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arch, to random
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Provided my partner and I both text negative for covid, we will be at ConFuzzled next week

18+ jhwgh1968,
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@arch wow they can do those tests over SMS now? Technology is amazing!

whitequark, to random
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me: "i like it how the entire LLVM project is one monorepo"
her: "when are you going to compile the entirety of LLVM to WebAssembly?"
me: "yes."
her: "... I said that as a joke"

jhwgh1968,
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Now @whitequark just needs to get the patch set merged upstream

laughter stops instantly

gsuberland, to random
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two students about to become incredibly unpopular for being narcs

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/csc-serviceworks-free-laundry-million-machines/

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland fortunately I think they'll be ok, and your hopes may be fulfilled

> Months later, the vulnerability remains open after CSC ServiceWorks repeatedly ignored requests to fix the flaw

> It’s unclear who, if anyone, is responsible for cybersecurity at CSC, and representatives for CSC did not respond to TechCrunch’s requests for comment.

RickiTarr, to random
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Saw this in the bathroom of the Queer Friendly Coffee House:

jhwgh1968,
@jhwgh1968@chaos.social avatar

@RickiTarr I have seen it circulate before, but it is worth a boost none the less having it appear in real life to inspire others to replicate it ❤️

fasterthanlime, to random
@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io avatar

I'm trying to get better at delivering "bad news" earlier.

If I'm not gonna make it to an event, or won't have time to finish a task, I don't wait until the last minute to communicate that — I let them know as soon as I know.

Feels awkward, but more respectful of their time.

jhwgh1968,
@jhwgh1968@chaos.social avatar

@fasterthanlime an an ND person this is something I know is important, but is not at all trivial

Keep up the good work ❤️

marcelias, to random
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🚨BREAKING VICTORY: Supreme Court BLOCKS conservative redistricting lawsuit. Louisiana will use its congressional map with two majority-Black districts for the 2024 elections! https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisiana-congressional-redistricting-challenge-callais/

18+ jhwgh1968,
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@GiddingsMJ @heidilifeldman @marcelias from what I've read, it's bc the majority thinks Percell requires every map should stick until the next election, and they can decide the long legal battles in front of them later

This is simply remaining consistent with bad maps that screwed people over and strengthening that precedent for future map screwing. Playing the long game

The dissenters don't want to play this game... because (my rare opinion, I know) the law is not about naked politics

18+ gsuberland, to random
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when you're trying to dictionary-lawyer your way out of criticism over using a word that literally everyone knows carries a heap of pain and anguish along with it, you've fully lost me. good gravy what a boneheaded thing to do.

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland good grief

(I'd rather not know tbh, I've seen enough of them)

18+ anthropy, to random
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I really wish people wouldn't full on hate AI/ML when the tech isn't the problem. It's just that the economy, lack of proper labor rights, shareholdeism and capitalism in general make it scary; and the planet is on fire, meaning we have to be careful with what we expel into the atmosphere.

But if there were proper labor laws and something like UBI, and they were only running off green power, there just flat out wouldn't be any problem, and many opportunities to actually SOLVE those issues🤷

18+ jhwgh1968,
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@anthropy while I think a lot of the hate is justified, I will always push back against my personal pet peeve

Anti-hype: where someone complains about it while describing it as a monolithic powerful technology -- aka very the framing of the boosters as the basis

Not buying into the framing at all is what I'm trying to do. It's math, science, hardware, and algorithms

How they're deployed, by who, to do what, are human problems at the center of the issue -- and require as many solutions

gsuberland, to random
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in the world's deepest food coma

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland hey if you're able to post from a food coma can I get my Bachelor's in medicine by doing a Case Study Report on you?

nblr, to random
@nblr@chaos.social avatar

If they at least would stop calling it “AI”.

jhwgh1968,
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@nblr indeed

Then perhaps we would not have built such a big marketing trend, we get garbage like this (which I'm still not over):

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/business/coca-cola-y3000/index.html

jacqueline, to random
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pilot run of production tangara pcbs arriving today!!

jhwgh1968,
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scy, to generativeAI
@scy@chaos.social avatar

I'm old enough to remember how @creativecommons was founded as a way for independent creators to safely share their work and build upon each other.

In 2024, their take is now "billion dollar companies plagiarizing your art is fair use".

https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/17/fair-use-training-generative-ai/

Hats off to the author, you don't see that kind of, uh, skillful rhetoric chicanery every day. Like "generative AI doesn't compete with artists because artists are not in the data market". 😬

#CreativeCommons #GenerativeAI

18+ jhwgh1968,
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@scy I feel like the block quote you picked is the weakest part of the entire @creativecommons article

I'm no fan of "AI", but also hate it when people fall for anti-hype

Taking the view of "AI" proponents to explain how dangerous it is -- rather than a view that realizes it's marketing BS and these systems shouldn't be treated the same in law

As someone who has watched copyright expand to absurdity, any precedent adding "running an algo" to copy rights would be terrible for everyone

18+ jhwgh1968,
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@scy I think that is a pretty good "lay" description of models I've trained and tinkered with offline in various domains

  1. The data doesn't contain any fragments. It's a hierarchy of probabilities

  2. Shanon's limit proves there's no information storage *

  3. A bit literary, but reasonable description of correlative self-convolution -- merely a different algo for how Amazon Recommends Products for You all the time

  • Except maybe very large text models, e.g. the GH Copilot lawsit I support
18+ jhwgh1968,
@jhwgh1968@chaos.social avatar

@scy the best way to see these pts in action is what I've done: make models that are "too small to be good" and see what patterns appear

Or to ask larger models for outputs whose inputs have low probabilities

Then you can see what I think of as the "probability cone" of each piece of input's correlation affecting the output -- creating random visual smudges or that text model exploit where repeating words makes it spew junk

Both are "leaving the correlation cone" and showing its contours

18+ jhwgh1968,
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@scy they should be able to sue you into the ground exactly as hard as if you had watched every Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, got drunk/high/whatever, and came up with a "totally original idea dude" on a napkin and then actually made it

And you should have the same defenses based on the specifics of the content iteslf

That's my position: copyright should be about output, not process

Someone hurt under the law -- financially or e.g. impersonation -- should fight that on its effects

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