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trochee

@trochee@dair-community.social

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

#WestSeattle #Duwamish unceded land

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mhoye, to random
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The thing that kills me is that Reddit is sitting on what could have become, if they'd had leadership with the faintest hint of vision, the most wildly valuable dragon's-hoard treasure trove on the internet, an unimaginably vast pool of human-curated, human voted-on, human-loved-and-wanted information.

And the hill they've decided to die on is making it more difficult and more expensive for humans to add to it.

They had the future in-hand and they're pissing it away for the cashout.

trochee,
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@mhoye

it's enclosing the commons and simultaneously setting it on fire

eaton, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Okay, and friends. I’m poking around for the “right way” to approach a problem: I want to calculate the overal homogeneity of many short snippets of text (phrases and sentences), and many large spans of text (500-1500 word documents).

trochee,
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@eaton @danhon it sounds like you might get somewhere by computing a centroid (or K centroids)and then measuring average/stdev of "distance" to centroid for the cluster

Then (maybe) the average/stdev of distance to centroid might be comparable across corpora

danhon, to random
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“Holosuite Series S is a more affordable, compact holosuite that brings Starfleet's genre-defining holodeck technology to more Federation citizens than ever before.

"A complement to the Holosuite Series X that launched earlier last year, the Series S boasts the same features as Holosuite Series X albeit at a lower level of fidelity.”

trochee,
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@danhon that last one sounds like Lower Decks iiuc

futurebird, to random
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Can I ask a possibly very stupid question?

This whole time I've been wondering... why didn't Trump just uh... scan all the documents and then give them back?

Obviously, that's still illegal and bad and wrong...

I guess because he wasn't going to do all that paperwork himself and asking someone else to do it creates a trail of evidence?

But I mean if he just wanted to keep the information so badly?

Or maybe he did do this too and we don't even know?

trochee,
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@futurebird I'm betting that the Russian and Chinese agents in his bathrooms were happy with a photograph

kwf, to random
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One thing I own which is cool as hell is a vibrating reed based tachometer.

Lots and lots of tiny reeds, each tuned for a specific frequency. Place it on a piece of equipment, and the reeds start to vibrate if they're the same frequency as the equipment.

Placing the tachometer on an Air Conditioner condenser

trochee,
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@kwf wow this is a cool as hell piece of analog kit

chrisamaphone, to random
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attending Narrascope introduced me to the work of Brianna Lei, since she gave the keynote. i’ve been playing her game Butterfly Soup & it’s sequel (https://brianna-lei.itch.io/butterfly-soup), which is about sapphic Asian-American teenagers who play baseball, and it’s absolutely as hilarious and gut-wrenching as advertised. i love how each of the 4 MCs are disasters in their own special ways

trochee,
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@chrisamaphone this is much more fun than Myers-Briggs

trochee,
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@chrisamaphone

Asshole narc --> Ned Flanders
Asshole snake --> Sideshow Bob
Dumbass narc --> Chief Wiggum
Dumbass snake --> Homer Simpson

trochee,
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@chrisamaphone come on, probably more scientific

charliejane, to random
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Still obsessing about seemingly being on its way to a somewhat underwhelming box office debut. I really think it doesn't have much to do with Ezra Miller, and instead has everything to do with how this movie was marketed.

The movie may or may not have a cool story, but the marketing was just "THERE ARE CAMEOS". If you don't care about old superhero movie trivia, they suggested, this film isn't for you.

trochee,
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@ronhogan @charliejane anything that makes the Luthor/West mindswap canon is a good idea to me

trochee,
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@charliejane OMG this x1000

The best Flash is JLU cartoon Flash, who is not burdened by Kang-worthy hangups around time travel and Cosmic Destiny

At least they could bring in some precedent for time travel shenanigans into the DCCU first, like Vandal Savage or the Legion of Superheroes

(or, for a Harley Quinn/Wally West goofy vibe: Calendar Man, or Clock King!)

mhoye, to random
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https://zed.dev/blog/open-sourcing-zed-on-zed

This is very interesting.

trochee,
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@mhoye

yes it is!

Related question: can Zed conversations be federated?

(Zederated?!)

Riedl, to random
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Using reinforcement learning to fine-tune a large language model make the LLM a policy model. Therefore it is entirely appropriate to refer to GPT and Bard as "LLM-cum-policy" models.

trochee,
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@Riedl

large
<church-lady>language!</church-lady>
model

chrisamaphone, to random
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bisexual men are important

trochee,
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@chrisamaphone

Decibel Jones from SPACE OPERA is... pan, I'm pretty sure, but might have described himself as bi before the aliens landed

trochee, to random
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The Reddit situation appears to be a squatters' sit-down strike against the knowledge factory they work in unpaid

And the fact that this doesn't make sense to the 1930s labor concepts that the NLRB has to work with

well, that's symptomatic of the wholesale abandonment of the idea of collective labor organizing, which i would say got undermined by the California Ideology

Nerds should never have let technolibertarian capital get away with inflating the "garage hero" startup myth so much

trochee,
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@jacobrogers256 yes, but the "open source" phenomenon is a capitalized enclosure of the "free software" phenomenon

even if you take Berkeley ideals and the FSF on their face

(though there's plenty of evidence that they're riddled with reactionaries, at least around gatekeeping the "open source/Free Software" space white and male)

trochee,
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@jacobrogers256

in particular, i am calling out the California Ideology as such because the "we're all nerdy computer people, not like those business guys" and "open source" rhetorical maneuvers are at work in Reddit, and in bitcoin, and in the AI Hype surge, all of which are specifically part of the current enclosure effort

misc, to random
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Watching the fediverse I am starting to understand how sports fans feel when they’re yelling at the TV and truly believing they could do a better job than the coaches or whatever.

trochee,
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@misc i feel you here about the frustrated creative energy

trochee,
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@darius @misc

So, when i think "fantasy tech team staffing" it's more like "casting 'Leverage' out of my Mastodon follows; let's go steal a post-scarcity utopia"

Don't get me wrong; blaseball is awesome & subversive too, but a very different direction for "fantasy casting"

markwyner, (edited ) to random
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These cubes aren’t moving or changing (as implied by the arrows). At all. Not even a little. Other than the color toggle, they remain constant.

(Credit: Ja Gari Kin)

EDIT: added content warning because of the flashing.

trochee,
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@markwyner

what is this magic. WOW

trochee, to random
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Finding a few old contacts from The Other Sites, even now that I've been On Here for most of a year

And really wishing there was a way to request your local mastodon instance to backfill a new contact's posts

It wouldn't even have to be immediate. It could go into a low priority queue and get throttled by volume, but it would be nice to know that i could have the last, say,100 posts from my new acquaintance/friend from another instance synced to MY instance over the next 24 hours

trochee,
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@soypunk yeah no regrets here either -- just wishing it was easier to sync recent history across smaller instances on good terms

inthehands, to random
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The most foolish, useless hill I am willing to die on:

“Login” is a noun, “log in” is a verb, button labels are verbs or verb phrases, and thus every button-like affordance that’s labeled “Login” is wrong

trochee,
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@inthehands

log-on is not a noun, unless it's maybe a description of the screechy sound of a 90s dial-up connecting

Sorry @merriamwebster you also got the frequencies wrong; a "log-in" is (marginally, tho better w/o hyphen) acceptable as a version of "handle", "identifier" . a "log-on" or "logon" is ... weird to this late Gen-X anglophone USian Old Internet User.

ct_bergstrom, to random

Not surprising that today's New York Times article about the singularity launders bullshit for big tech with just enough skepticism for plausible deniability.

More impressive: the article quotes 15 different people.

Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Baldur Bjarnason
John von Neumann
Irving John Good
Hans Moravec
Ray Kurzweil
Rodney Brooks
Jerry Kaplan
Ryan Schaeffer
Eric Schmidt
Charlies Stross

Yes, every single one of them is a man.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/technology/silicon-valley-confronts-the-idea-that-the-singularity-is-here.html

trochee,
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@ct_bergstrom @ciurana

Indeed. This list of sources thrown together in a hot minute is an excellent counterweight that WAS available before this article was written

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110442173959696208

cricketcrocker, to random

Current hobby: reporting violations of IACA on Etsy. You can play too :)

https://www.doi.gov/iacb/act

trochee, (edited )
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@cricketcrocker welp, your cyberpunk RPG character is RIGHT THERE

"online indigenous" cyber bounty hunter

trochee,
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@lowd @cricketcrocker

yes, JM as the next Bond would be perfect!

trochee,
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@cricketcrocker

Sometimes I think that the legend-level "adventure bro" franchises all need to follow the 007 model and simply recast without bothering to explain

Then i think, no, they should go with DOCTOR WHO "Regeneration" plot logic

Or maybe the Star Trek "reboot and branch timelines" logic

But now I want a full rescue reboot, where Indiana is a(n indigenous) woman's name, but she's still a professor who fights Nazis with a bullwhip

trochee,
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@cricketcrocker

oh, there's a part of me that wants this to have bounties like the hateful people put on anti abortion legislation

And i wish the fines would go to the misrepresented tribes!

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