Joe Fernander

Doing the work. Thank you, Senator!

llm_classify() from the mall package can fix that in a jiffy.

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*images, not text. Need more coffee.

Couldn’t agree more on AI text and videos being “aesthetically repulsive.”

Health Wanted from Rollins School of Public Health is 🤯

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Shut the front door 😯

But what about the 84 tabs of Workbench that I seem to always have open?

Hope to get to meet you in person! It’s going to be a great conference!

I ❤️ paying taxes. Taxes maintain our nation’s infrastructure, contribute to educating the next generation, advancing our health and innovation, and pay for the military to keep us safe. I think more folks need to start celebrating the taxes we pay and the benefits we all receive.

Jamovi allows for pivoting wider/longer and uses R under the hood.

It’s so easy to use. I ❤️ the Quarto integration.

*steak - I’m vegetarian, so I’m excused from knowing how to spell.

Before the microwave, there was no market for microwaveable foods. Which, for the most part, we know to be trash foods. Sounds about right for LLMs, too. I’m thinking Salesforce’s Agentforce is akin to the Salisbury stake dinner.

For those of us using R, Plummer is absolutely amazing for deploying APIs in hours. Deploy locally, to Docker, or Posit Connect with ease.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

WWJD?

Great episode, but full of AI propaganda advertisements. I know you can’t control the ads, just thought it was ironic.

I love how NOAA doesn’t seem to give a shit about Trump and continues to post science.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

recreation.gov (Mapbox) is still holding on the the Gulf of Mexico.

Dude! The books are wayyyyy better than the movie. My 5-year old and I are on the third book and it’s truly epic.

Same experiment with ChatGPT

I’m not laughing. This is legit terrifying.

I had a similar conversation using the 1.5b model. I tried for hours to get it to provide information about Taiwan, North Korea and Russia/Ukraine. Under the guise of a code of ethics, the model seems to refuse, in a strange way, to discuss any geopolitical issues.

Under his eye.

JD Vance: The professors are the enemy
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Professors who give time and vital energy with respect and passion for knowledge, learning and sharing, let us say that the enemy is ignorance and greed, which are at the root of the loss of our humanity, and lead us back to the barbarism of the strongest.

Jan. 6 Defendant Shuns Trump’s Pardon, Likening ‘Stop the Steal’ to a ‘Cult’ Pamela Hemphill, 71, of Boise, Idaho, who served 60 days in prison, said it would be “an insult to the Capitol Police” if she accepted the pardon.

“I lost my critical thinking,” she said on Wednesday, reflecting on her involvement in the riot and the “Stop the Steal” movement. “Now I know it was a cult, and I was in a cult.”

I have about an inch in Newnan. Far more than expected.