Pun of the day: My friends and I argued about which superpower would make you feel best if you acquired it. Personally, I think getting the ability to fly would be so uplifting!

From a friend (I literally LOL'd):

Pun of the day: I met a guy who was a magician but he lost his magic. Now he's just Ian

I understand the impulse to make some money off of it since it's going to be in there anyways. But I believe that ultimately, the wisest choice is to keep as much ACM content as possible out of the hands of these companies and their models. (3/3)

As such, LLMs are not effective stewards of the information provided by ACM papers, books, and other materials.

Knowing that companies that develop these models do not have a clear understanding of consent and the fact that no means no, I am concerned that ACM content will still make it into the models. In particular, government-sponsored research will definitely make it into their corpus. (2/3)

My response:
I think that including your content in LLMs is a very bad idea, and I am against it. LLMs are most accurately described as "sparkling autocorrect", using mathematics to approximate a statistically likely best response to a user's question. Unlike other numerical models, there are no bounds, no guarantees on the accuracy of the output, because it's not a numerical output, it's words with meanings that can't be quantified. (1/3)

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116935294823990847

Please do this, folks!

In case anyone here is a NERSC user who has been living under a rock, we're having a major power outage to upgrade our power systems, starting on Wednesday, July 22. Perlmutter will be offline through August 3, while the rest of NERSC's resources will be unavailable from July 22-24.

Hopefully my beautiful, hand-crafted emails have reached you and you have read them and absorbed all the love that I imbued them with. If not, here's the rest of the deets: https://www.nersc.gov/users/user-news/major-power-upgrade-to-disrupt-services-july-20-august-7

Pun of the day: My friends were worried about being in a long-distance relationship. But so far, so good

Y'all, I'm hiring! I'm looking for good people who love computers and science and want to work at that interface to support users of NERSC computing resources. Please share with your networks, and let me know if you have any questions about the position! https://phxc1b.rfer.us/LBL.riGif
#getFediHired

Pun of the day: Computer security tip: Don't use "beef stew" as your password -- it's not stroganoff!

Pun of the day: I know this guy who doesn't deal with banks or credit cards or anything, and stores all his money in the freezer. He only deals in cold, hard cash

Pun of the day: Yesterday I saw this movie about beavers, and it was the best dam movie I've ever seen!

Pun of the day: I wanted a natural way to keep my lawn short, so I got a cow -- a lawn mooer, if you will

Pun of the day: My lawn is chicken-proof -- it is impeccable!

Pi day is an irrational holiday that was invented by Big US Date Format.

Pun of the day (follow-up to the last one, from a colleague): I named my dog "Five Miles" so that I can tell everybody that I run Five Miles every day.

Pun of the day: There are some topics that are easy to make puns about, but the topic of vacuum cleaners isn't one of them. All the puns I can come up with end up sucking!

Pun of the day: I've been known to blab about my most embarrassing mistakes, but the time that I mistook superglue for lip gloss, my lips were sealed

Pun of the day: Two toilets were talking to each other. The first one said, "You must not be feeling too well. You look flushed!"