Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@julian @msbernst I think in practice, the small increase in upfront nerves caused by the push to post was short-lived. Because commit offered a warrant/justification for posting, people felt more comfortable in the act of posting and had the expectation of being supported/responded to by the rest of the group.

This paper argues that online spaces become ghost towns because it's too easy to lurk without contributing, and that asking people to regularly re-commit—or the incoming messages start getting muted—reverses the trend. arxiv.org/abs/2410.23267

It works! #cscw2024 paper by @lindsay

@spoltier This work derives in part from my work with Nolan McCarty, you might want to read his books on inequality & political polarisation -- one is a leading academic text (with two coauthors) the other is an effort at popular writing. A graph is here https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2016/06/robots-are-owned-owners-are-taxed.html The other part is my work on antitrust with Helena Malikova. For that I'd recommend reading Tim Wu's book "the curse of bigness," particularly on the history of antitrust.

DTrace expertise with Adam Leventhal! 🛠️
Great to see so many Rustaceans interested in observability tools and techniques. 🦀
Thanks to the speaker! 🫶

#RustLab2024 #TechConference @ahl

@foolishowl there is also significantly less agency sometimes in where you can exchange care information because it IS more tangible, local -- your local "other parents in the school" are on facebook? You can't just go make a community replacement for that out of other strangers. Women are more likely to be facilitating those tangible needs (as in https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130/holding-it-together-by-jessica-calarco/ ) and that has compounding, cumulative effects in NEEDING the most popular choices

Other demographics as measured at least for the top used places are actually shockingly more equivalently distributed (shocking to me personally anyway) which is why I think the gender split is worth calling out as a big differentiator, possible exception being some pockets of education*

*https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/

Model merging is tricky when model weights aren’t aligned

Introducing KnOTS 🪢: a gradient-free framework to merge LoRA models.

KnOTS is plug-and-play,

boosting SoTA merging methods by up to 4.3%🚀

📜: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19735

💻: https://github.com/gstoica27/KnOTS
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#NLP #NLProc #LLMs #ML #CV #machinelearning #DataScience #data

Henry Farrell: “Patrick O'Brian is a Great Conservative Writer”

“His concern is the problem of right authority”

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/patrick-obrian-is-a-great-conservative

@TomF not sure i agree with "no fun allowed on mastodon" to be honest

I mostly avoid shitposting on here. I leave that to X and Bsky. Because you are my honorable friends, not my unwilling audience.

Signal has no ads, no trackers, no surveillance.

It is time to install it.

It is a nonprofit

It is time to donate.

https://signal.org/donate/

Donating to Signal helps pay for the servers, bandwidth, and ongoing development to ensure that Signal remains available to the millions of people around the world who count on it to protect their privacy.

"Hey, lady ... did you know the bird feeder is empty? Yeah, somebody climbed the sumac and spilled all the seeds on the ground. Got any more in there? The BIRDS are gonna go hungry."

I am looking for a guy who is a Haskell developper living in Switzerland with an impresing CV working in tech sartups.

#Fedivers help me !

Finally, the chatbots-as-search paradigm encourages us to just accept answers as given, especially when they are stated in terms that are both friendly and authoritative.

But now more than ever we all need to level-up our information access practices and hold high expectations regarding provenance --- i.e. citing of sources.

The chatbot interface invites you to just sit back and take the appealing-looking AI slop as if it were "information". Don't be that guy.

/fin

Here's an idea for a talk by me at #fosdem Interesting?

Title

"Tightening every bolt"

Abstract

Things to do in order to sleep well while having your C code in twenty billion installations. A talk about what the curl project does to minimize security risks: Security, Safety, Reproducibility, vulnerability handling and the processes and tooling around it.

This November, Elecia( @logicalelegance ) is mounting an origami art show: Origami Octopus Garden in the Library at the Aptos Public Library(near Santa Cruz, California).

Whether you're an origami enthusiast or just curious, come and explore Elecia's stunning paper creations.
Don't miss the chance to see papers fold and unfold in locked step with creativity.

#origami #arts #paper #california #library #engineering #math #aptos