She ruined me for every other cat
-- Ms Underwood
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This is such a depressing thing to hear. Why does everything get infected with AI?
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three things that Usenet had that could stand to be revived, in my opinion:
* topic-centric organization. you go to soc.politics.us to talk about us politics, you go to alt.folklore.urban to talk about urban folklore, there's an expectation that you keep the politics out of the folklore group and vice versa. hashtags try to do this but don't really succeed.
* subject lines. functionally the same thing as a content warning but because it's the default, always prompted for and your newsreader only shows you subject lines until you click into a thread, people get way less dogmatic about it in both directions.
* proper two-dimensional threading and thread management. i've seen some third party fedi clients attempt two-dimensional thread *display* but not the associated management features, like "ignore this subthread".
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Nice discussion here on #llm weaknesses with summarizing, something I rarely use them for but which I see as one popular use for academics. Argues they shorten rather than summarize with emphasis on volume rather than key points and we need to think of the influence of context (from the input) vs parameters (from the LLM training data).
This is also a nice setup for a student exercise: ask them to summarize an article themselves, test in various LLMs, and analyze.
ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chat…
When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
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#TimothySnyder, an expert on #authoritarianism, suggests that the media focuses on #Biden because they are AFRAID of #Trump.
News organizations are #ObeyingInAdvance
"If you accept that a fascist is beyond your reach, you have normalized your submission."
snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-…
See Mastodon thread of article: newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/11275164…
#Meme #Quote #TimothySnyder #Fascism #Fear #GOP #Democrats #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Journalism #Press #Media #News #USA
Left-leaning media called for Biden to bow out because they wanted a better candidate. They're not going to worry about whether Trump should drop out because he's not their candidate.
Right-leaning media won't call for Trump to bow out because they've drunk the orange Kool-Aid. And they called for Biden to drop out because they wanted to make him look bad, and make it appear as if he had no support.
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#DafneKeen #DeadpoolAndWolverine
AI Uncertainty: A state of unease where real photographs all seem a little suspect since you have been fooled by or narrowly spotted an AI generated image.
A feeling of unreality and general distrust of everything. Can also apply to text, and the feeling that you are the only person ever to read it since it was generated.
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That was a valiant fight back that went down the wire in the final set, but it wasn't to be. Next year I'm sure.
Some photos I found of her, from earlier matches. Also this match we saw her focus, and her smile, and it's so great to see both in the same person...
#JasminePaolini
Saturday at Noon is my talk:
"Past, Present, Predictions: A look into how AI, Deepfakes and PsyOps will play in the upcoming elections"
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... but Torquay has a decent hotel ...
-- Mr Hornbeam
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I made myself a new website for my photography. I couldn't get any CMS or website builder to structure the data the way it made sense to me so I made it from scratch. #BelieveInFilm
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Don't miss my talk at H.O.P.E.!
"Past, Present, Predictions: A Look into How AI, Deepfakes, and PsyOps Will Play in the Upcoming Elections"
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When eight-year-old Emma Glenfield wanted to know more about why magpies swoop at people, her teacher (Luke Carr) encouraged her to gather data and analyse it.
She noted that the birds seemed to target tall balding men, and created an online survey with the help of her mum. The survey went viral, with over 30,000 respondents.
The results, as shown in a brilliant Lego graph, demonstrated that the birds do target balding men more frequently (with less than 1% margin of error, thanks to the large sample size).
"According to magpie expert Darryl Jones, professor emeritus at Griffith University, it's the first time anyone has ever examined the link between magpie swooping and appearance."
abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/mag…
The ABC article includes more details, along with this excellent Lego graph (and other great pictures).
#MathEd #Magpie #Lego #Australia
Magpies swoop bald men more often, eight-year-old's viral survey finds
Emma Glenfield wants to know why magpies swoop. She's conducting some cutting-edge research — and displaying her results with Lego.Tom Melville (ABC News)
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Happy International Women in Engineering Day!
Today is the perfect day to pick up a Girls Who Hack beginners soldering kit from www.GirlsWhoHack.com !
Help inspire the next generation of female engineers!
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in reply to Zack Weinberg • • •we have a subject field, it's always been here. It's called the summary field. Gargron hijacked it and turned it into the "content warning" field against the wishes of literally every other project that speaks ActivityPub
I've attached a screenshot showing you the raw JSON of your post.