@Xoriff eh, the hacker news & mastodon comments got into the bullying range pretty fast.
a lot of people seem to feel entitled to free software being catered to their wishes. i’ve run into the same sort of entitlement in software i’ve open sourced
@sanityinc the whole fiasco highlights how much we demand from open source, how little respect maintainers get, and how tiny the communities are. most people didn’t even realize this was an open source project
if i had more time, i'd love to investigate PII coming from #LLMs. i've seen it generate phone numbers and secrets, but i wonder if these are real or not. i imagine you could look at the logits to figure out if phone number digits were randomly chosen or if the sequence is meaningful to the LLM. anyone aware of researchers who have already done this?
i would guess that phone numbers are probably mostly random, since so many phone numbers are found online, whereas AWS keys are less common, so you're probably more likely to get partial or even full real keys
I was looking for a project that would let me manage my Mastodon follows & followers better. Haven't found anything but did come across Mastodon+Steampipe. If you know of something, @ me
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
most of the complaints about AI at this point are people using it from the wrong end and exclaiming, “see? it doesn’t work”. there are legitimate problems, ofc, but there’s also legitimate value
my take on the #AI bubble — there will definitely be some sort of decline at some point, but it’s not going to be a bubble pop as widely predicted. ML has been generally growing for 10 straight years, at an accelerating pace, also for 10 straight years. to predict a bubble pop is to ignore a whole lot of data, including the idea of AI is basically the culmination of computing in general, since its inception. it’s quite a different case from blockchain.
@leoncowle one phenomenon, it sometimes seems like the anti-AI activity starts to feel more scammy than the AI applications they criticize. FUD, but with a moral sense of urgency and inconsistent logic. it sets off the scam alert in my brain. i’m not sure anyone is really making money off the anti-AI dialog, but it triggers that same pattern in my brain
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
"This module provides the capability to read, write, and manage Delta Lake tables"
OK what's a Delta Lake? Apparently it's "... an open-source storage framework that enables building a format agnostic Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, Hive, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Athena, Redshift, Databricks, Azure Fabric and APIs for Scala, Java, Rust, and Python."
And there's an image that makes me want to run away screaming:
@itamarst yeah, i think it’s best to think of it as a file management protocol on top of parquet that gives the illusion of insert, update and delete operations. being based on immutable files, it also gives you history of a table. being a protocol instead of a server means multiple uncoordinated writers can all write to the same table (well, coordination is pushed down to the storage layer…S3/blob/etc)