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tchauhan

@tchauhan@mastodon.mit.edu

Neuroscience, Neuromorphic systems, Bioinspired AI/ML

Toots about Neuroscience, Biology, AI/ML, Technology, Cybersecurity, Opensource

Picower Fellow at the Bear Lab, MIT

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golgaloth, to worldbuilding
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The workers in your world go on strike, or are unable to perform their duties for some other reason. How well does your society hold together?

tchauhan,
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@golgaloth Why can't the workers also teach the management the same lesson - that they are lucky to have a job. Especially given they lack or refuse to practice any productive skill.

baldur, to random
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The flip side to “Europeans are lazy and don’t work hard” is that we’re able to maintain a modern society with a high standard of living while still being able to spend time with our families. And why kill yourself through overwork when most of the rewards go to somebody else, anyway?

tchauhan,
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@baldur Yes they should have just launched imperial campaigns, pillaged and destroyed entire continents, and then built their societies on top of that.

aral, to random
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Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?

Here’s a longer thread I wrote elsewhere. (1/7)

tchauhan,
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@aral Is it time to quit mastodon yet ?

tchauhan,
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@oblomov @aral Is there somewhere I can read more about this? I don't know the fediverse very well, and everything seems to be revolving around mastodon as the primary product.

tchauhan, to python
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ruff looks like very interesting tooling. Trying to make it work for Emacs groundup. Has anyone been able to run it with eglot using this pylsp plugin: https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-ruff ?

So finicky!

baldur, to random
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Posting “Here’s what ChatGPT has to say about your blog post” in a reply that mentions me is an automatic mute or, if I haven’t had my coffee, a block

That is all.

tchauhan,
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@baldur Do you think they might be bots.

josh, (edited ) to random
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What are we expecting for Monday's eclipse?

tchauhan,
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@josh I can't think of anything to say except it's marvellous

andrewt, to random
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Nasa are currently working to fix a computer error aboard Voyager 1. The probe's computer system runs at around 8000 instructions per second and has about 68kB of memory. Due to the interplanetary distances involved, even at light speed it takes 45 hours to send a signal and get a response. When asked about the unique challenges this poses, an engineer said "that's actually about average for a modern CI system".

tchauhan,
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@andrewt They are talking about the delays ? 🤔

zachleat, to random
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A large contingent of webdevs seem to think that fast means “best-case fast.”

“Our web sites are fast on expensive hardware and from reliable fiber networks.”

Worst-case fast is a much more meaningful, impressive, and inclusive claim to make! Fast on low-end hardware. Fast on slow networks.

Fast on the World Wide Web—not just from a WeWork in Silicon Valley.

tchauhan,
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@zachleat What about static sites that are built as apps? Stuff like gatsby or astro?

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"In November 2022, CNET began deploying an experimental AI tool to rapidly generate articles riddled with factual inaccuracies and affiliate links, with the purpose of increasing SEO rankings."
https://futurism.com/wikipedia-cnet-unreliable-ai

We now have Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO) chasing Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It's quality destruction all the way down.

This is innovation.
This is progress.
This is "intelligence"

This is greed.

tchauhan,
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@gerrymcgovern Always had the feeling that SEO was perfect grounds for all kinds of grifters and shifty 'experts' to come together and set up an entire mega grift industry.

Strandjunker, to random
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  1. Religious freedom means you can either practice any religion you want or no religion at all.
  2. Religious freedom does not mean you can use your beliefs to dictate what others can and cannot do.

Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

tchauhan,
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@Strandjunker Saw this on fedi recently. It uses a rich celebrity from the world of spectacles as a means to get this message across.

baldur, to random
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One of my new year’s resolutions was to stop debating the incoherent AI claims MBA and tech bro types on private Slacks or mailing lists, but they just keep saying so much dumb stuff that it’s hard to just sit on your fingers and ignore them.

tchauhan,
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@baldur The amount of economic and cultural privilege crammed into that one sentence is just staggering.

aral, to apple
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You might’ve heard some news about Apple and the EU and are wondering what “malicious compliance” means so let me try and explain it in simple terms:

Imagine Tim Cook unzipping his fly and taking a good long piss on @EU_Commission then smirking as he asks “what you gonna do about it, chump?”

(We wait to see how the European Commission respond after they take a warm shower and dry off.)

In the meanwhile, make some noise to try and save web apps:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/

tchauhan,
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@aral @EU_Commission They are ushering in a new era for tech, don't you see? You clearly lack the sophisticated reasoning skills that can only come from being able to afford expensive and entirely unnecessary hardware.

aral, to firefox
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Mozilla fires 60 people to “focus on bringing ‘trustworthy AI into Firefox.’”

Fuck you, Mozilla. No one is asking for AI in Firefox. Sadly, you’re the best we can hope for under capitalism. So if we want something better, we should look into alternative models.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

#mozilla #firefox #ai

tchauhan,
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@aral This is so scary. We don't need AI anywhere near a browser.

tchauhan, to programming
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I would like to include a link to a description/introduction/rant about the infamous python dependency hell in some of my documentation.

Any favourites ? The funnier and newbie-friendly, the better!

tchauhan, to emacs
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A question for my emacs-wielding friends:

I've been hearing a lot about elpaca. Does it offer any practical advantage over straight ?

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Web design has rarely taken the environment into account. Over the last decade, webpages have become ten times bigger, and up to 80% of the weight of a particular webpage can be waste—content and code that is not required for the page to function. I asked Web design guru, co-founder of Smashing Magazine, and all-round nice person, Vitaly Friedman, what his opinion on all this Web bloat and environmental waste was.
https://gerrymcgovern.com/vitaly-friedman-chat-cleaner-web-design-for-a-better-environment/

tchauhan,
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@gerrymcgovern @maankoe Ooh. This will drive you nuts then. CICD is one of the most wasteful inventions of the modern software pipeline. Also check out containers and such. Because it's done on a remote machine its environmental impact is simply zero. That's the modern web maths software devs have embraced.

tchauhan,
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@rafa_font @gerrymcgovern @maankoe

It might make sense for very large, well designed pipelines, but the business model of most providers reduces it to a trivial offering. I've seen people CICD-ing their personal blogs.

Modern programmers are desensitized to the cost of computing. Both because the compute infra is overpowered and the philosophy of compute is geared towards moving fast instead of responsible tooling. We now have things like dockers instead of robust dependency management.

tchauhan,
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@maankoe @stfn @gerrymcgovern Indeed. Singularity, docker "and such" are computationally very expensive. I've seen them being used for absolutely trivial uses where such an expensive abstraction is not needed.

tchauhan,
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@stfn @gerrymcgovern @maankoe

I'm going to leave these links here and mute the thread. Too much noise.

  1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8029935

  2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0164121218301456

  3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14271736 (unreliable, but since this thread is all about anecdotal evidence)

tchauhan, to random
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So what consequences are they going to face ?

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/9/boeing_warning_signs

A slap on the wrist ? A fine worth 0.01% of their annual revenue ? As long as greedy mega-corporations go unpunished, they will continue to choose profits over morals.

Sadly, these are the principles most new companies are also being founded on. End-users are just sheep that need a good fleecing. And then they can be stripped for hide.

fullfathomfive, to languagelearning
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From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.

There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.

All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.

Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.

Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.

tchauhan,
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@fullfathomfive As far as startups go, duolingo sounds like a home run. A successful business built on crowd-sourcing, deception, and greed. What's not to like.

design_law, to random
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This chart, submitted by Apple in the UK case, is still one of my all-time favorite IP own goals.

tchauhan,
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@design_law Please do tell more. I know nothing about this but it sounds exactly the kind of thing a demoncorp would do.

tchauhan, to random
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A happy new year 2024 ! May we be kind to each other and to our mother the earth.

🤗

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Once of the mai engines of non-elite in the UK, is the 'bank of mum & dad'... even as first time buyers drip to their lowest number in a decade the rise of inter-generational support for this who can but increases, locking in the advantage of the capital-owning & forcing the young either to stay at home or navigate the trials & tribulations of private .

And of course, this cements the structural advantage of those families helping their children...

tchauhan,
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@ChrisMayLA6 This is going to be more relevant every passing year as they skin the poor alive, limb by limb.

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