Nick Telford-ReedJust completed the annual Firefly/Serenity rewatch. Still completely awesome. Ending still devastating.
#LeafOnTheWind
Preparing for the continued Muskification of Twitter by hanging out here and on Bluesky (@mountainhippo.bsky.social) instead
Nick Telford-Reed
@mountainhippo
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Alpine herbivore. Work in payments for which I apologise. My views only etc. Trying to be positive on here, failing more often than I ought.
Preparing for the continued Muskification of Twitter by hanging out here and on Bluesky (@mountainhippo.bsky.social) instead
Preparing for the continued Muskification of Twitter by hanging out here and on Bluesky (@mountainhippo.bsky.social) instead
Watching the magic hat ceremony. Some family members apparently taking this properly seriously. My observation that the sacred oil was for greasing Charlie's head to make it easier to get the magic hat on and off was apparently inappropes.
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Charles SeifePlaying around with #OpenAI's #GPT3 text generator led me to perhaps the creepiest behavior yet. As @ct_bergstrom noted, the AI bots are able to cite the sources of their own writing.
I decided to see if it could function as a plagiarism detector. But when I put a few snippets of my own writing in, it found several uncited sources. (Attached.)
Aha! Someone must have plagiarized me! Or so I thought. But the truth was much stranger....
Chris TrottierEDIT: DO NOT BOOST!
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This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
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This post is nearly a year old, and boosting will simply spread misinformation. Mastodon now has substantially more funding, and has enough scale to handle its many users.
I would delete this post but my server is not letting me so I'm editing this to reflect that I wish for you to NOT BOOST!
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Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.
This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!
Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
@isaach hola old chum
Garry KnightFor everyone who has recently joined Mastodon
An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon
https://fedi.tips
How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrsiej2dpBY
10 Quick Mastodon Tips
https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/
A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021
An Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon
You can also find some other good guides on YouTube.
@guypratt I used fedifinder to find the people I followed on Twitter and my followers. It works pretty well. https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
🦥 Mx.Grey ☭ 
Eamonn KerinsSo, it's time to talk about #aliens.
Is the search for #intelligent #life just an impossible search for a microscopic pin within a mountain-sized haystack? Or is there a way to try and be smart about how we search?
A thread about some work I've been involved with that addresses this question... (1/n)
If you enjoy the thread, and you think others may do too, then please #boost it!