Josh Levy

Jun 4, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Josh Levy

Whereas previous work has focused primarily on demonstrating a putative lie detector’s sensitivity/generalizability, it is equally important to evaluate its specificity.  With this in mind, I evaluated a lie detector trained with a state-of-the-art, white-box technique - probing an LLM’s (Mistral-7B) activations during production of facts/lies - and found that it had high sensitivity but low specificity.

Jan 22, 2024 | buildingexcellence.news | Josh Levy

The companies who actually execute work are called contractors for a reason: The contract is at the core of our business. Yet contracts are not only unclear, but they can contain big risks that can impact the success of a construction project. Thankfully, emerging technologies are helping contractors streamline and derisk their contract reviews and negotiations, while also enabling new levels of compliance and success at the project level.

Jan 5, 2024 | constructionnews.us | Josh Levy

The companies who actually execute work are called contractors for a reason: The contract is at the core of our business. Yet contracts are not only unclear, but they can contain big risks that can impact the success of a construction project. Thankfully, emerging technologies are helping contractors streamline and derisk their contract reviews and negotiations, while also enabling new levels of compliance and success at the project level.

Jun 9, 2023 | jewishchronicle.org | Josh Levy |Katherine Tegen Books |Liza Wiemer

“Luis de Torres Sails to Freedom,” by Tami Lehman-Wilzig, illustrated by Oliver Averill, published by Kar-Ben PublishingThis impassioned and impressive picture book shares the struggles the Jewish people of Spain faced doing the Spanish Inquisition. It illuminates the choices Luis de Torres might have faced to retain his Jewish identity. Although this is a work of historical fiction, the author provides plausible scenarios for Luis’s experience as interpreter for Christopher Columbus.

May 30, 2023 | diariolibre.com | Josh Levy

Dos personas fueron arrestadas y al menos otras tres están en búsqueda y captura por el tiroteo originado este lunes en una pelea entre dos grupos en el paseo de una playa de Hollywood, al norte de Miami (Florida, EE.UU.), que dejó heridos a cinco adultos y cuatro niños. Cuatro de las víctimas del tiroteo son menores con edades comprendidas entre 1 y 17 años, y cinco adultos de entre 25 y 65 años, señaló este martes en un comunicado el Departamento de Policía de Hollywood (HPD).