kellogh

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

on OSX, what is this? and how do i stop it from popping up randomly?

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

i’ve been trying to boost traffic to https://www.fossil-social.com/ lately and i’ve noticed that both LinkedIn and Twitter might generate “activity”, but rarely any clicks. OTOH mastodon generates a ton more of both.

frankly, i don’t understand the algorithms behind those platforms, and most people i talk to about it don’t either. which, again, is kinda the reason for fossil to begin with

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

TIL that most people didn’t realize that Walmart sells guns. ya dude, this country is insane https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/walmart-returns-guns-ammunition-store-displays-1.5784772

kellogh, 2 months ago to LLMs

Thought provoking research — #LLMs that are trained predominantly on English will also “think” in English. When translating German to Japanese, it’ll first get converted to something closer to English in between.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-large-language-english-internally-prompts.html

kellogh, 2 months ago to LLMs

Let’s be honest, if you’re a software engineer, you know where all this compute and power consumption is going. While it’s popular to blame #LLMs, y’all know how much is wasted on #docker, microservices, overscaled #kubernetes, spark/databricks and other unnecessary big data tech. It’s long past time we’re honest with the public about how much our practices are hurting the climate, and stop looking for scapegoats https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

alright, i'm gonna break down and get a tiktok account. gotta see what's ban-worthy

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

Today I'm launching a hosted version of #fossil

I noticed that a lot of people were getting hung up on the open source version because they didn't have time to set it up. I'm hoping that this helps.

https://www.fossil-social.com/blog/announcement

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

do you get self conscious about liking, boosting or replying to the same person repeatedly?

i do. it doesn’t seem rational, imo, but i do

kellogh, 2 months ago to CSS

so what's the advantage of 3rd party utility #css classes over inline styles? less documentation?

kellogh, 2 months ago to amateurradio

listening to the republican #sota response

“can you really say you’re better today than you were 3 years ago?”

me, thinking back to the covid years: “fuck yeah, dodged a bullet there”

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

when you say you’re a “senior engineer”, does that mean you’re old, or you just feel old?

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

google is a pretty good fuzzy DNS, but beyond that i pretty much only use perplexity these days. it’s a big UX improvement for finding answers to vague questions

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

the reason republicans hate government is bc all their governments suck because they underfund them

kellogh, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

when private messaging someone on this thing, do you indicate that it’s a DM? e.g. “[DM] hey so…”

kellogh, 2 months ago to ML

#ML peeps — are there clustering algorithm implementations (especially k-means) over a pre-built index? like maybe over an HNSW vector index

the naive O(n^k) is killing me…

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

if you want to hire unicorns, you’re going to need a lot of rainbows. and cupcakes. they’re very demanding creatures

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

i went outside today

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

why would you want a machine to be conscious? setting aside the debate of if it is, what would that let it do that an unconscious machine couldn't?

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

i always do web browsing in "private" mode in safari when on iOS, so i always "accept all" cookies bc i trash tabs often so the cookies are pretty much only good for that single site

is that good reasoning? for maintaining privacy

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

you see that little guy? #MarshMadness

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

i recently discovered the beauty of SVG. they're images, but you can pop them open in vim and make all sorts of tweaks, like colors, or add/change text, etc.

kellogh, 2 months ago to LLMs

#LLMs aren’t AGI, and probably aren’t even much of a step toward it

but the proof isn’t, “because it’s just linear algebra”, “just logits”, or “just” anything. that’s like saying the brain can’t be intelligent because it’s just electrical modulation. or vortices are just swirling fluid.

all complex systems are simple if you break them down far enough

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

in 2012 most tech people were worried about a bubble. Also in 2013-15, and 2016-20, and 2021-now. i thought for sure the crypto crash was going to trigger a larger bubble pop. yet somehow, it still hasn't happened.

not saying it won't happen, but there's a whole lot of history behind naysayers being wrong

kellogh, 2 months ago to Metal

new #paledusk is out!

and yeah, they’re still the epitome of the japanese #metal scene — weird af and all over the place. i can’t get enough

https://songwhip.com/paledusk/palehell

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

do autistic people have trouble adapting to changes in plans? or is that uncorrelated?