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Digital emigre, researcher standing at the intersection of arts, tech, and pop culture

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SirTapTap, (edited ) to webdev
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Bleh, not sure why but https://sirtaptap.com was returning 404s for most URLs. Had to refresh wordpress' permalinks and that seems to have fixed it.

Mad my monitoring didn't catch it, what's the best free or very low price monitoring out there? Jetpack seems to only check the homepage which was fine

drimplausible,
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@SirTapTap Am I the only one that caught the typo in the link, or was that the joke?

(I'm sorry, it's Sunday, I'm slow).

emilymbender, to random
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When multiple scientists independently come up with the same or similar ideas, we call it convergent discovery. What do we call it when multiple scientists come up with the same or similar bullshit?

Screencap of arXiv abstract: Exploring the Use of Large Language Models for Reference-Free Text Quality Evaluation: A Preliminary Empirical Study Yi Chen, Rui Wang, Haiyun Jiang, Shuming Shi, Ruifeng Xu Evaluating the quality of generated text is a challenging task in natural language processing. This difficulty arises from the inherent complexity and diversity of text. Recently, OpenAI's ChatGPT, a powerful large language model (LLM), has garnered significant attention due to its impressive performance in various tasks. Therefore, we present this report to investigate the effectiveness of LLMs, especially ChatGPT, and explore ways to optimize their use in assessing text quality. We compared three kinds of reference-free evaluation methods based on ChatGPT or similar LLMs. The experimental results prove that ChatGPT is capable to evaluate text quality effectively from various perspectives without reference and demonstrates superior performance than most existing automatic metrics. In particular, the Explicit Score, which utilizes ChatGPT to generate a numeric score measuring text quality, is the most effective and reliable method among the three exploited approaches. However, directly comparing the quality of two texts using ChatGPT may lead to suboptimal results. We hope this report will provide valuable insights into selecting appropriate methods for evaluating text quality with LLMs such as ChatGPT.
Screencap of arXiv abstract: ChatGPT Outperforms Crowd-Workers for Text-Annotation Tasks Fabrizio Gilardi, Meysam Alizadeh, Maël Kubli Many NLP applications require manual data annotations for a variety of tasks, notably to train classifiers or evaluate the performance of unsupervised models. Depending on the size and degree of complexity, the tasks may be conducted by crowd-workers on platforms such as MTurk as well as trained annotators, such as research assistants. Using a sample of 2,382 tweets, we demonstrate that ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for several annotation tasks, including relevance, stance, topics, and frames detection. Specifically, the zero-shot accuracy of ChatGPT exceeds that of crowd-workers for four out of five tasks, while ChatGPT's intercoder agreement exceeds that of both crowd-workers and trained annotators for all tasks. Moreover, the per-annotation cost of ChatGPT is less than $0.003 -- about twenty times cheaper than MTurk. These results show the potential of large language models to drastically increase the efficiency of text classification.

drimplausible,
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@emilymbender It's still convergent discovery.

Discovery makes no assumptions on the value of the item in the loot box.

vga256, (edited ) to hamradio
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this past year alone, my family has faced evacuation twice in the north due to . during the current evac, thousands of northerners have zero communication with their families, emergency personnel or access to wildfire data.

this is entirely due to the collapse of NorthwesTel's fibre network infrastructure and zero secondary systems for comms. the sub/arctic is infamous for its fragile, ancient comms architecture.

i want to change that, and i'd like help thinking out loud about potential citizen-owned/operated technologies for long-distance emergency comms.

and enthusiasts - could you please recommend some research resources on the following:

  • legal/frequency considerations for non-voice/packet transmission specific to
  • recommended hardware & software for 1000km+ transmission, tcp/ip
  • examples of amateur radio clubs that have undertaken this kind of role before

if possible, please respond with links to documentation, research and/or policy papers.

my entire family has worked wildfire management since the teletype days, and i hopefully can effect some actual useful change for northerners here.

drimplausible,
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@vga256 For a situation that used to be deployed in Northern Alberta (and Canada more generally) look into the info behind RRBS. Broadband over RF spectrum.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308596117302306?via%3Dihub

"RRBS systems provide fixed wireless broadband access to rural and remote areas via unutilized analog television waves in the 512–608 MHz and 614–698 MHz frequency bands."

It's declined in use (I'm not aware of any still up), but give it a look.

drimplausible, to random
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Took a hike yesterday up to the lovely Lake Agnes tea house in Lake Louise. Elevation 2135 m, gain on the hike ~395-435m. Amazing view.

View of Bow River valley and Lake Louise from Lake Agnes, AB

garius, to Cats
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As a kid I was scared of the dark.

One night, my mum asked me what was scaring me and I mumbled something about ghosts or monsters coming at night.

"Oh don't worry about those," she said. "The cats chase them way. That's why they're awake when we're asleep."

I've loved that idea ever since. That at some point ancient humans and cats struck a pact:

We feed them and provide them with places to snooze in daylight. They protect us from the things that lurk between worlds at night.

drimplausible,
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@garius Note to self: publish that podcast episode on Cordwainer Smith's "Game of Rat and Dragon" that's been sitting on the desk.

For anyone else: despite the title, it's on-topic. 😁 Check it out

stefan, (edited ) to fediverse
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How many hashtags do you follow? Feel free to share which ones in the comments!

drimplausible,
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@stefan I can do what now?

drimplausible,
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@stefan Awesome! Thanks much!

J12t, to random
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Can a network be a Commons?

(In the Ostrom sense)

I would think so — if a network can be proprietary it could instead be a Commons, no?Eg CompuServe was a proprietary network, which was supplanted by the internet, which arguably is a (gigantic, and not well governed) Commons. Visa, back in the days it was a club of banks was arguably mostly a network governed as a commons, I would think.

So why doesn’t a web search find much for “network commons”?

drimplausible,
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@J12t I covered this a bit with Episode 9 of the Implausipod, but it might not be 100% what you're looking for.

Are you looking for something like Castells, or have you considered that and are looking elsewhere?

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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Who learned to type on a real typewriter?

Please boost for a wider demographic.

drimplausible,
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@dancinyogi Mandatory typing class in high school before we were allowed to glance at the fancy 8086 machines in the computer lab.

owen, to random
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You ever think about how Google de-spined - destroyed - literal tonnes of books donated by university libraries, with the intention of scanning them into a digital free library, and how none of that ever materialized?

Those books are just gone now, instead.

drimplausible,
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@owen reminds me of the scene in VInge's Rainbows End, where the "unnamed"(?) tech company just put the books in shredder, scanned all the fragments, and re-assembled the fragments digitally. IIRC.

Fanciful and abusrdist in 2006, but in 2023 I could hear about it and no longer be surprised. "Yeah, checks out."

drimplausible,
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@callionica @owen Wonderful find! Thank you for sharing. 😊

mcnees, to random
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This is from the 9th edition of "Sears & Zemansky's College Physics." Did Hugh Young really slip a Star Trek / Dune crossover into an end-of-chapter exercise?

drimplausible,
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@mcnees Well, now we know why Patton Oswalt's friend snapped during that exam...

J12t, to fediverse
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If you were to write an "analyst report" and you had three short bullet points to explain "why the , and why now?", what would you write?

drimplausible,
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@J12t

  1. The Fediverse is the fastest growing segment of the internet, and is posed for explosive growth throughout 2023 and 2024.
  2. The Fediverse allows greater organizational control of your presence and connections online.
  3. The Fediverse is "Web 4.0"*, a re-imagining of the original purpose and potential of the internet.

Probably too wordy, but close enough.

  • It's not, but again it kinda is?
drimplausible,
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@J12t It's a fair question. In my mind's eye the re-imagineers are the creators, contributors, and early adopters of the Fediverse.

While I was conducting the research for the most recent episode of the podcast, I was struck with how many parallels there were between the Fediverse and the internet of the 80s and 90s. There's a strong degree of overlap here as well, with personalities I witnessed via NNTP back in the mid 90s to now.

drimplausible,
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@J12t Hmm, I think there was a typo there, as I meant "organizational control", but still.

This would involve greater control in terms of participation, who you can connect with, and who can access and engage with your "space" and content, via blocking, defederating, and your relation to the underlying server.

There may still be barriers (ie depending on who your host is, or where it is located), but there are more options than exist with the walled gardens.

drimplausible,
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@J12t Fair question, I guess it depends on how Threads is counted amongst this, as Fediverse adjacent or not, but I think this still holds true with a qualifier or two.

The various posters of the stats seemed to indicate the growth was a) significant and b) real, so ... close enough for a high level statement.

futurebird, to random
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This is the 3rd time I've seen someone who makes YouTube videos go mad trying to second guess "the algorithm."

YouTube provides creators with a firehose of data: How long people watch, when they stop watching, the distribution of views.

YouTube also sometimes selects videos using a secret, unknowable algorithm to be "promoted." For small and medium creators this is a huge deal and the difference between 500 views and 500,000.

For self-critical analytical minds it's a toxic combination. 1/

drimplausible,
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@futurebird Given that for one of the other major ABNs, TikTok, that "secret algorithm" was revealed to be "a bunch of underpaid employees sitting around a room with their thumb hovering over a 'promote' button"*, it's probably best not to worry about chasing it and enjoy the process instead.

That is, if the goal is to educate or inform. If virality is the goal, well, good luck.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Free startup idea: an online service protecting users against influencers, called Cloutflare

drimplausible,
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@thomasfuchs Cloutfade, maybe?

"Block" is probably too generic, and confused with "Pong"

Maybe "Blockr" is the way to go.

And if not, can we got Blockr up as the shared distributed blocklist for the fediverse?

(and no, as is tradition, I'm not checking to see if this is already a thing)

publicvoit, to ai
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Looking forward having an that is able to remove arbitrary voice layers from mp3 files so that I get high quality versions of my favorite songs that usually don't have (acceptable) karaoke versions at the moment.

🎙️🎶🔊

drimplausible,
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@publicvoit vocalremover dot org?

J12t, to random
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"To me, it feels a bit like the relationship between the industry and FLOSS communities has switched from being somewhat productive and occasionally abusive to being outright looting"

Good article by @baldur on changes in open-source. One nitpick: Sun's incredibly successful entry into the workstation market was based on an "open systems" proposition, long before there was the web. It was its secret sauce at the time where everything else was indeed closed.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/the-floss-transition/

drimplausible,
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@J12t @baldur Thanks for sharing this. Timely, and in light of an upcoming episode, relevant. Looking forward to giving it a full read soon.

ifixcoinops, to random
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Post-reddit morning reading fark like it's 2003

Fark is still going btw, they even have a mobile site if you go to m.fark.com

drimplausible,
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@ifixcoinops Look, where else are a.m.drivetime DJs in the midwest going to get their "weird news" stories to fill that slot every 20 and 50 minutes on the hour?

taylorlorenz, to twitter
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Rebranded Twitter aka “X” has the new tagline:

“Blaze your glory!”

(Twitter’s previous tagline was “it’s what’s happening”) #twitter #elonmusk #twittermigration #tech #technology #x #musk #technews #news

Screenshot of App Store where tagline is updated

drimplausible,
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@taylorlorenz Wait. So the "x" represents a blaze, like when you blaze a trail sign?

And blaze.com was already taken, so he went with "X"

(And apparently TheBlaze dot com was also taken. Oh, this makes so much sense!)

And what does an X mean when it's blazed as a trail sign.

(Let's check an authoritative source:)

I thought so! Checkmate!

chrismessina, to random
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A new microblogging contender has entered the arena: @tiktok now lets you create text posts!

And they support hashtags out the gate! 😛

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/text-posts

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drimplausible,
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@chrismessina Honestly, I'm not sure who that's worse for: X-Twitter, Threads, or Tiktok itself.

There's already a significant chunk of the content that is "screenshots of tweets or Reddit posts", with or without a dude pointing at it or a split screen with stolen Minecraft video.

So I guess having it native in-app is okay.

But it really feels like a drift in focus from their core service.

Hashtags:

stefan, to twitter
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Ah, okay.

"In response to questions about what tweets would be called when the rebranding is done, Musk said they would be called Xs."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-elon-musk-x-logo-change_n_64bdf368e4b00356919a34f5

#x

drimplausible,
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@stefan Thanks. Serves me right for ignoring the news.
Or greylisting HuffPo.
Something like that, anyways

TechDesk, to cryptocurrency
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OpenAI's Sam Altman is launching a new cryptocurrency called Worldcoin today, according to Semafor. People around the world, except the U.S., can receive a free token in exchange for an eye scan, which is said to provide each person with a unique online ID.

https://flip.it/LBN7Zp

drimplausible,
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@TechDesk Jeez, I need to start looking for a Lament Configuration or Pariah Nexus or something to get me out of this dimension.

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