turux

@turux@mastodonapp.uk

Lorenzo: research engineer, PhD in embedded intelligence, technology lover, head a million light-years from here.

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turux, to ilaughed

The medium format camera is out and about!

#photo #photography #mediumformat #viewfinder #yashica #filmphotograhy

turux, to photography

Exactly one year ago today we were in the !

turux, to bluesky

I have finally received my #BlueSky invite.

Here are my first thoughts:

-The audience is much wider (duh)
-They did a fantastic job with the custom domain thing 👍
-The whole platform is shockingly behind Mastodon from a technical standpoint (no hashtags, no edit, no integration with the os, no web interface, very poor search engine)
-The feed system is an interesting concept but very immature
-What is with all the nsfw content advertised right in the discovery page? What's the target audience?

25admins, to random
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2.5 Admins 167: Delayed Flush

The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very often, and the implications of poor Bluetooth security on an e-bike.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-167/

turux,

@25admins @JoeRess just listening the last episode.

Although it is true that water has a huge climate impact, when you read about CO2 emission those are usually result of a LCA (lifecycle assessment) which, if done right, is a thorough study that includes water as well as many other factors like pollutants and bio-diversity impact.. the result of which is presented in CO2 equivalent, which is just a way to convey complex information in one single figure.

cstross, to random
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REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)

Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.

turux,

@cstross I see your point but technically this is not at all how transformers work... they are actually the opposite of remixing and regurgitating! They are creating new content and that's the groundbreaking technical leap they are capable of!

No one should worship them as gods but they are absolutely not stochastic parrots. AI (and yes, they are AI) went from doing something similar to what you're suggesting to be able to create new content with the introduction of transformers.

nixCraft, to random
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Zoom forces you to update before joining the meeting. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be fired immediately. F@&! Off. 🤬😡

turux,

@nixCraft you do know you can just join from the web browser, right?

turux, to random

This is not the same that beat France last week.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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That explains a lot.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

turux,

@lowqualityfacts checks out.

9to5google, to random
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YouTube Music to support adding podcasts via RSS https://9to5google.com/2023/08/23/youtube-music-podcasts-rss-report/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

turux,

@9to5google what? Another podcast app?? 🤦‍♂️

turux, to random

@JoeRess I'm sure you already picked this up, but I'd love to hear covering this story
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66226873

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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My colleague Kevin Gross and I have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

Just for fun, rather than a simple text explainer, a thread with some slides for a talk I'm giving at https://www.icssi.org/ tomorrow.

Here's the paper itself: Rationalizing risk aversion in science. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13816

turux,

@ct_bergstrom there is also another angle, academia is often over-confident of their knowledge. Proposal are written to prove a point they are already supporting rather than tackle a novel subject with open eyes. Fringe and risky idea are dismissed by the older, less prone to failure, establishment

turux,

@ct_bergstrom very interesting work!
In my limited experience I found that often times the most risky and fringe ideas come from younger students, that often have no say in the direction the research (or proposal) is going. In the space of a 3 years PhD, students usually spend 1y reading literature, 1y researching and 1y writing up. Not enough time to steer the ship, leaving most of the power to postdoc, that are often career driven rather than risk takers

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