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davidseidl

@davidseidl@mstdn.social

VP for Information Technology and CIO at
Miami University, best selling cybersecurity certification author, geek and maker, lover of terrible puns and hands-on history, frequent landing spot for shoulder cats. Yes, I wore medieval armor to a datacenter photoshoot. (he/him/his)

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davidseidl, to random
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OARNet, our Ohio public network provider is talking about 500 gigabit interfaces to Internet2, and I'm flashing back to the mid 2000's when the Teragrid's 40 gig backbone and 10 gig links to places like Purdue were cutting edge.

I love seeing the massive progress, and the numbers are still staggering at times when we talk about meaningful fractions of an exabyte of data transfer per year.

davidseidl, to random
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Every time Amazon suggests I subscribe and save on rechargeable batteries, I worry about people just a little more...

davidseidl, to random
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Today's fun: instead of the usual medical spam and recruiting for GI doctor David Seidl, I got a note about royalties I'm owed.

Which would make sense, if they weren't for materials in a management book in Europe.

Dang it other David Seidls!

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Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

davidseidl,
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@complexmath That's been my assumption as well - which has driven me to NOT install it. I'm not aware of a cellular model being built into the car itself, but haven't dug very far into that assumption.

davidseidl,
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@complexmath That was one reason I declined to buy the Toyota that was the primary contender vs. my Honda. The dealer insisted on installing an anti-theft device whether I wanted it or not, wanted to charge me for it, and wouldn't change that even for a cash purchase.

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Gamified citizen science embedded in Borderlands 3? https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/gaming-for-science-borderlands-science-four-years-later/

Ok, that's cool. Now how do we embed it in Helldivers 2? 😆

davidseidl, to random
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Someone here at Miami shares my delight in googly eyes on things that need them.

The head of a mannequin wearing a Miami cap and shirt with googly eyes on the mannequin's face. The eyes are spaced an inch apart and are small, making it rather ludicrous.

amy, to random
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Boost if you still remember how to use these 😭

davidseidl,
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@amy They make great nightstands! (If your parents are librarians, and you have salvaged drawers floating around, that is!)

davidseidl, to random
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https://press.coop/@thehill/112326644432565302

Now we just need Ohio to get on board with doing the right thing, as Ohio law puts the ballot timing ahead of the DNC convention.

Quinnypig, to random
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Sincere AI question: I’ve been using ChatGPT as my go-to AI tool for every ad-hoc random question / task I need AI for. Is that still the superior option, or is there a competitor I should seriously consider these days?

davidseidl,
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@Quinnypig Realistically, I'm not sure there's enough of a day to day difference across a wide range of tasks to make a jump.

Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT may each be better at some tasks, so I keep telling folks here to that it may be worth their time to play with all three in their heavily used niches.

Gemini, for example, generated a far better (people's choice winning!) chili recipe for our IT department's annual chili contest. ChatGPT gave me boring midwest chili. Thumbs up for that use...

davidseidl, to random
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If you've been tasked with building out AI GPU infrastructure, this writeup from Meta about the Llama model and the hardware used to train it is worth a read: https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/12/data-center-engineering/building-metas-genai-infrastructure/

For comparison, we've been talking to vendors about servers with 4x H100's each, and they're six figure servers. Then Meta talks about 24,000 H100's in a cluster, let alone the 300k+ they're planning next, the reason why commercial AI is moving faster than academic AI becomes clear.

davidseidl, to random
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I've been continuing to track options for folks who are fans of the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, and a Hackaday article's (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/16/microsoft-killed-my-favorite-keyboard-and-im-mad-about-it/) comments led me to Matias's pending version: https://matias.ca/sculpted/wireless/

It sounds like it'll fix some of the underlying issues that the Sculpt had like the dongle. I'm not a long-term fan of the built-in battery, but I tend to wear them out in 3 or so years anyway so the lifespan of a rechargeable vs. AAA's is likely fine.

davidseidl, to random
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If you're working to stay informed about AI, the Stanford AI Index report for this year has a LOT of interesting data to dive into.

https://aiindex.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HAI_AI-Index-Report-2024.pdf

It's hundreds of pages long, but I'm already planning on where I can leverage some of the charts like the compute required to train modern models as we talk about AI for higher education.

Kudos to the Stanford research team - this is really cool!

davidseidl, to random
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The Ars coverage of "Spy Pet", an organization collecting and selling access to Discord chats and other information is not surprising, but...sigh.

Back to banging the privacy laws are needed drum.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/billions-of-public-discord-messages-may-be-sold-through-a-scraping-service/

davidseidl, to random
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Maker folks - Housemade.us is selling a really cool coffee scoop kit which includes the handle, rivets and scoop body, but also has a swage block and die.

https://housemade.us/products/coffee-scoop-diy-bundle

I've got one on the way, and I'm looking forward to a very neat skill builder project as I've not done a hand hammered copper bowl yet!

scalzi, to random
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The first weekend of April brings a new stack of books and ARCs to the Scalzi Compound. What here is an intriguing read to you?

davidseidl,
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@scalzi I'm split between the book of Japanese folklore and the joy of the title of "How to Become The Dark Loard and Die Trying".

davidseidl, to random
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If you're just now planning for the eclipse, Geoff has some good thoughts and resources for folks: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/05/1242812814/drive-total-solar-eclipse-traffic-weather-tips

davidseidl, to random
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The Ars Technica story (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/hazard-identification-software-cant-make-sense-of-kangaroos/) about automakers giving up on software that avoids kangaroos reminds me of the (somewhat apocryphal) story about kangaroos launching rockets in a flight simulator program. (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shoot-me-kangaroo-down-sport/)

If you've not read the story, or read it back in the day without the great detail about reality from Snopes, it's worth a read.

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all this is the inside of a pinecone! I don't know what I expected, but not this.

davidseidl,
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@RickiTarr and if you cast them in resin and split them down the middle after they're dry, you get this!

davidseidl,
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@michaelgemar Thanks! I'm still learning knife making, so I can't claim to have forged the damascus blade myself - this was a pre-made blade blank, but I did the handle work myself as part of my learning process.

(but...I have a forge now, so...it's time to learn the rest!)

davidseidl,
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@michaelgemar Thank you! The process itself isn't too bad, but as you've seen on the show pin alignment can be tricky even if you're not under time pressure.

The basic process is cutting to rough shape, getting the first pin drilled in, then using that to hold things as you place the rest, then epoxying everything together. Once that's done you can do final shaping and polishing.

If you make your own scales, casting requires either a pressure pot or vacuum chamber + molds too. Not too bad!

davidseidl, to random
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Tomorrow is our big chili competition with 11 organizations from across Miami University competing for the title at the Goggin. We've got (local) celebrity judges, including Bill Snavely, Oxford's mayor and our Provost Liz Mullenix in for the ride too.

But the most fun? My team's fierce meme game.

The buff doge vs. weak doge meme - with the buff doge labeled IT Services chili and the weak sad doge labeled The Other Chili.
A four panel cartoon. Panel 1: An adventurer opens a chest, saying "I've finally found it, after 15 years" Panel 2: "The scroll of truth!" Panel 3: The scroll reads "IT Services chili is the best" Panel 4: The adventurer, labeled library says "Nyehhhh"

davidseidl, to random
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Our McVey Data Science building opening was a really fun event - and the XR stage is a delight to host from!

https://stories.miamioh.edu/the-future-begins-now-for-data-science-at-miami-university

davidseidl, to random
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Tonight I'll be hosting Billy Beane of Moneyball fame for a fireside chat at the grand opening of Miami University's McVey Data Science building!

https://www.miamialum.org/s/916/22/Interior.aspx?sid=916&gid=1&pgid=21277&content_id=32687

It promises to be a really cool event, and we'll be on stage in the XR studio for the session - our first really large-scale event we've hosted in the atrium and XR stage space. Yes...I'll get some cool pictures!

davidseidl, to random
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The whole "AI PC" thing seems like it's getting buzz, if not traction - and it doesn't change most of our budget models to make refreshes more likely.

Frankly, I'd rather see longer refresh cycles that allow us to be environmentally conscious and that optimize longer support lifecycle and hardware lifespans. We can centralize AI computing resources, and have the networked capacity to do that in efficient ways instead of driving it to the endpoint or edge. (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/13/dell_exec_reckons_aipowered_laptops/)

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