Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Symposium — Assembling Intelligence: Alternative Perspectives on AI through Art and Design / HEAD

→ https://www.creativeapplications.net/events/symposium-assembling-intelligence-alternative-perspectives-on-ai-through-art-and-design/

24–25 April 2024 / onsite + online 🎟→ https://assembling-intelligence.ch/

Do you think an average #Mastodon user with a couple hundred followers could post a silly #poll to the #Fediverse, and get a million or more votes in 7 days?

Please boost to widen the sample. ;-)

#polls

Do you know what day it is today?

That's right! April Cools'!

We're in the process of publishing some projects; follow along here: https://www.aprilcools.club/

(I will also toot about them here)

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

Account is named "heavy light". Hundreds of videos, all of them are about a minute long, always totally silent on the audio, all of them look sort of like this but also they all look a little different from each other. Look at this other one. This one is absolutely beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOk4yLq1JsU

Kerry Howley out there on the front lines, exploring the current outer limits of Californized Celebrity-Academic Self-Help Podcast Psychopaths. It’s a relief that she’s such a good writer because honestly these people are just batshit weirdos who insist on talking about themselves like space aliens. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html

So uh whats the profit story for astral.sh. I am not gonna be using any of that shit until I understand what the worst case is for capturing basic python infra. They say "we'll keep making FOSS but sell services on it" but what kind of services can you sell on a linter and package manager that would attract a couple million in VC?

Hello fediverse, lil cry for help: I’m looking to speak to someone with vitelliform macular dystrophy caused vision loss, so I can ask about their experience with the onset of symptoms. I was diagnosed ~3 years ago and until recently hadn’t experienced symptoms, I believe I now am but would love to chat to others about their experiences. Compulsory masto disclaimer: I’m not looking for advice other than the specific ask above, thank you. Boosts much appreciated 💖

@b0rk Am I in “detached HEAD” state, if I am in a rebase?

I have just discovered that those odd waste/recycling bins that are all over the oldest bits of Bergen, Norway, link to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit and then WHOOSH... it's off to the recycling centre. All underground. No bin lorries (garbage trucks), fewer road vehicles, less noise... amazing. @davidho says that my (considerable) excitement about this is entirely unreasonable. I disagree.
https://www.envacgroup.com/how-it-works/the-envac-system/

#climate #waste #Norway

In this new piece for the Institute of Art and Ideas, I examine the messy state of model evaluation in AI research and argue that we need to adopt best practices from cognitive science & supplement behavioral tests with interventions.

Read here: https://iai.tv/articles/the-turing-tests-of-today-are-mistaken-auid-2790?_auid=2020

@iris “unpunished” code is perhaps the truest freudian slip 😁

…people do not realize the irony of using what is essentially a scraper and nonconsensual search tool to determine which of their contacts interact with threads?

um.

Another interesting paper on #compositionality and #transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11834 #nlproc

I have a number of posts on my blog about the topic: http://dstrohmaier.com/compositionality-word-meaning/ http://dstrohmaier.com/compositionality-a-paper/ http://dstrohmaier.com/transformer-speculations/

One of the most common pieces of “advice” I hear from people is to use muting and blocking. I had hundreds (maybe thousands!) of people muted or blocked on Twitter, but it never really solved my problems.

Actually publicly talking about the kinds of behaviours that I’m trying to avoid on here had made a much bigger difference than muting or blocking people ever did, though I do still use those tools.

(7/11)

⭐ There is no EU cookie banner law https://www.bitecode.dev/p/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law

"You absolutely don't have to suffer through this, it is a decision made by the companies to inflict it on you."

📌 https://rknight.me/links/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law/

especially curious to hear from people who have used both hg and git and _prefer git_ (because they're both more "modern" systems) — what about git do you like better than mercurial?

(again, not looking for reasons you prefer hg to git, I feel like I've heard a lot of that already)

I've just discovered 'Reader View' in Firefox and I think I'm in love.