This is my #LittleFreeLibrary in #Saanich near Uptown. It's the only #LFL on Kamloops Ave. It's decorated w/dinosaurs, Grogu & gargoyle. It has #environmentalism stickers on it. Come visit & take a #book or two!
Find more to visit:
https://victoriaplacemaking.ca/
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FYI #pica does not run an accredited university, credits from her “courses” aren’t transferable— and I strongly suspect this whole thing is just an elaborate cat food extortion scheme… I mean the last set of “diplomas” she sent out were scribbles on the back of old greenies wrappers… That said I kinda have to promote this thing she has me in a tough place. (and to be fair she is something of an expert on “relaxing” so maybe you’ll learn something? maybe?)
This does rather puzzle me; what did he do that was TOO MUCH FOR THE GOP??
Hard to imagine. Unless there was something special going on... 🤔
Mycena Interruptar or more commonly the Blue Parasol Mushroom.
From Mt Macedon in #Victoria #Australia.. Bit of a long hunt this year to find them, but find them we did..
#photo #photography #silentsunday #Australia #foto #fotografie #nature
so happy right now. my lifer red-sided gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) - caught, photographed, and released. #snake
Indeed!
They do *sort of* have to be this way, in the sense that we don't have a solution to the factuality problem in large language models. What they do, architecturally, is spout stuff that sounds sort of like their training set, but without any notion of true or false.
So as far as this particular specific technology is concerned, they do have to be this way; it's just what they do! The problem isn't as much incentive as it is basic knowledge. People are working hard on altering or adding to the basic technology to make them emit truths where that's important, but it's definitely an unsolved problem.
Hey y'all, i know you know this, but while you definitely shouldn't use GPTs for legal research, also don't rely on GPTs for RESEARCH, PERIOD.
They are neither giving nor TRYING to give you intersubjectively associated and derived facts; they are not even remixing factual CONCEPTS into new forms.
They are modelling human biases out into digestible bullshit with a statistically-determined high probability of being swallowed.
That is all.
They don't have to be this way, but, at present, the people making them have no incentive to change them. So. Don't lean on them for fact stuff. It's not what they do.
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Cory @pluralistic Doctorow writes a lot about the fact that surveillance is 'tested' on the weakest persons first until it is normalized enough to apply to everybody.
The article shows this cycle started even earlier than I had thought.
hey look, an actually useful orange-site comment, about HP ink cartridge hardware hacking
"Put a resistor, about 1kohm, in the power line to the security chip on the cartridge.
Now, whenever the printer tries to read data from the chip, it works. Whenever it tries to record data to the chip (for example, marking the cartridge as empty), that uses more power, and the memory chip doesn't respond.
Amazingly, the whole setup just works and prints forever, saying the cartridges are always full... "
This seems very important and worth ongoing study:
“Once again, results suggest a rise in diversity as the 10 biggest server contribution to the Fediverse is reduced by more than 10%. So, even if the biggest servers are accumulating more users, it seems that the Fediverse is becoming more decentralized.”
Heh heh yes; first I used a bucket and got milk, then I looked them up on the Web and... :)
@trinsec
I don't recall. :) I remember I was reading about banners for some reason and something mentioned it somewhere. But I haven't gotten around to experimenting with it...
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