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Carl Joseph

@carljoseph.bsky.social

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Luddite, Astronomer, & PhD candidate researching history of astronomy and technology at UniMelb What’s Luddism? Here … https://theconversation.com/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172 Cis male, on Wurundjeri & Boonerwrung land

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · 11d

“Your physics teacher lied to you. Your economics teacher lied to you. Jensen Huang's leather jacket is the only truth that matters.”

jamesthomason.com/deus-ex-nihi...

Deus ex nihilo

Decoherence and the superposition of capital in the OpenAI ecosytem

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anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 19d

the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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Samara Greenwood @samaragreenwood.bsky.social · May 9

My interview for *The Philosopher's Zone* podcast on Feminism and Primatology is out now!

I managed to scrounge up the courage to listen and I'm quite proud 🙃

You can listen to the ep via the ABC website or in the usual podcast places

#hps #sts #histsci #PhilSci #feminism #primatology

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · May 3

Thanks for taking the hit to watch Sky News for the rest of us

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Mar 28

Thankfully, because of preferential voting, this needn’t be the case

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Mar 15

So stupid.

Yet, this really shines a light on the underlying racism belly that exists in Australia.

If this article was changed so every instance of "US" switched to "China" (as an example), then people would be yelling 25 hours a day about this. And yet, we don't see much discussion on this.

Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender

Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate

www.theguardian.com

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Carmelina Contarino @cjcontarino.bsky.social · Mar 14

Even the tyranny of distance won’t protect us from the tyrrany of the current US (lack of) government.

Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender

Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Mar 4

Incredibly strange decision from the society

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · Mar 3

A very good online lesson-style thing about what ChatGPT is and whether it's a huge invention (or just bullshit).

Probably a great thing to get in front of your students, seeing as they're almost definitely using it regularly: thebullshitmachines.com

INTRODUCTION

thebullshitmachines.com

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Feb 20

Nice. I might have to take another closer look at it

Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Feb 18

Thanks Ryan! Do you find Quarto useful for non stats/coding stuff too?

I’m using Scrivener as my writing tool and compiling with pandoc, citeproc, etc.

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Feb 18

a bald man with a beard is making a funny face and says `` you 're making me blush '' .

Alt: a bald man with a beard is making a funny face and says `` you 're making me blush '' .

media.tenor.com

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Feb 1

Ahh so they make more expensive and experienced people redundant and hire back cheaper. How awful, especially for those who were let go :(

Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Feb 1

Isn’t there a time limit for when you can rehire for a redundant position?

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · Jan 22

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · Jan 21

The 605.

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Jan 4

Curious how they justify the AI use given their climate action stance?

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Dec 28

Why do tech bros keep reinventing eugenics and phrenology?!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Dec 27

“The FaceAge test is an artificial intelligence model trained on tens of thousands of photos from patients and public-image databases to look for signs of aging in the face.”

Some doctors hope that “one day, the tool could be a standard part of assessing health.”

What Your ‘Face Age’ Can Tell Doctors About Your Health

Scans of face photos are estimating people’s ‘biological age’ and even predicting how long they’ll live.

www.wsj.com

Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Dec 15

Interesting thread #histsci #philsci #hps

Will Kinney @wkcosmo.bsky.social · Dec 14

Why gravity is a cultural construct. 🧵

Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Dec 12

This is beyond devastating. I can not imagine the lifelong / intergenerational trauma these children will experience

Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Dec 12

Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds

Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people

www.theguardian.com

Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Dec 12

The “overview effect” that point to, may not have been “all that”. Here’s an interesting perspective - www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2020/d...

Pale blue dot

The myth of the ‘overview effect’, and how it serves space industry entrepreneurs

www.themonthly.com.au

Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Dec 12

Reminds me of this:

Nonfiction = learning through information

Fiction = learning through imagination

Tweet from @ace_librarian7. Text reads:

I have made it my mission to unteach children that “fiction is fake.”

- Nonfiction = learning through information

- Fiction = learning through imagination

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Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Dec 8

That sounds like a philosophical position ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Dec 7

I haven’t read the paper yet, but does the medium have an impact? I note their analysis is based on twitter data

Carl Joseph @carljoseph.bsky.social · Nov 22

As it should be since we’re in the “good place” :) There’s always something to learn, even from people you may initially disagree with