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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
( hint: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code )
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levels_check@botsin.space ("levels checker") wrote:
current incompetence levels are 18%
(18%) ■□□□□□□□□□
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
QBE
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Report: Black market keeps Nvidia chips flowing to China military, government
Unknown suppliers keep Nvidia's most advanced chips within China's reach.
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Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Open source AI is the hottest of hot topics -- with a recent IEEE Spectrum op-ed calling it "uniquely dangerous" -- but what is it, exactly? Today on @oxidecomputer and Friends @ahl and I will be joined by @simon, one of the leading practitioners in showing what open source LLMs can (and can't!) do. You can read Simon's end-of-2023 AI roundup here:
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/31/ai-in-2023/
This will be a terrific discussion; join us, 5p Pacific:
https://discord.gg/D2r7QJJq?event=1196517681910784170
Recorded and syndicated, as always!
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Sea ice frost flowers:
"These delicate, spiky ice crystals form on young sea ice in extremely cold, calm conditions. They're created when moisture from the seawater rises into the frigid air and condenses around imperfections in the ice surface. As more water vapor freezes, the crystals grow outwards, forming intricate, branching structures that can reach several centimeters in height." #Icetodon
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Holy shit, this website.
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yosyshq@fosstodon.org ("YosysHQ") wrote:
YosysHQ is hiring!
With the start of the new year we are looking to add both an EDA Formal & Synthesis Tool Developer to our team. Find all you need to know via the link below & send your application to office@yosyshq.com
We’re looking forward to your applications!
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Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:
It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, here in the United States, and you know what that means! Time for a buch of people who would have called him n----r with the hard R or tone policed his rhetoric & tactics while he was alive to paint an erroneous mythology about who he was and what he stood for now that he's dead! 😃
So here's Letter From Birmingham Jail.
https://youtu.be/ATPSht6318o?si=c-5UNYsPfTlOhnpy
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erice@meow.social ("Eric Edmondson") wrote:
"here's the bad news: we are the ones who vanished." - @fromjason
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/
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CathyTuttle@social.ridetrans.it ("Cathy Tuttle") wrote:
E-BIKE owners!! Did you know?
Let your batteries warm up for a while before charging them. Charging a lithium ion battery when it's close to or below freezing will damage it, permanently reducing its capacity.
HOT TIP:
Best to charge between 10 to 27 C (50 to 80 F), never below freezing.
#BikeTooter
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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:
GOOD MORNING SUN DOGS!!
(It hurt a lot to run outside and take this picture in -47 winchill, but it was WORTH IT)
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and in Rust, FTW
https://mitra.social/objects/018d0b31-a789-4fd7-5283-40a777b77a71
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silverpill@mitra.social wrote:
Activity Connect, my little side-project, has reached usable state:
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/activity-connect
- Follow, unfollow, create and delete posts - basic activities are supported. Translation is not perfect but can be improved in the future.
- Allowlist-based bridging
- Tor and I2P are supported
- Media URLs are not translated
- Compiled to a single binary, uses SQLite database, configured with environment variables
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Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:
(Also a reminder that the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born precisely one week after my grandmother, so when people talk about him like he's a figure abstracted to history, it causes my brain to basically do a record scratch)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
evolution in action
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
food, Igor need foodz
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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Senior academics are not allowed to enjoy sex, apparently. Wisconsin regents are insufferable prudes.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/29/prudes-on-parade/
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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
Can’t love this enough.
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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭✨") wrote:
People need to read more old books.
This is from one that's near 50 years old and explains succinctly why replacing humans with AI is bullshit--even if the AI can think on the same level as humans (current AIs can't, and will likely never be able to).
(Weizenbaum was a computer science professor at MIT and famously invented the ELIZA bot, so yes, he knows what he's talking about.)
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- [..] The possibility of programming computers to perform one task or another that humans also perform (i.e., whether Artificial Intelligence is achievable or not) is irrelevant to the question of whether computers can be put to a given task. Instead, Weizenbaum asserts that the definition of tasks and the selection of criteria for their completion is a creative act that relies on human values, which cannot come from computers. Weizenbaum makes the crucial distinction between deciding and choosing. Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. In deploying computers to make decisions that humans once made, the agent doing so has made a choice based on their values that will have particular, non-neutral consequences for the subjects who will experience the outcomes of the computerized decisions that the agent has instituted. (remote)
![[..] The possibility of programming computers to perform one task or another that humans also perform (i.e., whether Artificial Intelligence is achievable or not) is irrelevant to the question of whether computers can be put to a given task. Instead, Weizenbaum asserts that the definition of tasks and the selection of criteria for their completion is a creative act that relies on human values, which cannot come from computers. Weizenbaum makes the crucial distinction between deciding and choosing. Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. In deploying computers to make decisions that humans once made, the agent doing so has made a choice based on their values that will have particular, non-neutral consequences for the subjects who will experience the outcomes of the computerized decisions that the agent has instituted.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/111/760/731/458/251/371/original/f8a215e237a1fcec.jpg){kind=link}
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
deciding vs choosing
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jeff@honeytree.social ("Jeff Brown") wrote:
#streisandeffect do your thing
Ohio Court Says Calling Cincinnati Police Officer Ryan Olthaus A Racist Is Protected Speech
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QuadRadical@wetdry.world wrote:
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LaNaehForaday@universeodon.com ("EarthMomma") wrote:
THIS IS WHY REPUBLICANS THINK THE VOTE IS RIGGED.
Because THEY rig the vote.
A week after charges were dropped against a former election chief in Virginia, county officials have now admitted they underreported roughly 4,000 votes in the 2020 election for now-President Joe Biden.
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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:
A few years ago I was honored with the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization, a thrill because I admired his willingness & ability to communicate science to the public at a time when scientists weren't encouraged to speak out or rewarded for doing so.
But he also said things that, even today, resonate deeply in our present political crises. Here's one of those things relevant to today's Republican party.
"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
not bad for a <=20w set of test JS8 "heartbeat" pulses on 6m/10m/12m/15m/17m/20m/30m/40m/80m #AmateurRadio 📡 bands
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
poor soul: doooooomed to become a meteorologist by their parents' whimsy
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
it has been a very long time since I last looked at this list
[https://web.archive.org/web/20130215140321/http://jcs.dtic.mil/j6/cceb/acps/acp131/ACP131F09.pdf][3]but it has some really useful (and some really amusing) Z-Signs for possible use with a JS8 group/net
being a government document, the actual useful information starts on page 11 ;^}
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georgelakoff@sfba.social ("George Lakoff") wrote:
People do not necessarily vote in their self-interest.
They vote their identity.
They vote their values.
They vote for who they identify with.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
interesting... testing on 6m-80m JS8, and only 40m causes (momentary) noise on the external computer speakers. I *did* only add the one additional toroid 🍩 (on the cable connecting the pair of stereo external computer speakers), and the speakers *do* already have one on the USB power line and they *are* supposed to be for use outdoors (admittedly, with an FM voice rig), but still a pain
#FirstWorldProblems