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Former wildlife biologist and wildland firefighter. Retired security and cryptography engineer. Ex bike racer.
Harold JarcheRE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794
"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"
1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit
Always great when you get marketing emails before the company you just ordered from even sends the order acknowledgement. Shows where their priorities are.
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)@acb my argument against automated checkout is that it isn't automated. It's that it's removing a paid employee and replacing them with me. On top of that, they're now filming my purchases, selling the data, and using a fraction of the profit to pay armed security to check my receipt at the door to make sure I'm doing a good job of filling in for their employees.
Mike ShewardThere is that famous technical interview question that goes: what happens behind the scenes when you type in a domain name and press enter? The intention is you talk all about resolving DNS of the host, TCP things and HTTP etc.
A more truthful answer would include:
- Your email address is sent to launch darkly to get applicable feature flags.
- A gigabyte of data is logged to DataDog
- Details about the way you moved your mouse are sent to segment.io
- A bunch of telemetry is sent to Sentry.
- Ads are injected from Facebook.
- Metrics are recorded to Hubspot.
- Page renders in browser.
mhoyeWhen we saw the huge Return To Office Return To Normal push, You Will Be Measured By Days Of Your Butt In A Desk... where did that come from, fast and hard?
True story: it came from companies whose boards and major shareholders had enormous investments in corporate real estate. It came from the people who owned the stadium, and saw that their stadium might lose its value.
For the rest The Rules now included Incomprehensible RTO Mandates and leaders making up fantasies about productivity.
Max LeibmanUnderstanding common tech features and marketing terms:
Safety: surveillance
"Smart": surveillance
Connected: surveillance
GPS-enabled: surveillance
Personalized: surveillance
AI: surveillance
Integrated: surveillance
Partner: surveillance
Free: surveillance
Collaboration: surveillance
JonWoah - this link is gold!
If you have access to Libby through your public library, you can type in your local library system and this will tell you all other Libby systems you’re eligible for!
Edit: I thought this app was available in Canada, but it appears that it currently operates only in the US, with plans to expand to Canada and the UK. Apologies!
