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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • An academic book about emojis that can’t include emojis? That’s ironic and frustrating. Makes me sad that we live in a world where copyright hinders education and discussion 🙈

    Here is a Tl;Dr for the ones who don’t want to click the link:

    Oxford professor Jieun Kiaer published an academic book called “Emoji Speak: Communications and Behaviours on Social Media,” exploring how emojis are used across different cultures and ages, and considering their future in digital communication.

    Although the book discusses emojis in detail, Kiaer was unable to include actual images of many emojis due to copyright concerns, despite the fact that these symbols are ubiquitous in social media spaces, which are almost entirely copyright-free.

    Instead of using actual emojis, Kiaer hired an artist, Loli Kim, to draw similar representations, illustrating the barriers that exist between the online and offline worlds concerning copyright.

    The inability to use emojis in the book, even in an academic context, highlights the complications and absurdity of modern copyright laws, which some argue could have constituted a fair use situation.


  • Some in the AI industry have proposed concepts similar to Moore’s Law to describe the rapid growth of AI capabilities.

    Although there is no universally accepted law or principle akin to Moore’s Law for AI, people often refer to trends that describe the doubling of model sizes or capabilities over a specific time frame.

    For instance, OpenAI has previously described a trend where the amount of computing power used to train the largest AI models has been doubling roughly every 3.5 months since 2012.

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