Joe @twitskeptic@qoto.org
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
If you're over 65 (like me,) don't get Medicare Advantage. Same bait and switch as pre-ACA health insurance policies - teaser low rates that are great as long as you never have a serious illness.
Unvetted, opaque predictive algorithms increasingly used to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients. Our AI future is looking rosier every minute. https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence/
The despicable libertarian VC Marc Andreessen, who usually posts on Twitter at least a dozen times per day, hasn't said a word since the Silicon Valley Bank was taken over by the FDIC.
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RT @MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Accidentally produced stone fragments made by #macaques resemble some of the earliest #hominin stone artifacts. New study by @MPI_EVA_Leipzig researchers @tomosproffitt, @RocksGeller, @LydieL23 & an intl. research team. More: https://bit.ly/422Ui4x & https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade8159
https://twitter.com/MPI_EVA_Leipzig/status/1634268130728968193
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Department of "Do Not Buy Ring Surveillance Devices" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979
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This entire thing -- the violation of health privacy, the statements of discrimination against a disabled employee... https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-laughs-twitter-haraldur-thorleifsson-layoff-1850196254
Interesting article on a possible theory for effective LLM prompt generation (h/t Andrej Karpathy) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post
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Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64815782
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Damn. The head of the "Fusion Industry Association" says "nucular."
Just found out that the great Wayne Shorter, one of my favorite jazz musicians died today. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/music/wayne-shorter-dead.html
ChatGPT API announced, complete with a temperature parameter to make it even less accurate. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis
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Oh boy, someone has figured how to turn Bing Chat into a social engineer that exfiltrates personal identifying information to a 3rd party website
Demo here: https://greshake.github.io/
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Earlier I posted about using ChatGPT's propensity to fabricate citations entirely as a short-term strategy for detecting journal submissions and classroom assignments that had been written by machine.
I've been playing with the system for the last couple of hours, and as best as I can tell, ChatGPT now does a much better job than it did when first released at only citing papers that actually exist.
They're not perfect—for example, DOIs can be wrong and some are fabricated—but most are not.
Just discovered that our malfunctioning electric furnace - which our repairman said had to be replaced for around $3-4K - can be repaired with a $35 part.
It was pretty easy to diagnose. So many scammers out there so be careful.
Unprofessional data wrangler and Mastodon’s official fact checker. Older and crankier than you are.
Joined Nov 2022
