Karen

On my last job before retirement, we were asked to explore using LLMs to extract information from reports intel analysts have carefully prepared. I noted that the LLM summaries, even when factually correct (it made up quite a bit of stuff), often missed the judgment conveyed via nuanced words chosen by the human analysts. I'm sure nobody read my report, just like they couldn't be bothered to read the reports by trained analysts and they wanted a shorter version from a stochastic parrot instead

Someone had found a pair of White Ibis, a day after and no more than 4 miles north of where I saw a pair last Thursday. This pair may have remained there thru the weekend. They were in a neighborhood "lake" that's being dredged. There are no shorebirds there right now, but the shorebird migration just started. #birding

Someone reported a Yellow-crowned Night Heron at a place south of the retention pond. I went back to the retention pond to see if they stopped there. They didn't, but I found out that the Green Herons have had at least one successful nest: there were at least two newly-fledged juveniles #birding

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org when I volunteered at the food bank Trader Joe's was a major contributor. They never marked down anything and just donated it all to the food bank (mostly baked goods & produce). I've heard the occasional donations of unsold flowers were a big deal

@mcnees@mastodon.social oh gosh I still remember that time when I was a physics undergrad a bunch of us walked past Owen Chamberlain's office and saw the mess!

@VisualStuart@pdx.social not my terminology. Famous paper by Bender et al https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922