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jmaris

@jmaris@eupolicy.social

#EuropeanParliament Senior policy advisor to an #MEP in Renew Europe, specialised in 💻#Digital, 🚄#Rail & 🧪#Research Policy.

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jmaris, to Nostalgia
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You may not like it, but this was PEAK COMPUTING

jmaris, to random
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I've just tried the new Beta and... wow, I'm completely blown away. It looks amazing, seems to have threading, and is blisteringly fast on my terribly overloaded inboxes. Bravo to the @thunderbird team!

jmaris,
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@Tacitus @thunderbird I've only been using it for a day or two, but I've had no issues, even on v large inboxes

jmaris,
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@ttmevans @thunderbird nah, I mean message threading! But I've never seen any performance issues, I think it defaults to maildir now btw

jmaris, to ai
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The Trilemma: or why AI won't be as revolutionary as we expect.

We are in the midst of an AI revolution... or are we? As business leaders around the world scramble to integrate AI into their products and business practices, the cracks are beginning to emerge. We've seen GPT4 fail at basic reasoning, Google's AI search telling people to jump from a bridge, Microsoft's copilot inventing quotes from Vladimir Putin, and recidivism algorithms that continue to send the wrong people to prison.

jmaris,
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That's not to say that there aren't successful applications of AI: there are in certain niche areas, but I don't think AI will be as revolutionary in our everyday lives as expected for one key reason, which I call the AI Trilemma.

Essentially, when developing an AI system you can pick any 2 of three qualities: Economic Viability, Safety/Reliability, and Effectiveness.

jmaris,
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  1. In order to build an AI that is both Effective and safe/reliable, the types and quantities of data needed are not available or would require prohibitive investments to achieve.

  2. In order to build an AI that effective and economically viable, you have to forgo safety, or accept that you are using potentially incomplete or biased data, which could result in harmful output.

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  1. In order to build an AI that is Economically Viable and Safe/Reliable, you have to build in so many limitations that you may as well not use AI at all and stick to traditional software, as it will be more effective at a lower cost.
jmaris,
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I might be completely wrong about this, but as it stands the data to build safe and reliable AI doesn't exist: scraping reddit to train an AI won't produce quality results, nore has scraping the wider internet. Building a bullshit generator whose usefulness diminishes by the day and marketing it as general purpose AI isn't a sign we're heading for a bright future: it's a sign we are in the midst of an AI bubble, and it's only a matter of time before it pops...

jmaris,
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@Di4na I think it very much depends on what the company is trying to build. For instance, Firefox's new image recognition can work as intended for the most part, but the false claims that we are going to build some sort of geature-filled universal AI is BS

AliceStollmeyer, to random
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Translation: "We share the horror of today's assassination of the Prime Minister [Fico of Slovakia]. We fear a further escalation of tensions in society. We therefore warn against the dissemination of false information about the shooter. We unequivocally deny that he is a member of our movement. Nor is there any other connection whatsoever between him and our party or our members. We strongly condemn his heinous act."

jmaris,
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@AliceStollmeyer afaik he isn't dead yet, right ?

jmaris, to random
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The make another decision that will make catching child abuse harder.

But then again, with the members in their ranks, perhaps that was their intention.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/14/sex-education-in-english-schools-set-to-be-banned-before-children-are-nine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

abolitionniste, to random
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Elections to the European Parliament 6-9 June 2024

HELP 🙂 I am trying to find how MEPs voted on these two occasions:

16.7.2019 (the European Parliament elected Ursula von der Leyen President of the next European Commission) - some success

27.11.2019 (Approval of the European Commission 2019-2024) - no success

More in the topic-thread now ending here: https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=701#p701 .

@elCelio @jmaris @parltrack @Veza85UE

#ElectEU #elections #EP

jmaris,
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@abolitionniste @elCelio @parltrack @Veza85UE hope this helps: https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=109968

jon, to random
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Why is it
gaufre de Liège
(Given the town is Liège - note the accent)

But
gaufre liégeoise

And not
gaufre liègeoise
?

jmaris,
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@jon because french

kimvsparrentak, to random
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Alle volgtips welkom.
Ik hou van:

Tech/digitaal/ai 🤓
Queer/lesbische content
Klimaatactivisme
Intersectioneel feminisme
EU dingen
Puppy's

jmaris,
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@kimvsparrentak on EU stuff : @euwatchers is cool

koen, to Amsterdam
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Dear European based LGBTIQ+ people.. (so basically everybody).

Today I attended an event in organized by @waag @DeGroene @gemeenteamsterdam and the Amsterdam public library called

Featured speaker this time was Euro Member of Parliament @kimvsparrentak who passionately spoke on the need for a more free Internet detached from and more focussed on and real interaction.

When confronted with her presence on X and Insta, and the lack of active presence here on the we promised to help her.

Please help us get a decent follower-base here and follow her account right now, before she even gets a chance to get more active. A follower base of more than a 1000 people will surely help her convince her party members to spend time and money on a real presence here.

I used a cut out of the image posted by @sicco in this post: https://todon.nl/@sicco/112372340250592627 thank you for that Sicco.

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@koen @waag @DeGroene @gemeenteamsterdam @kimvsparrentak @sicco have worked with Kim several times over the last 2 years: she's an amazing MEP who consistently stands up for LGBTQI and Digital rights! Certainly worth following !

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jmaris,
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@basil he looks very noble

EU_Commission, to random
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We should never take democracy for granted.

🎥 Video: European Parliament - © European Union

A video from the European Parliament's campaign: Use your vote or others will decide for you. It shows the stories of a generation of European Citizens telling their experience to younger ones.

jmaris,
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@veranderwens @EU_Commission You seem to have a misunderstanding about how governments work.

The Commission is approved (and can be rejected) by the Parliament, just like the government can he approved or rejected by parliament in the Netherlands

jmaris, to random
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Brussels

jmaris, to mastodon
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Could do with some help with a #mastodon #webfinger redirect: no instance appears to recognise mine... When I search @jmaris i get no results :(

http://jmaris.me/.well-known/webfinger

jmaris,
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@creekie looks like it could be picking up the post.... Very weird

IndyRichard, to Scotland
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When Scotland is facing Tory or Labour Brexit and more austerity, it makes me want independence even more. I won't be distracted by what goes on with press salivating over ferries or about leading figures in the SNP.
I want an independent Scotland. That desire doesn't go away.

jmaris,
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@yianiris @freequaybuoy @IndyRichard where are you from, out of curiosity?

jmaris, to Ukraine
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jmaris, to opensource
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This week, the Parliament signed off on the budget of the institutions, and it was a great week for : the sign-offs praise institutions for using Open Source software, encourage the adoption of , and push for the generalisation of the use of Open Source in EU institutions.

jmaris,
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@ilumium the adopted parliament resolutions are on the website of parliament ! I'll link you, sadly they are word documents (ironic, I know) as the PDFs are still being generated. Give me a moment :)

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