@davoloid it is said that nearly half of what Tajikistan's gdp is worth comes from remittances. Really hard for families to make a living without... millions of families. BTW we are looking into this in the upcoming episode of #TheGlobalJigsaw
@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.
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
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.”
Trump has ON MORE DAY....
FRIDAY
That's the very last day he can ask for bankruptcy. It's the last business day of the week until Monday when seizure of all his properties begins.
Trump doesnt have a week.
Trump has ONE DAY.
#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
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
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
I just found out about Operavision: livestream and on-demand opera, for free!
https://operavision.eu
DHH is truly unhinged these days. I'll never be able to wrap my head around people who see diversity efforts as somehow worse than the naked authoritarianism creeping into every nook and cranny of government and capitalism in the 2020s. Sure, people can go overboard in accusing others of racial insensitivity or mansplaining or whatnot. But LOOK AROUND YOU, MAN. If you really think DEI is the thing that's wrong with the world in the year of our lord 2024, you're madly out of touch.
The Comics Grid: Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.
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.