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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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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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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, 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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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

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

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.

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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.

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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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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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

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karabaic, to random
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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, to random
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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, to random
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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, to random
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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.

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