The fact that we're willing to rely on LLMs to generate code knowing that it only mostly works because that code has been generated before thousands of times is not an indication that stochastic models are good, it's a massive, punishing indictment of computing as a field.

Using an insanely huge expensive model to quasi-reproduce work that's been created thousands of times already isn't productive or efficient. It's a symptom of profound failures of language, practice, process and imagination.

#bike #Philippines

Alejo says their office Bike Bus was modeled after the Bike Bus in Portland, Oregon, of Bike Bus World, a nonprofit founded by former physical education teacher Sam Balto that guides children to bike to school along established routes similar to a school bus with select stops. Bike Bus, in turn, was patterned after Barcelona’s Bicibús, an initiative that has children (aged 3 to 11) and parents biking to school in the mornings

https://verafiles.org/articles/bike-bus-is-the-most-viable-solution-to-the-transport-crisis-and-climate-change

#ClimateChange #climate

17 June 1915 | A Polish woman, Halina Pietrzak, was born in Częstochowa.

In #Auschwitz from 22 January 1943.
Nr 30609
In 1944 she was transferred to Flossenbürg camp and liberated there.
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Women at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/3O8z0jF
🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/3ZokyXc

I really wish that more Canadians looked at Carney’s policies more closely that many of us seem to do. Instead, we continue to get distracted by the US president to the exclusion of all else…

“The government under Prime Minister Mark Carney has “repealed or weakened virtually every climate policy and regulation that Canada had developed in the last decade,” a former member of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body told MPs.”
— Carl Meyer, @thenarwhal

#CANpoli #ClimateAction

https://thenarwhal.ca/carney-canada-net-zero-committee/?utm_source=mastodon