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I’m a technical product manager by way of software engineering with interests in cognition, the intersections of neuroscience and AI, AI safety engineering, infosec and quantum computing. Based out of lutruwita (Tasmania).
Twitter@somerandomben
GitHubhttps://github.com/hebenon

A mildly random project I released recently to help you find parks near you: https://urbangreenplace.com.

During COVID, I got to know my local parks a lot better. It was hard to work out what features they had though, e.g. do they have a playground, can you take the dog? This site helps with that. It uses OpenStreetMap data to let you see local parks in any suburb of Australia and filter them based on common amenities. Hopefully this helps you find and visit more of your neighbourhood parks!

Urban Green Place: Find a park near me

Urban Green Place: Find parks near me

this small apartment tower has several elderly residents who've each been here on the order of 30 to 40 years, so we're getting "tiny British village where everyone's mad at each other over ancient petty grievances" drama in a major city
One of the residents of this building has publicly accused another of, like, spending €250 of the building maintenance funds on a new lobby bench without getting total sign-on from all apartment owners, which they feel amounts to fraud. The accused sent a 17-page defense to the email list (17 pages in Dutch, and then followed by a manual translation of the entire thing to English). I am completely incapable of judging who is being the least hinged here
Factorio Feature Request: unlocking the quantum computing research should allow you to craft quantum combinators, which can do QFT and similar operations.

People Who Play DnD and Other Table Top RPG   āœØ:

If you do not use it already,
I must tell you how awesome Anytype is for DnD games!

You can use it to:

Create a shared space with your players for documentation and rules  

Create a calendar of your games' schedule to share with your players and keep track of games' summaries and experience points received šŸ“†

Live-share with your players images, names, and other information about the NPCs and creatures they encounter during a game  

Keep a copy of your players' character sheets (or even create one as an object you can update in Anytype) šŸ“œ

Create a separate space you keep private for your campaign notes, NPCs, maps, and encounters information and images 🤫

It. Is. AWESOME!  

All of this while being:

šŸ‘‰ End-to-end encrypted!
šŸ‘‰ Open code!
šŸ‘‰ Available on mobile!
šŸ‘‰ No email nor phone number required!

I also had some interaction with the team and they were absolutely fantastic! šŸ’š

By far the best tool I've ever used for my games as a DM.

I highly recommend it! šŸ‘‡
https://anytype.io/

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG #Anytype

Anytype — A safe haven for digital collaboration

Create notes, tasks, databases, and chats that only you can access. Your data stays on your device — fully owned, secure, and private. Free to start.

Echidnas are everywhere are the moment. This one's visited a few times to clean up the ants around an old retaining wall.

#Tasmania #Echidna #Monotreme #Nature #AustralianMammals

It's Trans Day of Remembrance. Like we do every year, we're remembering all the trans people around the world murdered just for being trans. Days like this shouldn't need to exist. We will keep working until all trans people can live happy and fulfilled lives free from transphobia.

#TDOR #TDOR24

giving this talk at the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab at Australian National University today :
https://mintresearch.org/ourwork/emma-stamm-on-transformer-architectures-and-theoretical-knowledge

#AI #machinelearning #philosophy #llm

MINT Seminar Nov 21: Emma Stamm on transformer architectures and theoretical knowledge — MINT Lab

In this seminar Emma argues that transformer architectures demonstrate that machine learning models cannot assimilate theoretical paradigms.

MINT Lab

I had such a ball shooting large format portraits at the #PhillyTweedRide. Cool nerds dressed up to ride vintage bikes and super psyched to have their photo taken with antique cameras.

#BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat #Philadelphia #PaperNegatives #DryTintypes

Dan, it's Sam Altman again and I'm in trouble.

In the race to build AGI for all, I'm falling behind.

I know you've supported me before, but I need to know if you're with me now.

Will you share at least 10 more gigabytes of personal training data?

With stakes this high, we have to win.