"Musk was wrong, in other words. Instead of inspiring World War III, the sea drone attack helped reduce violence, protected commerce, boosted Ukrainian farmers, and maybe even ensured that some people outside of Ukraine didn’t go hungry. If not for Musk’s hubris, those effects might have been felt earlier.
...And maybe the #war, which will be over when #Ukraine takes back its own territory, and ends the torment of its own citizens on that territory, would be closer to its end."
~@anneapplebaum
“Can Large Language Models Reason?”
See Betteridge’s law
"On a dataset of programming challenges, GPT-4 solved 10 out of 10 problems that had been published before 2021 (GPT-4’s pre-training cutoff date) and zero out of 10 problems that had been published after 2021." https://aiguide.substack.com/p/can-large-language-models-reason
#Ukraine isn't just defending itself. It's defending everyone else.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-intelligence-shows-russias-targeting-of-a-cargo-ship
This morning we noticed the cat's water bowl on the back deck was full of dirt. This usually means that a raccoon has been by.
We have cams on the front and back door. Checked the footage. At 11.40 pm Stanley the neighborhood cat was asleep on our front porch. Suddenly he woke, sat up on high alert and began peering at something. Then he got up and left.
He walked up onto the back deck a few moments later and took up a position by the back door. Within a minute a big raccoon, easily three times Stanley's size, came up the steps. Found Stanley's water bowl, washed his li'l raccoon hands in it as they always do. Then he started accross the deck toward the back door. Stanley rose up and hissed. Raccoon backed away, went back down the steps.
Stanley waited a minute, then walked back up the driveway and round to the front porch and went back to sleep on the chair we leave out for him.
Stanley's a remarkable cat in many ways. He's not even ours, we just accommodate him because, like everyone on our block, we think the world of him.
In the middle of a download, it's going at a leisurely 40MB/s, and I just flashed on the fact that the first hard drive I ever owned, a 5.25" Seagate 20MB in a 4.77MHz IBM PC clone, would have completely filled up in 1/2 sec*. It's right up there with the fact that you can get a cheap storage device smaller than your little fingernail that holds 50,000 times as much.
(*If of course, it had been capable of writing that quickly, which of course it wouldn't.)
The Black Sea cannot be left to Russian control - Georgian president
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3752212-the-black-sea-cannot-be-left-to-russian-control-georgian-president.html #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia #UkraineWarNews
I find it's pretty reliable to judge people inversely by the calibre of their detractors. For example, take a close look at anyone who makes a point of tearing down Megan Rapinoe: they invariably turn out to be Jan 6 and/or police abuse apologists, that sort of thing. I don't know a thing about women's soccer but by that measure, Ms. Rapinoe's surely a damn goddess.
CW: Sexual harassment in STEM
Re-posting this 🐤 thread from 2018 which, sadly, is still relevant:
#WomenInSTEM who talk about #harassment and sexual misconduct get a lot of antagonistic & unhelpful replies.
@shrewshrew and I (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. #9ReplyGuys
THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵
#1: THE LIFE COACH
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧