Sifu Tweety Fish, cDc

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Previously: hacker, blogger, ninja master, house you, sciencer, Team Skynet, uh, guy on twitter. http://apperceptive.substack.com
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Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcAug 9, 2023
I have a newsletter out today, discussing the gap between the broad need for experimental psychology and the general misapprehension of how and why it is difficult, and how this causes problems both in ML and in politics. https://apperceptive.substack.com/p/understanding-and-psychology
Understanding (and) psychology

Intuition and introspection fail people when it comes to behavioral measurement with implications from machine learning to race

Apperceptive
Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcAug 4, 2023
StreetsblogMASSAug 4, 2023

According to MBTA data, the agency's Blue Line park-and-ride lots, which occupy over 11 acres of prime real estate, have averaged fewer than 1,000 parked cars by the end of the morning rush hour during the past two weeks.

By comparison, the Blue Line has been serving about 46,000 daily trips since the tunnel closure began.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/08/04/even-with-tunnel-traffic-and-dirt-cheap-prices-the-ts-north-shore-parking-garages-are-mostly-empty-this-summer

Even With Tunnel Traffic and Dirt-Cheap Prices, the T's North Shore Parking Garages Are Mostly Empty This Summer - Streetsblog Massachusetts

If the T's parking lots are mostly empty at a time of unusually high highway congestion, in spite of deeply discounted fares and parking rates, why are we still subsidizing them?

Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcAug 2, 2023
I was remiss in not posting this here (and I'm glad @fugueish did) but yes, I wrote about the ways that ML systems designed to replace humans run up against the needs of modern business to measure value: if you've never been able to replace humans before, you might have never quantified their value, which leaves you with metrics that tell a story ("lots of value in getting rid of humans!") that misses the core value of what you are building. https://apperceptive.substack.com/p/the-value-destroying-potential-of
The value-destroying potential of AI

A lot of the people trying to deploy AI as a business solution are doing it because they don't know how to measure what's valuable about their business

Apperceptive
Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcJul 24, 2023
historic drystone sheep dykeJul 23, 2023
I’m in the news for joining the wga/sag strike lol
Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcJul 24, 2023
@universalhub MBTA apparently running 25-30 minute headways on the GLX inbound this morning. Looked like some kind of track inspection? Fun thing to do to commuters with zero notice!
Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcMay 21, 2023
Show threadProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)May 21, 2023

But I strongly doubt that saying "AI" is so new it needs its own "FDA" is going to get us there. Let's sit with and use the power that existing regulations already give us for collective governance.

And not fall for either-

Myth #1: The tech is moving to fast! Regulation can't keep up.

Myth #2: The 'real' concern is rogue AGI that poses 'existential risk' to humanity.

Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcMay 10, 2023
Marc HurwitzMay 9, 2023

Big news just out: Remnant Brewing in Somerville will be expanding to the former Atwood's Tavern space in Cambridge's Inman Square. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2023/05/remnant-brewing-to-open-in-former.html

#restaurant #bar #cambridge #inmansquare

Remnant Brewing Is Opening in the Former Atwood's Tavern Space in Cambridge's Inman Square

A couple of months ago, it was reported that a beloved Cambridge restaurant, bar, and live music venue was shutting down, and now we have le...

Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcMay 10, 2023
Frédéric JacobsMay 10, 2023
Twitter DMs: “In order to preserve and extend this user experience to encrypted messages, we decided to forgo forward secrecy. We don’t plan to address this limitation.”
https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/encrypted-direct-messages
About Encrypted Direct Messages – DMs | Twitter Help

Twitter seeks to be the most trusted platform on the internet, and encrypted Direct Messages are an important part of that.

Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcMay 10, 2023
Show threadsnarkoutMay 10, 2023

Making a Kelly Reichardt movie in 2023 (or even "Moonlight" or IDK "The Killing of a Sacred Deer") feels a lot like putting on a production of "Parsifal" or something. You do it because you believe in the art and hope you don't lose money. And they subsidize it with the arty horror stuff, because that's what's left.

(PS I'm the only person in the world who liked the pretentious mess that was "Under the Silver Lake".)

5/5

Sifu Tweety Fish, cDcMay 10, 2023
PwnallthethingsMay 10, 2023
Gotta hand it to the man, the guy delivers