karabaic

karabaic, 14 hours ago to random

In this case, AI is 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 going well. This is a great use case and application for ML.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41591-024-00038-w

karabaic, 1 day ago to random

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, 8 days ago to random

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

karabaic, 9 days ago to random

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

karabaic, 9 days ago to random

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, 20 days ago to random

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, 21 days ago to random

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, 23 days ago to random

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, 24 days ago to random

gonna put a stop sign on my car's liftgate

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

From: @karabaic
https://mastodon.social/@karabaic/112391063651671027

karabaic, 25 days ago to random

I don't remember the NY Daily News having this strong a pun game but damn.

From Sam Staggs Close-up On Sunset Boulevard

karabaic, 1 month ago to random

I'm reading The Freaks Came Out to Write, Tricia Romano's oral history of the Village Voice and getting angry and sad all over again over the censorship of Lenny Bruce and the death of Don McNeill, Jr, things I haven't thought about it in years.

karabaic, 1 month ago to random

in the toby-won't-eat-his-cinnamon-monstrosity Wendy's ad they kind of make the feminine crewmate the caregiver when she puts the fork in his fist and why do i care about this shit but i wish they had cast a masculine person in her role

karabaic, 1 month ago to random

One of the things I never realized as a kid reading the Odyssey and the Iliad is that Odysseus is just a compulsive liar who can't tell the truth under any circumstances.

karabaic, 1 month ago to random

The most and, yet, least surprising thing I learned from this Raffi profile is that he's a Swiftie.

Of course he is.

Raffi is a transnational treasure.

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/04/raffi-guide-to-fighting-fascism-baby-beluga-penny-penguin/

ht @gratefuldread

karabaic, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

It is important to note that the context for the FTC's ruling to ban noncompetes is not the techbruh who signed a NC.

It's the person who works at a Wendy's franchise who signed a noncompete during onboarding and now can't get a job at McDonald's.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opinion/noncompete-agreement-workers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.ZCWO.4QqYOicCdWVF&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

karabaic, 1 month ago to random

Oh, and let's put everything, even the tilt of a tanning bed, under control of this fucking insane Alexa. #2001ASpaceOdyssey #TCMParty

karabaic, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

Software is eating the world and it wants the humans sous vide.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-software-update-traps-woman-in-hot-car-1851407234

karabaic, 1 month ago to random

yikes. looking for references

karabaic, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

If you are a #VentureBros fan and a #PDXBikes fan, plan ahead for the "The Death of Venturion: A Venture Brothers Fan Ride" for #PedalpaloozaPDX

June 23, 2024

#bikepdx #GoTeamVenture #ShiftToBikes

https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-18571

karabaic, 3 months ago to bookstodon

chapter 8 of #HeavenAndEarthGroceryStore is one of the finest chapters of American English-language fiction ever written.

@bookstodon

karabaic, 3 months ago to random

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, 5 months ago to random

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