TimBoote

TimBoote, 5 months ago to Birding

This is so true. I’ve been an environmentalist my whole adult life, but #birding has given me a connection and depth of knowledge that I struggled to acquire previously.

“For many birdwatchers who have adopted the hobby in adulthood, there is a strong delineation of life before being a birdwatcher, and life afterwards. I think this is because #birdwatching changes the way you look at the world. Intentionally placing your attention outward to your surrounds becomes habitual. That’s the joy of this hobby. “

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/07/birdwatching-changes-the-way-you-look-at-the-world-it-truly-is-the-gateway-drug-to-environmental-awareness

TimBoote, 7 months ago to internet

Interesting essay on #SocialMedia that may resonate with other #Mastodon users. It left me wondering why I post at all and whether to vacate the #SocialWeb

“Academics Soroush Vosoughi and Deb Roy, both of the MIT Media Lab, along with MIT Sloan professor Sinan Aral, recently conducted a study that reached the conclusion that false news spreads faster than the truth. Their research, published in Science, found that #misinformation is ’70 percent more likely to be retweeted on #Twitter than the #truth,’ and that the #FakeNews ‘reached 1,500 people about six times faster than the truth.'”

https://om.co/2023/10/15/social-internet-is-dead-get-used-to-it/

TimBoote, 8 months ago to ai

"AI models don’t contain reality. They rely on the complex statistical abstraction of digital data. This limits their real-world creative significance and their capacity to produce “eureka” moments.

To differentiate AI-driven creativity from old-fashioned creativity, I have proposed a new term: generic, or g-type, creativity. It formalises the fact that while AI models are capable of provoking new thought, they are limited by the underlying data they have been trained on."

#AI #chatgpt #Claude #Dalle3

https://theconversation.com/will-ai-kill-our-creativity-it-could-if-we-dont-start-to-value-and-protect-the-traits-that-make-us-human-214149

TimBoote, 8 months ago to Adelaide

Black-shouldered Kite down by #Adelaide outer harbour today. My third ever sighting, the other two being north of here at the Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary.

#BirdsSeenIn2023 #birding

seldo, 8 months ago to random

Real talk: I think a lot of "return to office" executives are just people who never learned to type quickly enough to use Slack comfortably.

TimBoote, 9 months ago to auspol

“In contrast, the claims made to support the “no” case are largely misleading. Many of the claims simply ignore the existence of contrary facts and history.”

#referendum #AusPol #VoteYes

https://theconversation.com/how-do-the-yes-and-no-cases-stack-up-constitutional-law-experts-take-a-look-212364