Episode 753: Tainting the LLMs

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On This Day In History for September 18, 2024

This is the 262nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 104 days remaining in 2024.

• It was on this date in 1544, that The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene made landfall in San Pedro Bay, southern Chile, claiming the territory for Spain.
• 231 years ago today, the first cornerstone of the United States Capitol was laid by George Washington.
• Also on September 18, 1809, The Royal Opera House in London opened.
• Also today in 1837, Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
• It was on this date in 1851, that saw the first publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later became The New York Times.
• The Confederate States celebrated for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day on this date in 1862.
• It was 154 years ago today that Old Faithful Geyser was observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
• The Blackpool Illuminations were switched on for the first time on this date in 1879.
• That same date in 1927, The Columbia Broadcasting System went on the air.
• It was 47 years ago today that Voyager I took the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
• It was on this date in 1997, that United States media magnate Ted Turner donated US$1 billion to the United Nations.
• On September 18, 2001, the first anthrax letters were mailed from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• English lexicographer and poet, Samuel Johnson, born on this date in 1709.
• Adrien-Marie Legendre, the French mathematician and theorist was born 272 years ago today.
• French physicist and academic, Léon Foucault, born on this date in 1819.
• Swedish-American actress, Greta Garbo was born 119 years ago today.
• Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1907.
• Victor Ambartsumian, the Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic was born 116 years ago today.
• Born September 18, 1932, Russian physicist and astronaut Nikolay Rukavishnikov.
• Robert Blake, the American actor, producer, and screenwriter was born 91 years ago today.
• Also turning 84 today is American singer and actor Frankie Avalon.
• Born September 18, 1944, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut Charles L. Veach.
• British-American computer programmer and businessman, founded McAfee, John McAfee was born 79 years ago today.

Listener Birthdays

• 18 – Jeff Schultz (Gorbash)
• 20 – Joel Harper (Rincewind) / Milwaukee WI
• 20 – Joel Rickenbach [deceased] (host of the You’ve Got Geek Podcast)
• 21 – Dean Jensen (Beaker1)
• 22 – Bilbo Bagins
• 22 – Frodo Bagins

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 18, 2024

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News

• Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration | New Scientist
• Earth Gaining a Temporary New Moon, Scientists Say
• China has lit its first artificial sun: 120 million degrees and the world on edge

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