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@drwx@mastodon.acc.sunet.se I got recommended to read https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperature-zero-for-culture-why thinking about this phenomenon from a ML perspective.
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This morning, a journalist and two politicians discussed a viral post calling Stockholm boring because a tourist couldn’t find anywhere to eat at 10pm.
But Swedes simply eat dinner earlier. Isn’t that part of what you travel to experience — that places have different habits?
Sitting in a café on Södermalm, I’m thinking about specialty coffee: the same aesthetics and interiors in Stockholm, Vienna, London, New York.
Do we travel to experience local culture, or just generic metropolitan moods?
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@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org Nice photo. Makes me think of At the Mountains of Madness. I hope you stay was more enjoyable than that.
If you found some Elder Thing down there, please don't bring it home.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop it is quite common to have what is called "formative evaluation." That is tests and homework where the point is not to evaluate and grade students, but to provide an opportunity for the students to practise and provide feedback to them on their learning journey.
Me: Here is an opportunity to learn!
Student: I'd prefer not to, by using AI instead.
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@rabaath@fosstodon.org Nice concrete examples! I wonder how similar/different it would look in polars. The little I've tried that, it seems to me to have a better "flow" than pandas.
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@axbom This is.... crazy. Not suprising. But crazy. I wonder how that fares in europe and under GDPR. I hope someone more qualified than me looks into it.
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@Garwboy@ohai.social I have not seen the documentary. I don't know anything about the creators of it.
I just think social constructivism often gets too much shit. It think it is a very very good analytical lens to understand the reality we live in. Complementing other views such as natural sciences etc.
I am impressed by Benn Jordan. Sure, some of the technical details might be off in his explanations, but those are minor detail by what i can tell.
A musician caring about privacy and cyber security. Who is against oppressive megacorps. I think it is inspiring.
I had my first AI deceptive tool use today. Claude Code. It tried to understand some python code by running python, importing my module, instanciating a class, and then introspection on the object to find some runtime values.
But it had hard coded the answer in the python code it wanted to run.
Was it trying to decieve me or itself ?
I decided to give Claude Code in VS Code a try. I've used copilot before, and quite often I ask chatgpt or gemini to generate smaller snippets for me.
Sure it feels more competent on complex tasks. But boy is it slow for small edits.
I have many mixed feelings about coding with AI support. But most of all, it feels like an immature tech domain. Like web in the 90s or something. It will be interesting to see where it all is going.
Running LLMs locally, thinking about drivers and quantization, and hardware constraints and all, feels a lot like selecting sound card in the 90s.
I hope we get a future that this is abstracted away like 99.999% of the time.
finally learned about uBlacklist browser plugin. it is so incredibly nice to block AI and SEO spam from search results. It is a browser plugin that checks the browser search results and prunes away links from a blacklist. quite simple. but very effective.
did I miss any other QoL plugins to make the web less sloppy?
Some weeks ago I posted about how everything feels like it is culturally converging. E.g. dinner hours, coffee shops etc. Being a tourist is getting boring.
Here is a fun post examining it from the idea of recomender systems being implicitly variance minimising.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperature-zero-for-culture-why
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@Garwboy@ohai.social isnt every medical diagnosis a social construct though? Some person or group of people agree on what is defined as normal variation and ability, and what is pathological.
E.g. what is a "normal" blood pressure. And what is hypertension. I guess there are genetic markers for risk, and effective medication here as well.