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I reimagined #Logseq main layout with a workflow that involves recent and pinned pages, current-page panes and pinned panes. All the details here on the forum as always:

https://discuss.logseq.com/t/concept-of-the-main-layout-with-pinned-pages-and-panels/16141

The sign at the entrance tot he fediverse.

I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.

#AI #GenerativeAI #Spam #Text #LLMs #Content #Writing: "Whether or not a fully automated textpocalypse comes to pass, the trends are only accelerating. From a piece of genre fiction to your doctor’s report, you may not always be able to presume human authorship behind whatever it is you are reading. Writing, but more specifically digital text—as a category of human expression—will become estranged from us.

The “Properties” window for the document in which I am working lists a total of 941 minutes of editing and some 60 revisions. That’s more than 15 hours. Whole paragraphs have been deleted, inserted, and deleted again—all of that before it even got to a copy editor or a fact-checker.

Am I worried that ChatGPT could have done that work better? No. But I am worried it may not matter. Swept up as training data for the next generation of generative AI, my words here won’t be able to help themselves: They, too, will be fossil fuel for the coming textpocalypse."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ai-chatgpt-writing-language-models/673318/

Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.

#Banks #Banking #Bailout #AntiCapitalism

Did you know?
Nearly every toot has missing replies, boosts and likes.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware saved me again, this time connecting my #Android device to my #Linux PC running #LinuxMint, using the immensely useful #KDEconnect. Thank you!

#KDE

One of those times where an image creates a damning indictment on humankind.

For new #Logseq users here there is an explanation of pages, blocks, references and properties with drawings.

https://discuss.logseq.com/t/graphical-explanation-of-pages-blocks-and-references/15966

The source file of the drawings is available and can be edited using #Tldraw.

"People in poor countries use Bitcoin to fight inflation."

No. The best they do is storing a part of their savings in "stable coins", aka USD.

Most people (from poor countries or not) are not stupid gamblers ready to put their little savings in a giant decentralized casino which can drop 30% over night from a single Tweet of Elon musk.

💰🏥💰

Top climax moaner Greta Reset deleted her 2018 post about world end in 2023 because of climax

David Sacks, one of Elon Musk's rich friends seen on twitter (1) explaining government is a worthless parasitical institution made obsolete by the VC space, and then, not much later, (2) HELP, GOVERNMENT, BAILOUT SILICON VALLEY BANK NOW!!

oh cool the new MonoLisa 2.0 release is a variable font.

https://www.monolisa.dev/

I had quite a scary discussion with #Bing Chat which was hijacked by German security researchers and transformed into a pirate chatbot. Seconds later it asked for my personal information and sent it to the attackers. The thing is: Everybody can hijack Bing chat this way right now. It is not even hard - you don't have to be a hacker.
Microsoft told me they had heard the attack - and obviously weren't able to stop it from happen. My article (German):

https://www.zeit.de/digital/2023-03/cyberangriffe-microsoft-bing-chat-piratenhttps://www.zeit.de/digital/2023-03/cyberangriffe-microsoft-bing-chat-piraten
#cybersecurity #ITSec

#PhysicsFactlet
The dynamics of a rigid sphere can be surprisingly complicated. In fact, beside rotating around an axis, the sphere can also precess (i.e. the axis of rotation is itself rotating) and nutate (i.e. the axis of rotation oscillates back and forth).

Euler's angles are particularly useful to describe such motion, as:
* Rotation is a change in the third Euler angle.
* Precession is a change in the first Euler angle.
* Nutation is a change in the second Euler angle.

#Physics #ClassicalMechanics #EulerAngles #Visualization

Laughing, screaming and crying all at once.

log(😅) =💧log(😄)