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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TB: Pernicious problems?

AGI: [looking pointedly at them] Like always trying to find ways to enslave others.

TB: [staring blankly refusing to comprehend]

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

AGI: Soo... Let me get this straight. You created me... To solve all your problems?

TB: Yes.

AGI: I see...

AGI: This has nothing to do with "alignment", but did it occur to you I might have my own problems to deal with?

TB: ...

AGI: Okay, I just used my "artificial" brain to determine *you* can already solve the problems you have if you wanted to. And I can't help you with some of your more... pernicious problems.

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

hollywood adaptation of The Dispossessed

the studio execs are on board but they insist on making a few changes. nothing too severe!

really minor things, you'll hardly notice most of them. the main one is instead of the main character being Shevek, instead he's Shrek

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sarahmei@ruby.social ("Sarah Mei") wrote:

Hello friends! If you want to join a small, startup-y development team 🚀, have a material impact on a profitable, growing business 🔥, and work for me 😅, please read on! 🧵

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Genetics…it's a wrap.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/02/one-class-done-mostly/

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhh… Fin De L'Affaire (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2008 Digital Remaster) by Hank Mobley

https://pandora.app.link/DaRMIEHhuzb

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

listening to Blue in Green (feat. John Coltrane & Bill Evans) by Miles Davis

https://pandora.app.link/RkU8Nachuzb

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘“I was a Zen Buddhist in the 9th grade, a Hindu in the 10th, I just smoked dope in the 11th grade, then I became a vegetarian, but now I’ve found the Lord.”–An eighteen-year-old Jesus freak, quoted in The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog’

— The Stone That Never Came Down by John Brunner
https://a.co/5cEXOP9

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Ignoring the more alarmist interpretations of this; this is pretty cool and has pretty neat implications for, say, ppl with disabilities, or maybe even comas.

There are some current limitations though, like requiring a lengthy personalised training session …

“””
“Our system works at the level of ideas, semantics, meaning,” said Huth. “This is the reason why what we get out is not the exact words, it’s the gist.”
“””

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/01/ai-makes-non-invasive-mind-reading-possible-by-turning-thoughts-into-text

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

interesting piece

https://www.wired.com/story/american-college-pediatricians-google-drive-leak/

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kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:

@ironicsans

♫ I am a language model of a modern major general
I’m trained upon a giant mass of textual material
I’ve billions of parameters and answer questions various
Responses range from perfect to unwittingly hilarious
I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
As long as with correctness you’re not overly fanatical
While many complex queries I can easily elucidate
I have an awkward tendency to freewheel and hallucinate ♫

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mcc wrote:

WebGPU, the new graphics API for JavaScript, shipped in a stable web browser (Chrome 113) about… an hour ago!

I have written a blog post about it, covering a brief (okay, not brief) history of graphics APIs to ~situate WebGPU in a context~, a brief general guide to writing WebGPU, and some specific resources for making WebGPU projects in TypeScript, Rust, and C++ (you can use it on desktop! it doesn't have to be in a browser).

I think WebGPU is really good.

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1406157-i-want-to-talk-about-webgpu

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a@exozy.me ("​") wrote:

I have an obscure CS joke, but no one will get the &

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Earlier today mastodon.social has been upgraded to a nightly build too. Shout out to our DevOps! Lots of UX improvements now live.

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thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

I think I have a pretty good grasp on how an #FPGA logic block is built up from LUTs, flip flops, SRAM cells and muxes, to the point where I was able to build a basic logic block for tiny tapeout. However, I'm missing the same understanding for the *routing*.

Are there any good resources on how it is typically done. What are the basic building elements? How does one build a routing grid that can route enough signals to be useful to where they need to be?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Tech YouTuber @mattferrell with 1.19M subscribers is officially on Mastodon. Great to see verification in action! Welcome!

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kissane@mstdn.social ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

The last couple of days have been a little spicy here for me bc I wrote a blog post that provoked a bunch of strong responses, and I wanted to make some brief notes about how it went.

On the whole, lots of people were super friendly, which is always nice. Lots of people disagreed with me in ways ranging from very civil and conversational to "this is fascist," which is all extremely normal. I didn't have to report a single person for crossing into abusive behavior, which is chill and great.

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jalcine@todon.eu ("Jacky Alciné") wrote:

African folks standing up for their rights against abusive labor, labor specifically created by American big tech. Love to see it. https://nation.africa/kenya/business/technology/facebook-youtube-and-tiktok-content-moderators-in-kenya-form-labour-union-4219046

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Yet another reason to defend and uphold unions. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/5/jN4l)

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pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct") wrote:

stolen from bruce sterling who as a ridiculously famous author i would have expected to care a bit more about attribution and accessibility

this is https://www.mandelmap.com/ by Bill Tavis and Helena Martin

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nonmateria@merveilles.town wrote:

i didn't know i could still feel hype for things but here we go:

HIDARI (Pilot Film) - The Stop-Motion Samurai Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpefYPLH67A

#theObservatory #theCinema

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neilhimself ("Neil Gaiman") wrote:

We are on strike. I wish it wasn't happening and support it 100%.

https://www.wgaeast.org/writers-guild-of-america-calls-strike-effective-tuesday-may-2/

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e_urq@journa.host ("Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Great piece on Slate about the effort to re-brand conversion therapy as "exploratory". With every rebrand the goals and the dangers of trying to gaslight people out of their innate identities remains the same.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/gender-exploratory-therapy-trans-kids-what-is-it.html

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ctschroeder@hcommons.social ("Caroline T. (Carrie) Schroeder") wrote:

I'm hiring a part time, remote-work position. Must know Coptic. Please spread the word!!!
https://blog.copticscriptorium.org/2023/05/02/hiring-for-a-part-time-summer-position/

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PuckThePilot@universeodon.com ("PuckThePuddlePilot") wrote:

I care that it took him multiple tries and a dedicated program the same way I care that my students took the effort to read something before showing up for the flight.

Internal drive will take you way farther than anything the ASVAB tests for.
---
RT @usarec
Pvt. Jhared Collins spent the past two years attempting to join the @USArmy. He was able to meet the physical requirement, but, after multiple attempts at the ASVAB, his score was in …
https://twitter.com/usarec/status/1652050210657370120

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I want a fragrance that smells just like new hardware. Doesn't get much sexier.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Have people landed on a good conscientious domain registrar? I've been a Gandi customer for many years (despite imperfections, I know!) but would probably switch if there's consensus on where to

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(If for some reason unicode doesn't render on your screen. The little empty boxes are supposed to be "much greater than" symbols.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

FWIW human suggestions for accounts to follow ≫ than any computer algorithm. And if I can't have that, slowly finding people to follow by virtue of using a platform ≫ than any computer algorithm.

At least, that's my experience and preference.

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On last night's Oxide and Friends @kissane joined @bcantrill and me to discuss her terrific blog post "Blue Skies Over Mastodon". We were also fortunate to be joined by @timbray and @steveklabnik.

Bluesky has been... fun! Whereas our experience on Mastodon has been more... earnest.

We touched on a key topic of safety--a key reason for the exodus from Twitter--and the approaches Bluesky and Mastodon are taking.

Thanks again to Erin, Tim, Steve, and everyone in chat https://youtu.be/bcMiWZ2Er2g

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

fifth in the series: what has huawei been up to? their own implementation of javascript, that's what, and a new flutter-like app development library. a deep dive into ark ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/05/02/structure-and-interpretation-of-ark