[Personal update] I'm looking for a full-time job 👀. Boosts are welcome!
In the past years, I've contributed as a senior frontend (+dataviz) developer to huggingface.co, hyperparam.app, source.coop and cartes.app, among others, using React, D3, Node, Typescript, Python, Parquet, Svelte.
More info + contact at https://rednegra.net.
🙏 thanks for sharing, and for any recommendation.
I have clarified any and all confusions you may have had about ancient Chinese political thought in one convenient chart.
You know this, I know this, it's still nice to have a comic about it.
Atención‼️
Las organizadoras de la iniciativa europea para Exigir la suspensión total del Acuerdo de Asociación UE-Israel han decidido cerrar el plazo para recogerlas el 15 de Julio. Tal y como se cierre la petición entrara en agenda para ser atendida por la comisión europea.
Hasta ahora Se han alcanzado 1.234.00 firmas pero se necesitan 1.500.000 para para tener en cuenta las declaraciones invalidadas por los Estados miembros en el proceso de verificación.
Vamos! ✌🏼
Do you remember Boaty McBoatface?
So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names
We believe success in the tech industry can go beyond valuations and exits.
Today, we're announcing that thoughtbot has transitioned to a perpetual purpose trust, ensuring our company will remain independent and guided by its purpose for generations to come.
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/why-we-re-choosing-stewardship-over-an-exit
I see he is as humble as ever.
I want Enron-level congressional hearings when the AI industry collapses.
I want everyone to know the names of the guys who stole the future from millions of people.
Hi, I did my PhD on cancer drug development, and with whatever authority that gives me on the subject:
No, Chad Jeepity is not going to cure cancer
That's just bullshit that people say to justify the obvious harms that the current generative AI moment is guilty of
There's a lot you can do to fight the harmful impacts of large-scale generative AI (this is why we compiled The Resist List* after all).
Maybe refusal isn't what you're going to do. Okay. Find your piece of the work, and go do that.
*airesistlist.org
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Cuando se habla del anonimato como una de las causas del acoso online, siempre pienso en que Alvise Pérez y Vito Quiles firman con su nombre y apellido.
Based on a true story.
“Hey” (said with a Californian vocal fry)
“Sup?”
“So…Imagine everything you love went away. Imagine fire engulging everything and everyone you love. Burning everything to a crisp. The world is an ash desert. Death as far as the eyes can see.”
“Horrible.”
“Guess what?”
“What?”
“We got the technology to make that happen.”
“Take my money.”
“We need more money.”
“Take my savings.”
I just had "the talk" with my 9yo. He came to me asking "Dad, why does AI use so much water just for generating one answer?"
So I explained to him how LLM works, how GenAI came out of that and why AI is a marketing term and absolutely wrong in that context.
Then I loaded GPT4All on my laptop and asked the thing what the result of 9+7 is. It took my poor laptop cpu 12 seconds to come up with an answer and another 12 seconds to generate the sentence with the answer. I showed him how fast kcalc (using the CPUs ALU functions) comes up with the answer for that specific question.
And then I asked a followup question, which almost take 2 minutes to compute. I showed him how the previous question and its answer became part of the prompt which made the calculation longer more complicated just to emulate a dialoge.
He noticed that my laptops CPU fan stepped up and started to roar to get rid of the core heat. Then I explained to him how AI datacenters solve all this ineffitiency by running millions of servers in parallel and how this generates so much heat that it "uses" cooling water by just boiling it until it vapourizes.
I then explained the current business model and how the companies currently burn through their cash to be the last one standing on the market when everyone else dropped out or became bankrupt. What we user pay for using this and what we actually would have to (and in the future probably will) pay for this service.
Needless to say, my kid is not a big fan now.
@CynAq @robinadams @europlus @davidgerard
my hate of GenAI is very nuanced. there's a lot of reasons i hate LLMs, not just one. i've also taken into consideration all the reasons people like them, i understand them, and they have been taken into account. still hate AI tho because as mentioned, my opinion is nuanced and i have very many reasons to have come to my conclusion.
@SK53 @grischard I was curious so I wrote a small Python script, here are the most frequent pairs in the #OpenStreetMap database! ☺️
1) "guest_house=guest_house" : 4218
2) "entrance=entrance" : 2213
3) "government=government" : 2206
4) "memorial=memorial" : 2048
5) "fitness_station=fitness_station" : 1802
6) "swimming_pool=swimming_pool" : 1078
7) "marker=marker" : 753
8) "wall=wall" : 642
9) "construction=construction" : 585
10) "substation=substation" : 523
The Thomas House, Dublin
Just discovered https://finaeosmapas.ghandalf.org/, a children's book about collaborative mapping with #OpenStreetMap ♥️ (site in Galician, language selector on top right, actual book in 11 languages)
Sitting down to watch #GhostInTheMachine at the Queens Film Theatre
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