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.
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…
Trump took to Truth Social about 6:25 a.m. Monday to rail against President Joe Biden, whom he suggested was involved in the start of an imminent world war.
More: "It’s a new day and Joe Biden doesn’t remember quitting the race yesterday!" Trump wrote. "He is demanding his campaign schedule and arranging talks with Presidents Xi of China, and Putin of Russia, concerning the possible start of World War 3."
Donald Trump confused Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally in Virginia, triggering further questions about the age of the likely Republican presidential nom...
Wasn't it a line in Doctor Who where the British prime minister was eventually forced to step down by one line whispered in a bystander's ear: 'doesn't she look tired?'
I have to say the relentless MEDIA drumbeat calling for Biden to step aside, plus their relentless quibbling about his gaffes, together with their absolute SILENCE over Trump's gaffes, crimes, and general insanity is very, very tiring and depressing.
Tiring, depressing, yet completely predictable and not at all surprising, except for the part where it’s somehow taken *this long* for Americans to figure out that media outlets owned by the capitalist class will only ever publish articles that serve their interests above all else.
I don't discount skullduggery, but a lot of it is because Biden's apparent difficulties are newly-known, and Trump's being a monster has been either well-known or completely discounted for literal years now.
We've been talking about his crimes and gaffes for the past ten years. His supporters don't care. Typically, our response to Trump is that we're not as crazy as he is. But that's no longer a very convincing argument.
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.
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.
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
@philsplace @hacks4pancakes fun fact, the original photo ended at the bottom of my elbow and Photoshop with the prompt" blue photo studio background" Added the pants. I needed to make the image bigger to fit all the text so I expanded it with Photoshop
AI is becoming a game-changer for businesses of all sizes and sectors.
In fact, in 2023, 8% of EU companies have already adopted AI technologies, with top-performing countries being:
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What's most exciting is that we're going to give SMEs and startups access to AI factories in the #EU and dedicated AI supercomputers, so they can use AI and stay competitive on a global scale.
The amendment to the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI factories entered into force enabling the creation of a new pillar of activities for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
I found I have an ancient pc speaker set that I used on a previous pc at least 25 years ago. In trying to see whether it could be connected to modern pc's, I discovered it also has a digital(!) input. I never knew...
I have a way too old Windows pc and an oldish but still good Linux laptop. There are some things I need Windows for and this pc is not handling it anymore. So now I am in doubt. Do I:
buy a Windows license for over €100 and install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
don't buy a Windows license for over €100, then install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
buy a new Windows desktop
buy a new Windows laptop
The thing is, to buy a new desktop/laptop that is better than my current linux laptop, it's going to cost €1500-€2000. If I'm going to be reasonable with specs, and look at minimal requirements for photo and video editing, then I end up on the same as my existing laptop. But I feel I want to be future proof... but is it worth €2000?
It basically hinges on whether I'm really ever going to do any 3D rendering and need a dedicated video card which my laptop doesn't have, or whether I'm just kidding myself I'll find the time.
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I have a way too old Windows pc and an oldish but still good Linux laptop. There are some things I need Windows for and this pc is not handling it anymore. So now I am in doubt. Do I:
buy a Windows license for over €100 and install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
don't buy a Windows license for over €100, then install it as a second os on my Linux laptop
buy a new Windows desktop
buy a new Windows laptop
The thing is, to buy a new desktop/laptop that is better than my current linux laptop, it's going to cost €1500-€2000. If I'm going to be reasonable with specs, and look at minimal requirements for photo and video editing, then I end up on the same as my existing laptop. But I feel I want to be future proof... but is it worth €2000?
It basically hinges on whether I'm really ever going to do any 3D rendering and need a dedicated video card which my laptop doesn't have, or whether I'm just kidding myself I'll find the time.
That Linux laptop was probably a really good buy at the time. 16GB memory, i7 cpu, 500GB ssd storage, but a shared video card. Only the storage is probably too small for serious dual booting.
I’m a freelance illustrator based in Hamburg, Germany. My clients are mainly book & game publishers big & small, and museums. I'm available for new projects in 2024!
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it was actually commissioned by CD Projekt Red as part of a promo campaign where the Witcher and his company visit different places in Europe, illustrated by artists from these respective countries. It was a very fun assignment :)
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
Our team, Studio CMS (we're all engineers guided by a photographer) has been building a fedi-friendly CMS for photographers for the past bit, were almost out of alpha and are in desperate need of guinea pigs
IO200 is a very nice CMS for photographers. Self-hostable with low prerequisites, though not FOSS. 😕 The Need for your own photo place over pixelfed etc. is understandable. Its not enough to present photos in a kind of feed alongside creations of others. Especially if opening your archives it is good to publish the content with the correct date from the past. This CMS is derived from the great Koken which unfortunately disappeared. io200.com/
Great work. What tools do you use? How are new albums created?
I'm still hesitant to create one. Basically because I have pretty complex ideas about what such a site should do: interface with Google Photos (my preferred photo management tool), handling all viewports (desktop, mobile) in a modern way, subscription to channels and/or tags, comments, purchase/print functionality, merchandize, etc.
Meanwhile my photography is here: @dvidschmdt (and on Facebook, Instagram and Pixelfed)
Why do companies like Adobe think advertising that their products contain AI is a good thing? It's all over their website. While I would consider it a positive feature if the software doesn't contain AI.
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."
That's nice, the week after next the trains won't be going in my city because they figure it's holiday, nobody is going to miss them, time to do some repairs. Also that week, the fair will be in my city, which traditionally is one of the really popular ones in this region, where a lot of people come from all over to participate in the fun.
It's one of those 'why didn't I think of it' things. I was wondering how people trying to use a tripod to take a self portrait would focus the camera properly. I was considering all kinds of convoluted solutions involving tall things like maybe a broomstick to stand in for me while focusing. Then on the internet it says: take your camera off the tripod, go stand where you want to be and focus on the tripod... Yeah, that is indeed simpler...
I am reminded of the time when a volleyball coach substituted his whole team in one go when they performed abysmally. There are six substitutions allowed per set and six players in a team. The set continued with essentially the b-team without the coach watching on, because he took the main players to the side and used that time to tell them what's what.
I think people can guess what match I'm watching if I say that that was a really great goal. Well aimed, hard, precise, unstoppable for the goal keeper. Shame it was in our own goal.
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I moved to the UK in 2010. I lamented to a colleague that the most frustrating thing about being an immigrant was not being able to vote.
My friend put me straight. Commonwealth citizens legally resident in the UK (regardless of how long we've been here) are allowed to vote. You just have to register.
Are you Canadian? Australian? Indian? Nigerian? If you're allowed to live here, you're allowed to vote.
I hope people are enjoying seeing Hotel Cocaine, because when I just checked it is not out yet. I sort of suspected that, that it would be one of those US only things, but the good news is that JustWatch actually has a card for the series saying that it is not available on any streaming service, rather than just denying its existence as normal, so that usually means it's upcoming. #HotelCocaine
My understanding of WordPress must be missing something.
There's this default theme 'twenty twenty four'. When you activate it, it inserts various hardcoded texts into your site. Things like "my book Money Studies is out now" and "I'm Leia Acosta, a passionate photographer". You have to use the site editor to find these and remove them. There are about four.
You have to do this on your live site, you can't customise a theme and preview it before activating, like you used to be able to. If you don't find them all, or ever did "Remove Customisations", you're site will say stuff like "A commitment to innovation and sustainability", without you knowing it.
So what if you're not called "Leia Acosta"? Or you don't have a book out called "Money Studies"? How did they think this was going to work? #WordPress
@Jos Velasco In the documentation at wordpress.org/documentation/ar… they list four templates for which you can switch alternative patterns. Especially the blog home and the index templates have patterns with texts you will not want to keep (others are search and archive). I think all these are live before you can change them.
I see what you mean. I will see if there is a discussion with the Theme’s team. In the meantime, it is handy to use the “Edit Site” link from the corresponding template you want to edit to access it quickly.
WordPress 6.3 will make site editing several clicks faster for users who are moving from the frontend to edit the corresponding template. When you click the “Edit Site” link in the admi…
I remember there are plugins to switch themes based on the user, so admins can make changes before switching to a theme for the public, but since the templates are essentially content, they don’t seem to work without affecting the active theme.
I suggest hiding blocks or areas you don’t need or need to be updated, using a plugin like Block Visibility, or setting a Staging site to make changes in a safe environment.
What problem does this address? Site Editor only works with an active block theme. It's not possible to edit non-active block themes with it. E.g., it's not possible to Live Preview non-active bloc...
@Jos Velasco Thanks for looking into it. I think the answer for me is that for my totally unimportant personal site I'm just going to brave it: check on a test site which edits need to be made and what they look like then quickly do them on the real site. Likely nobody will see it in the meantime. For anything even slightly more important organisations are going to need staging sites anyway and mechanisms to deploy changes atomically. Also with Block Visibility I think you're going to have to find the added blocks first to flag them as invisible, which you can only do after switching to the theme.
Or maybe I should just let go of the idea that you can easily switch themes...
@Mika E. But that's the thing I don't get. It used to do that for new empty sites. I've tried this with two (test) sites, both of which already had content. These new default texts just get inserted into a live site which already has content. And I didn't find a way to change it before activating the theme; you used to be able to do that in the preview before activating.
Looks like the Wordpress Activitypub plugin doesn't handle video cover images in media attachments. Also, I had forgotten that it is not compatible with page caching in W3 Total Cache (another plugin) so I had turned that on. (Either it doesn't send the Vary header or W3TC doesn't respect it)
Can't you tell mobile Chrome not to reload a tab. E.g. if you are busy filling a form, or some long running process is running. That's the third time I restarted the media sync on WordPress.
I don't think so, no. I used to have that problem a lot but not since switching to firefox so it might just specifically be that particular browser, maybe try others?
This is the press junket interview about Hotel Cocaine with Corina Bradley. She says her character Valeria doesn't put up with lies, and from what I've seen in the trailer, Valeria is going to have an interesting time with that... (Uploaded to WordPress because Friendica doesn't do video) gidikroon.eu/2024/06/16/corina… #CorinaBradley #HotelCocaine
Was testing a new lens, the wide angle Canon RF 28mm f/2.8 STM. I like it. It's very flat. And I'm starting to learn that if you pay attention there doesn't need to be (much) distortion even for a wide angle lens. I.e. look at and not ignore the level meter on the display...
Photos below are unprocessed, except crop and downscale on my phone for posting. Taken on a Canon EOS R10, so there's a 1.6 crop factor (28mm has the equivalent field of view of 45mm).
Taken at the WW2 memorial at Kruispark in Best. #Photography
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Fixed.
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Trump took to Truth Social about 6:25 a.m. Monday to rail against President Joe Biden, whom he suggested was involved in the start of an imminent world war.
More: "It’s a new day and Joe Biden doesn’t remember quitting the race yesterday!" Trump wrote. "He is demanding his campaign schedule and arranging talks with Presidents Xi of China, and Putin of Russia, concerning the possible start of World War 3."
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Donald Trump confuses Joe Biden and Barack Obama again at Virginia rally
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