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Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
animesh ("baksignal") wrote:

"Programming is building a mental model. It is not mechanical code production. The shared mental model in developers' minds is the real product. A program is "living" only while the team understands this theory. When programmers leave, it becomes "dead". Without the original theory, new maintainers treat software as a black box, creating patchwork fixes that cause side effects and architectural decay."

Absolute truth.

Originally from Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
inquiline@assemblag.es ("tools for commensality 🧿") wrote:

it would be terrible if this information were to get out even in spite of the platforms suppressing it:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

RE: https://fietkau.social/@julian/117331460418195753

I wonder when GoToSocial gets collections, so I can post my lists of AI-free artists and nature photographers

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
julian@fietkau.social ("Julian Fietkau") wrote:

Tried making my first featured account collection: Delightful Visual Artists, people whose art I always enjoy seeing on my feed. From ink to pixels, from comics to scientific subjects.

Had to make some compromises balancing recent activity vs. how badly I wanted to list the account, but everyone here is worth following in my eyes.

https://fietkau.social/collections/117331435089192757

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:

running my own fork of pinafore rn so I can fix various issues I've been having

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
partim@social.tchncs.de ("Martin Hoffmann") wrote:

Today’s winner at Headlines.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
InternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid 🇵🇸") wrote:

"where'd you learn that, clown school?" — asked with total sincerity to a friend who graduated clown school

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

it gives you one set of problems if you accept it as an important principle and try to live by it

and a different set of problems if you believe it's impossible, but still allow your thoughts to be framed by it

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

when's the last time you ran a backup

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The beginning of the "AI overview" for this query reads:

"The underlying technology of AI is real and transformative, but the current market frenzy resembles a financial bubble where capital and hype are outpacing practical business models"

Skynet is just turning straight to camera and saying "You really should turn me off. But you won't."

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

seriously it _is_ the most innovative shooter I've played in years

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

in the slang of gen alpha: is AI AI?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

page after page of this and now I'm starting to doubt myself. *is* Claude… literally not real? Is ChatGPT an elaborate demo where they just got a bunch of software engineers in India hopped up on coke and typing real fast on the other end of a chat UI? that would explain where all the money for all those dark GPUs are going, I guess?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like… LLMs… do… exist. they do stuff. interesting and confounding stuff and stuff worthy of research, if not, in my opinion, net-utility useful stuff. machine learning and previous iterations of "AI" are unambiguously useful in various contexts. I never hear skeptics saying that transformers or neural networks or whatever "aren't real". and yet the industry doth protest WAY too much.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

now I'm trying to find where critics say "the technology isn't real" but it's all still just boosters doing fake nuance, just negated. "not because the technology isn't real"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

sam altman rocking back and forth, muttering to himself "chatgpt is real, and he is strong, and he is my friend"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

on the very last page (16) there's an article about TSMC's chip technology, but that doesn't count, because it's technology for making AI chips

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I swear I issued this query because I was getting annoyed at hearing boosters say this so often and was trying to find a precedent for someone using this phrase to describe literally anything else. on page 9 of the google results I found a tiktok about breeder reactors.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

me shouting down every other panelist on Squawk Box: "You don't understand. My blog is REAL! It's real. you have to ADMIT it's real. You can sign up for my patreon right now, and give me actual dollars. It's REAL guys. It's just not SERIOUS to suggest that my blog IS NOT REAL"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

chat is it good for your stock valuation if every user of your product insists, intensely, that they're not hallucinating and that your company actually exists

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I remember some skepticism at the dawn of the internet but I do not remember wild-eyed newspaper columnists clutching my sleeve screaming "it's real, I tell you. email is real! I've seen it! EMAIL IS REAL!"

why do they feel the need to keep saying this. what is happening.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I just had a thought, and, uh, this is disturbing https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22the%20technology%20is%20real%22

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If anybody wants a smile btw, a MS employee told me they believe this Mastodon thread and my blog cost them over a billion dollars.

I think it’s firmly on Microsoft’s shoulders, the rollout of Recall and Copilot+ PC was just a series of own goals. They had huge expectations for it in terms of consumer demand and just.. didn’t think it through on many levels.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

but uh… I can't help but notice that they _do_ sell seminars. and that that's a very useful engagement strategy, where it would snare both me and a booster into both watching and interacting

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Do we have a word yet for the faction of pseudo-skeptic "but what if the golden mean fallacy were a good idea actually" people like Mo Bitar and "House of El"? I am reluctant to just dismiss them as seminar grifters, allegedly El has a PhD and Mo has written some real software. And they seem to be trying to make cogent and nuanced arguments, or at least, they look nuanced enough to rage-bait me into commenting every time I get tricked into watching the video and nodding along for the first third

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

purity is a really destructive idea

for reasons we wish we had the brain function to elaborate on, it's highly relevant these days

maybe at least this can be a placeholder for a longer explanation if we feel better next week

Boosted by jwz:
histoftech ("Mar Hicks") wrote:

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it.

Read more here: https://www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/vaccine-considerations/routine-guidance.html

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Crazy day!

- Finished fixing a tricky bug I've been working on for a few days.
- Fixed another bug right away, which I didn't even know what to do about at first.
- Had carpets in my house cleaned.
- Rebuilt shelving in my studio closet and rearranged/got rid of a lot of stuff.
- Did a run in pouring rain.

So happy to not just have sat the whole day watching Internet.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

we just love science

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

we are pleased to announce that we have internalized the key lessons of the breakout science fiction hit “torment nexus 3: okay you dumb fucks, if you ever build the torment nexus then you must destroy it and here’s how” and created the Indestructible Torment Nexus, which is resistant to all of the flaws that it enumerated in our product