adr (goddamit yes)
@jbfink.bsky.social
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adr from that place you know. He/they
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html
Dr. Demento - Streaming
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.
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marygillis.bsky.social
I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.
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emily.news
I totally get why people think this (due to how rapidly the SOTA has changed), but it's not really accurate. Transformer models operate in high-dimensional embedding spaces where semantic relationships differ from surface form. It's not just about the text. It's the meanings, the relationships.
spavel.bsky.social
As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.
AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots
Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...
www.newscientist.com
jbfink.bsky.social
Drop that YouTube link ok!
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malper.bsky.social
The number of languages in the world just got a lot higher! At least constructed ones.
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇
jbfink.bsky.social
That can't possibly be the same guy man! He looks *way younger* than Mike Pipper. Holy shit.
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stevehorton.mst3k.fan
I’ve been informed by Reddit that the actor who plays Mike Pipper is still alive and working! Most recently he was the sniper in S1E5 of The Last of Us. #MST3K
An older Mike Pipper in The Last of Us
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
jbfink.bsky.social
I don't remember exactly other than they were giggly and maybe a little confused, like my wife was putting them on, and I 100% guarantee she was being serious.
jbfink.bsky.social
My wife and I attended a mst3k live q&a in San Francisco in the early 2000s, and she used her audience question time to ask them why they made fun of that movie because it really wasn't all that bad of a movie, and oh my, the reaction she got.
jbfink.bsky.social
Cream cheese and lox on poppyseed. My single favourite food, actually.
erinbiba.bsky.social
Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.
erinbiba.bsky.social
One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.
jbfink.bsky.social
can you make a sam meme gen
jbfink.bsky.social
IIRC, the Time Chasers people were SO EXCITED when they heard their movie was gonna be on mst3k. I think that's very charming.
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saggiotipo.bsky.social
Despite being a strong program, I felt like UNC was almost embarrassed to have a library science program. We were disappeared, to a large extent, in favor of "iSchool" branding
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blairaf.com
"OpenAI is Canadian sovereign AI" is astonishing mental gymnastics and it gets worse the more you think about it
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blairaf.com
Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies
Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure. 

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.
jbfink.bsky.social
Oh my God I hadn't even considered that. Good lord.
jbfink.bsky.social
My wife has not laughed at anything harder than she laughed at this episode's team task, specifically the three person team.
jbfink.bsky.social
It is very possible to have actual, real librarians with actual, real technology chops without having to dogwhistle that you think librarians are old and busted by getting rid of/de-emphasizing the phrase "library school" or "library science"
jbfink.bsky.social
Always disliked "iSchools". If you're that ashamed of library science, get your stones up like Berkeley did and drop your accreditation.
jbfink.bsky.social
Honestly surprised *my* library school hasn't rushed head on to rebrand themselves the "AI" school. Maybe they have. It's not like I tend to keep tabs on the wretched place.