Sci-curious. Inside the lines, outside the box.
Building an open source virtual world based on OpenStreetMap and linked open data.
Bioprocess Engineering PhD.
1/ Another successful meetup! Let’s recap #geomobLX.
Once again, a big thanks to Startup Lisboa for hosting us and our two organizers, Joana Simoes and Miguel Marques.
twelve years ago, a painter by the name of anders ramsell painted 12,597 aquarelle paintings of blade runner, shot by shot, of the entire film edited down to ~35 minutes. it took two years of painstaking work, all done in his spare time after work each night.
the video circled around the web for a few years, and quietly disappeared from every single site it was hosted at.
a few months ago i spent a few hours digging for it, and finally found a copy of the original file.
i'm not sure how long it will last over at IA, so enjoy it while you can. it is a true achievement. 🙏
12,597 aquarelle paintings by Anders Ramsell, shot by shot, of Blade Runner.Originally posted at https://www.andersramsell.com/ in 2012
it works, beautifully (not the first time but then I slept on it and realised I adjusted the thing - the lower shaft gear - in the wrong direction, doh). But seeing the guts of the thing has now awakened a desire for a post-apocalyptic foot pedal-driven machine. There's tons of them in every second hand shop on the island. See e.g. https://www.lojasecondhand.com/produto/maquina-de-costura-singer-com-pe/
Pro: leg day every sewing day, repairability one would assume, food driven rather than electricity driven. Cons, potential irrepairability?
A Festa do Software Livre está de volta!
Vai realizar-se no @detiuaveiro, nos dias 11 e 12 de outubro.
Vem celebrar com as comunidades de #SoftwareLivre participa nos seus eventos dentro da Festa.
Fiquem atentos!
I also want to move to a place where energy is so expensive that people don't use fucking weedeaters and leafblowers. WTAF is wrong with people. (Yes I am totally feeling morally superior because I'm getting two mini ponies for the job instead.) And my messy garden had guests!
Two hedgehogs, who apparently are mostly solitary, so this could've been some romancing, came to have some water. I am DELIGHTED.
I just found out there's a #Wikidata MOOC, hosted by #Wikimedia France:
#AI #GenerativeAI #HumanInTheLoop #GhostWork #Fauxtomation: "The human in the loop isn't just being asked to spot mistakes – they're being actively deceived. The AI isn't merely wrong, it's constructing a subtle "what's wrong with this picture"-style puzzle. Not just one such puzzle, either: millions of them, at speed, which must be solved by the human in the loop, who must remain perfectly vigilant for things that are, by definition, almost totally unnoticeable.
This is a special new torment for reverse centaurs – and a significant problem for AI companies hoping to accumulate and keep enough high-value, high-stakes customers on their books to weather the coming trough of disillusionment.
This is pretty grim, but it gets grimmer. AI companies have argued that they have a third line of business, a way to make money for their customers beyond automation's gifts to their payrolls: they claim that they can perform difficult scientific tasks at superhuman speed, producing billion-dollar insights (new materials, new drugs, new proteins) at unimaginable speed.
However, these claims – credulously amplified by the non-technical press – keep on shattering when they are tested by experts who understand the esoteric domains in which AI is said to have an unbeatable advantage. For example, Google claimed that its Deepmind AI had discovered "millions of new materials," "equivalent to nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge," constituting "an order-of-magnitude expansion in stable materials known to humanity":"
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs
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