Introducing my competitor to LLMs: SKM
The Small Keysmash Model will generate bespoke keysmash with almost no overhead!
It's a neural network I trained on me keysmashing once.
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You guys! It's here! It's finally here! Party like it's Y2K38! 🎉
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The fact that I was in BitCoin in like 2009 (it was before I started dating my wife, and that was May 2010, which leave a very thin window), and did AI stuff even before that, makes brinigng me into Crypto and AI chats incredibly weird.
I've been here since the beginning, and seen every grift and been calling it a grift and a con for longer than many people have been in the space.
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My RPG group needed to evoke a dive bar correctly, so I coined the phrase "greasy beer"
This is literally the worst concept for a dive bar
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Police are asking for your help in finding a missing Waterloo person - Pamela, 37 - #Waterloo #Ontario #missingperson #missingpeoplecanada #missingincanada
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Thinking about this again web.archive.org/web/2013092322…
That was 4 days after the domain was registered, and the day the phone was released....
Is Touch ID hacked yet?
An archive of the website istouchidhackedyet.com, where indeed it has beenweb.archive.org
@⛅ w chance of bears I use fingerprint because I want to make sure I don't pocket dial.
But yeah - seriously - it's... upsetting to me
So much just weird security choices
It's longrunning character Hat Dan! The Dan with a Hat
The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
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It seems incredibly impossible to email a tailor and be like "can you tailor me a pair of baggy cargo pants?"
It just...
I'm sure they'd take the commission, but it just seems wrong
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This blog post seemed very normal until I hit this bit
GITHUB ACCIDENTALLY POSTED THEIR PRIVATE KEYS TO GITHUB
THERE IS LITERALLY NO ONE ON EARTH ABLE TO USE THIS PROGRAM SAFELY
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We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.Mike Hanley (GitHub)
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As AI art gets better and better at photorealistic art, it gets worse at *art* and better at *deception*. But of course, as it gets worse, it gets worse at *art* and better at *making garbage*.
There is an obvious solution to this dilemma.
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@mike No I agree
I was thinking about this image I saw of someone next to a TV with a person in the TV coming out to hug them.
If an AI made it, it would look bad and dumb
If a human made it, it means something weird and personal
Kind of like how sometimes who the artist is matters. The context of a work’s creation changes its meaning. But, a human still made potentially thousands of creative choices in the creation of an AI generated image, in much the same way a photographer or director does. An AI didn’t decide that out of it’s quasi-infinite potential outputs, a certain one should be circulated on social media with a certain presentation.
…yet
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I love the idea of Joke Theft and shit on social media.
Someone makes a joke, and then someone else riffs on it. Or tells a similar joke. And people get super up in arms about the joke being "stolen".
Copyright and Clout just rotting their brain until they ignore the idea of culture
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@⛅ w chance of bears Yeah
And like, maybe someone sees a joke, and would prefer a slightly better one and riffs.
you don't need to cite your Joke Sources
MLA Style Joke Citations
If you have an SSH server and worry about disclosing your private key: OpenSSH has a server key rotation feature. Transparently change your server keys without requiring your users re-verify host keys.
It's documented in SSH Mastery, by the way. mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ssh
Not that this has anything to do with github, of course. Pure coincidence.
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I just wanna be an embedded dev so I can port Android Open Source to surplus Google Glass and mount it inside a pair of ski goggles
I am a simple man
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yeah, that's a nonstarter on like every level.
I would really love digital signatures to be on more fragments of content, like I feel like the possibility of digital signatures is severely underused. But the truth value isn't something we can ever fix technically.
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@серафими многоꙮчитїи I dunno - I don't own enough technology that I trust to own a key longterm
I don't have a device I feel like my key wont be exfiltrated from, and I am terrible at keeping reliable hardware tokens.
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Expanding on my own thoughts a bit here, there used to be limited epistemological value to even search engines that returned disinfo and misinfo. In particular, they generally would still deliver reliable statements of the form "x claims to believe y," which has some value even if y is false.
LL.s give up even that limited epistemology by disconnecting factual claims from their sources.
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If I ask a search engine how old the earth is, and I get a link to Answers in Genesis saying "6,000 years," then I've learned a true and correct fact: namely, that AiG claims to believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old.
That's in essence the promise that search engines make when you ask factual questions, that they will deliver you relevant evidence to support "x claims to believe y." Thus, I always learn something from searching even if it's of limited utility.
If I ask an LLM how old the Earth is and get back 6,000 years, I've learned jack shit. In that hypothetical, it just spat back nonsense without providing me any information at all. That also means that I don't learn anything when an LLM is correct, either — there's no distinction I can use to separate those two cases, making LLMs useless to any sort of epistemology.
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because it's making statements in a vacuum and detached from any sources it's also a classic epistemic paradox.
Like Socrates's Meno, unless you know the answer to a question already (or perhaps you are a convinced Bayesian and firmly trust your credences), you cannot recognize a correct answer with 100% certainty based on what stochastic model spits out
Introducing my new organic, all-natural intelligence search engine: Mark.
It's just this guy Mark. He'll do his best to answer your question, and he'll make up a reasonable-sounding answer real quick if he doesn't have one.
How will we scale? We'll hire more guys named Mark as demand ramps up.
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Don't forget the answers: A Telefact retrospective - The Pitt News
Someone at Pitt once wanted to know how many Barack Obamas could fit inside the sun. Jake Futerfas gave them the answer.newsdesk (The Pitt News)
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I am slowly going mad
I am trying to report to Simplii Financial that they don't have SSL on simplii.com and they just keep telling me that they have SSL on www.simplii.com
This is one of those "type it into SSL labs and see what pops out situations", incredibly boring, and it just breaks my HSTS and it's annoying and bad.
Their support team needs a screenshot of my browser not connecting , and a version number of a browser and the model number of my computer, and it needs to be running Windows or Mac in order to report this. But they did finally send me to BugCrowd.
BugCrowd tells me that it's a false positive, and that this means SSL is working fine ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.ht…
I am definitely moving my money, but also - is BugCrowd usually this dumb?! Is there anywhere where you can report a (admittedly incredibly minor) security issue to a Canadian bank where someone who knows what SSL is will read it?
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This is their proof that the bareword domain has SSL on it. Whicjh uh, I am glad BugCrowd hires the best.
The theme of this week has been
"damn we made a mistake 2 years ago, I guess we can't ever fix it"
and then me stubbornly deciding to force people to fix it
fun fact: the security team can't get a ticket in the sprint. but they can get a high priority issue to override sprint priorities as part of an incident postmortem.
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@silverwizard Microsoft went a step further and made sure of it: dair-community.social/@emilymb…
MSFT lays off its responsible AI teamThe thing that strikes me most about this story from @zoeschiffer and @caseynewton is the way in which the MSFT execs describe the urgency to move "AI models into the hands of customers"
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Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is goneZoë Schiffer (Platformer)
@Hypolite Petovan I was mostly thinking of people telling me to me empathetic to laid off Meta employees
But yeah - Microsoft and Google employees also don't seem very ethical.
And at least Microsoft seems to be doing it because they outsource all their AI (hopefully they are thinking this) and because they have decided it's layoff season. But at least they aren't Google who fired their best AI ethics person because she was like "Maybe we should not burn the environment for bad AI?"
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I was woken up today by a phone call letting me know that due purely to budgeting changes I’ve been let go from my full-time contracting position I just started in January after being laid off in September.
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If you aren't, I'm really curious what you're doing that you think makes the energy expenditure worthwhile.
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The climate cost of the AI revolution
On the energy cost of Large Language Models, what their widespread adoption could mean for global CO₂ emissions, and what could be done about it.Wim Vanderbauwhede
While I'm not going to argue that AI is great for the environment, the wastefulness of cryptocurrency is next level.
Training Stable Diffusion v2.1 created 15,000 kg of CO2 equivalent, which is the same as roughly 34 Bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin chews through 3.4 million Stable Diffusion trainings in a year.
I run SD at home on my gaming PC and it uses the same electricity as gaming. So after paying that up front cost, it's about as bad as PC gaming.
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@urusan Bitcoin did at least promise (but so far failed) to decentralize finance. I haven't seen a decent use case for AI art that justified its energy costs.
And yeah, I'm holding PC gaming and other forms of digital art to the same standard. Games should have a tiny fraction of their system requirements. Same goes for 3D animation.
@urusan Then try "neural radiance fields"!
Here's the link: matthewtancik.com/nerf
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NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields
A method for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene function using a sparse set of input views.www.matthewtancik.com
@alcinnz @urusan Seems more useful than most other image generation stuff I've seen, but to be honest I think we're gonna have to scale our expectations back of what art should look like if we want to solve the climate crisis.
Which, when put into perspective, is not a huge sacrifice compared to other changes we should be making.
@cnx The framing on HN is pretty silly, but the link that it eventually gets down to (petals.ml/) is really interesting.
It's essentially a Folding @ Home or Bittorent style project for running and (even more notably) training AI.
The project seems to be specific to a specific family of LLMs (BLOOM), but it's a very interesting concept for decentralizing training in particular, without relying on powerful hardware owned by centralized parties.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •@silverwizard The answer to both of these questions is unfortunately No. the way LEGO is sold as bulk falls into these three loose categories but all come from personal ads (Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor, Etsy, eBay, etc...):
And that's about it. There's money to be made sorting parts and selling them individually (especially minifigures), so that's what professional sellers do. Bulk selling is mostly done by particulars, I reckon.
Some professional sellers have sometimes thousands of a single element (specific part + color combination) for sale in their shop so I assume there's a way to obtain bulk parts from LEGO one way or another, but this isn't what you need.
Lastly, LEGO still produces basic sets with a bunch of parts in multiple colors (that I have a hard time reselling because they're either too common or specific to these sets, but that's another issue) and several mini-instructions that are perfect for tinkerers, much less so for narrators because of the general lack of details.
See lego.com/en-ca/themes/classic
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •@Hypolite Petovan that makes sense - $10/pound for sortedish lego seems good
There's a 30 pound bin locally for $250, and making that Canadian probably makes it worth it, despite the fact that it's not great
But good to know!
Thanks for the info!
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in reply to silverwizard • • •@silverwizard That's because we do radically different things with them. I just can't do unstructured LEGO play, so matching the contents against a finite set catalog, comparing inventories, buying the missing parts, logging the rest in my collection for sale, and selling sets and parts is my jam.
And in the end, processing bins into nothingness (almost) is terribly satisfying.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •Hi @silverwizard and @Hypolite Petovan
if you want to please your son, it doesn't have to say "Lego" on it. Here in Europe, many no longer accept the price policy and quality of Lego. There are more and more suitable alternatives, some of which are of better quality.
Here you see 1kg clamping blocks:
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@Hypolite Petovan what do you say to this offer:
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in reply to Andreas vom Zwenkauer See • •@Andreas vom Zwenkauer See @Hypolite Petovan I do *not* speak German, no.
But I also am looking for stuff I can buy used, since I attempt to not buy new plastic
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in reply to silverwizard • • •And the absolute top:
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22.000 Parts
70cm x 70cm x 70cm
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in reply to Andreas vom Zwenkauer See • • •@Andreas vom Zwenkauer See I have a hard time taking these sets with a very low price per part seriously, in part because they're standing on the shoulders of the elephant in the room. For example, I sold today a couple of LEGO sets that were released in 1993, so 30 years ago, and not only the parts I found for these sets in the bin I sorted were in great condition (albeit a little dirty), I was able to replace most missing parts seamlessly with much newer parts. These for me are proofs of an ongoing quality commitment dating back at least 30 years that none of the newer LEGO-compatible brick ventures, however well-intentioned, can ever claim to match.
One of the reasons the LEGO second-hand market has always been very strong is the normalization LEGO introduced in the 70s (!). As a result, LEGO parts always have been a known quantity, and you can build a business based on trading genuine LEGO parts because of this ongoing trust in the product itself. Is LEGO overcharging for new sets? With such an incredible engineering legacy for what was considered like mere children toys until very recently, they damn well can, and I'm absolutely not ready to quit this field because of outlandish price-per-part claims.
Let's talk about the BlueBrixx second-hand market in 30 years, shall we? 😄
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • • •Yes !
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