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Mark Pauley

Mark Pauley

@unsaturated.bsky.social

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Professional Software Engineer, amateur skateboarder. synthesizers, music, bad jokes and cats

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Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 14

They’re really digging for some of these. “I’m not sad he died” does not seem like a fireable statement.

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 12

That’s not what he did though. He publicly trounced them in a mean way for his own personal profit. People who want to actually learn use tactics like those the Naval academy teach like presenting a strong form of your opponents argument. The truths he told were based on cherru-picking and bias.

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 12

Let’s be real: Charlie didn’t deserve to get killed.

But the guy built his career on traveling to college campuses to clown on teenagers with zero debate experience while he himself had 100’s or 1000’s of hours of debate experience.

He was like a teenager playing basketball against 9 year olds.

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 11

I admire him for really putting his money where is mouth is

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 11

At least Charlie died doing what he loved

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 9

Is it possible to watch the ledgers for activity on any of these recipient wallet addresses?

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 9

It’s exhausting to maintain standards when others don’t, but consider: your standards aren’t for them.

Your standards are for you, to remain someone you respect.

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ya know, as a matter of fact I wish atlas would shrug.

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Aug 23

After getting various answers from ChatGPT that obviously were based on Wikipedia, I asked it if Open AI supported Wikimedia. It found Apple, Google.org, plus individual donors like Omidyar Network did, but not OpenAI. So I asked it to prepare a call for social media. This is it. Let's use it:

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Sep 1

Love the software, hate the long term unstable ABI

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 31

Stop making it exponentially bigger?

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 31

Here’s an older piece: arxiv.org/abs/2310.10402

Here is one relating healthcare applications where privacy is particularly sensitive: arxiv.org/html/2412.20...

Anyway I feel like ML needs to solve the technical part of the problem you are pointing out, and tech co.’s have a lot of trust to rebuild

Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching

Synthetic training data has gained prominence in numerous learning tasks and scenarios, offering advantages such as dataset augmentation, generalization evaluation, and privacy preservation. Despite t...

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 31

Diff privacy can be used to steer synthetic training data to resemble (or at least comprise the same sample distribution as) actual user data. I was looking for references to papers I’ve seen on this, but am drawing a blank.

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 31

I personally would be more at ease if the resulting dataset was
1: provably private and
2: open source, so that it benefits all similar systems going forward.

Anyway yeah I totally agree that companies snooping with zero privacy guarantees and likely zero benefit to anybody is bad

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 31

I used to think this way, and then I started playing with modern machine learning systems. The data is basically all of the spec.
So but there are means of getting approximate sets of data that can’t be used to snoop: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differe...

This presupposes trust though which is lacking

Differential privacy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you don’t trust the tech companies to handle your data with care, respect and privacy that’s 100% understandable. But the best you can hope for when you don’t give feedback is that someone near enough to your demographic is using the tech in a similar way as you and they are providing feedback.

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 31

In theory I agree but unfortunately that’s not how software works anymore.

The world is a squishy place with a huge long tail distribution and the software that best fits that is basically an input / output mapping that needs just ungodly amounts of data to fit your specific needs.

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 21

I like Bluesky except when people start talking about AI.
Like I get it, you don’t like it.

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 20

From where I was standing they didn’t which is why we made fun of them

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Aug 7

They are trying to game Agentic AI crawlers

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Jul 27

My paper had obscene pictures on it after I drew the with this pen!

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes except we don’t know how to fix it

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Jul 19

I mean it’s about as good as homies fantasy conspiracy and it only took you two prompts

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Jul 18

I feel like I might try to get GPT into SCP mode just for entertainment purposes. Sounds wicked

Mark Pauley @unsaturated.bsky.social · Jul 18

The model is probably in some sci-fi / fiction pathway. This reads like something out of an SCP