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ICYMI: ChatGPT Says What?: Large Language Models with Eric Wright
Eric Wright's talk on ChatGPT and large language models has been released on our Youtube channel. If you missed it now's your chance to catch up!
DFW Tech
ChatGPT: Fact vs Fiction – Thursday March 2nd 7PM
The University of Texas at Dallas, in partnership with The Dallas Morning News, is hosting a panel discussion, “ChatGPT: Fact vs Fiction” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 2 at the ATEC Lecture Hall.
Panelists include: - Dr. Xinya Du, assistant professor of computer science, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science - Dr. Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. Gupta also serves as co-director of UTD’s Center for Applied AI and Machine Learning - Dale MacDonald, associate dean of research and creative technologies, School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology - Dr. Jessica Ouyang, assistant professor of computer science, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Common Desk Plans 23K-SF Coworking Space in Dallas' The Hill Shopping Center » Dallas Innovates
According to a report by Steve Brown in the Dallas Morning News, Common Desk is planning a 23,000-square-foot-plus shared office location at The Hill, slated to open late this summer. The report cited planning documents filed with the state, and added that Dallas-based IdGroup is designing the project.
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🎧 Y'all'itics - The science to reducing violent crime
A few notches above your typical copaganda, an interview with Dallas PD's Chief Eddie Garcia via Y'all'itics on their collaboration with UTSA criminologists and their crime plan
Dallas is the only top 10 city in the country with two consecutive years of lowering crime stats across the board. It’s quite a turnaround for a city that just three years ago did not even have a crime plan and had to request the state to send extra troopers to help squelch violence. How did Dallas do it?
Critical Race Leery - Fort Worth Weekly
Hell of a long read on the Slocum Massacre and more by E.R. Bills.
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More Elegant Destructuring with JavaScript Generators
Exploring one of the few practical-ish use cases for iterables and generators I’ve come across so far — destructuring an arbitrary number of entities on demand.
👀 sw-yx/spark-joy
This a huge link dump – but there's some great nuggets of 🤩.
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