Dave Spector

@Dhmspector
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Software Engineer & Writer in DevPubs @  • A #NewYorker in SF • ex-Wall St’er • Foodie • #Coffee roaster • #Maker • W2DHM • Opinions are mine, not my employer’s • Born at 318.43 ppm

Pro-tip: “LLMs generate statistically probable responses to prompts, not factual answers to questions.”

Outside of my day job, I’m thinking about #FoodInsecurity, #ClimateChange, and #cities. I experiment with #hydroponics, #UrbanAgriculture, and #SensorNetworks to try and create more #ResilientCommunities.

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Remember how their bigotry operates. They’d rather burn the economy (and the country) to the ground, rather than accept the contributions of black/brown/asian/lgbtqia people.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jjheidmljqrsatjic4e6hmm2/post/3mj32p3kelt2n

tomwellborn3rd (@wellborn.net)

Nobel winner Paul Krugman warns that Trump’s anti immigration policies have brought job growth to a screeching halt, crushing economic prospects. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economy-2676691651/

Bluesky Social

@JasonAnthonyGuy thank you!

TBH, it did take me well over 30 yrs to work up the courage to actually interview at Apple despite being a developer writing for Apple machines since the Apple ][. 😬

8 years at the fruit co today.

Wow… that went speedy-quick!

@hebrewbyinbal isn’t cooperative overlap just the native way we Jews speak in both English AND Hebrew? (Well, OK, maybe it’s just us New Yorkers... 🙃)
omg. "They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone."

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vocg5apjrlm7dfptvy6qbrfy/post/3mj2wse5gyc2b

RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/116373062445812972

Nailed it. This is one of the best constructed AI cum corporate mania dissections yet.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116372669784306804

I think I have a name for this creative, new venture:

The Bottomless Grift, LLC

Queue the Steve Post quote…

“Just when you think you’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel, you find you’ve barely scratched the surface.”
— Steve Post

@dank @Cassandra

I feel both simultaneously seen … and attacked.

Analysis Finds That Google's #AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation

#google

#Trump to the #Vatican: “That’s a real nice new #Pope youse got d’ere… it would be a real shame if sumthin’… you know… like happened to him. Capiche?”

https://newrepublic.com/post/208820/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-donald-trump

Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump

It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.

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