Joseph C. Osborn

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CS Prof at Pomona College. I like AI but not that kind of AI. Abolish ICE
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Show threadJoseph C. Osborn1d ago
@JacquesC2 I think this is a big part of why LLMs are popular: they aren’t as likely to take issue with the spec. This is also one of the key problems with LLMs.
Show threadJoseph C. Osborn2d ago
@JoeOsborn so the answer to 1 and 2 both turned out to be https://chiparchive.com/mirrors.php and various internet archive uploads; also programs like Modizer on iOS can download tracks on their own from sites like joshw’s game music archives. On Linux I don’t know about downloaders but deadbeef can play chiptune formats.
Show threadJoseph C. Osborn5d ago
@koronkebitch 9/10 in 7 minutes (I had one paper I falsely accused of being ai); a key indicator seemed to be that slop papers claim eight or nine main contributions. I’m no PL person but I am a CS academic and I feel like it’s hard to write one paper that honestly does three or more things.
Joseph C. Osborn6d ago
I’m looking for an mp3 player, hopefully inexpensive, that can play aac and flac, has a replaceable battery, offers Bluetooth, and ideally uses an SD card or mounts as a storage device. Does anybody have a recommendation?
Joseph C. Osborn6d ago
Self hosting achievement unlocked: thanks to a WireGuard tunnel to a $2 vps, I can now send email from my home server to a big name email platform! Very fond of yunohost overall.
Joseph C. OsbornMar 16
Joseph C. OsbornMar 13
Two long shot questions:
1. Where are all the nsf chiptune archives now? Did VORC used to host them? I remember a decade ago finding a rough gigabyte of NSF tracks but have no idea how to do that now.
2. The specific Japanese chiptune artist Hally—I see a few of his songs on streaming services but have no idea how to directly give him money for his music, especially older songs. I don’t want to just have my bootleg concert recording!
Show threadJoseph C. OsbornMar 14
@Craigp This is basically a Factorio post IMO, I have had this same experience both with drains and with belts
Joseph C. OsbornMar 13
Two long shot questions:
1. Where are all the nsf chiptune archives now? Did VORC used to host them? I remember a decade ago finding a rough gigabyte of NSF tracks but have no idea how to do that now.
2. The specific Japanese chiptune artist Hally—I see a few of his songs on streaming services but have no idea how to directly give him money for his music, especially older songs. I don’t want to just have my bootleg concert recording!
Joseph C. OsbornMar 13

I don’t know that the CS academic literature culture(s) are especially well prepared to deal with genAI (focus on propriety, respect for intellectual discourse and relationships, numbers going up, half yearly cycle).

In my senior CS seminar I’m very tempted to include distinctly non-peer-reviewed sources: the @researchfairy blog post on AI as a fascist technology; “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”; @baldur ‘s LLMentalist Effect article; the “you are not immune to propaganda” Garfield meme.

Show threadJoseph C. OsbornMar 13
@SuperSelena64 Sega does what Nintendon’t