Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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- Mostly London
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- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
@denniskoch @tristansnell @FinchHaven Let's not forget that the original fine was a calculated amount based on the individual counts of documented fraud. Not some arbitrary punitive figure.
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@actuallyautistic @neurodivergence My fellow neurodivergent folks, tell me the ableist requirements you've seen in job descriptions. Let's give folks some insight into the stuff that contributes to systemic ableism in the workplace. I know there are way more examples than the few I've already listed.
@kevinrothrock Not keen on conspiracy theories but this whole event seems mighty fishy.
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What do you wish AI, machine learning, or LLMs could do? What's missing from the current picture? What do existing systems get wrong, or fail to do at all? I'm trying to put together a wish list, for a startup oriented towards explainability, responsibility, and a focus on centering human society and human values.
#AI
#ML
#LLMs
#ExplainableAI
#Bias
#Humanism
#Startup
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
#NaturalLanguage
#ResponsibleAI
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Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”
VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”
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Trump has less than a week to arrange a $454 million bond. There are 331.9 million US citizens. If each American spends only $1.37, then we can all buy a cheap chocolate bar to enjoy while we watch the State of New York seize Trump's properties.
#Bradford unveils their 2025 City of Culture social media blitz. I *love* the new #logo, reminds me of the 70s/80s which was actually a mastepiece of #design, capturing the b and the d, the word "wool", and maybe hinting at the sandstone mills and railway viaducts.
https://youtu.be/FwmwltsMQ1g
@davidallengreen Are we going back to this period?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/aug/01/campaigners-mod-court-afghanistan
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Not letting up, #Nvidia told the audience of #developers and tech executives it was releasing an even more powerful processor and accompanying software, on a platform called #Blackwell -- named after #DavidBlackwell, the first Black academic inducted into the #NationalAcademyOfScience.
#BlackwellGPUs were #AI "superchips" four times as fast as the previous generation when training #AIModels, Nvidia said.
AI giant Nvidia unveils higher performing 'superchips'
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240318-ai-giant-nvidia-unveils-higher-performing-superchip
Trailer for "The Book of Clarence". Very much under the radar but looks a hoot. LaKeith Stanfield leads a stellar cast in this comedy set in Jerusalem , around AD33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntNS-ANoMyM
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Imagine you have a dam. Fish want to get through the floodgates, but the gates are locked. You want to open the gates when a fish wants to pass through.
If you are a tech bro, you might say “we can use AI to solve this problem”
If you are the municipality of Utrecht, you instead say “what if we put a livestream of the canal on the internet and instructed viewers to push a button when they see one”
Just found this - a set of events for #Neurodiversity Celebration Week
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/events
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Putin and 'democracy'
Allowing elections where there is no prospect of defeat is far more effective for a dictator than suppressing elections.
It is basically saying: "look, elections will not help you".
@Norobiik Sainsbury's error related?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235
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I just found out about Operavision: livestream and on-demand opera, for free!
https://operavision.eu
@fgraver @RustyBertrand Can't see it on mobile apps. If you look at your profile / following, there's an option to see people that have moved their account. Just don't know where this is stored in your profile.
@fgraver @RustyBertrand I've seen in some profiles that the fedi somehow keeps a record if you've moved to a new account. I don't know if that's something manual but it's worth checking so your followers know you've moved. Seen it if I look at my followees list.
@Norobiik Really wierd. Whilst a lot of the equipment is standard across the world, each country/region has its own systems and software, including EPOS (or at least used to). And restaurant operations are something very different from corporate.
@Free_Press Seems illogical and smells like a false flag. Why would they attack civilians? They know the election is rigged so what's the motive here?
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
