Phillip Rhodes

@mindcrime@sigmoid.social
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New PhilBlog post, in which I explain why AI Is Not Magic!

https://philliprhodes.name/roller/blog/entry/ai-is-not-magic

AI is not magic : Phillip Rhodes' Weblog

"I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job" - @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts

#tech #AI #ML #labor

Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

A really nice explanation of the chain rule.

https://youtu.be/wl1myxrtQHQ

The Chain Rule

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Somehow I've spent the last hour or so creating Anki cards for definitions from graph theory. I suppose, as Harry Hogge said "there's worse things." 😀
The Question You Should Ask Yourself

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'Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning', by Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Martha White, Adam White.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-0183.html

#reinforcement #experiments #hyperparameters

Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning

I have now, a working - albeit incomplete - implementation of a Jena TDB backed BeliefBase for Jason Agent applications. So far it's working with storing arity-0 beliefs and loads those on startup. Higher arity beliefs are also persisted, but I haven't tested initial retrieval of those on startup. And the current impl doesn't yet guarantee consistent ordering of the embedded terms for higher arity beliefs.

#Apache #Jena #SemanticWeb #RDF #TripleStore #Jason #AgentSpeak #MultiAgentSystems

Logica is an #opensource declarative logic programming #language for #data manipulation
https://logica.dev/
Logica

Modern Logic Programming

Logica
If you want to help the open-source community outside of coding, fighting back against patent trolls is a noble cause.
#opensource #patenttroll
https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-fights-back-we-wont-get-patent-trolled-again/
Open source fights back: 'We won't get patent-trolled again'

Businesses using open-source projects like Kubernetes are being targeted more often by patent trolls. Now the open source community is launching a counter-offensive and looking for volunteers.

ZDNET
Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents

The Senate is considering a bill that would help save some of the worst patents and empower patent trolls. The PREVAIL Act, S. 2220, would sharply limit the public’s right to challenge patents that never should have been granted in the first place. UPDATE: On Nov. 21, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 in favor of PREVAIL. We will continue to oppose this misguided bill. Help us by telling your members of Congress to oppose it when it comes up for another vote.