Tom Lehrer Songs – The Elements Song

Everything on Tom’s site  has now become public domain.

Help yourself to everything.

PERIODIC TABLE ELEMENTS SONG

Learn the Periodic Table Elements
using Music, and the Elements Song.

The science research explains why
you should use music for learning.

Tags: periodic table, elements, element song, science, chemistry, music makes you smarter, Tom Lehrer

My chemistry teacher asked me what my favorite element is so I replied the ‘element of surprise’ b4 karate chopping her to the floor! HA!

What do you do when a chemist dies?
A. You barium. Bada Boom!

“The Elements” song by Tom Lehrer

Happy Chanukah

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

The conversations will be legendary!

“We’re about to see an explosion of tech startups that are using transformers and other AI tech to automate human work.”
AI Art Just Opened The Threat to Human Work We Were Expecting from AGI
The technology powering AI Art is far more universal than people realize

Robo-Lawyer Valued at $210 Million With Backing From Andreessen
‘The legal system shouldn’t be pay-to-play,’ says CEO Browder
He founded DoNotPay after getting flurry of parking tickets

Joshua Browder @jbrowder1
The first major use case of GPT-3 and LLMs for ordinary people will be consumer rights. A new technology is first used by the established corporations and the powerful. Our goal @donotpay is to operationalize AI more quickly to fight back. I am spending almost 100% of my time in AI at the moment to make it happen.
DoNotPay is building a chrome extension where you can specify something like “negotiate my Comcast bill down,” and it will use the Comcast online chat to lower your bill with GPT-3.
Over time, Comcast will also use LLMs. So robots will just be negotiating with each other! Will include all of our special tricks, laws, flair and the ability to bypass Comcast security.
We have been doing this for years with rules based approaches. With the advances in AI, the missing piece has been filled. What a time to be alive!

Negotiating medical bills, fixing credit reports, waiving fees, lowering bills, cancelling subscriptions and suing robocallers.

Build next-gen apps with OpenAI’s powerful models.
Access GPT-3, which performs a variety of natural language tasks, Codex, which translates natural language to code, and DALL·E, which creates and edits original images.

DoNotPay is building a chrome extension where you can specify something like “negotiate my Comcast bill down,” and it will use the Comcast online chat to lower your bill with GPT-3. Over time, Comcast will also use LLMs. So robots will just be negotiating with each other!

Will include all of our special tricks, laws, flair and the ability to bypass Comcast security. We have been doing this for years with rules based approaches. With the advances in AI, the missing piece has been filled. What a time to be alive!

Law & Order: GPT3 – Plaintiff and defendant have GPT3 argue their case and a GPT3 judge decides the verdict.
They’ll just add a “negotiate bot to bot” fee.

Negotiation is a purely human concept – to make us feel like we’ve won something that we weren’t necessarily going to get. Bots don’t have to negotiate. They can just apply rules given a shared set of facts.

“Service as a service”
They’ll know each other’s move in advance and agree on the winner and result at the very beginning. “

Robot 1: Hi, my name is
Robot 2: Yes, you won. Your bill will be cut in half starting next period.”

So THIS is “The Future”? Really?

Where’s the hell is my flying car?!?!?

Have a chat.

https://chat.openai.com/

The Dick Cavett Show Paul Weissman and James Baldwin Debate

JONATHAN A. WEISS Esq. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jonathan A, Weiss’s Father was Paul Weissman

Paul Weiss (/waɪs/; May 19, 1901 – July 5, 2002) was an American philosopher. He was the founder of The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America.
https://cyberplayground.org/tag/dr-paul-weiss-philosopher/

James Baldwin and Paul Weiss Debate Discrimination in America on the Dick Cavett Show.

All thanks to Esther Wick for sending.

Date aired – 5/16/69 – James Baldwin, Paul Weiss

almost 4000 comments

Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.

Princeton agrees to backpay nearly $1M to female professors after gender discrimination allegations

Valuing Culture While Combating Stress, Inequality, Bias, and Discrimination with Diverse Learners

The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment

The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment

People fleeing Twitter have turned to Eugen Rochko’s alternative. He says social networks can support healthy debate—without any one person in control.

Eugen Rochko looks exhausted. The 29-year-old German programmer is the founder of Mastodon, a distributed alternative to Twitter that has exploded in popularity in recent weeks as Elon Musk’s ownership of the platform has rained chaos on its users.

Rochko began developing Mastodon shortly after leaving university in 2016. He was a fan of Twitter but wanted to create a platform not controlled by any single company or person, reasoning that online communication is too important to be at the whim of commercial interests or CEOs. He believed that the lack of profit motive and canny design could discourage harassment and abuse, and provide users more control.

Instead of creating a single unified platform, the Mastodon protocol allows anyone to use open-source software to boot up a server that hosts a Twitter-style community with its own rules. Together those servers form a collective of interlinked communities dubbed the “Fediverse.” People can join a server that matches their interests and community standards, but also connect with users on other servers, or block all content from a particular server completely.

Mastodon grew slowly after the first code was released in 2017, appealing mostly to free software enthusiasts. Then Elon Musk took control of Twitter for $44 billion. His promises to weaken moderation, deep staff cuts, and chaotic changes to the platform turned many dedicated Twitter users off the platform. In the past few weeks, Rochko says, some 800,000 new Mastodon accounts have been created, overwhelming popular servers and flooding existing users’ timelines with introductions, questions, and complaints from newbies. Last year, donations to the nonprofit that runs Mastodon and where Rochko is CEO totaled 55,000 euros; it spent only 23,000 euros.

Since Musk took over Twitter, Rochko has been working long hours to keep his own server, Mastodon.Social, running, while also preparing a major upgrade to Mastodon, but he took time to videochat with WIRED from his home in Germany. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built-it-for-this-moment/

If you leave Twitter here are the other places to go.

Twitter alternative: how Mastodon is designed to be “antiviral”
The new social software is subtly designed to reduce the huge, viral surges of attention we see on Twitter.
https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51