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kristinHenry

@kristinHenry@vis.social

Independent Researcher, Artist, and Maker

Accidentally studied in alphabetical order: Anthropology, Biology, and Computer Science.

Love collaborations and occasional commissions!

#DataViz #DataArt #GenerativeArt #art #SciArt #SciComm #CreativeCoding

https://ko-fi.com/artatomic
https://www.patreon.com/KristinHenry
https://buttondown.email/ArtAtomic

Admin here on vis.social, and also datavis.social (as https://datavis.social/@kristin). Posting more of my art as https://artatomic.social/@KristinHenry

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cstross, to random
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Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong

zakalwe,
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@cstross I see upon reading that the article states, "AI platforms like ChatGPT often hallucinate totally incorrectly [sic] answers out of thin air."

While this is true as far as it goes, I believe it misstates — and understates — the problem. A more accurate statement of the problem is, "Large language models hallucinate ALL of their responses. Some of the hallucinations merely happen to coincide well with reality." But you cannot obviously tell them from the ones that don't.

They do not understand anything. They are not designed for understanding. What they are designed to do is very specifically to generate grammatically correct output that looks convincing.

astro_jcm, to google
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recently added a new revolutionary feature to checks notes "search the Web". But it's rather hidden. So Ernie Smith from Tedium developed

https://udm14.com/

a simple webpage that adds an extra url parameter to your search to return a de-enshittified list of results –– or at least as de-enshittified as Google results can be nowadays.

His blog post about this: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

and the code in GitHub: https://github.com/readtedium/udm14

Jaqspur, to random
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Mended a hole with a soot sprite :anidab_left:

The same as the first picture but not on a foot

corbin, to random
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Google Search has told people to use gasoline in spaghetti, drink urine, and eat rocks. It said President James Madison graduated from college 21 times, and that there's no country in Africa that starts with the letter K.

This is one week after Google executives and engineers spent almost two hours on stage evangelizing about the power of AI at Google I/O. I really don't know if I've seen another product failure this bad in recent history.

https://www.howtogeek.com/google-search-ai-overview-responses/

indivisibleteam, to random
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fractalkitty, to genart
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I thought I'd work on learning to animate svgs today:

https://bobble-birbs.netlify.app/

Of course they are birbs – 1000 of them.

NoeValleySF, to random
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https://underscoresf.com/former-staff-behind-beloved-san-francisco-bookstore-to-open-new-shop-in-noe-valley/

KristinHenry, to genart
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Was looking at foody photos on Pinterest, and they show me a stolen copy of one of my Downloadable Coloring Pages...again.

Instead of filling out the copyright-takedown forms, I'm posting a link to my shop. Buy directly from artists! We're so tired of having our work stolen.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/556895385/downloadable-adult-coloring-page

KristinHenry, to random
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Do you love Independent Bookstores? Do you live or spend time in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco? I'm so excited to be able to help bring an Indie Bookstore back!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-an-independent-bookstore-in-noe-valley

#sfba #NoeValley #bookstore

amelia, to random
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Just finished teaching a week-long institute for Tulane faculty, to help them incorporate data literacy into their courses. It turned out so well! I've CC BY licensed all the materials, available here: https://ameliamn.github.io/TulaneDataLiteracy/

danielnazer, to random
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Google search over the years:

1998-2016: Decent quality web search.

2016-2024: Mediocre web search dominated by SEO garbage and sponsored links.

2024-___: Whatever this is.

danielnazer,
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This one from Ben Collins over on the bird hell site.

It's just stunning to me how quickly these features are being rolled out.

joemurph, to random
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This is the first time NBC Nightly News has done a segment about the Data / Graphics teams’ reporting, so proud. (this youtube link is cued to the particular segment) https://youtu.be/TS7WnevJgwA?si=c_9WqjWRG7OfpQ8e&t=686

flowingdata, to random
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New FlowingData book! Visualize This is in the wild https://book.flowingdata.com/

rahulbot, to random
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So excited to read and comment on "Data by Design" by @laurenfklein. Our concept of the history of dataviz is limited, and Lauren's amazing work helps us rethink some key faulty assumptions. In the tradition of the now-classic Data Feminism, this is well worth your time. https://x.com/laurenfklein/status/1792581548388061578

jackdaw_ruiz, to random
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periodic reminder the Oregon Zoo has a beaver named Filbert that the let carry sticks and shit through the offices and they post videos calling him "the branch manager."

burritojustice, to random
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“The upshot is, if you adopt LLMs into your work flow, you are intentionally adopting a bullshit engine. Nothing that comes from an LLM should ever be trusted. There is no accountability for the inevitable errors and fabrications that they bring to your work.

If ChatGPT were an employee, you’d fire them almost immediately for fraud”

https://jimrion.com/2024/05/24/enough-with-the-llm-bs-already/

joemurph, to random
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In 2019, a household earning the median income could afford to buy the median-priced home in 94% of U.S. counties. Today, a median-income household would be able to afford only a median-priced home in 63% of counties: https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/home-buyer-difficulty-index-findings-rcna152273

fractalkitty, (edited ) to math
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I am super excited for my friend Paulina's new book:

Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World

If anyone in the media space is interested in doing a book review, please DM me, and I can provide information on how to get an advanced copy.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674294238

alan, to DataViz
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My former colleague Curran Kelleher is doing an online Data Visualization workshop in July. Curran and I taught some courses together at @stamen and I can tell you from first hand experience that he's an excellent teacher!

Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/currankelleher_join-me-for-a-weekend-of-dataviz-https-activity-7199119744665276416-gPDz

Signup link: https://book.stripe.com/4gw8y9fGi0ZB4BG145

kristinHenry, to random
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What is the more general discussion, like outside of Mastodon, about Microsoft Recall travesty?

I recognize that who and what I read is heavily influenced by data-safety-ethics-rights and so on.

Are average computer users aware of the dangers?

As a recovering Cancer patient, having Microsoft track my interactions with my doctors....ummm..NO!!!!!!

It's going to be hard enough to get my insurance to actually cover my care without that.

TomLarrow,
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@kristinHenry part of today's stand-up meeting was people on my team asking me which Linux distro I use on my home desktop/laptop because people know I don't use Windows

I asked what caused the question and it was Recall which caused those that heard the news to get others who hadn't to understand the implications of it.

tokyobybike, to random
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This is peak Nagoya.

aparrish, to random
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!!Con has consistently been one of the weirdest and most fun tech(-adjacent) conferences out there for a while, and their call for talks is open for their 12th and final(!) gathering later this summer in Santa Cruz. consider submitting something! https://bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.html (talks are ten minutes long, must have something to do with computing, should be about something you think is neat, and need to have an exclamation mark in the title)

MLNow, to random
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After devastating fire, dogwalker and his family pick up the pieces

On Wednesday, Terry Williams was walking around the Alamo Square neighborhood as he does every day — even though just yesterday, his house went up in flames, displacing his family and hospitalizing his two elderly parents, who were both home. “I’m just devastated, I look up at my house and — I lost everything,” said Williams, who was born and raised in Alamo Square and runs a dogwalking business there.

https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/devastating-fire-dogwalker-alamo-square/

sarahjamielewis, to random
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I spent large portions of my early career rearranging binary sequences on a chalkboard, and writing assembler for obscure architectures.

There are parts of my brain hard wired to recognize and align protocol stacks from a visual representation of a signal dump.

It's cute that you think you have to explain how computers work to me.

kristinHenry, to drawing
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Thinking about a string of thoughts as a string of beads today.

I didn't get around to posting yesterday's drawing here, but it's on my Patreon and Ko-fi:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/97661100
https://ko-fi.com/post/InkyDays-February-2024-Q5Q5TZZTP

KristinHenry,
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I also played with the patterns on watercolor paper. At first, I thought the drawing should be up and down.

But turning the paper, it looks much better with the shapes stretching across.

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