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jcalpickard

@jcalpickard@assemblag.es

Editor, independent ethnographer, anarchivist, turtuliano, markdown file colporteur, hobbyist prompt engineer (Gopnikist). Hard edge of the soft left. PhD in infrastructure politics & urban life. High-energy introvert, readily nerd-sniped. Yorkshire-based. Born at 350ppm. He/him/ਉਹ. 🏳️‍🌈

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dymaxion , to random
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After years getting used to living in Finland, my gods, the English phone network! It's almost worse than the heating. And you live like this?!

jcalpickard ,
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@dymaxion 👋 ("live")

jcalpickard , to random
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'The literature machines we’ve built today … are not merely surrounded by hidden ghosts of the individual and society but are built from them and speak in their tongues. Yes, these systems are used to produce swathes of bland, semi-language—meaningless pap that is not only not good but is actively corrosive to the business of thinking—but they’re also capable, as any combinatorial mechanism can be, human or otherwise, of insight and revelation.'

https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/do-chatbots-dream-of-ai-poetry-calvino-madness-and-machine-literature/

jonty , to random
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Our environmental data feeds from @emf are now live, this is the spider forecast for next weekend

jcalpickard ,
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@jonty @emf is it to scale

jcalpickard , to random
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The Scarlett Johansson situation is objectively very funny (for everyone who isn't her), but I'm still beating the drum for an AI assistant trained on the diaries of Samuel Peyps.

jcalpickard OP ,
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@dymaxion Oh, more that OpenAI were stupid enough to not forsee this as an outcome. But I take your point.

jcalpickard , to random
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'Since you don't have a strict hierarchical structure, you could experiment with force-directed layout algorithms like the Fruchterman-Reingold algorithm or the Barnes-Hut simulation.' #generatedtext

jcalpickard OP ,
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Date night with Messrs. Barnes and Hut, and their approximation algorithm.

jcalpickard , to random
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Pinning Visual Studio Code to the start menu feels like a very particular life transition.

jcalpickard , to random
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Oh great, cops with emp weapons.

'It would fire an electromagnetic pulse at a vehicle that an officer wants to stop because the rider is suspected of involvement in a crime.'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/13/uk-police-ghostbusters-style-backpack-devices-ebike-getaways

jcalpickard , to random
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Oh just sperm whales using caller ID, no big deal.

'While a subset of codas have been shown to encode information about caller identity, almost everything else about the sperm whale communication system, including its structure and information-carrying capacity, remains unknown.'

🔓https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47221-8

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@dymaxion brb screening whalesong

jcalpickard , to random
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Neologism: deterministic quoting.

'Applications with Deterministic Quoting provide verbatim “ground-truth” information interspersed with LLM commentary. It combines the convenience and flexibility of the LLM with trustworthy data that is guaranteed to be hallucination-free.'

https://mattyyeung.github.io/deterministic-quoting#1-hallucinations-matter

jcalpickard OP ,
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Was talking about this exact design problem with @prehensile last month, who's had to improvise something similar.

jcalpickard OP ,
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What a world. '100% of all text displayed in the special quote box (the blue background in the examples) is indeed verbatim, not hallucinated.'

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@dymaxion artisinally hallucinated by humans

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'Another sociological perspective might be that for better or worse, Max Weber’s disenchantment is being rolled back a little. We live in a world that we do not, and on some level cannot understand, and are having our noses rubbed in it by black-box algorithms. It’s an age of enthusiasms, in the original sense of the word, where fervors spread through the population like contagious viruses.'

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-infernal-desire-machines-of-dr

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@dymaxion TEN YEARS AGO?

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