children and
have caused harm to youngsters' mental health. ..."
— abc
[19/8/2026].
#meta #facebook #instagram #addiction
(Also see
bbc [7/8/2026].)
- "Meta to pay au$23 billion [us$18b] and update Facebook and Instagram to settle teen social media addiction lawsuits ... [just] a fraction of the company's 2025 revenue of us$201 billion ..." — abc [27/8/2026].
"Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, [BBC] finds ..." (3/7/2026) #meta #instagram #telegram #facebook #India
"ChatGPT can be made to generate sexualised and violent images ..." — bbc [18/6/2026].
.uk: "Starmer [PM] tells Apple and Google to ban nude images on children's phones ..." — bbc [8/6/2026].
.fr: "French police raid X offices in Paris as Elon Musk ordered to face questions ..." — abc [3/2/2026].
.uk: 'Ofcom asks [Elon Musk's] X about reports its Grok AI makes sexualised images of children ... AI tool Grok can be used to make "sexualised images of children" and undress women ...' — bbc [6/1/2026]. #law #Grok #AI #genAI #elonmusk #xitter