Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️So after 16 months of illness I'm back on my feet and applying to jobs, but I'm completely broke and the combination of car+power+storage for 6 people is due, with a lot of late fees added in.
I'm sorry to ask, but any amount would help. Thanks so much!
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PhD student at the HCI Group at Tallinn University trying to make sense of sound in the built enviroment. Radio Drama and Audio enthusiast. Hidden Baker. Did radio but no podcasts (yet). Used to do, and sometimes I still do Traditional Animation and Weird Films. Yucatecan in the Far North.
Anne PasekOur book is out OPEN ACCESS. Please enjoy a FREE BOOK on how we could remake academic research methods for climate action, and fix a lot of inequities in the process. https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/low-carbon-research-methods/
d@nny disc@ mc²the 404 article sucks and they have accumulated multiple strikes in my book. i hate that open source software makes me hyperaware of sockpuppeting and i hated reading this. if 404 continues to pull this shit i'm going to have to make some conclusions. i don't like that the author describes themself as
interested in little known communities and processes that shape technology, troublemakers, and petty beefs.
...and then interviews exactly one contributor, and then copy/pastes the statement of the guy inciting all this
tanteThe question is not whether you can create software using LLMs - you can (most software is just boring CRUD shit).
But you do pay a hefty price: In lowering quality (security issues, less maintainable), in skill decay in the people "guiding" the stochastic parrots, etc.
It's not "can 'AI's create software" but "are we willing to accept worse software running more and more of our lives?"
Rebanei built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
Ivo 🇪🇺“I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do.
So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired. I felt a tiny dopamine hit of legitimacy.
Then I did what apparently nobody does. I went and read the privacy policy and terms of service.
Not LinkedIn’s. The other company’s”
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
Dec [{(
)}]"Your passport scan can be sitting in a data center in Frankfurt. A US court issues a warrant. Persona has to comply. The physical location of the server doesn’t matter. What matters is the legal location of the company."
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
Drikanis@ludicity For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers.
Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance.
After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension.
It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.
David Colarusso1/ There has never been a more concentrated distillation of my teaching than this lesson: Algos, Bias, Due Process, & You. It is the apotheosis of what I do. I very much hope you enjoy it, share it, and make bits of it your own. https://suffolklitlab.org/algos-bias-due-process-you/
Aral BalkanRE: https://mastodon.social/@aseelfromgz/116097728946124841
Aseel is one of our Gaza Verified team of volunteers. She helps verify other Palestinians from Gaza while suffering through the same situation.
Please help her and her family – who are still living in a tent – if you can.
(They have just found an apartment they can rent if they manage to find $600/month so we’re going to see how best to try and fund that with your help. Perhaps she can post the amount remaining for each month and we can all pitch in and boost for visibility.)