Wednesday assorted links

1. At least one in four NFL players, and possibly much higher, ends up with brain disease (NYT). As I read the results, probably most of them do. 2. On the LLM flooding of governmental services. 3. Joe Walker podcast with Andrew Charlton on the future of AI in Australia. 4. The bread culture that […] The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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