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jonny, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Helping someone debug something, said they asked chatgpt about what a series of bit shift operations were doing. He thought it was actually evaluating the code, yno like it presents itself as doing. Instead its example was a) not the code he put in, with b) incorrect annotations, and c) even more incorrect sample outputs. Has been doing this all day and had just started considering maybe chatGPT was wrong.

I was like first of all never do that again, and explained how chatGPT wasnt doing anything like what he thought it was doing. We spent 2 minutes isolating that code, printing out the bit string after each operation, and he immediately understood what was going on.

I fucking hate these LLMs. Empowerment is learning how to figure things out, how to make tools for yourself and how to debug problems. These things are worse than disempowering, teaching people to be dependent on something that teaches them bullshit.

Edit: too many ppl reading this as "this person bad at programming" - not what I meant. Criticism is of deceptive presentation of LLMs.

jonny, 11 months ago to random

downloading now, i gotta say one of the weirdest things about #neuroparty is that we won't be watching liek 15 different versions of the same movie, coherence is scary

jonny, 3 months ago to random

They did WHAT
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/

jonny, 2 months ago to monsterdon

No way in hell am i watching #monsterdon with ads. importing the tubi version to @monsterdon rn, should be ready in time

jonny, 1 month ago to random

all jonny knows is charge they phone, mythic humanoids wiki category, eat hot chip & lie

jonny, 5 months ago to random

Scientists will be like "results should be replicable!" but then do all their experiments with a random walk of homebrew code that runs on four computers networked with a nest of BNC cables, each with a different version of MATLAB, and after every experiment the data is saved by walking a flash drive around to each of them since they cant be connected to the internet because one of them still runs Windows XP and if the rest so much as heard of a software update the work of 5 grad students whose whole PhD was spent setting up this monstrosity would be ruined forever.

jonny, 4 months ago to RSS

I guess this is turning into a real project so putting this out there if anyones interested:

We're making a very lightweight tool to create RSS feeds for journals from crossref metadata (with room for other sources). If ya dont know, many publishers are shutting down their RSS feeds to drive people onto their surveillance platforms, and every enshittification leaves behind an opening for adversarial interop.

This opens some interesting possibilities like creating feeds for keywords indexed across journals to start breaking down journals as the major organizational scheme of scholarly lit - papers have metadata keywords, but they mostly arent used, so lets use them!

Eventually wed like to write a FastAPI plugin similar to activitypub-express so we can make all feeds available on the fedi as well, and that would be a really nice set of tools to build for smaller AP projects that dont necessarily want to be full instances.

This is designed to be extremely deployable so you can run your own feed generator, but we'll also host a reference instance here at feeds.neuromatch.social once we get it running.

Just getting started, help wanted and welcome from anyone who loves #RSS and reading papers ♥

Repo: https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/journal-rss

Cc @lili and @roaldarboel

Stems from this thread: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111668885237921256

jonny, 26 days ago to random

Circulating word is that #LAPD plans to disperse #UCLA Palestinian solidarity encampment at 6. A number of groups including faculty and campus unions are planning on rallying in defense. Meanwhile an administrator has entered the camp to negotiate

#StudentSpring #StudentProtests

jonny, 6 months ago to random

you're kidding me i didn't know this was going to be presented in a 50's educational doc style i am so here for this #monsterdon

jonny, 2 months ago to random

So what's going on with the looks on everyone's faces and also everything they are saying #monsterdon

jonny, 5 months ago to random

I know the answer to this is probably "thats exactly the opposite of what they're supposed to do," but the thought has been sticking with me - I am wondering if there is some kind of "semantic hash" algorithm, sort of like vector embeddings, that puts hashes nearby in hash space that are nearby in source space.

Usually you hash over undifferentiated binary, but say you were instead hashing over a graph where you wanted similar graphs (similar terms, structure) to have close but unique hashes, but still collision resistant in the sense that you couldnt trivially tell which terms were giving you proximity (and thus engineer a collision).

This feels like a thought that will get me fedi spanked by cryptographers

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Enemies of freedom mention #monsterdon

jonny, 6 months ago to random

Oh boy a movie that comes with an instruction manual #monsterdon #mastoween

jonny, 10 months ago to random

alright, I think it's time to translate the #NWB spec language to RDF and start on the first leg of getting this p2p thing off the ground and mirror all the neurophysiology archives. got a big stack of hard drives and bandwidth going to waste

jonny, 3 months ago to random

i don't know of any other album that still hits to me 24 years later as hard as it did the first time aside from The Unseen, created while Madlib took mushrooms for a month straight diving through his entire record collection. put on some headphones, listen all the way through, miss half of it, come back 10 more times, repeat.
https://youtu.be/nWqNXuQCaWo
https://quasimoto.bandcamp.com/album/the-unseen

jonny, 5 months ago to random

ok what is this hogfather business #monsterdon

jonny, 7 months ago to random

I am going to try and upgrade our instance to 4.2 before #monsterdon #mastoween starts so that the live feed works.... our backup is due to finish like right at 6:00 so we will truly see what YOLO sysadmin is all about.

jonny, 8 months ago to random

Pulling up late to #monsterdon and absolutely shocked that a movie named "the stuff" is in color and so seemingly folksy. At least it is familiarly Dudes Only

jonny, 3 months ago to bluesky

Compare figure 3 here in the #atproto / #bluesky paper
https://bsky.social/about/bluesky-and-the-at-protocol-usable-decentralized-social-media-martin-kleppmann.pdf
To the diagram here:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

The paper figure is a lot cuter, but by linearizing it and presenting it as two parallel tracks they have obscured the most salient feature of the network: the big relay in the middle. Beyond "centralization bad," that pins down most of the undesirable and dangerous features of the protocol, and makes it seem like theres a lot more choice than there is.

Since the design purposefully hides the architecture: you dont know where your feed generators are drawing from, or those used by your friends. So you cant know what the effect of choosing a different relay would be, aka the main relay is always indispensable. Importantly the relays subscribe to you, you dont push to the relay, and since you arent really supposed to operate your own data store, you can be dropped from the network without knowing - the relay serves as an unaccountable point of moderation.

jonny, 7 months ago to random

Hey any journalists on here plz turn your public post indexing on, because most of you haven't and thats why people looking for public information cant find you.

Go to settings > public profile > privacy and reach, select "include public posts in search results"

Not all the fedi wants to be a public space, and thats fine, but some parts should be right now.

jonny, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

assuming everything else looks good, would not responding to any issues and pull requests by itself be enough for you not to use an open source project in a mission critical context?

Edit at 5 votes: assume there are a reasonable number of new, nontrivial issues or PRs

jonny, 6 months ago to random

Ok IT finally came for our lab WiFi router and told us we have to shut it down, so question for any #networking folks out there:

1. how can they detect that we are using a router, and
2. how can we avoid that detection so we can keep having the Good Internet

jonny, 3 months ago to random

hell ya it's been awhile since we've had disco teens on #monsterdon. i'll accept steel guitar and extended singing sequence

jonny, 1 month ago to random

where are the egg tooth experts when you need them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Egg_tooth

jonny, 9 months ago to random

RIP me, I accidentally triggered a MacOS update 10 minutes before #monsterdon