Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

I've never had a smartphone and have always had separate digital camera, dumbphone and mp3-player. I prefer it this way. Along with the psychological focus, why should my phone know what songs I play or my camera know whom I speak with?

The Case For Digital Minimalism - by Talia Barnes

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-case-for-digital-minimalism?publication_id=61579&post_id=101218784&isFreemail=true

Jetzt noch bis zum 22.2. bewerben auf die Stelle als wiss. Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) als Leitung des Archivs für Gesprochenes Deutsch (AGD) in unserer Abteilung Pragmatik! 👉https://ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere/stellen/stelle8 Gern teilen und an Interessierte weiterleiten! #Stellenausschreibung #Jobs #Mannheim

#ChatGPT’s answers can be a little off.

Google is much better at providing facts.

It’s not able to create a true creative work of art.

But it might be just the right kind of tool to help you break through writer’s block and get the creative juices flowing
https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-great-youre-just-using-it-wrong-198848

#AIArt #AI #Creativity #Writer #Writing

The Animals - Paint It Black
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https://youtu.be/I3-E65NtOgs

I was asking https://symbiotic.fyi/ about the main contributions of our recently submitted #JCDL paper. It worked surprisingly well.
Try it out yourself. You can upload a paper, get a summary and ask questions about the content.

via @bryanhpchiang@twitter.com
#gpt #llm #ai #nlp

I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.

Ein Traum geht in Erfüllung: Ich werde auf einer Party gefragt, wieso das Alphabet ausgerechnet mit A-B-C beginnt. Ganz, sage ich, weiß ich es nicht, aber ich kann beitragen. Ich reduziere und vereinfache, so viel wie ich mag: Die Ägypter und die Phönizier; ursprünglich war das A ein Glottis-Verschlusslaut und das C ein G (siehe Hebräisch, Griechisch und Latein C. für Gaius), so dass die ersten vier Buchstaben alle Verschlusslaute waren. - Dass die Frage von einer Erstklässlerin kam, geschenkt.

Possibly the most frightening talent of the brown bear is an uncanny ability to blend seamlessly into the environment in an almost chameleon-like manner, allowing them to easily surprise their unsuspecting prey.

Over on Twitter Mike Sharples posted link to this paper. (https://twitter.com/sharplm/status/1621537532163792896?s=20&t=XZQCRYerFEV_gUE1cf1Iow)

Worth a read if this is your interest (genesis of technological ideas):

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05570

Circular windows in the long staircase allow views of the Gustav Gull building and the park landscape outside.

Full photo series: https://dominikgehl.com/museums-landesmuseum

#architecture #photography #museum

The new extension building by the Basel architects Christ & Gantenbein was inaugurated in 2016. Connecting two wings of the Gustav Gull building, the extension makes it possible for the first time to make a round tour of the entire museum. #architecture #photography #zurich

The building was designed so that entire historically important rooms from all over #Switzerland could be dismantled and reinstalled inside the museum. Two examples are a room from Casa Pestalozzi in Chiavenna dating back to 1585 and the baroque hall from the "Langen Stadelhof" house built in 1667

Completed in 1898, the Landesmuseum Zürich was built in the historicist style as a castle-like building to plans by Swiss architect Gustav Gull. #architecture #museum

Bisher beweist #ChatGPT vor allem, dass die meisten Menschen sich mit Klischees und Kalendersprüchen zufrieden geben. Und das für intelligent halten.

Das schafft #RichardDavidPrecht bereits seit Jahren mit lukrativen Buch- und Auftrittsverträgen.

Also in 1545, Zurich’s only printer, Christoph Froschauer, used his trademark frog on the title page of Conrad Gessner’s 'Bibliotheca Universalis'. #bookhistory

The trademark frog derives from a translation of the printer’s last name: frog in German “Frosch”. So Frosch-auer had an easy trademark decision. #histodons

Today I passed these railings walking near oval station.
They may not look like much but they are part of the city's history.
They were originally medical stretchers used in the blitz. When the war was over they were welded into place as railings when rebuilding the city so save on metal.
#london #history #londonHistory

So my question is this: what are the chances that a large language model could be trained which is large enough to work as a calculator-for-words, but small enough to run on, say, an M2 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB of RAM?

Is that already known to be impossible, or is there research that hints that this could be achieved given the right optimizations and a really well chosen training set?