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luis_in_brief

@luis_in_brief@social.coop

Programmer turned lawyer and community guy.

Current: Tidelift, Creative Commons, OpenET, California HDF, 415/94110, dad.

Previously: Wikimedia, Mozilla, Open Source Initiative, GNOME, LegOS, Duke, 305/MIA, more.

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wingo, to random

much respect to people who triage crasher reports in widely-used software like browsers. requires an iron belief that things happens for reasons and that you can find them out, all the while knowing the reason might be "the sun is particularly spicy at the moment"

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@wingo or there were a few stray atoms of silicon somewhere https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11519

Kurt, to random
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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

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@Kurt genuinely not sure if that is better or worse

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@Kurt also how did you know this

thisismissem, to random
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This might actually be a good AI usage?
https://wikimedia.social/@srishakatux/112486387689838025

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@polotek @thisismissem the output (per this video) is a link directly into Wikipedia, so I'm guessing their use of the LLM is with some sort of RAG to pull actual+relevant wikilinks, not hallucinated ones? Would be nice if the plugin had a link to a better explanation and not just YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ_EPfTbjBM

cc @srishakatux

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@polotek @thisismissem @srishakatux oh, and per the in-plugin docs, I'm guessing they're using the LLM to compare what they're reading on-wiki with what's in your browser, outputting one of these statuses:

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@polotek @thisismissem @srishakatux meh? The UI shows the Wikipedia text they’re comparing against, so not that hard to quickly sanity-check the output (assuming the UI isn’t hiding important details- lots of potentially concerning nuance there).

docpop, to random
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How would websites look if Google Search vanished overnight?

Along with how relevant your content is, Google also considers headings, subheadings, paragraph lengths, and layout when ranking search results. As a result, websites have gravitated towards a homogeneous, Google-friendly aesthetic. As shown here https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization

If SEO no longer mattered, would websites change much? Would we see experiments with site layout, or would sites keep using the layout that has become standard today?

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@docpop @jwz my kingdom for the free time to experiment with any of this. Or maybe I just need to let go and archive all my old stuff other than the top 5-10 posts.

luis_in_brief, to random
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Lucky(?) to still be NOVID:
https://socialserver.science/@miekeroth/112471894386180559

mattblaze, to photography
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Wind Turbines, Near Tracy, CA, 2010.

A histogram of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497/

#photography

luis_in_brief, (edited )
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@mattblaze the giant farms off the coasts of England and Sweden are just staggering to see from the air.

I assume you saw yesterday’s video of a single turbine just disintegrating in a tornado?

luis_in_brief, to random
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Breaking my rule of not following politics on here to follow @CountBinface.
https://mastodon.world/@CountBinface/112485661600596055

luis_in_brief, to random
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So what SF movies are smart on AI?

Challenge level: nothing where AI is the cliched bad guy (looking at you, Skynet).

I will also accept favorite TV episodes about AI (eg maybe it is time for me to rewatch the Kiksuya episode of Westworld).

https://social.coop/

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@dcm so what is the best single episode about it? (or, maybe, the most humanizing Borg episode? or episode where the holodeck is most clearly AI?)

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Already mentioned: Her, Blade Runner (both of them)

Enjoyed but didn't really think it provoked much re "AI": The Creator

Enjoyed but very trope-y about AI, so not on this rewatch list: Ex Machina

Hardly remember, I guess I should rewatch: Spielberg's A.I., Wall-E, Short Circuit

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@shom I haven't rewatched it in a while, and I am not a TV connoisseur by any stretch, but at the time it struck me as one of the greatest TV episodes I've ever seen, in any show, on any topic.

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@dcm 🤦🏽‍♂️

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@shom oh, man, Janet! that's a great suggestion.

(I thought I had done a list of the books, which Murderbot is definitely on, but I can't find it right now...)

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@tartley @shom I doubt it would stand alone, unfortunately—a lot of missing context. The good news is that Westworld season 1 is great and some episodes of S2, especially this one, are also great.

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@FeralRobots I did not know it was a trio!

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@piki do I lose my 80s kid card if I admit I’ve never seen it, and/or if I admit that I assumed it was purely in the Skynet “computer gets smart, takes over” subgenre?

luis_in_brief, to random
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I love the @wikimediafoundation Picture of the Day widget as part of how I start my day but sometimes it is… surprising.

luis_in_brief,
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@funcrunch @wikimediafoundation it is the Commons picture of the day, not enwiki (which is what I had assumed)

raganwald, to random
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“Like ChatGPT, he’s a know-nothing that, through deterministic measures completely detached from the meaning of the underlying ideas, picks the right words to say at the right time.”—Ed Zitron, “Managing Up”

—

The business press has always loved to hagiograph-fy charlatans who seem like prophetic geniuses unless you happen to now something—or anything—about the subject being bloviated. At which point you have an “Oakland Stroke” and realize “there’s no there, there.”

👇🏽

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@raganwald I recently did a re-read of a bunch of classic SF that is thoughtful or provocative about AI (mostly Iain M. Banks); maybe it is time to do a moviethon—Blade Runner, Her...

johnquiggin, to nuclear
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Nick Cater in the Oz is impressed by power in Finland, which has built one new plant this century, and has none currently under construction or even in planning stages.
OTOH, Finland has 7GW of wind, and much more is planned
https://www.both2nia.com/en/news/almost-7-gw-wind-power-finland

luis_in_brief,
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@johnquiggin even a few years ago, the interest in nuclear made some sense, but with the learning/price/deployment curves on wind, solar, and batteries, and the very extended timeline for any nuclear deployment… it’s rare you see such committed sunk cost fallacy.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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I serve on my HOA and our President just called me and essentially cussed me out because I'm having a Q&A for people who want to run to be on the board because, in her words, "You could have just told people to come to me" and "You didnt ask for anyone else's input" despite the fact that I did and she just never responded to my email about the idea.

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@BlackAzizAnansi "how to belong to an HOA without ruining your life or the lives of others" should be a HS life skills class.

jalcine, to random
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Books I'm reading to pad the brain.

Myself holding up Bill McKibben's The Age of Missing Information.
Myself holding up Haiti: State Against Nation, Origins and Legacy, Duvalerism by Michel-Rolph Troulliet
A stack of books including the previously mentioned list with also "The One Device" by Brian Merchant, "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage, "The Revolution will not be funded" by Incite!, "Lurking" by Joanne McNeil, "State and Revolution" by Vladimir Lenin and "Democracy For the Few" by Michael Parenti

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@Meyerweb @jalcine Victorian Internet was very good, thanks for the rec! You might both also enjoy this from @kdriscoll : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/the-modem-world/

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