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karabaic

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John Karabaic's account. he/him. BLM.

NYC MIT WPAFB CIN PDX, kinda in that order

Virtual plumber to https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic

Breakfast on the Bridges volunteer https://social.ridetrans.it/@bonbpdx

Working for tech companies since they made hardware.

The gurney is the reward, as my NeXT colleagues put it.

Expect book and media reviews, comments on science and technology policy, frequent #NoirAlley #TCMParty posts.

Banner from Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts

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mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

karabaic,
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@tojiro @mekkaokereke Chevy Bolt. Union made.

rebeccawatson, to random
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this was my mother’s day present from Indy and I’m glad he’s excited but what happens when we get the results and we only share like 80% of our dna

karabaic,
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@rebeccawatson I'm sure you will love this guy regardless of what this eugenics-inspired product reveals.

karabaic,
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@rebeccawatson I didn't mean to be flippant or disrespect the generous intention behind the gift, and I apologize if it came off that way. I shy away from human whole-genome testing because I'm as skeptical of SNP's correlating "ethnicities" and "national origins" as I am of using reverse inference in fMRI mapping to determine specific cognitive functions. That applies to puppy DNA testing, too. My mutts are awesome & Indy is awesome, regardless of whether they're 12% terrier.

karabaic,
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@rebeccawatson Srsly. https://gizmodo.com/why-breeding-pedigree-dogs-is-just-eugenics-by-another-1692030738

karabaic, to bookstodon
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chapter 8 of is one of the finest chapters of American English-language fiction ever written.

@bookstodon

karabaic, to random
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Apparently, Michael Cohen's attorney, David Schwartz, used generative AI to write a petition for end of MC's supervised release.

will edit with direct link to doc when it's available.

cc @alex @emilymbender for MAIHT3K

HT @jdotj

https://bsky.app/profile/jdotj.bsky.social/post/3kgeyvp3ass2z

see link in post for full text

karabaic, to random
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yikes. looking for references

karabaic, to random
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, but for rich assholes. https://www.koin.com/news/crashes/drives-slams-mclaren-720s-sports-car-into-portland-office-building/

karabaic, to random
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So depressed by AI Hype...hey, here's a promising story in Nature about scientists being encouraged to report negative results...I'll read that to cheer me up!

5 grafs later...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01389-7

karabaic,
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@alex @emilymbender pertinent to the last ep of MAIHT3K ^^^

karabaic, to random
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The original "Turing Test" paper[1] has a section on ESP as an objection to the resolved proposition, "Machines can think."

[1] "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", AM Turing, Mind, Oct 1950, vol. LIX, no. 236

karabaic, to random
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What was the first Norman Lear show you ever saw? When? How old were you? How did it affect you? https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/norman-lear-dead-dies-tv-legend-all-in-the-family-1235823995/

All in the Family, first run, 1972. I was 9. I realized folks I agreed with (Meathead) could be unlikeable, and folks I disagreed with (Archie) were human. And I had a crush on Gloria.

karabaic, to random
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Robert Kennedy Jr gets multiple (correct) diagnoses of a brain tumor, and one quack who says maybe it's a parasite. Guess who BobbyJ went with? Dr Red Wiggler, the Cadillac of oncologists.

karabaic,
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@thepoliticalcat He apparently consulted more than 1

karabaic, to random
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Hey! US folks! Those noncompete clauses you signed? Just banned.

Celebrate!

Go work for a competitor. Go found your own competition.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

karabaic, to random
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boeing be crimin' https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/fbi-investigation-boeing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.gere.gkmwklCQqzDd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

karabaic, to random
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With Google's main search becoming more unreliable and the Internet itself becoming polluted with generative nonsense, I find myself searching on scholar, books, and my local library's OCLC interface and limiting myself to results from 2022 or earlier. This seems extreme.

What are you doing?

karabaic, to random
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Anyone have a screen credit for the Native-looking actor who played the mechanic who comments on the sirens & warehouse fire? IMDB’s got nothing.

karabaic, to random
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Oh, @alex @emilymbender, this may be a good paper for ?

“This month, Princeton CITP — with experts at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – unveiled a paper detailing The Foundation Model Transparency Index, or FMTI. That's a tool for measuring just how forthcoming 10 of the world’s top tech developers have been with their most salient generative AI applications…”

https://crfm.stanford.edu/fmti/fmti.pdf

karabaic, to random
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stay tuned for the lifetime movie
the last neanderthal lover

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01452-3?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=3a0a12a552-nature-briefing-daily-20240528&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-3a0a12a552-51112012

karabaic, to random
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Google is an unreliable business partner, even if you're an independent writer using their free apps.

HT @phil_stevens

https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/

karabaic, to random
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gonna put a stop sign on my car's liftgate

https://youtu.be/LzHnFqw46eg?si=ustguK1glxbBodCx

From: @karabaic
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karabaic, to random
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show us the training
data you cowards

HT @gratefuldread

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

karabaic, to random
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I just wish we could run the last-longer-than-a-lettuce thing with OpenAI

karabaic, to random
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oh look a careful attempt to replicate a breathless "gpt outperforms humans" result fails.

whoda thunkit

https://open.substack.com/pub/aiguide/p/stress-testing-large-language-models

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