@th0ma5

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Design, research, photography, media criticism, and unsweet iced tea
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚 [how do I include alt-text of the poster with the character limit?] #ai
@restofworld maybe it’s interesting for you - I’ve been working on ethics of AI for the last couple of years. Recently, I’ve focussed on changes made to the environment when AI data centres are built, and have been carrying out long term research at the construction site of Korea’s National AI Data Centre, creating an audio visual archive of the landscape as it is altered. My artwork THIRST/For Knowledge includes a publication, film and soundscape about this https://katausten.com/project/thirst-for-knowledge/
THIRST/For Knowledge – Kat Austen

"AI" users are like, "I know this is imprecise but as a convenience these transcriptions are better than nothing"

then 70 years from now we'll still be struggling to debunk these entirely hallucinated transcriptions of thousands of manuscripts that were pissed into the pool of human knowledge.

some things are worse than nothing. "signal-shaped noise" is worse than nothing.

Atari demonstration center

#Atari #VintageComputing #RetroComputing

@spacelizard @rossgrady

✅ I’ve listened to software that I’ve written to cassette tape

I have argued this point in the past, as I'm sure many others, but it's nice to have a term for this concept: hobbyless behavior.

https://www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii/810110535568949248/the-germans-really-cooked-making-hobbyless

#hobbyless #hobbylos #HobbylessBehavior #HobbylosesVerhalten

AI is not a "tool". It is the users of AI who are tools HEYOOOOOOOOOO

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__)

The new mayor of #Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, celebrated his victory last night by riding to city hall on a Vélib' bikeshare bicycle.

He's promised 60,000 new social housing units 15 express bus routes, 1000 new pedestrian streets, completion of bike path network...

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