Ben Dickson
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6 days ago |
247sports.com | Ben Dickson
"And obviously, he's a legendary coach, so you know about him. Everybody knows about him. But this is the first time I really talked to him, and when I did, I was just in awe."One of new Maryland men's basketball head coach Buzz Williams' eight transfer portal additions is former Washington State guard Isaiah Watts. Watts, the son of former Washington standout Donald Watts and the grandson of former NBA player Slick Watts, committed to Maryland last Friday, April 11.
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newsday.com | Ben Dickson
Daron Lake has developed a knack for the clutch. The East Meadow senior leftfielder, who had a walk-off fielder’s choice in a non-league win over Calhoun on April 1, stepped to the plate against MacArthur on Thursday in a tie ballgame with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the seventh inning.
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bdtechtalks.com | Ben Dickson
On the heels of the confusing GPT-4.1 launch, OpenAI has just launched o3 and o4-mini, its newest reasoning models. These models are smarter and more capable than their predecessors and show a step change in the ability of language models to solve complex problems. Here is what we know about o3 and o4-mini.
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1 week ago |
247sports.com | Ben Dickson
New Maryland men's basketball coach Buzz Williams still has a ways to go before completing his 2025-26 roster. But thus far, the haul has been impressive. Williams has brought in eight transfers as of Wednesday: former Texas A&M players Pharrel Payne, Solomon Washington, Andre Mills and George Turkson Jr., former Indiana guard Myles Rice, former Kansas guard David Coit, former Washington State guard Isaiah Watts and former Virginia forward Elijah Saunders.
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newsday.com | Ben Dickson
Massapequa junior lefthander AJ Conza has earned the trust of his teammates and coaches in tense moments. “He’s known for these kind of situations,” senior second baseman Vincenzo Della Porta said. “He comes in late game all the time. He’s used to it by now. It’s normal for him.”Conza entered with the tying run at the plate as visiting Massapequa led by four over Farmingdale with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the seventh.
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MCP is an interface, nothing more. Even its creators think of it as a "USB-C for AI," not some sort of scientific discovery (this doesn't mean it cannot have an important impact on developing applications).
How to detect an idiot: they think that MCP is some sort of advancement in AI, like ReLU, skip connections, dropout, batch normalization, transformers, or RoPE (assuming they know what these latter terms mean).
When you're not transparent about the training data that went into training your model, it's hard to tell memorized data from real generalization.
🔥 New paper! We show GPT‑4o can perfectly recall tons of econ & market data inside its training window—so those glossy “LLM beats Wall St.” back‑tests may just be parroted history. @YuehuaTang The Memorization Problem: Can We Trust LLMs' Economic Forecasts? https://t.co/h61Pu59rF7
What about the cases where it gave the wrong advice? Genuinely curious to know what is the ratio/impact of good/bad healthcare advice ChatGPT gives. Any studies on this?
I'm hearing more and more stories of ChatGPT helping people fix longstanding health issues. We still have a long way to go, but shows how AI is already improving people's lives in meaningful ways. https://t.co/FDDtg2MGvW
