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mrcompletely

@mrcompletely@heads.social

He/him. Tyler IRL. If you've seen this handle elsewhere yeah that's probably me. Moderator at https://heads.social Mastodon instance, admin at https://Jerrybase.com

#PDX #oregon #PNW #software #dev #deadhead #gratefuldead #bluegrass #jazz #phish #psychedelic #artist #DigitalArt #painting #mandalas #nba #nature

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ElleGray, to random
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First of all, this is clever and adorable. Secondly, if you spell out your name it writes a little story for you

("Dickensian Alphabet" by Tom Gauld)

grimalkina, to random
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This kind of thing has been around the block for a bit -- the reality in my opinion is that "programming ability" is simply not something we've defined and possibly not a single thing. The many decades of interest in predicting programming ability have sometimes succeeded at pushing against our stereotypes that it is math associated (as this work), but "math ability" is ALSO a fraught measure. It's important to bring a lot of context to the prediction of ability...

https://fosstodon.org/@yabellini/112470616882303876

grimalkina,
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How do we think about aptitude, ability, performance and potential -- these are massive and complex arguments even in the areas of psychology where we have done the most work and have the strongest evidence to draw on. I've been reading a lot about "predicting programming aptitude" and this work here is better than a lot of what I've been reading, but in the entire area I see a lot of failure to integrate with modern education research.

grimalkina,
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Gotta read this whole thing to have an informed opinion but "EEG to large claim about extremely complex real world implication about aptitude" 🧐 not usually a fan (and I'm speaking as someone whose PhD was in an EEG lab)

sue, to random
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Folk using "algorithms" to refer to everything that's wrong with the web the way folk believed "miasma" caused the spread of disease pre sanitation

sue,
@sue@glasgow.social avatar

Guess who makes decisions about the algorithms deployed by corporations, why it's also other human beings!

In fact mastodon has some pretty severe issues with racism and sexism among other things. By all accounts it's actually worse for these things than some of the corporate platforms.

I believe in the idea of community owned web spaces but they aren't just magically more empowering and inclusive by virtue of "federated" technologies, you need to actually work at that. 👍🏻

sue,
@sue@glasgow.social avatar

If you're thinking oh yes but at least the decisions here are not made by some evil corporation driven by profit, but rather by other human beings in the web community.. Perhaps consider that there might be some privilege in this take and that it isn't necessarily creating an inclusive environment for everyone!

doomfluffy,

@grimalkina @sue I think that the benefit that a platform like mastodon has over larger centralized corporate platforms relates to transparency. It is POSSIBLE to see which instances and people are blocking/defederating others. With human effort, it is possible to show cases of discrimination and cultivation of hateful environments. The core point stands: this doesn't happen automatically and it takes work and vigilance. But the problem with 'algorithms' is that they're effectively inscrutable.

cyberlyra, to google
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Massive leak at confirms what we have all known for years, just how much is tracked, stored, and monetized.

Even clearer now how Chrome tracks and reports EVERYTHING you do. For heavens' sake delete it now and move to Firefox

Also they've outright lied for years about their data collection and search practices.

Looks like 'Don't be evil' wasn't enough. ;)

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

Just, get off Google products already!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

etherdiver, to random
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Alright, @mirlo, a #Bandcamp alternative who hangs out here in the Fediverse, is just $55 short of making its Kickstarter goal! Seems very likely they'll be funded at this point, which is great news for musicians and music fans looking to create a better music industry.

If you want to kick in a few dollars (and maybe your donation will be the one that puts them over the top!), here's the link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo/posts/4111952

Rosey, to random
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Duplicitous, self-serving, results-oriented judges and justices are antithetical to the rule of law and disgrace their positions and my profession as a whole.

openculture, to random
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Carl Sagan Warns Congress about Climate Change (1985)

https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/carl-sagan-warns-congress-about-climate-change-1985.html

bruces, to random
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*ASs have lucky numbers. 42, 47, 72, etc. Different AIs have different lucky numbers, but the Douglas Adams 42, they all dote on that one

https://gramener.com/llmrandom/

dominicumile, to jazz
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Rough math — holy cow, Wayne Shorter’s studio output, 1964-65. Again, not exhaustive (see JazzDisco):
Lee Morgan’s Search for the New Land (recorded 1964, issued 1966)
Night Dreamer (rec’d 1964)
Juju (rec’d 1964)
Speak No Evil (rec’d 1964)
The Soothsayer (pictured; tracked ‘65, issues 1979, thanks to Michael Cuscuna)
ESP w/ Miles (rec’d 1965)
Etcetera (rec’d ‘65, issued 1980, thanks Michael)
All Seeing Eye (rec’d 1965) https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/etcetera-wayne-shorter-album/ @vinylrecords

404mediaco, to random
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Our explainer of exactly what's happening in the Ticketmaster monopoly case and why Live Nation is so powerful in the first place

https://www.404media.co/the-monopoly-case-against-ticketmaster-explained/

jewishreader, to Dog
@jewishreader@sfba.social avatar

Please don't let your #dog off-leash in areas where it's not allowed. It's incredibly unsafe for your dog and also very, very triggering for people who are afraid of dogs and constrains their ability to be out in public.

mrcompletely,
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@jewishreader it's one of the most selfish things that's very common among people who think of themselves as good hearted. And they get really defensive when challenged on it too.

It's 100% always an asshole move to let your dog off leash in on leash areas and anyone who says otherwise is in denial of the fact they're an asshole

Defiance, to Cruise
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In case anyone is interested in being trapped on a boat with Handsome Dick and Exene for five days 😷

bruces, to random
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*This guy is attempting to categoriza common AI search blunders, and it's interesting that most of them are not about LLM "halliucination," they're about AI's lack of common-sense context

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/

vantablack, to random
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had to use the internet without ublock origin for like five minutes the other day and was horrified about what an ad-infested shithole it is, i can't believe regular people just live like this, it's like some horrible dystopian parallel universe

walklikeagiant, to random
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What a guy https://youtu.be/tcYEVtaGqfA?si=YQdy--paM490aQ6d

president, to random
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Tired of people claiming beef only exists in rap as if Dante didn’t write an entire fuckass book about putting his haters in super hell

4CPcomics, to random
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GD: Wake & Mars Hotel Supplement (outtakes & live)

For some reason, the 50th anniversary physical releases of studio albums do not include a generous portion of studio outtakes or a curation of great live takes of the albums’ songs.

Here are two Spotify mixes:

Curated “Angel’s Share” outtakes
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6B7DVphDHjvZSK5BiuezSn?si=926b9f96e3b74af9

Tasty live versions 1973-1974
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/27aBLEMmXeUhbn16ZLJ9oO?si=38a866167e2640c6

mirlo, to random
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On Kickstarter it’s all or nothing, and we’re going to need your help getting across the finish line.

Our kickstarter campaign has also boosted the amount of people who have uploaded music to Mirlo. When we first started drafting the language for the campaign we had 160 artists with roughly 400 albums, which has grown to 260 artists with 550 albums uploaded! We’re excited that musicians are finding us and trusting us with what they’re making.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo/posts/4111952

walklikeagiant, to random
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