Mastodawn

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

Andrew Steadman

17h ago

✧✦Catherine✦✧18h ago

i'm at a loss of words after reading a paper about reformatting code using an ML model that has a measured statistical quantity A_c which says how often the reformatted code behaves the same as the original

the "ideal" (their choice of words) case is 64.2%

edit: this got popular without me really intending to, so here's why i'm reading research: i want a semantic style transfer tool that can automatically format a patch "the same as the rest of the file / rest of codebase is formatted" without the rigidity involved in black or rustfmt that i find so hostile to my workflow that i refuse to use them. obviously, i want a tool that generates semantically equivalent code 100.0% of time (ignoring source locations or reading from __file__)

Andrew Steadman

Mar 7

@demofox I've thought about it more and I think another problem with LLM non-determinism is the "prompting" problem. You can rephrase the prompt very slightly and bias the model in a completely different way. The randomness in the output for the same prompt is one thing, but the randomness in the input is a completely separate problem and can't be ignored. It leads to a lot of mysticism about "oh yes, I am a prompt master, only I can prompt properly" (true or not).

Karen Keiller 🥌 📚Feb 21

If you’re jumping on the #curling bandwagon you should meet The Weakerthans “Tournament of Hearts”. Greatest (only?) curling song EVER. The band from #Winnipeg. For bonus points where filmed? The Granite? #GoTeamCanada

https://youtu.be/xQF5xuLrjpY

The Weakerthans - "Tournament of Hearts"

YouTube

Andrew Steadman

Feb 20

Shannon Prickett Feb 20

“Your days are numbered!”

Yea thanks, I’ve seen calendars before.

Andrew Steadman

Feb 9

Alison Creekside Feb 8

HoC petition sponsored by LibMP Bruce Fanjoy calling for all party leaders to get top security clearance. Poilievre, who Fanjoy bested in the last fed election, is the only party leader not to have one.
If you haven't signed a HoC petition before, validation of your signature comes after you click a link in an email they send you. #cdnpoli

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7148