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judeswae

@judeswae@toot.thoughtworks.com

Europe Head of Social Change and #MastoAdmin at https://toot.thoughtworks.com/@thoughtworks

Passionate about computational art, responsible tech and hacktivism.

Opinions, my own.

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judeswae, to Wikipedia
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"Originating from early statistical analysis in the fields of agriculture and medicine, the term "treatment" is now applied, more generally, to other fields of natural and social science, especially psychology, political science, and economics such as, for example, the evaluation of the impact of public policies.", says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_treatment_effect

Does that mean that public policies (and their impact evaluation) are now viewed as crop management or eradication of infectious diseases?

J12t, to fediverse
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Hive Mind: anybody have a recipe how to mark up pages so that when they are shared in , they show up nicely in people's feeds with pictures and title etc?

judeswae,
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@J12t Mastodon reads Opengraph metatags. That's what you need to add to your html code, if I understood your question correctly. You'll have a nice preview card generated in Mastodon when someone pastes a link to your webpage.

https://ogp.me/

judeswae, to VisionPro
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Zuck's review of the is, to me, the first time in 20 years that he appears human.

Good job Metacomms team.

judeswae, to mastodon
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It seems that is having a moment. Hourly counter was rarely above 200 in the last months. And since yesterday, it's been constantly above 200, peaking at 500. What's happening? Is that the effect of the announcement?

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/111931609009607499

squirke, to random
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Day two back from - yesterday I attacked my email mountain... today, it's chat...

judeswae,
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@squirke rm -rf /chat /email

judeswae, to Europe
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Trying to generate an imaginary map of for a friend using . Not being particularly successful. But this one was labelled EURPE. And I guess that’s how I’m going to abbreviate Europe from now on.

judeswae, to vr
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porn a no go for users as capability blocked by Apple - NotebookCheck.net News
https://www.notebookcheck.net/VR-porn-a-no-go-for-Apple-Vision-Pro-users-as-capability-blocked-by-Apple.801282.0.html

"While Vision Pro users aren’t blocked from viewing porn using Safari per se, Apple has blocked the ability to view porn in immersive VR mode, a function that has not been blocked on other VR headsets from other makers. This means the Vision Pro is the world’s first "spatial computer" that cannot play spatial porn."

judeswae,
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@cford also known as rule 34

judeswae, to ai
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The "Girl with a Pearl Earring", by , is the of AI image generation.

judeswae, to apple
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Now we know why the main requirement for acquiring the was to have deep pockets.

kanekotic, to random

test post

judeswae,
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@kanekotic pass ✅

judeswae, to Barcelona
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In this Thursday? Come to a joint between @thoughtworks and Aerospike.

You'll hear some of my colleagues talk on how you can use to fight discrimination.

https://www.meetup.com/barcelona-nosql-meetup-gruppe/events/298560590/

bastianallgeier, to random
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Casey Neistad's vision pro review video is just pure gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvkgmyfMPks He's such a fantastic storyteller. He takes you from hilarious to amazing back to hilarious and then to serious in split seconds.

judeswae,
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@bastianallgeier Always amazed by how nice newyorkers are.

judeswae, to Futurology
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"Virtually all proposed theories relating to AGI and its development rely on simplified, quantifiable representations of intelligence. This leads AGI researchers to gravitate towards metrics like IQ, along with all the historical baggage that comes with the use of those metrics."


https://medium.com/@collegehill/agi-researchers-stop-quoting-white-supremacists-challenge-impossible-d1002469d572#:~:text=Virtually%20all%20proposed%20theories%20relating%20to%20AGI%20and%20its%20development%20rely%20on%20simplified%2C%20quantifiable%20representations%20of%20intelligence.%20This%20leads%20AGI%20researchers%20to%20gravitate%20towards%20metrics%20like%20IQ%2C%20along%20with%20all%20the%20historical%20baggage%20that%20comes%20with%20the%20use%20of%20those%20metrics.

judeswae, to VisionPro
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"During the pandemic, we got a very clear picture of the incentives of the tech industry. Once many of us were isolated in our homes to avoid contracting or spreading a contagious virus, tech companies saw their revenues and profits soar as we spent much more time in front of our screens engaging with their services."

"Isolation is profitable", by @parismarx

https://disconnect.blog/apples-vision-pro-headset-deserves/

judeswae,
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@mastobit
If I'm going to quote someone, I'm not going to change their text.

Also, the quoted text does not say anything about the pandemic being over. It talks about tech companies profiting from the isolation it created.

And lastly, don't use special unicode characters to simulate italics and bold text when your text editor does not allow it, it's very disrespectful of people who rely on screen readers.

https://business.scope.org.uk/article/accessibility-screen-readers-special-characters-and-unicode-symbols

Peace.

@parismarx

judeswae,
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@chx Would you like to share a little more about it? I'm not sure I get the reference. @parismarx

judeswae, to vr
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If you ask me, what we call today is not virtual reality, it's skeuomorphism.

If you want to experience virtual reality today, try exploring the latent space of image models instead.

briankrebs, to random

All the reviews I've read of the new Apple VR headset have a similar critique: That entering text -- via the on-screen keyboard -- is clunky and not very useful.

I haven't seen any reviews that focus on the speech-to-text capabilities of this device. Seems to me this thing could actually read your lips if it wanted to. W/ a half-dozen or so built-in mics, It certainly can hear you just fine. Seems like Apple should be focusing a lot more on improving speech recognition because Siri has been underwhelming (esp. since she started requiring an internet connection to work at all). Maybe someone knows of a review that is focused on this aspect?

I've played with apps on several existing VR systems that do virtual desktop and other things that claim to be productivity apps, but they all suck when it comes to entering and/or displaying text. Which seems like kind of a big fail, and really limits the utility of these apps.

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@briankrebs Good point. But even if one of those vendors solve the text display and text input problem, they have another major problem down the road that's going to prevent any of it to be used as a productivity tool: neck pain.

https://toot.thoughtworks.com/@judeswae/111864260443383674

judeswae, to climate
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: Greenhouse Effect
https://xkcd.com/2889/

Spot on, as always. And such a good reflection on our humanity.

judeswae, to VisionPro French
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Folx, while yall talking about $APPL as a productive tool and fantasy reading your work emails and design powerpoints (sorry, keynote) in the zone, have you ever tried lifting 500gr for an hour or two with just your nose?

I did this, with a 1, every day (2h/day, that's how long the battery lasts), for a month, during Covid lockdown, as an experiment and escape of that fun period of 2020.

I had so much neck pain after that, I've never put a headseat on my face again.

judeswae, (edited )
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Mind you, I'm not saying is dead or will fail because of that. I did see a promising use for it during that giant work-from-home experiment.

Fitness apps! VR is the new Wii Fit.

Treadmills are boring, but smashing neon-colored glass blocks with light sabers on the beat of pounding techno music, that's addictive.

I was sweating so much dancing like no one was watching, no one could wear the headset after me.

Strava, but for VR. That's the futch'.

judeswae,
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@twoolie I haven't, but thanks for the suggestion.

judeswae, to ai
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image generators will be great at making carpet motifs and waiting room decors.

judeswae, (edited ) to StableDiffusion
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The guessing game of prompting to produce something consistent is exhausting.

It seems obvious I'm trying to generate some black and white circle. See this batch of 9 images generated with different seeds.

Where is that interior coming from?

Prompt: one black circle 1915, high contrast, plain, round, Pi

Negative Prompt: text, colors, lines, concentric, angles, faces, triangle, interior, figures, wall, straw, spiral, labyrinth, grid

judeswae,
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Same prompt, same seed, different model.

cc @cford

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