Am looking at population pyramid visualisations on https://www.populationpyramid.net/, thinking about the stories that make places like Italy, Ukraine, Bahrain, so different to the two main shapes (I'm thinking of these as popehat-ish and big triangle, thought I'm sure they have more official names)
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Interested in the security of human and machine beliefs (disinformation, mlsec, autonomous systems). Former humanitarian data nerd. Sometimes creates data standards. Send pictures of dogs, bridges, and modern architecture.
I've never wanted a truck before, but I really really want this one https://electrek.co/2022/12/28/ford-lightning-owner-powers-home-essentials-for-2-days/ #ford #electricvehicles ftw
Mike ShewardOverheard on the scanner tonight the local transit agency reaffirm their snowy weather mantra of “safety, service, schedule - in that order”, and that is both simple and brilliant, and applies in lots of #infosec scenarios too.
RedFossaGiven Musk's latest dishonest tantrum over public ADSB flight telemetry, I decided to link up our ground station that has fed FlightAware and ADSBExchange for years to @openskynetwork.
Supporting open source aviation telemetry is vital to research, geopolitical analysis and incident response.
Dan RiskinI asked #chatgpt to write me an essay, with citations, about a scientific topic I know very well (bat crawling behaviour). It wrote a bad essay that didn’t really say much, but cited two papers with which I wasn’t familiar, in very good journals. I was freaked out! How did I not know those papers?
Turns out, chatgpt just made them up. The papers don’t exist. That’s a handy thing to know.
Turns out, chatgpt just made them up. The papers don’t exist. That’s a handy thing to know.
Tonight's lookup: pusillanimous. The OED has "showing a lack of courage or determination", which is right, but I much prefer the Urban Dictionary's "long form of the word pussy" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pusillanimous, which is... not wrong.
Olcangreat post about chatgpt, reviewing everything known about the origins of its various emergent abilities https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tracing-Emergent-Abilities-of-Language-Models-to-their-Sources-b9a57ac0fcf74f30a1ab9e3e36fa1dc1
How does GPT Obtain its Ability? Tracing Emergent Abilities of Language Models to their Sources
Yao Fu, [email protected]
Today's thing I had to look up "emotionally sticky nodes" (from Danah Boyd in https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ and quoted by https://doctorow.medium.com/metaverse-means-pivot-to-video-adbe09319038)
The irony of ChatGpt asking me to tick the "I'm not a robot" box...
Thinking about chatgpt. To me, it's the start not the end of research. Like I want to know why flying wing sweeps are 120 degrees and how that happened: I can plug that in and get back some summarised research. Which might not be right. But does give me a bunch of things that are harder to access on my own.
This is not new. We saw the same thing with internet search, then Wikipedia: anyone using a search result as a research answer would have been told to knock it off, back in the day. Before that there were leaps in knowledge access with written dictionaries, encyclopedias, fiches, books, words. It's all information transfer, it's just the form, reach, and convenience that changes. We still have to do our due diligence.