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Nature, trees, clouds, dogs, fabric, cooking, craft
Ideas, just a citizen of the earth finding my way
Tim ChambersAm SO glad on days like this (news of the #Trump criminal charges) to be here on the Fediverse versus back on #twitter
Over here: Seeing lots of emotion, real discussion, and smart legal back and forth here.
Back on Twitter: so much dumb heat and so little light.
This is such a better place to watch history happen with friends and try to suss through it all.
Jude🇵🇸Minns thanks the mighty union movement. All our trudging around country towns in the seats of Goulburn and Monaro has paid off. We campaigned on pay and conditions for nurses, teachers and emergency workers (without party affiliations). Let's see if he comes through with the goods. #NSWvotes
Plague PoemsOn the pharmacy’s floor
is a faded sticker which reads:
“stay safe—six feet apart”
seeing that I am looking at it
an employee tells me
that they tried to get rid of it
but it’s really stuck
so they’ve decided to live with it
and I can’t tell
if he means the sticker or the virus.
is a faded sticker which reads:
“stay safe—six feet apart”
seeing that I am looking at it
an employee tells me
that they tried to get rid of it
but it’s really stuck
so they’ve decided to live with it
and I can’t tell
if he means the sticker or the virus.
Carl T. BergstromAny semblance of logical coherence is essentially a statistical consequence of patterns in the massive amounts of text on which they have been trained.
We can see this in their ability to solve logic puzzles.
My first introduction to logic puzzles was as a young child, through Raymond Smullyan's wonderful _What Is the Name of This Book?_
The first puzzle in that book is a very simple riddle. Let's see how various LLMs do with it.
In our book Calling Bullshit, Jevin West and I provide the following definition.
#Bullshit involves language, statistical figures, data graphics, and other forms of presentation intended to persuade by impressing and overwhelming a reader or listener, with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence.
Notice that this is what #LargeLanguageModels are designed to do. They are designed with a blatant disregard for logical coherence in that they lack any underlying logic model whatsoever.
Though the sight
of a masked face
is not nearly as rare
as a four leaf clover
at this point it feels
like good luck
to see someone else
who hasn’t given up.
of a masked face
is not nearly as rare
as a four leaf clover
at this point it feels
like good luck
to see someone else
who hasn’t given up.
The first plague poem was posted on 3/16/20 (on Twitter).
3 years and more than 3,100 poems later, the pandemic hasn’t ended, and so I’m still writing them.
I hope some of these have made you feel less alone.
All poems thus far:
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/plague-poems/
Stay safe. Take care of each other.
Eric TopolGood news on Covid, for a change https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-break-from-covid-waves-and-a-breakthrough
The White Rose Society"Humber’s propaganda is just as explicitly genocidal, and as it stands, she has appeared to inspire at least one mass shooting — the one in Bratislava. The antifascists whose research unmasked Humber hope exposing her will prevent her from inspiring another.
“When someone actively takes a role in encouraging people to commit acts of terror and mass-violence, they are a danger to anyone who happens to have the misfortune of being in close proximity to the next radicalized neo-Nazi who heeds their call to violence,” the antifascist researchers told HuffPost in a joint statement. “What they want is the dual benefit of anonymity and notoriety. They want to remain nameless and continue doing what they do, free of any consequence, while simultaneously elevating their status as some pseudonymous celebrity amongst their peers.”
“And there’s no way in hell that should be allowed to continue unchecked,” they said."
