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Luis Villa: essays on open software, open culture, AI, and law

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Collaboration: a Confused Story in Five Graphs

Some graphs about reading and writing on the internet. Less a story than a Rorschach test.

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Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness

Following up on last week's post, I looked at 5,000 "Vital Articles" across eight major-language Wikipedias. Articles about math, physical sciences and tech are waaaay down, while people, geography, and history hold up far better—regardless of which language they're in. Article freshness matters too—but not as much.

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Career articles on Wikipedia: some scary numbers

I took a look at English Wikipedia pageviews for ~4,000 articles about careers. The numbers are grim: the median is down 28% from pre-COVID, with a huge drop in the last year.

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Lawyers, Humility, and LLMs

Reviewing a book about a multi-billion-dollar contract bug—and what it means for the profession's arrogant response to LLMs.

Of Monsters, Men, and Lawyers

Generalist LLMs are not lawyers, and evaluating them that way is a waste of time. Evaluating LLMs with useful specialized prompts (and eventually, with specialized legal harnesses) is where the work must happen.

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