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I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
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21.08.2025 00:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What's even more impressive is that Gemini didn't need to use Python to figure it out. But maybe that's just being trained on more puzzles. In any case, the fact that OpenAI's models can now use tools during "thinking" is really useful so they can run experiments to prove stuff to themselves!
27.04.2025 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0AI engineer job interview question 1: please estimate the lower and upper bounds of kWhs spent by humanity trying to get the (wrong) answer to how many Rs in strawberry
30.01.2025 19:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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At the center of the image is a horizontal orange cloud known as Herbig-Haro 46/47 that is uneven with rounded ends, and tilted from bottom left to top right. In the middle of this cloud is a yellow-white blob with 8 reddish pink diffraction spikes piercing through it. The left lobe of the cloud is thicker. Just off the edge is a tiny red arc that curves in the opposite direction. The right lobe is thinner, and ends in a smaller orange semi-circle that has a faint purple outline. Just off the edge of this lobe is a slightly smaller orange sponge-like blob. A delicate, semi-transparent blue cloud known as a nebula drifts toward the top of the image and peters out toward the left of the frame. Toward the right and bottom, the nebula ends in a soft ridge set off in a translucent orange. The background is filled with stars and galaxies. Two foreground stars with blue diffraction spikes, seen in the bottom right corner, are especially prominent.
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Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image. At bottom center is a glowing pale yellow, cave-like structure, its top tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave, 3 groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the cloud. The largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At top center, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.
another timeline cleanse from all the doom and gloom 🌌
23.01.2025 06:07 — 👍 7571 🔁 864 💬 92 📌 34A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.
14.01.2025 18:02 — 👍 132 🔁 58 💬 6 📌 8Carbon Dioxide Removal research needs a central, multidisciplinary hub. We’re building it at cdrxiv.org. Read and download others' work, explore CDR pathways and topics, and help the platform grow by submitting your CDR research!
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This article made me join: thenewstack.io/how-bluesky-...
I've been on Mastodon for a while and I enjoy the niche stuff there, but a less techy network reaching a wider audience which still tries to do the right thing for the long term has a place in my heart 😻
