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kellogh

@kellogh@hachyderm.io

I'm a software engineer and sometimes manager. Currently #Raleigh but also #Seattle. Building ML platform for a healthcare startup. Previously, built an IoT platform for one of "those" companies.

Open source: dura, fossil, Jump-Location, Moq.AutoMock, others

Do I have other interests? No, but I do have kids and they have interests. I think that counts for something. I can braid hair and hunt unicorns!

I put the #rust in frustrate

He/Him

#metal #science #python

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lzg, to random
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i’ve realized i have about 5 scripted things i say to neighbors on morning walks, but they are all slightly odd and maybe need a little workshopping

kellogh,
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@lzg what? are you thinking of eating him?!

kellogh, to random
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this has been bugging me a lot. like, yeah, there’s definitely AI scams out there. and yeah, a lot of people are using it from the wrong end, but it’s also clearly a substantial technology. time to realize that
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112484753548884371

kellogh,
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@maltimore i wish you weren’t right

kellogh,
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@leoncowle one phenomenon, it sometimes seems like the anti-AI activity starts to feel more scammy than the AI applications they criticize. FUD, but with a moral sense of urgency and inconsistent logic. it sets off the scam alert in my brain. i’m not sure anyone is really making money off the anti-AI dialog, but it triggers that same pattern in my brain

kellogh,
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most of the complaints about AI at this point are people using it from the wrong end and exclaiming, “see? it doesn’t work”. there are legitimate problems, ofc, but there’s also legitimate value

kellogh,
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@swiftcoder i think the iTerm2 overreaction really highlighted that people have indeed stopped thinking and are instead using their emotions

kellogh,
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my take on the bubble — there will definitely be some sort of decline at some point, but it’s not going to be a bubble pop as widely predicted. ML has been generally growing for 10 straight years, at an accelerating pace, also for 10 straight years. to predict a bubble pop is to ignore a whole lot of data, including the idea of AI is basically the culmination of computing in general, since its inception. it’s quite a different case from blockchain.

simon, to random
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It feels like "Sign in with Facebook" is a whole lot less common than it used to be, not sure I remember the last time I saw a new service that had that, whereas "Sign in with Google" and "Sign in with Apple" still show up a whole lot

kellogh,
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@simon as a developer, my thought process is, "which service are my users most likely to also use", so maybe people just don't use facebook anymore?

kellogh, to ai
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iTerm2 developer caves to the bullies and moves the feature to a plugin

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458135

kellogh,
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@capraobscura thanks for illustrating my point

kellogh,
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@Xoriff eh, the hacker news & mastodon comments got into the bullying range pretty fast.

a lot of people seem to feel entitled to free software being catered to their wishes. i’ve run into the same sort of entitlement in software i’ve open sourced

kellogh,
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@sanityinc the whole fiasco highlights how much we demand from open source, how little respect maintainers get, and how tiny the communities are. most people didn’t even realize this was an open source project

lzg, to random
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frustrated once again googling what the fuck is a red herring, an idiom that never sticks to my brain no matter how many times i’ve looked it up

kellogh,
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@lzg you probably get most idioms, this one is just a red herring

blainsmith, to random
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Time to replace iTerm on my work machine tomorrow with something else that doesn't have ChatGPT in it.

I can't tell you how much I hate tech these days. People are just ruining shit for no reason.

kellogh,
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@gaurdianaq @blainsmith yeah, i get it. for this, i feel like it’s a strong signal that AI backlash has jumped the shark, to the point where people aren’t even thinking critically anymore.

also, it’s open source. the author doesn’t gain anything from building this besides the joy of sharing. if that draws anger, you have to seriously question why someone’s joy is so disruptive to your life

itamarst, to random
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"This module provides the capability to read, write, and manage Delta Lake tables"

OK what's a Delta Lake? Apparently it's "... an open-source storage framework that enables building a format agnostic Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, Hive, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Athena, Redshift, Databricks, Azure Fabric and APIs for Scala, Java, Rust, and Python."

And there's an image that makes me want to run away screaming:

https://delta.io/static/delta-uniform-hero-v4-70d2db84259cea0021bd3a98cc5606c2.png

kellogh,
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@itamarst yeah, i think it’s best to think of it as a file management protocol on top of parquet that gives the illusion of insert, update and delete operations. being based on immutable files, it also gives you history of a table. being a protocol instead of a server means multiple uncoordinated writers can all write to the same table (well, coordination is pushed down to the storage layer…S3/blob/etc)

paul, to random
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I was looking for a project that would let me manage my Mastodon follows & followers better. Haven't found anything but did come across Mastodon+Steampipe. If you know of something, @ me

Anyone using Mastodon + Steampipe? Steampipe is an open-source zero-ETL engine to instantly query cloud APIs using SQL
https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/mastodon

It has many different "recipes" to see the data on your instance/Mastodon account. https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/mastodon/tables

Users &Admins can create access token and use it #MastoAdmin

kellogh,
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@paul @jcrabapple holy hell, steampipe…, i’ve needed something like this for forever

kellogh, to random
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this is in reference to super-alignment & safety, but my cousin also had her DEI team disbanded and “distributed” in the same way

on the surface, i think safety, DEI, and similar topics should be embedded in the culture and not centralized into a specific team. centralization would cause people to say, “oh that’s not my job”.

then again, any time a centralized team is disbanded, my immediate thought is, “apparently safety/DEI/etc. doesn’t matter to this company”. it’s a paradox, i suppose

kellogh, to ai
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thinking about my education growing up, my k-6 teachers were wretched with getting facts right. one teacher didn’t have a single science experiment work. lots of stuff i was taught k-12 was outright wrong.

the thing is, students exceed their teachers all the time. a teacher isn’t the limiting factor for a student

i keep hearing that is worthless bc it hallucinates. yet it’s taught me functioning skills within UI dev, graphic design, 3D printing, 3D design

maybe i didn’t actually learn?

kellogh,
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@u0421793 kindergarten through 6th grade, kindergarten through 12th grade

kellogh, to LLMs
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if i had more time, i'd love to investigate PII coming from #LLMs. i've seen it generate phone numbers and secrets, but i wonder if these are real or not. i imagine you could look at the logits to figure out if phone number digits were randomly chosen or if the sequence is meaningful to the LLM. anyone aware of researchers who have already done this?

kellogh,
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i would guess that phone numbers are probably mostly random, since so many phone numbers are found online, whereas AWS keys are less common, so you're probably more likely to get partial or even full real keys

chikim, to llm
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Microsoft released Phi3 Small, Medium, and Vision! https://huggingface.co/collections/microsoft/phi-3-6626e15e9585a200d2d761e3

kellogh,
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@chikim i love what they’ve been doing with phi!

kellogh, to random
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“One House Republican called the incident "vile" and said it has caused concern among GOP lawmakers.”

anonymous coward, show thyself!

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/22/rnc-vials-blood-capitol-police-suspicious

kellogh, to random
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alternative title: Scientific Study with Dubious Methods Produces Shocking Results
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112474329186430771

kellogh, to random
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yesterday i spent 15 minutes on a “strong password training” that could be replaced with a paragraph of how to use a password manager

i’m pretty sure password managers, as difficult as they are, are still far simpler than all these rules we subject non-technical people to

like, they like writing things down. everything in their being says they need to write things down in order to remember them. why not just give them a secure way to do what they’re going to do anyway?

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