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gimulnautti

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green

Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

Other fediverse accounts:
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

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gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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Oon huomannut et mitä vanhemmaks tulee, sitä enemmän kukkia tässä taimilaatikossa on hyötykasvien sijaan. 🤔

gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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Atoms, statistics & binaries

anuko, to random Finnish
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Helsinki, suomen rikkain kaupunki, ei kykene järjestämään koululaisten lakisääteisiä lääkärintarkastuksia, joten ne hoidetaan ostopalveluna yksityisten voimin.

Yksityinen on tietenkin kalliimpi, joten palvelutaso on ihan samanlainen kuin ennenkin (tai siis, pitää maksaa enemmän, että saa saman palvelutason). Ajan saa yli kuukauden päähän, tarjolla oli peräti kaksi aikaa, jotka molemmat ovat keskellä päivää ja lääkäriasema sijaitsee kotoa katsoen kolme kilometriä koulusta poispäin, erään lähiön ostarilla.

Joskus aikoinaan oli sellainen käytäntö, että lääkäri tuli koululle tekemään tarkastuksia eikä niin päin, että koululääkärin perässä pitää matkustaa kaupungin toiselle puolelle. Mutta näissä uudenlaisissa tehokkuuslaskelmissahan ei tyypillisesti ole laskettu asiakkaan/potilaan/käyttäjän/saattajan ajalle hintaa ollenkaan. Eikä tässä myöskään synny minkäänlaista potilassuhdetta lääkärin kanssa.

Käytäntö on vanhempien läsnäolon kannalta muutenkin haastava, itse voin käyttää työaikaliukumia, mutta kaikilla ei ole sitä mahdollisuutta. Saa nähdä, kuinka paljon tarkastuksia jää välistä, kun niistä on tehty monimutkaisempia kuin ennen ja vanhempien on vaikea järjestää itsensä paikalle.

gimulnautti,
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@anuko Tää on tätä samaa mitä yleensäkin on ollut kun politiikkaan tullaan oikealta:

Karsitaan niistä ennaltaehkäisevistä toimista jolla oltais säästetty pitkällä ajanjaksolla, odotetaan että lasku tulee maksettavaksi seuraaville hallituksille, ja sitten syytetään niitä omista mokista.

gimulnautti, (edited ) to scifi
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Oops! I accidentally !

Just thought I’d recommend it to a friend, ended up reading through it again 😃

Hannu Rajaniemi is a physicist who also writes . What resulted is a crazy & wild ride predicting different ways humans could evolve with technology, and how those would go to war against each other, too.

No one is better than another in this one, and change is finally the answer that matters..

https://www.goodreads.com/series/57134-jean-le-flambeur

LALegault, to ai
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America can’t be serious about this in wildfire season?


Robot dog with flame thrower

gimulnautti,
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@LALegault Actually this has plenty of legitimate uses in industry, too.

gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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Tänään

video/mp4

gimulnautti, to random Finnish
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Eilen

image/jpeg
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hanse_mina, to Europe
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How a second presidency
could tear apart

This is the moment most of Europe’s leaders hoped they would never see. The date is November 7, 2024, two days after Donald Trump edged out Joe in the presidential election, and already the once-and-future president has announced he will force to strike a peace deal with and cede territories the has claimed as its own.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-second-term-presidency-united-states-tear-europe-eu-apart/

gimulnautti,
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@hanse_mina Yeah. In the worst case EU would start to need to develop it’s own deterrence.

That would definitely be worse for the whole world if we have to go through that.

Mollysdailykiss, to bookstodon
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If you have not read either of these books, then you really should.

Regardless of whether you like Non fic or not, if you are using this here big old interwebs, then honestly read them both. Start with Doppelganger and then read Code Dependant.

Is technology gonna destroy democracy? What about the whole of humanity?

These books made me worry, but both also gave hope for the future and the power of humanity and most of all communities.

@bookstodon

Front cover of the book Code Dependant by Maghumita Murgia which shows a Control keyboard button lit in purple and red

gimulnautti,
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@Pappy @bookstodon Doppelganger is great. I think there’s even a weird glimmer of hope if we take the idea at face value, that MAGA is essentially worried about the same things as Occupy Wallstreet was, just that their solutions are completely backwards and destructive.

noelreports, to random
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Chairwoman of the Defense Committee in the Bundestag, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, once again called on the German government to supply Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles.

"The Chancellor has always assured that he is oriented towards the United States. Now that the US will now deliver long-range ATACMS to Ukraine, it is reason enough to act on the Taurus issue," she added.

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/russland-ukraine-krieg-im-news-ticker-vom-22-bis-28-april,UAf4g01

gimulnautti,
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@noelreports Get those Taurus to Ukraine. Even the odds.

Why would we let Russia use nuclear threats to secure them the advantage on the battlefield and win anyway? Doesn’t that mean that their nuclear weapons worked to their advantage? Doesn’t that send the signal to world that if you have nuclear weapons your enemies won’t dare to cross you?

gimulnautti,
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@urwumpe @noelreports Yes, is a tried & true method from Soviet times. Not much has changed in the way Russia handles things.

As a sidenote, I would say Soviets invented MAGA and alt-right in the 1960’s already. These US fools are just late to the game. 😝

DrPen, to ai
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When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.

gimulnautti, (edited )
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@DrPen Human autentication are going to be very necessary very soon.

But the problem is, people won’t start to want them until it’s already too late. And when that happens they’ll be ready to sacrifice their privacy for convenience.

When privacy is gone, we’ll be at a risk of losing democracy as well.

That’s why we need to start NOW and develop that ALLOWS for !

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/humans-have-freedom-of-expression-bots-dont/

anulahtinen, to random Finnish
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Allekirjoitettavaa!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/044/public/#/screen/home

gimulnautti,
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@anulahtinen Persut on ehkä talouspuolue tänään, mutta huomenna sieltä voi tulla abortinvastaisuuslauselma.

jaoler, to random Finnish
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Ministeri Kaisa Juuso: "Välimatka Kemistä Rovaniemelle tai Ouluun ei ole ylitsepääsemätön, se on vähän päälle 100 kilometriä." https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000010380966.html

gimulnautti,
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@jaoler Se on samaa periaatetta tämä haavoittuvimmasta leikkausmeininki kuin muukin eriarvopolitiikka mitä oikealla ajetaan: Kaikki eivät ansaitse saman arvoista kohtelua, rahalla saa ja hevosella pääsee.

Sillä toki saa talouden tasapainoon tänään ja huomenna. Mutta ne ennaltaehkäisevien toimien estämät isommat laskut paljon myöhemmin tulevat kyllä maksettavaksi.

Tämä hallitus ei sitä kuitenkaan näe, vaan heidän ideologiset jälkeläisensä syyttävät siitä silloin vallassa olevaa.

gimulnautti, to random
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Today’s friendly reminder:

Remember that Russian trolls & useful idiots of alll kind come with hashtags and things you like all over their profile.

The obvious ones are there just to make you think you figured it out.

gimulnautti, to Youtube
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streamers have literally discovered the media equivalent of :

An influencer reading other people’s semi-funny tweets on repeat. Hundreds and hundreds. Endlessly.

It keeps giving you little hits of dopamine over and over, keeps you hooked, wastes your time & doesn’t get you anywhere even if you feel something like a real feeling.

I call these ”brain rot”. My kid agreees, and keeps watching.

The race to the bottom of the brain stem is painful to watch sometimes. 🙁

gimulnautti,
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@paulthenerd Definitely. Count me evil, but i’d rather have kids do drugs at home than join hitler jugend also. 😃

gimulnautti, to apple
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Apple Mighty Mouse is still the best mouse around.

That two-direction scroll ball instead of wheel is just 😙👌

Just needs periodic cleaning with alcohol, every two years. 😼

viisaskana, to random Finnish
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"... näitä nykyisiä yksittäisten ministerien ajojahteja pidän kohtuuttomina sekä mauttomina, Mäkelä kommentoi... "

Näin sanoo persu. Oma havainto on, että yksittäisten politiikkojen ajojahteja on nimenomaan maailman persujen harrastus.
#politiikka #persu #juuso

https://yle.fi/a/74-20084889

gimulnautti,
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@anuko @viisaskana oikeistopopulismin syvä ydin on uhrautuminen ja sillä perusteltu aggressiivisuus

mark, to ai
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#ai #openai

While "theft" is probably not a good descriptor of how an image synthesis engine is built, I think the accusation of "plagiarism" is a fair one. The machine is trained on the work of a vast number of artists sourced from multiple databases. We don't know who's in, but more importantly, we don't know who's out. I think it's reasonable to care about the loss of pedigree on the data.

... but it's worth noting that plagiarism tends to be more an academic concern than a corporate concern. An academic's career is built as a peer in a community of idea-traders; to fail to respect the culture of attribution is to be cast out of that community. Corporate espionage and patent violation aside, there isn't really a culture in the corporate world of citing the source of one's ideas; nobody cares if Lego's inventor was inspired by God or by ten years of cobbling in their workshop as long as the pieces click together. So it is, perhaps, a fair criticism that the creators and consumers don't particularly care about.

And, to come back to the example of building the search index for a Google, it's not an issue for that use case because creators feel sufficiently compensated when they get linked to (even though, technically, we have no idea the pedigree of the search engine's choice to synthesize a link-out... It may have directly crawled the site, it may have decided the site was worthwhile from in-links without crawling it, it may be a manual override or a link harvested from a trusted authority on "cool links." Again, nobody complains about "pedigree" or "plagarism" here unless the system is perceived to not be working to their best interests... Notably, other indexes do complain that Google harvests their link-aggregations without consent!).

gimulnautti,
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@mark Copyright law has been created from the vantage point of humans, and the use-case is what determines if it should be endorsed.

What is at the root of the problem is that we don’t have a clear legal status for the #remix.

The music industry has been able to get by with licencing agreements, but it has not had to deal with an industrial capacity for producing them.

We’re going to need new legislation. Shoehorning stuff to the old wont cut it

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/ai-art-is-a-remix-the-djs-of-pictures/

savvykenya, to LLMs
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If you have documents with the answers you're looking for, why not search the documents directly? Why are you embedding the documents then using (Retrieval Augmenter Generation) to make a large language model give you answers? An LLM generates text, it doesn't search a DB to give you results. So just search the damn DB directly, we already have great search algorithms with O(1) retrieval speeds! are so stupid.

gimulnautti,
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@savvykenya Most jobs are fine with mediocre answers. If a new employee needs to know something and doesn’t know where to look, that’s a pretty good use-case for RAG.

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