KevinMarks

KevinMarks, 11 days ago to random

And Middlesbrough wonders why the Linthorpe Road bike lane isn't used much.

Bike lane is full of cones, roadsigns and a traffic light for the adjacent car lane

KevinMarks, 13 days ago to random

The irony of this is that "pushing water uphill" is far more viable than CCS - that's a good description of Pumped Hydropower, which is one fo the best energy storage options avilable at grid scale
https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/112011573363426941

KevinMarks, 21 days ago to random

The international consensus against Sunak's ridiculous traffic policies designed to kill people https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240517-vision-zero-how-europe-cut-the-number-of-people-dying-on-its-roads

KevinMarks, 23 days ago to random

Now if I were choosing a voice for an AI program I would have based it on Orac, not Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCg43omcgZs

KevinMarks, 29 days ago to random

“As tech gets more complex, things seem to get more intuitive locally, but overall the arbitrariness keeps going up. The number of YouTube videos explaining arbitrary shit keeps going up.” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/05/14/arbitrariness-costs/

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

The aurora moved south enough that I could see it looking away from Middlesbrough

green/orange/magenta aurora with a star in the middle and tree branches in the foreground
green//magenta aurora with a stars sprinkled through it
diagonal magenta aurora with trees in the foreground, some city light and a small crescent moon near the horizon

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

Can everyone in Middlesbrough turn the lights and street lights off so I can see the aurora please?

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

This is brilliant in its own right, and also works as meta-commentary, as no LLM could get the scansion that tight and the rhymes that enjoyable: "well, actually"/polydactyly and plagiarise/Hbomberguys are markers of humanity https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112380073199982452

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

maybe inefficient sites like this can suggest people share archive links? https://archive.is/20240501123358/https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

@danhon re UPnP glitches in https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s18e07-do-not-reply-stickers-computers-were-a-bad/ reasons why UPnP tends to suck from ZeroConf http://www.zeroconf.org/ZeroconfAndUPnP.html (approx 18 years old, still true)

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

This is really worrying https://www.bbc.com/news/resources/idt-61d57e25-d458-4785-8a37-3ef119a504c7

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

I recreated the classic 'And None Of Them Knew They Were Robots' compilation album by @Cameo on YouTube Music https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLpSh8dWOWl82ifSboAVCRHaOd__QtsKC&si=pyWEu4HdRRB4uIKy - @davidgerard this was what I was trying to point to the other day.

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

@evan you know we were joking on FB about posts from 2011? I just found this one and am rereading the links http://epeus.blogspot.com/2011/04/evs-identity-map-ignores-what-we-say.html

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

This is a sobering read https://tos.org/oceanography/article/is-the-atlantic-overturning-circulation-approaching-a-tipping-point

KevinMarks, 2 months ago to random

This is fascinating https://youtu.be/UQuIVsNzqDk?si=yBCk0Wlqt5lmTXHx

KevinMarks, 2 months ago to random

Well, this puts open source licensing in a new light https://app.suno.ai/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/

KevinMarks, 2 months ago to random

This is well worth reading. The original "aesthetic" ranking scroll was a harbinger. This is worse in several dimensions https://knowingmachines.org/models-all-the-way

KevinMarks, 2 months ago to random

Simon is doing a great job here of illustrating how far from "solve this for me" LLM's are and will remain. You're sieving through already-existing examples, and if you understand the problem domain better than most of humanity, you may be able to guide it into a local maximum
https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112141075023261610

KevinMarks, 3 months ago to random

“Indeed in October, while talking about the massive job losses expected as a result of AI, Altman said “I’m not afraid of that, at all. In fact, I think that’s good.” On November 18, the day after he was briefly fired from his CEO role, his perspective on getting laid off shifted.“I’m hurt and angry, and I think this sucks,” he said.” https://www.fastcompany.com/91040797/what-the-digital-streaming-revolution-of-the-2000s-can-teach-us-about-the-ai-revolution-today-according-to-a-former-musician

KevinMarks, 3 months ago to random

Bertrand Russell in 1959 describing the LLM "understanding" fallacy that @emilymbender keeps trying to explain to people reeling from soi-disant AI hype:
“Some modern philosophers have gone so far as to say that words should never be confronted with facts but should live in a pure, autonomous world where they are compared only with other words.
[…]This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/03/03/believe-fool/#:~:text=words%20should%20never%20be%20confronted%20with%20facts

KevinMarks, 3 months ago to random

timeo danaos et dona ferentes https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087915/threads-api-hootsuite-techmeme-third-party

KevinMarks, 3 months ago to random

We need to end the pretence that burning wood is doing anything useful for the climate emergency. Change the law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160

KevinMarks, 3 months ago to random

Do we need to revive the old Lunar Lander videogame, but as a bot programming contest?
A key part of it was choosing a flat bit to land on. https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111985439728675600

KevinMarks, 3 months ago to random

The secret map of where the good weather is in the UK. Note the Yorkshire Riviera, where I am.