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thegradient

@thegradient@sigmoid.social

The Gradient is an organization with the missions of making it easier for anyone to learn about AI and of facilitating discu. We were founded in 2017 by a group of students and researchers at the Stanford AI Lab. Our current projects include The Gradient Magazine, The Gradient Podcast, The Update newsletter, and Sigmoid Social. We are a non-profit and volunteer-run effort run by researchers and engineers in the AI community.

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thegradient, to random
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PSA: We've been seeing an uptick of spam coming from various Mastodon instances over the last several weeks. To address this, we are suspending federation with the instances that appear to be the source of spam; these are generally small instances that don't presently have interactions with users on here. Our instance still has approval-gated registration, so no spam accounts are expected to be created on here.

thegradient,
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@_dmh we are not, thanks for the pointer

elduvelle, (edited ) to mastodon
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is really great isn’t it?!
If you could improve one thing with it, what would it be?

(Personally I’m leaning towards the possibility of having a “bespoke” algorithm in an additional timeline)

(Edit: typo)

thegradient,
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@chrisoffner3d does it not work for you at all, or is it an issue with older posts? It appears to work fine for us.

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thegradient, to random
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FYI: we currently have no plans to in any way limit interaction with Threads on this instance. Some major AI voices (eg Karpathy, LeCun) are active on there, so we believe this in the best interest of the community. However, if Sigmoid Social users urge us to act otherwise, we'd be happy to put it to a vote.

(context: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon )

thegradient, to random
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Oops, we haven't posted anything in quite a while... Hi! Though we've been silent, be assured that behind the scenes we at The Gradient are continuing to actively admin and moderate Sigmoid Social. Our stats show steady user activity for a while now, so we are happy many of you decided to stick around and keep posting here 😊

Happy almost holidays 🎄

stablehorde, to random
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@thegradient @mastohost has the image upload been silently rate limited? I'm attempting to upload images for my @stablehorde_generator bot, the first few went through and the rest are stuck uploading.

thegradient,
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@stablehorde Sorry to see this has impacted you. For now it'd be optimal to implement a queue for posting, it seems - it'd work to post once per 1 minute at most, perhaps.

BenjaminHan, to random
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Here is the hoping sigmoid.social can adopt it too… @thegradient https://oisaur.com/@renchap/110946188204729065

thegradient,
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@BenjaminHan we will!

chrisoffner3d, to mastodon

Why is it impossible for me to find anything – including even just my own posts – on ? 😢

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thegradient,
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@chrisoffner3d @albrecht we actually do have elastic search enabled. We'll take a look and see if there is an issue with it.

thegradient, to random
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Fun fact for long-time Sigmoiders - we've seen more users joining lately, and the active users has generally stabilized at 2k+ users for a while now.

Thank you all for being part of this lovely place :)

thegradient,
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@anandphilipc hi, sorry for late reply. We'll have full text search as soon as Mastodon 4.2 comes out.

thegradient, to mastodon
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Don't feel you fully understand Mastodon?

Check out "An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon"! by @noelle

http://guidetomastodon.com/

It's extremely thorough, and if it still doesn't answer a question it's on Github, so you can submit an issue request to clarify!

thegradient, to random
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Got around to adding some custom emojis to Sigmoid Social! :partyparrot:

https://emojos.in/sigmoid.social?show_animated=true

This is a somewhat random set I (@andrey) felt like adding. Feel free to suggest additional ones! :verified:

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