Thomas Arildsen

@arildsen@mastodon.green
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Quantitative researcher in the renewable energy sector, dad, lover of the outdoors, likes old watches, programs in Python.
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Someone called ChatGPT “Grand Theft Autocorrect” and I laughed way too long at that.

Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt

#StreetArt

My employer #OIST ( @oistedu.bsky.social ) is opening a special grad student application round for students currently studying at US universities.

The application period begins now and is only two weeks, but if accepted you may be able to start already in September.

Please reshare to get the word out.

https://www.oist.jp/admissions/special-application-deadline-students-accepted-or-studying-united-states

#USA #University #gradschool #Japan

Special Application Deadline for Students Accepted or Studying in the United States

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology OIST
Jeg sidder ikke med noget, jeg taler ikke ind i noget, og jeg er ikke på en rejse...
#irriterendeudtryk

Shoelaces, zippers, chairs, and other domestic items adopt unexpected personalities in the uncanny sculptures of Tobias Izsó.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/tobias-izso-off-the-cuff/

#wood #sculpture #mixedmedia #home

this is interesting, but i don't quite agree. i don't think this is model collapse, per se. i believe when you do "search" with an LLM, what you are actually doing is RAG: they are not constantly re-training their models on the online content they added to their index over the last 48hrs, they are querying their vectorized index of that content with your vectorized search terms, dumping that context into the LLM, and returning a long, chatty result. https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/

'Voiceover artist Gayanne Potter said the artificial announcer, marketed as an imaginary character called Iona, was trained using her voice.'

”I was horrified. The quality of it was dreadful. It's hard enough for people in the creative industry to sustain careers but to be competing with a robotic version of yourself just adds insult to injury.

If ScotRail want to do the right thing, I'm happy to do their voice announcements. At least I know how to say Milngavie."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4q7984nq1o

#AI

‘Stop using my voice' - ScotRail's new announcer is my AI clone

Voiceover artist Gayanne says an AI used on ScotRail trains was trained using her voice.

Impressive work by Ukraine's SBU, smuggling cargo containers with fake roofs deep into Russia, where they popped open to launch swarms of drones, supposedly destroying 40 Russian bombers in four locations.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/ukraine-launches-major-drone-attack-on-russian-bombers-security-official-says

They'll make a movie about this one someday.

#Ukraine #War #Drone #SBU #Clever

Fuck this.

The vibe-coding trend is going to end up being one of the biggest national security risks we've seen in the software industry

https://flipboard.com/@semafor/semafor-qhf227ugz/-/a-Rkaq4LdoR7y9sCQ38tqofQ%3Aa%3A3943444710-%2F0