Peter Binkley

@pbinkley@code4lib.social
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a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada.
⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️
#DigitalHumanities #IIIF #libraries #microfilm #RetroTechnology
Githubhttps://pbinkley.github.io/
Research bloghttps://www.wallandbinkley.com/rcb/
ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0560-8958
Annals of Clevelandhttps://www.wallandbinkley.com/projects/2019/annals-of-cleveland/
Peter Binkley22h ago
Felicitas Macgilchrist1d ago

And it still failed. “Amsterdam followed every piece of advice in the Responsible AI playbook. It debiased its system when early tests showed ethnic bias and brought on academics and consultants to shape its approach, ultimately choosing an explainable algorithm over more opaque alternatives. The city even consulted a participatory council of welfare recipient”

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/the-limits-of-ethical-ai/

#ethicalAI #responsibleAI #techphilosophy

The Limits of Ethical AI

Unprecedented access to high-stakes algorithmic experiment tests promise of Ethical AI

Lighthouse Reports
Peter Binkley3d ago
My mom had a cat she called The Pedant because of his deliberate way of doing things, as if he were always saying to himself "this is how cats do it". AI slop makes me think of him sometimes (the difference being that he was a living breathing cat with an endearing way of encountering the world which validated his premises, he being a cat and all, whereas when AI says "this is how people do it" it's lying)
Peter Binkley4d ago
Generika 🍉4d ago

The less you know.....

"These findings suggest that companies may benefit from shifting their marketing efforts and product development toward consumers with lower AI literacy. In addition, efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal."

https://thearf-org-unified-admin.s3.amazonaws.com/MSI_Report_24-132.pdf

#ai

Peter Binkley4d ago
Moby Dick5d ago
All men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
Peter Binkley6d ago

OK, Ollama and Magistral and I are getting along better. I've made a model file with

PARAMETER num_ctx 16384
PARAMETER num_predict 16384

to give it more memory for input and output, and I've put a lot of background knowledge for the task in the system prompt. And I've remembered to invoke the new version and not the default one. The development is still experimental, and Magistral's explanation of its reasoning is very helpful so far. We'll see how long the honeymoon lasts.

Peter Binkley6d ago
rowmyboat6d ago
We’re on a service review meeting with EBSCO and it is so bad I am stepped away for a few minutes because I cannot listen to them and don’t want to say something really bad.
Peter BinkleyJul 10
Things LLMs and I have trouble with: 1) I say "write this thing", they hear "give me a structured approach to help me draft this thing". 2) I say "read this data and tell me about it", they hear "hallucinate a bunch more data more or less like this".
Peter BinkleyJul 10
AnnaAnthroJul 10

Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to 600 programs cut, nearly 10,000 job losses, union says

« Union says it's 'one of the largest mass layoffs in #Ontario's history' »

« The document showed 23 of 24 colleges in Ontario have reported a 48 per cent decrease in first-semester enrolment of international students from September 2023 to September 2024. »

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-college-layoffs-1.7581037

Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to nearly 10,000 job losses, union says | CBC News

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says it's 'one of the largest mass layoffs in Ontario's history.'

CBC
Peter BinkleyJul 9
Paris MarxJul 8

Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start.

For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the pressure for shareholder profits.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/canada-should-build-public-cloud-infrastructure-rather-than-relying-on-u-s-tech-giants/

#tech #cloud #datacenters #cdnpoli #cdntech #canada #markcarney

Canada should build public cloud infrastructure rather than relying on U.S. tech giants - CCPA

During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partner for a 25-year cloud computing contract for the federal government. The contract’s length should have set off red flags of its own, but the…

CCPA -
Peter BinkleyJul 8
There was an LLM
Who was an LL gem
And did things you'd think were impossible
When it was right it was very very right
And when it was wrong it was plausible
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Show thread0x10fJul 5

@melanie Here is the file amplified and cropped. It has only the "in (placename)" part.

Edit: I hear the placename as "Hulda Heinstein" but I don't speak German natively.

Show threadslow learner, deep feelerJul 5

@0x10f

Ooh thanks. Yeah, that's what I hear too. It is frustrating. Her mother threw her birth certificate away. She's got a whole other family in Germany.

Show threadPiiieps & BrummmJul 5

@0x10f @melanie
The end is definitly "Heinstein".

I doubt, if the rest is part of the name. It would not match the usual names of places here in Germany. BUT there are some strange names out there, so I can't rule it out.

Show threadslow learner, deep feelerJul 5

@PiiiepsBrummm @0x10f

Thank you, i wondered about that.