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[ad_1] Prof. Bradypus Tridactylus. Credit: Marshall, Annales du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, via Wikipedia. From a draft by Stanford law professor Julian Nyarko and others: We conducted a blinded evaluation of short-answer tutoring in contracts courses with sixteen U.S. law professors. Participants created 40 representative questions, wrote answers, and judged 2,918 anonymized comparisons between human and LLM responses. Professors rated LLMs far higher than their peers (average win rate = 75.33%), with models performing similarly to the best instructor. LLM responses were also rarely flagged as harmful (3.53%, vs 12.06% for professors). Preferences for LLM answers were consistent across evaluators…
[ad_1] Israeli drones have killed at least eight people in Lebanon despite an announcement Monday by U.S. President Donald Trump that both Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to stop fighting. Trump’s intervention came as Israel threatened new strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, leading Iran to suspend indirect negotiations with the U.S. to protest Israel’s expanding military offensive in Lebanon. Since March 2, Israel has killed more than 3,400 people in Lebanon while seizing large swaths of the country and displacing about one-fifth of the population. Lebanon is “a weak state, it doesn’t have a lot of leverage,…
[ad_1] The credit agency Moody’s has calculated that the war against Iran has cost each American household $750. Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi said that in under three months of war, the cost of the war against Iran has already offset the additional tax breaks Americans received under President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. “As of May 16th, the bigger tax refunds Americans have received this year no longer cover the higher costs of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel caused by the war,” he wrote on X. While the Pentagon has claimed the cost of the war is around $25 billion,…
[ad_1] The Iran War ceasefire entered its 56th day Tuesday amid uncertainty about continued peace negotiations. Iran, in an announcement through Tasnim News Agency, suspended indirect talks with the U.S. Monday morning, stating that “there will be no dialogue until…the immediate halt of [Israel’s] aggressive and brutal military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, and the necessity of a full withdrawal of [Israel] from occupied areas in Lebanon.” In a Truth Social post Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump wrote that he “had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu today, asking him not to go into a major raid of Beirut, Lebanon” and…
[ad_1] The Enhanced Games, in which elite athletes were allowed under medical supervision to use various pills and injections to boost their performance, took place in Las Vegas over Memorial Day weekend. The Games were hyped by organizers as “the future of sport – where science, athleticism, and progress inspire superhuman achievement.” Not surprisingly, the Luddites at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency dismissed the event as a “dangerous clown show that puts profits over principle.” With respect to superhuman achievements, the Games were, to be honest, something of a dud. On the other hand, many of the enhanced older competitors did…
[ad_1] Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America, by Kira Ganga Kieffer, Princeton University Press, 304 pages, $29.95 In Unvaccinated Under God, Kira Ganga Kieffer unpacks the recent history of vaccine hesitancy in America. Kieffer, a religious studies scholar at Fairfield University, offers a way to understand hesitancy itself as a form of religious expression, even when it arises among people not bound by particular spiritual traditions. Unlike many people who tackle this topic, Kieffer treats the vaccine-hesitant with respect and curiosity, not contempt. As a result, the book leaves you not seething in rage but a…
[ad_1] Image courtesy be-fearless.org. With a few weeks to go before the start of the Teamsters’ union convention in Las Vegas, a major push is on to deny Richard Hooker the five per cent of delegates needed for him and his Fearless slate to be nominated. While there is still much skullduggery afoot to trash the reputation of Richard Hooker, the first African-American candidate for General President of the Teamsters, most of it is now quite open and increasingly nasty, as he challenges Sean O’Brien, the pro-Trump leader of the union. A recent screed by Frank Halstead, a longstanding member…
[ad_1] Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Watch where you’re driving this week, and keep an eye out for innocent bystanders, please. Today’s newsletter is a beast, covering the Protect College Sports Act—a 101-page bill just introduced in the Senate that has huge implications for college sports. We’ve got everything you need to know, everything right and wrong with the bill, and whether it can pass and become law. But first, if you want to fill out our survey on the NBA and NHL finals, let me know who you’re rooting for here. Don’t miss sports coverage…
[ad_1] Blockchain.com, one of the industry’s oldest firms, has confidentially filed a draft Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a planned initial public offering. Blockchain.com Group Holdings Inc., one of the oldest companies in the crypto industry, has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, the Dallas-based firm announced Thursday. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The IPO remains subject to market conditions and the completion of the SEC’s review…
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