szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Cosmos in front of my favorite mountain shrine. It's going to be another scorcher today. Stay cool and well hydrated everyone.
🌸 ⛩
昌信神社の前の野生のコスモス。今日も暑くなりそうだ。皆様、涼しく、十分に水分を補給してください。
#SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan

Hey look, a distraction!
#DailyDoggo #DogsOfMastodon

@briankrebs Maybe WaPo is too old to carry on this kind of work anymore. Maybe they should consider passing the torch to some younger, more intelligent, better edited organization… before they embarrass themselves too… oh, nm, I see it’s too late.

Someone recently suggested to me that AI systems bring the users' ability closer to the average. I was intrigued by this idea because it reflects my experience. I am, for example, terrible at any kind of visual art, but with something like Stable Diffusion I can produce things that are merely quite bad, whereas without it I can produce things that are absolutely terrible. Conversely, with GitHub Copilot I can write code with more bugs that's harder to read. Watching non-programmers use it and ChatGPT with Python, they can produce fairly mediocre code that mostly works.

I suppose it shouldn't surprise anyone that a machine that's trained to produce output from a statistical model built from a load of examples would tend towards the mean.

An unflattering interpretation of this would suggest that the people who are most excited by AI in any given field are the people with the least talent in that field.

While we're at it, is there any possible use of the word "talent" that isn't riddled with bias? Isn't it invariably a distraction from opportunity as the determining factor in achievement? I think it maybe needs to get in the bin alongside merit tbh.

As the token poor kid who got to go to uni I can assure you the idea that policies like affirmative action lower standards is extremely hilarious. You want to see low standards? Surround yourself with the privileged LOL

A friend who's an artist living in #Ukraine struggles with daily power outages. A UPS allows them to save their work, but they are looking for some #photoshop / Clip Studio Paint capable #hardware which could allow them to work for 4-8h a day on battery.

I was thinking about #lenovo P52 #notebook with some spare, hot swappable batteries. Dedicated GPU, 32 GB of RAM.

Do you have any better ideas? The budget is around $1000 for everything.

If shipped from abroad, there's ~30% customs tax.

#art

The speed at which I reversed my car when I saw these ladies modding their yard sign

So, I just heard from a friend that said they are not voting because they feel it is “pointless”.

#US friends, please don’t go down that path. Don’t lose heart.

Please #vote. It is what we have.

#USPol #USPolitics

Własny ogród to najlepsza rzecz jaką można mieć

Aww... The battery feels safe enough to open it's shell. Hi there little guy!

Trump: I will crush you like the bugs you are.

Journalists: Haha there goes Trump again.

Biden: I'm incredibly disappointed in your coverage:

Journalists: How dare you? Resign immediately, you ungrateful pathetic SOB.

Stop doing billion dollar fines to Google, start with trillion dollar or percentages of yearly transaction values.

That will get them to sit the fuck down.