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@f-m-d.bsky.social

lover of substrates, algaes, lichens, fungi, holobionts, and other tangled and half-hidden things

102 Followers 93 Following 43 Posts Joined Dec 2024
6 months ago
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"Sailor Moon overthrows the God-Emperor of Mankind and takes his throne" is exactly the shot in the arm 40k needs.

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7 months ago
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Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

“To suddenly start building data centres so much denser in terms of power use, chips cost 10 times as much, there is unproven demand, which eat all up available grid power & suitable real estate — all that is an extraordinary challenge and a gamble."

What could go wrong?
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

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7 months ago
Incredible facts about Barrow Island
There is no public access to Barrow Island as it is listed as a Class A Nature Reserve.

It is home to 24 species and subspecies found nowhere else on Earth.

Barrow Island is home to Boodie Cave, which is one of Australia's oldest archaeological sites and contains evidence of humans from 46,200 to 51,100 years ago.

US energy giant Chevron was permitted to build its $54 billion Greater Gorgon gas extraction project on the island.

From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell

au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...

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7 months ago

*people generally might be less skeptical, I should say

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7 months ago

Okay, but when I asked what your approach for that was you just said you’re hoping it won’t have the problems that other LLM models will. I might be less skeptical if you’d be willing to describe a methodology beyond just “we reckon this one won’t do that”

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7 months ago

So fundamentally what you’re saying is that you don’t have a good response to Ketan’s criticism above

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7 months ago

So your approach is that you’re hoping, against the evidence about all existing language models, that this system won’t hallucinate? And you’re planning to publish this solution to one of the major technical challenges of the field not as a groundbreaking paper but as a Dr Carl chatbot?

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7 months ago

What’s your approach for that? Because as far as I understand it LLMs aren’t really capable of distinguishing fact from fiction …

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7 months ago
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There has been a step forward in global climate accountability – the International Court of Justice confirms that states have legal obligations to prevent climate harm.

Despite Australian Government pushback, this international law protects our future from fuelling the climate crisis.

#auspol

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7 months ago
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A- Level French - Mitchell and Webb YouTube video by jbrlondon

Très bien!

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7 months ago

Herman Melville remains the English language’s best poster

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8 months ago

Started reading that story about Icarus and it’s helped my grindset mentality! No breaks, days off, or sleep. Been so busy that I haven’t been able to finish it. No spoilers please!

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8 months ago
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Exmoor fingerpost displayed in London's Natural History Museum The lichens growing on the post indicate the high air quality and lack of pollution on Exmoor.

Yeah, lichens! #Biodiversity

"Some of the lichens growing ndicate the high air quality on Exmoor, made possible through the lack of pollution & presence of these highly functioning woodland ecosystems"
@britishlichensociety.org.uk @aspenecology.com
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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8 months ago

Remember how in 2021 we were all told that NFTs were the future and even if we didn't like them they were inevitable and we should all get used to it because this technology has so many obvious advantages? Boy they sure showed us huh.

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9 months ago

Assume a conservative movement toward the South Pole over time. 1cm. 1mm. Whatever. It’s only a matter of time before we reach the moon. FYI, the rate of movement is much higher than you think it is

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9 months ago

This article is being written like it’s a big shock that “Large Reasoning Models” aren’t good at reasoning, but they’re literally just LLMs trained to talk to themselves to refine the answer before responding to a prompt. It’s the same crap architecture with a lazy bandaid slapped over its flaws

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Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.

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9 months ago

Thanks! Really interesting way to examine public sentiment on policy - seems like there might be a lot of things where people might be aligning themselves politically on the basis of an inaccurate understanding of current policy settings

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9 months ago

That’s pretty interesting . Do you have a source? Genuinely asking here - not trying to question the point.

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9 months ago

But that illusion has found an audience that doesn't merely want to be tricked, they have seen a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat and are now dedicating their lives to speculating on the complex ecology that must exist inside the hat to support the rabbits inside, the magician be damned.

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9 months ago

Exactly. The thing he’s claiming AI provides to software engineering is actually provided by libraries and APIs. I know that, and I’ve never developed software in my life

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Given these property or surplus-extraction relationships, productivity
crisis leading to demographic crisis was more or less to be
expected, sooner or later.50 The question, however, which must be
asked concerns the economic and social results of the demographic
catastrophe, in particular that of the later fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. Postan showed one logic: that the peasants apparently
used their economic position, their scarcity, to win their freedom.
As B. H. Slicher van Bath argues for western Europe in general,
"the lord of the manor was forced to offer good conditions or see all
his villeins vanish from the land".51 Yet, curiously, quite another
logic has sometimes been invoked to explain the intensification of
serfdom in eastern Europe: viz., that the crisis in seigneurial
revenues which followed upon the decline in population and the disappearance
of tenants led the lords to assert their control over the
peasants and bind them to their lands in order to protect their
incomes and their very existence.52 Obviously, both logics are
unassailable from different class viewpoints. It was the logic of the
peasant to try to use his apparently improved bargaining position to get his freedom. It was the logic of the landlord to protect his
position by reducing the peasants' freedom. The result simply cannot
be explained in terms of demographic/economic supply and
demand. It obviously came down to a question of power, indeed of
force, and in fact there was intense Europe-wide lord/peasant conflict
throughout the later fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth
centuries, almost everywhere over the same general issues: first, of
course, serfdom; second, whether lords or peasants were to gain
ultimate control over landed property, in particular the vast areas
left vacant after the demographic collapse.

Robert Brenner on the 'demand-supply' interpretations of the Black Death

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10 months ago

I’m a kiwi living overseas and my understanding has always been that it’s an issue but a manageable one. Sounds like it’s gotten worse and is maybe not so manageable any more

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10 months ago

The thing is, it’s not even incorrect! Any input is asking the question “what’s an approximation of the words statistically most likely to appear in response to this?” It’s impossible for LLMs to be consistently truthful at an architectural level. No idea how people are trusting them

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11 months ago

grimdark academia

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11 months ago

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

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a man wearing glasses and a bandana is driving a car and says am i wrong ? Alt: Walter from the big Lebowski says am i wrong ?

“Say what you will about the firefighting acumen of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, dude, at least the man learned to play the god damned fiddle.”

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11 months ago

Those who have won capitalism's game have done so by unnaturally positioning themselves at the headwaters of the natural generative stream created by human society, then damned it for themselves. Having thus stolen as much as they can, these fools believe their theft means they invented water.

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NEWS This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.

Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy

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