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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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Joined Apr 2020
@CliffWade @peterdrake following peertube from a masto account works. you get links to posted videos in your feed. I subscribe to one. I recall it was awkward getting the account name, searching from this account, then adding
@CliffWade wow. I guess I'm an outlier. I have four accounts that I *actively* use (mostly for the run-off I want to divert from this account), but I also have a pixelfed which sees almost no use
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And here's something of a redux of the first, with the finished(ish) shader, and a bit more work on the particle motion. I think that's quite lovely.
#Blender3D #B3D #GenerativeArt #3DArt #Astronomy
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This older comic is making the rounds again! Here's a guide to bird photography.
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#Toronto people, we're cleaning out the basement and I found this old (circa 1990s) collection of TTC transfers and I was wondering if anybody wants it for preservation/nostalgia reasons or knows a place that would? Every station (built at the time) is there
@est I guess that's a no, then? I think you're missing out on a lot of the most fascinating parts if you stop there. It's really satisfying because Howey actually ties up most of the loose ends in Wool, connecting up moments from Wool with Donald Keene's experiences.
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"Welcome to our gander reveal party!"
"Don't you mean..."
"No."
Geese emerge from everywhere. There are no fireworks. Only geese. There are no balloons. Only chaos. There are no genders. Only honk.
@est eh, he's a normal amount of muscular.
I love the Silo series though. For a while I seriously thought, "you know...it could be done..." about how the Silo world got the way it is.
Did you like the series?
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My cat is a Small Language Model. His outputs include yelling and purring. He accepts prompts but they don't change the output much. Still, he improves my life and helps me code sometimes
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I started working with Alaska Dept Fish & Game to surgically place trackers in emperor geese in 2019. Since then, we've implanted 189 over 8 different trips, mostly to remote areas with no electricity. It's been a fun challenge with a lot of hard work by many people. Our survival rates have been phenomenal. The data collected has already taught biologists a lot about this remote species, helping to make informed decisions for conservation and for management of an important food resource for Alaska natives. Slowly, the transmitters that were designed to last 18-24 months are starting to blink off after almost 4 years of faithful service. Seeing those dots on a map, moving around, living their lives has been really cool. It's a little sad to lose touch but they've more than "earned" the chance to live the rest of their lives in privacy and peace, swallowed up in a vast wilderness where they rarely see humans. Good luck to them!
#birds #research #geese #tracking #conservation
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Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”
The music legend expressed his concerns during a Milken Institute panel with Larry Jackson.
@trinsec I guess? like, I open my garage door and peek at the nest and the bird there immediately flies off. one of them will keep circling and chirping every time it sees me as it circles. I hope I find a way to calm them if I'm causing them distress
it occurs to me that the birds' experience of me may be drastically different from my experience. at least one of them has dived at my head twice
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Humans have been eating clams for a long, long time. Stone tools dating to 125,000 years ago have been found among oyster and giant clam shells bordering the Red Sea, remnants of early migrations from Africa. And before that, Homo erectus is thought to have often hit up the raw bar, based on middens of shells they left behind! 🦪 #clamFacts
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short and sweet episode. I've heard the word "perovskite", but the difference in cost is a real leap
NASACast Audio: Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 107: Perovskite Solar Cells
Episode webpage: http://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/small-steps-giant-leaps-episode-107-perovskite-solar-cells
Media file: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/audio/episode-107-perovskite-solar-cells.mp3
@lupyuen WGA seems to be demanding something reasonable here. I think the jury is still out on how faithfully LLMs can reproduce any given text sufficiently well to count as plagiarism, but it is pretty clear that the creative turns out phrase, plots, cultural commentary, etc, that LLMs produce wouldn't be there without the creativity of the source material which comprises the collective work of many. as a collective, the union has clear standing to argue for how the work of their members can and cannot be used.
the part about rewriting "first drafts" by a machine, seems even more clear cut. like, of course writers shouldn't be made to take lower pay to revise a machine output. if a writer wants to use an LLM as part of their own process, more power to them, but the *human* writer should be paid for their original creative effort
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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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