kellogh

kellogh, 4 hours ago to fediverse

so is #ActivityPub basically just bidirectional #RSS?

kellogh, 7 hours ago to random

PSA save your old cameras. we’re to the point where most smartphone pics are heavily processed by AI to the point where they don’t really reflect reality. in 1-2 years those old pre-AI cameras are gonna be real hot

kellogh, 7 hours ago to random

i wish openai embedding models had an option to NOT normalize vectors

most of the time, normalizing is exactly what you want, but every now and then normalization squashes valuable info

futurebird, 9 hours ago to random

I love the fedi only more for being the only place I know full of exasperated FORTRAN defenders. How can we insult the original word? Yea, when it was first written we were not yet even born! 🥰

smach, 9 hours ago to LLMs

“The general problem of mixing data with commands is at the root of many of our computer security vulnerabilities.” Great explainer by security researcher Bruce Schneier on why large language models may not be a great choice for tasks like processing your emails.
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/llms-data-control-path-insecurity/

#GenAI #LLMs #InfoSec

kellogh, 10 hours ago to random

the power of wanting to gtfo https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112414756941559961

kellogh, 10 hours ago to Metal

happy #knockedloose day, to those that celebrate

https://songwhip.com/knocked-loose/you-wont-go-before-youre-supposed-to #Metal

futurebird, 11 hours ago to random

Four more years?
or five more brain worms?

sminez, 14 hours ago to random

If the light is like this tomorrow when I have some time to explore Madrid then hopefully I should be able to have some success with a bit of street photography 🤞

KathyReid, 20 hours ago to stackoverflow

Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

personality_of_colt, 23 hours ago to random

It is wild to think there are so many Americans who would vote for a convicted rapist and conman over Joe Biden, solely because Biden is "a career politician." When you hate lifetime civil servants more than you hate rape, theft and insurrection, there's not much else that can be said.

carnage4life, 1 day ago to random

I saw a headline saying RFK Jr had brain worms but didn’t realize until just now that it was a true statement. A worm literally ate part of his brain. 🙀

kellogh, 1 day ago to random

i don’t tell the kids to shut the windows, i tell them, “if any spiders crawl in, just push them out”. the problem solves itself

KathyReid, 1 day ago to stackoverflow

I just issued a data deletion request to #StackOverflow to erase all of the associations between my name and the questions, answers and comments I have on the platform.

One of the key ways in which #RAG works to supplement #LLMs is based on proven associations. Higher ranked Stack Overflow members' answers will carry more weight in any #LLM that is produced.

By asking for my name to be disassociated from the textual data, it removes a semantic relationship that is helpful for determining which tokens of text to use in an #LLM.

If you sell out your user base without consultation, expect a backlash.

AnnemarieBridy, 1 day ago to random

Is there a more tedious person? 🙄

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/greene-johnson-vacate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.YfJo.3YEgFjBS4Z1c&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

kellogh, 1 day ago to Metal

i’ve taken to playing #knockedloose while taking naps, it keeps the kids away but my dreams get weird
#metal

kellogh, 2 days ago to random

tbqh my life is worse knowing that RFK has brain worms, in that now i know that's a real thing. i was happy believing it was just a thing mean people said

softwaredoug, 2 days ago to random

Insulate your career: not with F-you money, but with your F-You network

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/05/08/build-an-f-you-network

kellogh, 2 days ago to random

boxes were checked

kellogh, 2 days ago to python

what's the word when, in #python, the declared types are wrong, so you have to butcher the code with assert statements? dark types?