this has been bugging me a lot. like, yeah, there’s definitely AI scams out there. and yeah, a lot of people are using it from the wrong end, but it’s also clearly a substantial technology. time to realize that https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112484753548884371
thinking about my education growing up, my k-6 teachers were wretched with getting facts right. one teacher didn’t have a single science experiment work. lots of stuff i was taught k-12 was outright wrong.
the thing is, students exceed their teachers all the time. a teacher isn’t the limiting factor for a student
i keep hearing that #AI is worthless bc it hallucinates. yet it’s taught me functioning skills within UI dev, graphic design, 3D printing, 3D design
yesterday i spent 15 minutes on a “strong password training” that could be replaced with a paragraph of how to use a password manager
i’m pretty sure password managers, as difficult as they are, are still far simpler than all these rules we subject non-technical people to
like, they like writing things down. everything in their being says they need to write things down in order to remember them. why not just give them a secure way to do what they’re going to do anyway?
postgres’ extension ecosystem is incredible. back in the nosql days, you had to make a bold decision to abandon all sql just for a few features (KV, graphs, time series, etc.). now, you can continue using postres, just install an extension for vector store, graphs, etc. and now the DB engine is adapted to a new use case 🤯
i took a picture of my daughter’s math assignment and #gpt4o completely it with 100% accuracy. i had a talk with her about how these tools for cheating will always be available to her, but if she uses them she won’t learn.
thought: she’s doing this math because she wants to. what happens when she’s assigned work, and the cheat way seems more attractive?
@kellogh Having almost stepped on a couple of rattlesnakes in my life, I can say for absolute certain that no way in hell am I paying attention to this study or its results and will continue to not step on snek. 😂
this is in reference to super-alignment & safety, but my cousin also had her DEI team disbanded and “distributed” in the same way
on the surface, i think safety, DEI, and similar topics should be embedded in the culture and not centralized into a specific team. centralization would cause people to say, “oh that’s not my job”.
then again, any time a centralized team is disbanded, my immediate thought is, “apparently safety/DEI/etc. doesn’t matter to this company”. it’s a paradox, i suppose
@kellogh I always feel a little conflicted about reports like this. Like, it's 100% a good and important thing in general, but that doesn't mean a specific person or team or culture engaged with AI safety automatically inherits that value regardless of what they're actually contributing.
That said, I do think it might need a dedicated if small team to ensure that things are widely embedded.
@TEG yeah, security is another one. but security is hard and you typically need dedicated team just to host security professionals. someone needs to act as a bar raiser in order to maintain the culture…
i’m always slightly annoyed when people use ?format=json, i much prefer it as a file extension, .json, because it allows for the possibility that the endpoint can be implemented by a static HTTP server
yesterday while trail running i came across this fallen tree. it looks like a thick vine wrapped and choked the life out of it, and the storm this weekend finally took it out. i couldn’t easily identify the vine, but whatever
this morning i wake up and i’m breaking tf out with what sure looks like poison ivy rashes.
i came back, and identified the vine as, yep, poison ivy. thick woody 1/3” vines up and down the full tree
@sashawood i actually asked to not have prednisone, bc i didn’t like the reactions i’ve had in the past, and i’m actually managing the symptoms okay with my OTC cocktail