Dennis Clark

@dbfclark
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Machine learning, finance, stay-at-home-daddery. He/him.
ME: The Earth is 71% water
SCIENTIST: Yes. True.
ME: And practically all of that water is uncarbonated
SCIENTIST: Okay, sure. Not sure where you're going with this but
ME: So the Earth is flat
SCIENTIST...
ME: ...
SCIENTIST: Listen here you little shit
No one knows how to cook umber
Prime Day has gotten too commercial. We need to get back to honoring what this sacred day is really about

"What happens if AI gets it wrong?"

"Well, what's your process for when a staff member gets it wrong today?"

"...good question..."

Why are lawyers who practice before particular judges not regarded in the press as biased sources about those judges? Like this article: https://apple.news/APFyl_dVgQN2BNCFXjxWWBQ which is fairly summarized as “People professionally interested in currying favor with Eileen Cannon think she’s a stand-up judge except the one anonymous guy who says she’s a nut”? What the actual heck?
‘She’s Going to Be Famous for a Long Time’ — The Atlantic

Aileen Cannon has little experience as a judge, but Democratic lawyers who have appeared in her courtroom say she’s ready for the trial of her life.

We're going to try an experiment, with my first giveaway on Mastodon! Be sure to make it count to see more here, instead of on Twitter. 😜​

It's time for a #Nintendo #Switch #Giveaway, this time for the flaming-sword-fighting-the-dark action of #Nocturnal by #DearVillagers!

To enter:
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Bonus chance: What are your favorite #IndieGames that help elevate classic side-scrollers?

Drawing 6/13!

There should be a non-profit accelerator for end-user open source projects that have the potential to make the world more equal, inclusive, and democratic.

"we present an al-
ternative explanation for emergent abilities: that for a particular task and model
family, when analyzing fixed model outputs, one can choose a metric which leads
to the inference of an emergent ability or another...which does not..our alternative suggests that..claims of emergent abilities are creations of the researcher’s analyses, not fundamental changes in model behavior on specific tasks with scale"

Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, & Sanmi Koyejo

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.15004.pdf

The "cloud" is just the return of mainframe computing only with nicer terminals
Ok… mastodons? Elephants? What do we do for a last-minute two-person Mardi Gras?