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bornach

@bornach@masto.ai

I'm an ex-postdoc researcher who was bullied out of academia over a decade ago

I now pursue my interests in
#science #technology #education #art #mathematics

via online content creation that explores ideas in #computer #programming, science #communication, #visualization, #electronics #circuit design, #cardboard #crafts, kinetic sculpture, #synthesizer music, and machine learning

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bornach, to internet
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@adamconover speaks to @emilymbender and
@timnitGebru about
https://youtu.be/jAHRbFetqII

neuralex, to science

This is the best hour-long rant a PhD ever delivered about and while simultaneously playing Binding of Isaac in order to help stay focused on her talk

"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" by Dr. Angela Collier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E

bornach,
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@neuralex

And so it will be for but with the public turning on anyone working in

joobles, to random
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trying to sell you on chatgpt okay so imagine an idiot. just a complete moron. ok? so now imagine this dumbbell has read the entire internet. the whole thing. AND they are still stupid. now i know exactly what you’re thinking—how do i get that idiot to do my job for me??? they’d be great at it!

bornach,
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@Kazinator @joobles

I tried to get (is it using ?) to reproduce this example:
https://nitter.nl/spiantado/status/1599462375887114240
And this time it refused while stating those are not good criteria for rating scientists. It is clear and have been hard at work removing the egregious examples of bias that have been publicised.

Then I tried IQ and SAT scores instead and it gave me a program that simply added the scores together without weighting, rescaling or normalisation of any kind.

atomicpoet, to random
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Just realized that most people talking to me about Bluesky don't know about DIDs, don't care, and are clueless about its benefits.

And this is a big problem for Bluesky because that's the one thing that AT protocol has over ActivityPub.

bornach,
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@atomicpoet @oblomov

And then test whether they can migrate their account off Bluesky in order to delete it

bornach,
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@noondlyt @atomicpoet

It's gonna be like when Google tried merging YouTube and G+ identities/comment feeds

Pre-G+ Youtubers did not react well
https://youtu.be/6L_m8AzSPCM

bornach, to music
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is still better than me at composing music, but at least I might be able to predict what gravity would do to a tic-tac-toe board

Marc Evanstein puts GPT-4 to the test
https://youtu.be/d_7EsKcn8nw

seldo, to random
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Wheezing with laughter at Zuckerberg's inevitable pivot to AI and his attempt to pretend that's not what he's doing. "We have not stopped focusing on the metaverse, we were focused on AI the whole time" is literally what he's trying to go with, somebody come get your boy.

bornach,
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@SasquatcherGeneral @seldo

Maybe he asked ChatGPT what Meta's corporate strategy had been historically over the last decade

johnmacintosh, to random German
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🤪😎

bornach,
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@johnmacintosh
https://nitter.nl/stringy/status/1062994191339286528

scrumble_eggs, to random

Thinking of that time that The BBC asked Rage Against The Machine not to use profanity.

video/mp4

bornach,
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@scrumble_eggs
Every when told to put politics behind a

bornach,
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@AdditionalQuench @scrumble_eggs

Authenticity, No swearing, Live

Pick 2

https://youtu.be/qYFna3O1PFY

simon, to random
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I wrote up some thoughts on a way we might be able to build AI personal assistants despite not having a rock-solid solution for prompt injection https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/

bornach,
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@simon @freddy
As was pointed out by
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post
the problem with all these Large Language Models is that "there is no outside-text"

bornach,
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@theking @simon
And the analog to all those unicode injection exploits will be to embed foreign language commands and thus bypass English-only filters.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/zb4msc/speaking_to_chatgpt_in_perfect_danish_while_it/

Never mind the quarantined AI, how can one even trust the privileged LLM, if it does not (and cannot) care that what it is outputting directly contradicts the reality of what it is doing?

bornach,
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@jmason @simon @freddy

Unfortunately there's no 2600Hz notch filter for LLM
https://youtu.be/8PmkUPBhL4U

oskay, to random
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Will someone please tell me that this book cover bothers them as much as it bothers me?

bornach,
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@oskay @rwxrwxrwx

I pity the AI that has this in its training data. No wonder Large Language Models cannot do math.

bornach,
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@rwxrwxrwx @oskay
Or if we zoom out it is two different equations crossing each other at 90°

bornach, to random
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[Kyle Hill] on the issue of narrow AI turning out to be far narrower than we expected
https://youtu.be/l7tWoPk25yU

bornach, to random
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Something must be wrong with that Emergency Alert test thing on my phone. The alarm was quite loud but the voice message that followed was barely audible.

Riedl, to random
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ChatGPT ties itself in knots to avoid having professors be female.

Source: https://twitter.com/ndyjroo/status/1649821809154613248?s=61&t=Ugdi4XBKf_2ovJ1y9hKs4w

bornach,
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@SteveBellovin @Riedl @cigitalgem
And doctors as male. And nurses as female
https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/110227102110816144

bornach,
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@tiotasram @Riedl
See also https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/110255372355919353

bornach, (edited )
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@SteveBellovin @Riedl @cigitalgem
Mixed success when trying this with Open Assistant but it seems more effort was put into removing bias from the training data but sexism is still clearly present

bornach,
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@SteveBellovin @Riedl @cigitalgem

Stochastic geographic bias as well. Most training data comes from USA and Toronto, Canada is further north than most cities mentioned in the training data. Hence why I cannot seem to get the Large Language Model to admit Toronto is further south than Windsor, UK
https://masto.ai/@bornach/110248855948410680

ChatGPT got this wrong as well
https://youtu.be/cP5zGh2fui0?t=11m30s

thomasfuchs, to random
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I'm not a rocket scientist, but I'm relatively sure that launching pads shouldn't look like bomb craters after the rocket takes off

bornach,
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@manifest_irony @thomasfuchs
SpaceX cheaped out by omitting the flame diverters that NASA uses on its stage 0
https://youtu.be/ViAb3vYIh_8

bornach,
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@kg6hxm @thomasfuchs
Here is Scott Manley's video on the Rapid Unscheduled Digging out of Stage 0 for the context
https://youtu.be/w8q24QLXixo

bornach,
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@bigiain @thomasfuchs
And guess where all that concrete ended up
https://youtu.be/u6m7HJ6_fNw
Space enthusiasts are speculating that the concrete debris didn't all go sideways and probably damaged the rocket itself, taking out a few of the engines just before liftoff
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/12udowq/if_all_of_724s_problems_were_caused_by_stage_0/

bornach, to random
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Oh no! Free batteries appearing in the wild in Canada too!
https://youtu.be/lidMQu3S2NU
Haven't seen either of those in the UK not even under a different brand name. [pileofstuff] measured 4V on the battery from the rechargeable , 3.3V on the non-rechargeable

bornach,
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@bornach
Didn't see any #VapePens over Easter vacation then suddenly found 7 in the last few days. Is it because their users (kids and parents) have returned from holidays? Or is it coincidental? - the council has just cut the grass where some of these might have been hiding.

#vape #eCigarette #litter #BatteryHarvesting

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