Our findings reveal that around 80% of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10% of their work tasks affected by the introduction of LLMs, while approximately 19% of workers may see at least 50% of their tasks impacted. We do not make predictions about the development or adoption timeline of such LLMs. The projected effects span all wage levels, with higher-income jobs potentially facing greater exposure to LLM capabilities and LLM-powered software. Significantly, these impacts are not restricted to industries with higher recent productivity growth. Our analysis suggests that, with access to an LLM, about 15% of all worker tasks in the US could be completed significantly faster at the same level of quality. When incorporating software and tooling built on top of LLMs, this share increases to between 47 and 56% of all tasks. This finding implies that LLM-powered software will have a substantial effect on scaling the economic impacts of the underlying models. We conclude that LLMs such as GPTs exhibit traits of general-purpose technologies, indicating that they could have considerable economic, social, and policy implications.

Source: [2303.10130] GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models

Fears that robots will take away jobs from people have dominated the discussion over the future of work, but the World Development Report 2019 finds that on balance this appears to be unfounded. Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. Firms adopt new ways of production, markets expand, and societies evolve. Overall, technology brings opportunity, paving the way to create new jobs, increase productivity, and deliver effective public services.

Source: World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature of Work

The quality of evidence regarding the associations between road traffic noise and hypertension is low due to the limitations of cross-sectional study …

Source: Road Traffic Noise and Incidence of Primary Hypertension: A Prospective Analysis in UK Biobank – ScienceDirect

find . -type d -depth 1 -exec git –git-dir={}/.git –work-tree=$PWD/{} pull origin master \;

Source: bash – Run git pull over all subdirectories – Stack Overflow

The world owes Costa Rica a debt for the social conscience, political will, original economics, and plain old hard work that have led to the protection of a larger percentage of the land as natural habitat than in any other country.

Source: Costa Rica’s National Parks, Reserves and Wildlife Refuges

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Style variations are a new feature of block themes, recently landing in WordPress 6.0. They’re just one part of the new era of WordPress theming, with the introduction of Full Site Editing.

Source: How to add style variations to WordPress Block Themes — Rich Tabor

In this article, you’ll learn how to build your own DIY SASS microphone. The design uses 4 EM272 mic capsules for ultra low noise performance. For a fraction of the price, this SASS microphone competes with microphone setups costing well over $1000.

Source: DIY SASS Microphone w/EM272 Capsules — Acoustic Nature

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a pocket sized AR device for the imaginative hacker

Source: Monocle