reposting here because someone sent this to me and i realised how much i needed it actually
Super well done fediverse! Will post my next Greenland video this evening ...
Onwards to the next goal then ...
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114649617953987370
Since I first shared this link on Friday, the amount raised has shot up by more than € 6000, not taking credit for that but well done #fediverse
If we get to the €35000 target this week, I promise to post a couple of new #Greenland #science vids on my @tilvids channel. @icesheets_climate
Who else is in? 8 days to go.
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114641673922538397 - Apropos @peertube the french developer collective @Framasoft are currently trying to raise the (for #bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
Found my Jlahaj to show any trans people who would rather sew with a free pattern than buy a stuffie from IKEA https://freesewing.org/designs/hi/
#blahaj #trans #shark #sewing
“Being gay is like being left-handed—some people are, most people aren’t, and nobody really knows exactly why. It’s not right or wrong; it’s just one of the many natural ways to be. The world works best when everyone gets to live as they truly are. So if you ever feel out of place, remember: you're not broken, you're just beautifully different—and that’s something the world needs.”
Jodi Foster
🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!
Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?
Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement.
More details and video demos: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_1_0_rc/
#BonfireSocial #FediForum #FOSS #ActivityPub #DigitalAutonomy
I think the LLM problem mostly stems from an insufficiency in our own language when we describe "intelligence" or "knowledge". We generally think of intelligence as a singular concept that exists on a scale. Of course intelligence is more nuanced than that, and many folks have talked about how people have "different types of intelligence". But I think that there's even more to it than that.
To attempt to be more precise, I believe the information storage and retrieval process that LLMs undertake is accomplishing some sort of facet of cognition, maybe you could call it "linguistic sequence processing". But they do not have any other sort of intelligence.
I think the problem we are having with our societal reaction to LLMs is that we haven't encountered something that exists with only this capability, so we don't have a model for it and its limitations. We just expect it to act more and more like a human because that's the only thing that it is similar to.
Probably the best comparison I can think of is early chemistry and how it relates to alchemy. Certain things could be done that looked incredible and you could extrapolate given those results that you could do anything with this technology, and it would even make the concept of value obsolete because you could turn lead into gold.
Or photography. You can capture a perfectly realistic depiction of reality onto a piece of paper. That sounds like it would make art obsolete, it sounds like it might be a threat to reality if it can exist on paper as well as in real life. People might start only looking at photos instead of going out and experiencing real life.
But technology generally isn't that simple, and hopefully we will eventually have a more nuanced understanding of its limitations and stop trying to use it everywhere as if it was, or ever will be, an "AGI", and scale it down so it isn't so resource intensive. I'm convinced that there's no need for it to have as much training data as it does, if it's used more effectively as a small component of a system. I also really don't think it will significantly replace people's jobs, once people realize how limited it is (and that's already starting to happen as employers realize that firing people for AI doesn't work). Hopefully, it can instead be a tool that helps us interact with computers more effectively. But that will take a pretty big change in how we perceive this technology as a society.
Bringing a little more rainbow joy to my homepage to show my support and allyship for the LGBTQ+ community.
https://www.peppercarrot.com/
Was Radler*innen so in einer Stadt alles passieren kann...ein Film von #Extra3
#Fedibikes #fahrradbubble #fahrradalltag
Es ist nun raus: ab Mitte August werden wir von Bing keine Suchergebnisse mehr erhalten. Bing fällt also bei unserer Metasuche raus. Hier ein paar Gedanken dazu:
https://suma-ev.de/bald-kein-zugriff-mehr-auf-den-bing-index-was-bedeutet-das-fuer-metager/
Would you like to know how to do honeycomb darning? Well, I made a little video.
does anyone have any frameworks for measuring energy usage from a command invocation that they would consider reliable? my major goal is perf so distros/spack/guix/nix can avoid wasting resources on rust (and perf+disk usage i know how to measure), but i think there is an energy reduction number that would also come out of this
i really really want to give an estimate of energy usage reduction for rust builds to ngi but (1) i don't have a prototype (2) i haven't researched enough to get a lower bound (3) i don't actually know a good way to translate improved performance into a robust energy usage number
