The Gradient

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The Gradient is an organization with the missions of making it easier for anyone to learn about AI and of facilitating discu. We were founded in 2017 by a group of students and researchers at the Stanford AI Lab. Our current projects include The Gradient Magazine, The Gradient Podcast, The Update newsletter, and Sigmoid Social. We are a non-profit and volunteer-run effort run by researchers and engineers in the AI community.
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Show threadThe GradientNov 6, 2024
@nutronic hi! No, they should not be blocked
The GradientJul 1, 2024

Hello Sigmoid Social users!

Wow, Sigmoid Social has been around for over 2.5 years now, how time flies...

Just want mention we are very much still around as administrators and moderators of this Mastodon instance behind the scenes.

We appear to have reached a steady-state of a decent number of users, and we love that some of you still benefit from this instance.

Please do message or email us if you want to suggest improvements or changes!

 

Show threadThe GradientMar 1, 2024
@_dmh we are not, thanks for the pointer
The GradientFeb 28, 2024
PSA: We've been seeing an uptick of spam coming from various Mastodon instances over the last several weeks. To address this, we are suspending federation with the instances that appear to be the source of spam; these are generally small instances that don't presently have interactions with users on here. Our instance still has approval-gated registration, so no spam accounts are expected to be created on here.
Show threadThe GradientDec 20, 2023
@chrisoffner3d does it not work for you at all, or is it an issue with older posts? It appears to work fine for us.
The GradientDec 17, 2023

FYI: we currently have no plans to in any way limit interaction with Threads on this instance. Some major AI voices (eg Karpathy, LeCun) are active on there, so we believe this in the best interest of the community. However, if Sigmoid Social users urge us to act otherwise, we'd be happy to put it to a vote.

(context: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon )

Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Mark Zuckerberg said Threads is testing ActivityPub support that will make its posts available on Mastodon and other interoperable services.

The Verge
The GradientDec 15, 2023

Oops, we haven't posted anything in quite a while... Hi! Though we've been silent, be assured that behind the scenes we at The Gradient are continuing to actively admin and moderate Sigmoid Social. Our stats show steady user activity for a while now, so we are happy many of you decided to stick around and keep posting here 😊

Happy almost holidays 🎄

Show threadThe GradientOct 17, 2023
@stablehorde Sorry to see this has impacted you. For now it'd be optimal to implement a queue for posting, it seems - it'd work to post once per 1 minute at most, perhaps.
The GradientSep 12, 2023
@BenjaminHan we will!
Show threadThe GradientSep 12, 2023
@anandphilipc hi, sorry for late reply. We'll have full text search as soon as Mastodon 4.2 comes out.