8bitsrule

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by 8bitsrule 9d ago
I enjoyed this lovely rant by Timnit Gebru today. It's titled something like "AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCB-NQtsKrs
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by 8bitsrule 9d ago
At one point in my graduate college studies, I tutored qualified (DEI) undergrads 'for free' (for them) as part of a work-study program which paid me a bit for that work. OTOH, an AI could not have qualified as such a student. But
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by 8bitsrule 17d ago
The question's not new. In the early 1900s, women could not become PhD astronomers. Yet two women (Payne with stellar composition and Leavitt with cosmic distances) made fundamental, essential contributions to the science. Credit mostl
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by 8bitsrule 20d ago
>using LLMs without disclosure is A-OK? 'Without disclosure' is about taking credit for work that isn't yours. WP defines 'ghostwriter' as: "a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches,
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by 8bitsrule 25d ago
When I zoom in, the right half of the page becomes invisible.
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by 8bitsrule 29d ago
"Safe, clean, too cheap to meter" More? > We Almost Lost Detroit"- Wikipedia > a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller,[1] presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with
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by 8bitsrule 29d ago
Bril riposte
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by 8bitsrule 29d ago
A thoughtful and detailed history of the early decades of machine 'intelligence' and contemporary reactions - by American historian Jill Lepore KQED interview with Alexis Madrigal: https://www.kqed.org/forum/2
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by 8bitsrule 1mo ago
It's indeed very annoying. I've only seen 1 or 2 that know what they're doing. One's at lemmy.world ... just hovering over it is verified ...
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by 8bitsrule 1mo ago
A book of that stature being published cutailed in any way should be carefully avoided by all readers. The 'Canadian Gutenburg' PD version [0] mentioned in another comment here contains all 16 chapters. ('Star Maker' i
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by 8bitsrule 1mo ago
Some Einstein quotes (uncited) on the topic of explaining things: https://www.azquotes.com/author/4399-Albert_Einstein/tag/und... including (something like) the most usual one: "You do not really underst
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by 8bitsrule 1mo ago
"the 7'8" tall automaton would start his performance by touching a mace to his head before he proceeded to write out Chinese characters... "touring Germany when he was somehow lost... "In 2008, the Osaka Science Mus
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by 8bitsrule 1mo ago
This article is the most concise presentation of GP ... and of the conclusion it leads to ... I've seen. "Opposite statements, G and ~G, can’t both be true in a consistent axiomatic system."
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
I've stuck with only asking questions that prompt on-topic factual output, I haven't seen much 'humanisation'. LLMs can be pretty good about logical.technical,discursive output ... apart from the back-patting. Maybe that
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
The publicly elected can demand respect ... but that generally backfires. As I recall, 'A Boy and His Dog' was set in Kansas. "Lack Of Respect, Wrong Attitude, Failure To Obey Authority. The farm, immediately."
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
> That people say that the fear of war (nuclear or not) is "quaint" means that the wealthy and privileged first world has forgotten about war... Apart from perceptions, however real they were ... the hundreds of silos and missi
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
There are several legal digital formats (e.g. PSK31, FT8, RTTY) that, while not encrypted, will render 'reading the mail' hard for anyone not aware of those formats and/or the right equipment and where to get it. Most hams ca
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
> The map couldn't load. This usually means an ad blocker or privacy extension is blocking Google Maps... > Try disabling blockers for cheapfoodmap.com, Try disabling your goofy expections that I'll spend a minute to learn
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
Gotta spend all those revenues while they're still worth something!
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
Who's this'Al' I keep seeing in the headlines?
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
Perhaps ... but the lesson in trusting AI math was worth it.
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
A few months ago I asked a model how many primes are divisible by 35 with a remainder of 6. It confidently replied 'none'. Counterexample: 35 + 6.
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
Interested. I got far emough on the site to have a couple of questions. (Maybe the answers are on the site?) 1) Does device record ALL MIDI sent to it? (Including e.g. SYSEX and non-registered parameters? 2) I edit MIDI on a Desktop (NOT a
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by 8bitsrule 2mo ago
Thanks for that ... impressive!
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by 8bitsrule 3mo ago
One more step on the way to the day when you can get help identifying that old tune that's been running thru your head for days.
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Hyperblam – make music using Web Audio API only(hyperblam.how)
3 points by 8bitsrule 3mo ago|0 comments
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by 8bitsrule 3mo ago
Very well done, & interesting, thanks!
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by 8bitsrule 3mo ago
Revealing that, after 30 years of Internet, someone's actually confronting this situation for the first time. So's the word 'gaps' ... as if the English Channel is a 'gap' for swimmers. Equally revealing is the
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by 8bitsrule 3mo ago
Yep. Momentum seems to be the source of our intuition. Something going 'twice as fast' has twice the momentum. OTOH, KE, being momentum * velocity, is more abstract.
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by 8bitsrule 3mo ago
Hmmm, fancy indeed. With 150kW feeding a dipole at 700 feet, I imagine that a cat's-whisker [0] would have done well-enough in London... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector

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