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@davidcelis@xoxo.zone Did you get a response? :D
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I see you use Cory Doctorow’s asbestos analogy. I’ve used that as well, but someone pointed out to me that unlike “AI”, asbestos was in fact very good at what it was used for. Lately I’ve referred to the early 20th century craze for putting radioactive material everywhere, as supposedly healthy, for a better analogy. https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioactive-quack-cures/pills-potions-and-other-miscellany/radithor.html and https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-drink-radiation/
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@bruces@mastodon.social is the job posting signal why so many companies continue to post ghost openings that don’t really exist nor ever be filled?
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I attended a gathering that was cast online and saw a notice about an AI bot. I have since stopped attending any gatherings of that group.
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@sundogplanets awesome to see the kids having fun and bonding so soon. I know those dogs will turn into their most ferocious defenders when the time calls for it.
Support your local library. Hug a librarian.
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@davidnjoku “Imagine there was no such thing as a library, and that members of the current neoliberal policy consensus were to sit down today and invent it.”
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/citizen-coupon
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@timbray@cosocial.ca I’ve written ensloppenator to describe these plausible synthetic text extruders
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@ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net I've never quite understood the folks who move into neighborhoods near airports, busy railroad crossings and the like and then complain. There's a reason properties near those things are cheaper.
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net there’s another industry with that exact business model. You can see it in operation at its most gaudy and unabashed in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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@beemoh @ianbetteridge Good point about affordability. I am sympathetic but not necessarily in agreement. It's well known that noisy, polluting, and distressing industry gets located nearer poorer neighborhoods that already exist, and that's a problem. But the cases I'm thinking of specifically involve gentrification of warehouse and industrial districts, and the people moving in definitely aren't lower income.
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@gleick I saw a screenshot with the "Praise be to Allah", and I thought it was fake. I consistently underestimate how unhinged the current occupant of the Oval Office has become.
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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social that quote is not in the ACM brief at all! The article pulled it from a statement by the lead author, who happens to work for a company using AI for digital forensics.. The newstack article seems not to have any excerpts directly from the brief, and I wonder if the author even read it.
The brief: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3807518
@glyph@mastodon.social ask any programmer and they’ll tell you how most of the time when they find a good tool, they have to sneak it in the back and hope that when management finds out, the team has already made it essential to their work and have facts to prove its value. Tools imposed top down from senior execs are almost universally useless and reviled.
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@petergleick This was the flu inaccurately called the Spanish Flu because the Army told the story that GIs had picked it up in Europe, and the press picked it up because of anti-Spanish sentiment . The earliest probable cases were documented in March 1918 in Haskell County, Kansas, United States, near hog and chicken farms.
"These things have in common a certain incuriosity that I have found endemic among a certain kind of tech enthusiast, particularly the ones who are most interested in startups and entrepreneurship. Perhaps they have been so siloed that they did not realize their “discovery” was well -known elsewhere, or perhaps their self-conception is that they are the smartest, and if they don’t know something, no one knows it."
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos
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@timbray@cosocial.ca programming tools were barely profitable back when people paid serious money for compilers, IDEs, and related tools.
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@KatyElphinstone It the "Double Empathy Problem" paper the best reference for understanding the credibility of non-autistic communication over autistic, or would you suggest a different reference in your list from the podcast? Or something else altogether?
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@cadey Isn't the point of the check that the language models don't "get" negation? There have been several good looks at this over the last couple of years at least. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00105 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22395v2 or, more casually, https://seantrott.substack.com/p/llms-and-the-not-problem As far I as understand it, the need to have an external determination of negation makes sense. Not like this, though.
@marick@mstdn.social As hard as most cities are pushing "sweeps" and getting the unhoused out of sight from the tourists and business areas, it 100% makes sense these people would end up in the sewers, along with all the other stuff that inconveniences or disturbs the well-to-do.
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@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org Not far off. Cruise notably revealed their cars require regular human assistance.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social there were signs two years ago. Allbirds and TBPN are those reflective black and yellow markers on the concrete barriers at the end of the road. The boosters still have the gas pedal floored straight ahead.
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@polotek@social.polotek.net Yes on having conversations, no on training. The better teams used points or shirt size; those close to the project understood their imprecise nature.
I read widely. no. 1: you can only estimate something you've done before, as another comment mentioning Steve McConnell says. Look back is important. Retrospectives and velocity aren't enough. Individual programmers need to be taught how to record their work and compare results with estimates.
"I downloaded the BC30 genome and selected two regions of its genome that didn’t match other species in the NCBI database"
That almost throwaway line says a lot about what the Internet can be if we make better choices about where we spend our billions of dollars.
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@jacob@social.jacobian.org Instead of spending $TRILLIONS on ensloppenators, what if we spent a fraction of that money improving the deterministic tools we have?
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@larsmb@mastodon.online Surely AGI is just a year or two away! 🙄
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@scalzi I also will never consider "The Phantom Menace" canon. Delete the entire film from the timeline and nothing of value is lost.
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@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social @polotek@social.polotek.net in which case I’d send you to speak with my previous employers to ask if they’ll give us that code.
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@nedbat@hachyderm.io the readme should have only five words. “This directory intentionally left empty”