You come to Europe and you really get a whole different perspective on time and scale and whatnot. For instance, this is the first McDonalds in the world, established in 1134, in Braga, Portugal. The bun wasn’t invented for another four hundred years.
I was going to play some #SimAnt or #SimCity this weekend to celebrate #MARCHintosh, but now I'm thinking I may just do an evening #HyperCard dev stream to show off the #zine I've been working on (slowly).
For the last time. "Slime molds" aren't fungi! If slime molds are fungi then so are YOU.
Fungi, slime molds, and animals like humans are all eukaryotes and Amorphea (the group with a single emergent flagellum, or who are are amoebae with no flagella)
There isn't a sensible way to lump slime molds in with things like mushrooms that excludes us, ants, dogs, octopuses etc.
Here's one for the #ResearchEthics crowd. Eventually, I want to write an #HCI-related paper, or at least an article, about @xyzzy. I'll need to learn from and cite examples of user interaction. What ethical principles should I follow in approaching this? Here's what I'm thinking but need your feedback:
▫️ Treat all analyzed data confidentially - no PII, even if the post was "public"
▫️ Is it OK to screenshot posts if PII is removed? What about quoting? Assuming permission should be sought.
@trishalynn this could be interesting. I'll probably keep it in mind for future - the abovementioned isn't going to happen in the short term.
What would you say is standard procedure for something like this - put out a request for participants, who then give informed consent before taking part?
#Bolo is a classic tank game that was ported to the #Macintosh from an inital version on the #BBCMicro. Let's take a quick dive into a single-player world to get our feet wet—and maybe try multiplayer next time?
"What is the white powder all over the kids room"
"Salt"
"Why is the white powder all over the kids room"
"Fairies"
"How long is the white powder all over the kids room"
"Until"
Y'all need to remember there's a natural endgame to all of this indiscriminate application of generative #AI. The more ubiquitous #LLMs become, the more they'll start to learn from each other. Feeding LLM output back into an LLM essentially poisons it and makes output degrade. Same thing with AI art generators. It's like making a copy of a copy; quality naturally trends downwards.
The upshot is that most* organizations that bank on generative AI will eventually, and naturally, fail. #SALAMI
Disclaimer: I've mainly worked with Markov chain-based bots like @lol; these are several orders of magnitude less complex than LLMs. It's pretty trivial to show that letting them learn from other bots disrupts their output.
Turns out there's a recent paper that describes "model collapse" for LLMs:
@TheServitor That's why I specified "indiscriminate application", i.e. the sort of unthinking deployment that seems to be a knee-jerk C-suite reaction these days. As devs and (hopefully) as people who want to do things right, we can of course minimize risks and keep models in good health. But as I mentioned, financial demands exert a downward pressure on a lot of things, including service quality, security, ethics, and much more. Developers are rational, but they're fighting against the current.
A few days ago, I dusted off an old #Minecraft single-player world (and I mean over ten years old) and gave it a visit on stream. I'm thinking I'll start playing in it a little more often, since we've had some lag problems with the Bahaicraft server lately. Watch this space.
Speaking of #Marchintosh, is this the year when the content page links to "Content on the Fediverse"? I'll definitely put out one or more SimCity/SimAnt playthroughs on PeerTube: https://diode.zone/c/dragfyre_games/videos
Oh wow, I got Apple Internet Router to run on my Quadra 605 finally! It's bridging the EtherTalk and LocalTalk portions and assigning actual net numbers now which is great!
OK, so I got this close 🤏🏾 to getting @videodreams posting again. It downloads images properly and assembles them into a webm video file. But it seems like Mastodon's updated something because now I'm getting the attached HTTP 422 error when trying to post the file.
Nice to know that the code still works, though! I'll have to come back and figure out how to play nice with Mastodon. #bots
So @himawari_wpac has been plugging away, posting satellite images. Hopefully people have been enjoying it / finding it useful. We're not quite out of the woods of course; it seems to require a restart every few days, so I definitely have to go over its error-checking. The process is probably going to be similar to @xyzzy, which had a habit of crashing mysteriously at odd intervals, usually whenever someone said something that took it off guard.
