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absamma

@absamma@toolsforthought.rocks

Doctor, learner & software developer. Special interest in knowledge tools. Building http://oneplaybook.app, a knowledge assistant tool. Child of three continents 🌍.

I toot about intelligent subjects 📚 all day, and food 😋 and awesome vistas 📸 on occasion.

Comments, corrections and conversations always welcomed 🤗

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absamma, (edited ) to Ukraine
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‘In case I die, I need to publish this paper’: scientist who left the lab to fight in Ukraine

A Ukrainian scientist and soldier tells the world about how war has shaped his perspective on science and war: they cannot be separate. They're inextricably linked. Which is why Russia targets Ukrainian academic centres. I would add that this can extend to every part of the civilian sector. This is what total war looks like.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03044-z

absamma, to ai
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The Trolley problem is now the Cruise problem.

absamma, to random
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The fact that Michael Lewis' "Going Infinite" has a score of 4.11 on GoodReads despite his flawed analysis of and is an insult to humanity I feel.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149105520-going-infinite

flancian, to fediverse
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I'm so glad about the

absamma,
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@flancian you and me both 😊

simon, (edited ) to random
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How much does it bother you when people talk about "open source" language models (like Llama 2) which are released under licenses that don't meet the OSI definition for open source?

absamma,
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@simon if it's not open source it's not open source. Period. You can't negotiate established definitions.

absamma,
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@boris @simon ok, but there is the problem of companies exploiting good natured discussions to suddenly push unfair value capture mechanisms that masquerade as open source but actually aren't even in spirit, or more egregiously retroactively applying said mechanisms to previous versions after they accept venture capital investment to capture any remaining value and leaving their stunned, uninformed community in the dust. How do we discourage this kind of behaviour?

carnage4life, to random
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Shower drink holders. For when your alcohol problem demands alcohol solutions.

absamma,
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@wordshaper @carnage4life exactly. Better yet, there should be laws against products that encourage harmful habits. We clearly haven't learned from the Juul fiasco.

absamma, to space
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The US has issued its first fine for space junk to a company: Dish Network inc. We need this framework in place or we will lose access to space.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66993647

carnage4life, to random
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AI has led to interest in new hardware form factors. But do we really need a pendant that records everything you say and hear then emails you a summary of your day?

absamma,
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@carnage4life they clearly have never watched Black Mirror.

absamma, to random
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The path to becoming a 2023 medicine laureate was not an easy one for Karikó. She battled grant rejections, job demotions and a cancer diagnosis. Still, Karikó believed. Now, her work has saved millions of lives.

Read more: https://cnn.it/3PXV8vE

absamma, to apple
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bricking their 17,000 USD gold watch is the pinnacle of corporate hubris. The chutzpah is amazing.

seldo, to random
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Today is my first day as VP of Developer Relations at LlamaIndex! I wrote last week on my personal blog about why LLMs are the future of software, but TLDR: software that can understand the data it’s working with is about to become the way all software is built. So I’m delighted to be at a company at the center of the LLM universe.

Learn more on our official blog: https://medium.com/llamaindex-blog/llamaindex-laurie-voss-an-alpaca-joins-the-llamas-9cae1081adff

absamma,
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@seldo congrats. Looking forward to amazing work from you and your team.

absamma, to random
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With their discovery, we can safely introduce foreign vaccinating mRNA that our bodies can accept without destroying by swapping out certain bases without compromising the encoded foreign protein structure that produces the desired immune response.

absamma, to random
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LLMs are pretty good at product design brainstorming it seems... I can already hear the sound of fidgeting product designers and marketers. I can get some lovely high level UVP options from just a description of what I'd like to build.

carnage4life, to random
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When people ask me what it’s like working at Meta

absamma,
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@carnage4life damn. That's intense 😂

absamma, (edited ) to twitter
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The contrast between the Voxmedia code conference interviews with Lina Yaccarino and Yoel Roth is funny as hell. Brilliant journalism, and it illustrates so well the kind of clowns currently running Twitter (I will not call it X 😤). I pity Linda. Elon didn't even see the need to inform her that he's thinking about putting all of Twitter behind a paywall. Product staff don't even report to her. She should be asking herself, what am I even doing here?

absamma,
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Linda interview: https://youtu.be/hYymRU-bfpQ

Yoel's: https://youtu.be/M9XoUUYeZD8

absamma,
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@FuckElon if she means intoxicatingly frustrating then yeah I see her point 😂

absamma,
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@FuckElon 🤮

absamma, to China
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's empty real estate is the poster child of wasteful spending. Nothing else comes close I think. To quote China's bureau of statistics, they've got somewhere between 1-3 billion unoccupied houses/units that they'll never be able to sell and that even their entire population cannot fill. That's.... staggering. That's 5 trillion dollars of value thrown into a black hole. Something will have to give. The financial market abhors a vacuum this big.

absamma,
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@gavcloud that's only the tip of the iceberg. Erroneous census data, crumbling infrastructure and housing due to poor building materials, rampant corruption at the local government level that precipitated this debt crisis in the first place, reversion to wasteful soviet style agricultural practice that's led to China importing most of its food, etc. The list goes on. As one observer in China put it, they make the States look like a socialist utopia!

absamma, (edited ) to random
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Brilliant video on how the invention of the clock eroded workers' leisure time, and how the pocket watch empowered workers to discover how their bosses were tampering with the clocks to make people work more for less. This is an example of how technological innovation can enable tyranny. We must learn from history. Share this with your boss and union 😉

Work. https://youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo&si=Rb715wJLTRBr7q3L

absamma, to opensource
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A licence choice can make or break an open source project's business aspirations, especially if it doesn't play nice with the business model. I think there's a knowledge gap here amongst developers. Resources to address this gap would be good to have...

Bruno Lowagie, creator of iText is an illustration of the consequences of this knowledge gap:

https://entreprenerd.lowagie.com/ossurvival/

absamma, to india
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China's top lunar scientist poo pooing 's attempt at landing closer to the South pole than others, and the power of their humbler rocket pretty much sums up as a country: an insecure bully.

https://time.com/6318208/chinese-scientist-questions-india-moon-landing-south-pole/

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    absamma, (edited )
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    @jaschop @AkaSci I mean that's the point isn't it? Brute forcing distributed communication channels and systems. Same with DDoS etc. It's just a question of how you do it in as scalable a manner as possible. In this case, one does it by employing people at minimum or less than minimum wage and make it dead simple for them to do a simple task that yields a big overall net effect, whether that's propaganda posting, click farming etc

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