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kellogh

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I'm a software engineer and sometimes manager. Currently #Raleigh but also #Seattle. Building ML platform for a healthcare startup. Previously, built an IoT platform for one of "those" companies.

Open source: dura, fossil, Jump-Location, Moq.AutoMock, others

Do I have other interests? No, but I do have kids and they have interests. I think that counts for something. I can braid hair and hunt unicorns!

I put the #rust in frustrate

He/Him

#metal #science #python

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lowqualityfacts , to random
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I believe this was the inspiration behind Hamilton.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

kellogh ,
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@lowqualityfacts you sure that’s wrong?

dahukanna , to random
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Totally agree with @PavelASamsonov UX Design research isn’t about producing/writing output “persona” document. It’s about designing, setting up & running your experiment to prove/disprove human behavior hypothesis.
This would be like a chemist not bothering with the laboratory experiment or Pharma not bothering with clinical trials & letting LLM come up with words, cos cheaper & unethical as hell!
> "No, AI user research is not “better than nothing” — it’s much worse"

kellogh ,
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@futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov why? because that’s not exactly what they’re doing. as you scale up model size, new capabilities emerge, things they weren’t trained to do. “emergent behavior” isn’t a theory, it’s an observation. the open question is, what other sorts of capabilities will emerge when we scale further up. will they acquire an element of surprise? idk, i’d say no but i’ve also been wrong so far about what their limits should be

kellogh ,
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@futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov hmmm… 🤔 most applications of LLMs don’t simply use the model alone. it’s typically a mixture of the trained model + banks of knowledge + input from the user. i’ve definitely built LLM apps that interview SMEs and then turn around and use that as a bank of knowledge in another app

molly0xfff , to random
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Altogether, the exercise reinforced my previous opinion: LLMs are terrible writers, but decent editorial rubber ducks.

https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/rubber-duck-editing-with-llms

kellogh ,
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@molly0xfff yeah, i’m always confused when people assert that the primary use for LLMs is writing, imo it’s their worst use. then again, i like writing, so idk, maybe i’m biased

futurebird , to random
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So, uh, basically we destroyed the whole world because the people who were telling us how to save it were SO ANNOYING. I guess it sucks that we’re all gonna die before our times and suffer— but, hey at least we showed those nosey know-it-alls!

They can’t tell us what to do!

And, that right there is what you call: FREEDOMS.

USA USA USA

kellogh ,
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@futurebird yooof! blegh! yeah, thanksgiving and Christmas are always an exercise in restraint

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Just read this article by Molly White @molly0xfff a well reasoned and articulated thought piece on LLMs, potential use cases but perhaps most importantly arguments against their use (and alleged usefulness).

AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

> AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.

kellogh ,
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@nopatience @molly0xfff i don’t personally find it well reasoned, it skips over some pretty glaring upsides — non-english speakers enabled to apply for jobs or navigate government bureaucracy to keep their homes or healthcare, learning new skills, getting fast feedback on ideas, … whereas she really only mentioned a non-benefit: SEO optimization

kellogh ,
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@molly0xfff @nopatience eh, that bleeds together with the next sentence, making it seem like people are purely just using it for reading & writing emails. realistically there’s lots of people using it for applying to jobs, navigating health insurance, navigating housing programs, etc. i don’t think you did it justice

futurebird , to random
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I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.

There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/

kellogh ,
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@futurebird i also tend not to believe it, but i’m skeptical of myself because 100% of the top AI experts believe in the scenario where AI becomes that intelligent

idk, we’ve been talking about anti-science regarding climate change, are we doing the same thing with AI?

kellogh ,
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@futurebird every single one of the deep learning “pillars”, the experts that are working on AI — Hinton, LaCunn, Ng, Bengio, etc.

all of the disagreement with that viewpoint are from people who are experts in other fields, like linguistics — Bender, Chomsky, Marcus, etc.

futurebird , to random
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Trump sleeping in the trial makes a lot of sense when you consider how unpleasant it is to hear things you just don't like, even if they are true... like the jury he might have been convinced to some degree of his own guilt if he paid too much attention. Some deep part of his mind that protects his ego over all things allowed him to simply fall unconscious so as not to hear or see things that might upset the fiction of his own self image.

Mirrors are not always pleasant things for some of us.

kellogh ,
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@futurebird exactly! him falling asleep makes perfect sense, psychologically. fight or flight — not allowed to fight, so flight it is

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Without looking it up what is closest to 8oz?

(Curious how well the relation between oz and metric is generally known.)

kellogh ,
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@futurebird my rule of thumb is that a liter is about the same as a quart. a nalgene bottle has quart and liter markings at the top, almost the same. so 8oz is ~1/4 of a liter

molly0xfff , to random
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hi hello i see it's time for our semi-regular reminder that your browser's incognito mode does not protect you from surveillance!

kellogh ,
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@molly0xfff is there some sort of score card? i know some browsers are better than others, but it’s hard to keep track of what it means per browser

lowqualityfacts , to random
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We made a comic about environmentalism.

kellogh ,
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@lowqualityfacts that could be a comic about my wife regarding any topic

jjimenezshaw , to random
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"If the authors of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks..."

A colleague used this image to describe the documentation of a library. Meaning that the documentation was the example with the rabbits, but they have to use the library as the second part of the image.

"If the authors of computer programming books wrote arithmetic textbooks..." First: Example of simple arithmetic adding rabbits. "1 + 1 = 2" Second: "Now that you understand the basic idea behind arithmetic, let's take a look at a simple easy-to-understand example that puts into practice what we just learned." An extremely complex mathematical operation, too long, that does not fit in the image. Original title tag in the image "I have also intentionally included fatal mistakes in the equations to make it more realistic. Please see the errata page on our website."
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    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird @jjimenezshaw right, its CS papers that do this

    futurebird , to random
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    Politicians and political commentators whine about young people not buying homes and starting families (not getting married) and then do NOTHING to help the young people (who do exist) who would love to do one or more of these things but can't because it's too damn expensive.

    Build housing and coops where young people want to live. Protect their jobs with unions. Make health care not an issue.

    Do not make some marriages impossible because you don't like the genders.

    Not rocket science.

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird i had this same conversation with my dad after he went off about some population crisis. “dad, do you know how expensive it is to have children these days? the whole world is working against you and your family”

    futurebird , to random
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    I love the fedi only more for being the only place I know full of exasperated FORTRAN defenders. How can we insult the original word? Yea, when it was first written we were not yet even born! 🥰

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird ha, BLAS and LAPACK are written in fortran and almost all linear algebra libraries use them for array operations, e.g. numpy. so there’s a chance several of the programs you use are running fortran, especially anything ML/AI related

    futurebird , to random
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    Four more years?
    or five more brain worms?

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird is that a reference to the Host of Saturday Night Live Worms?

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    I wish I could unlearn this.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    kellogh ,
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    @lowqualityfacts yep! right at the sternum. most heart disease is caused by toenail fungus

    unclepj , to random
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    Ok, question. Why do we say Attorney at Law? Is there some other kind? Like Attorney at Having a Good Time or Attorney at Snowboarding?

    May I suggest Attorney at Napping? That’s something I could get behind.

    kellogh ,
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    @unclepj @futurebird attorney inlaw is what you call your wife’s divorce attorney

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Trump supporters are now wearing diapers. Remember the heartwarming scene in Billy Madison where Adam Sandler pissed his pants to make the shy nerdy kid feel better? It's like that, except they're doing it to defend a 77 year old fascist who would slaughter their entire family to make a quick buck.

    Trump supporters holding a banner that says "Real Men Wear Diapers, Trump 2024"

    kellogh ,
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    @lowqualityfacts apparently in response to this, which doesn’t really clear it up any if i’m being honest

    dillyd , to random
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    I was wondering whether this was a fern or a moss, and it turns out to be delicate fern moss. On a pacific yew at the Sol Duc Falls trail, Olympic National Park, Washington, US.
    #mosstodon

    kellogh ,
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    @dillyd Sol Duc Falls is one of my favorite places. The first time I was there, we ended up escalating to a 20 mile backpacking trip around the 7 lakes basin

    futurebird , to random
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    My current radical take that is driving the principal insane is the idea that to better educate our students about social media, online safety etc. we should have them set up and run their own social media on the school intranet.

    And I get why. But, why do we just throw young people out into the wilds of the internet where they are surrounded by ads, creepy people, criminals etc.?

    Part of why social media can be chaotic and destructive is because too many adults hope it just wont exist.

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird oh that’s great. definitely ask questions here if you need to, there’s a ton of people who would love to help

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Poor Brian.

    kellogh ,
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    @lowqualityfacts should’ve attributed it to Brian Seacrest. missed opportunity

    futurebird , to random
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    I haven't really kept up with DARPA. I remember they used to lurk around my college when I was in undergrad trying to get young CS/engineers. Everyone was sort of creeped out by them, "You're going to be making weapons of war, they are totally DOD funded. That's the dark side."

    They had gaming nights and stuff to try to convince us otherwise.

    But... have they made any truly heinous weapons yet? Or did they pull the best move ever and take all the DOD money and make cool if ominous robots?

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird i think the answer is biased by what’s declassified, so we really just hear about the cool generally useful stuff like ARPANET, but there’s probably plenty of typical heinous stuff too

    mnl , to random
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    it's been a minute. Honestly I think not reading mastodon has done me a lot of good mentally.

    Now I'm back, let's brace ourselves.

    kellogh ,
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    @mnl ah, well i noticed you were gone. glad to have you back

    kellogh , to random
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    rn i could really use an AI generated video of Elsa brushing her teeth. i need proof to convince the 3yo

    kellogh OP ,
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    the 8yo is negotiating with the 3yo on my behalf

    kellogh OP ,
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    the 8yo is now making unsolicited AI generated depictions of my week

    A man in a gray T-shirt and brown shorts is frantically running away from a large, menacing turkey. He looks over his shoulder with an expression of terror and swings a stick behind him, trying to fend off the turkey which has its beak open in a threatening pose. The turkey’s exaggerated size and fierce demeanor add a comical yet slightly thrilling aspect to the scene set in a suburban backyard.
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    • kellogh , to random
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    in the first hour of this attack, i saw the word “unprecedented” probably 12 times, and i can’t figure out for the life of me what’s unprecedented about this situation

    kellogh , to random
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    Happy !

    This guy wanted to help me trim the bushes, but got scared away by the noise of the trimmers (i’ll be quieter next time, sorry)

    This image shows a snake on a paved surface, just by a metal fence, with its shadow being cast on the ground. The sunlight is creating a stark contrast between the light and shadowed areas, highlighting the snake's sinuous form against the pavement.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    How are you feeling today?

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird i got chased by a wild turkey this morning, so…yeah, whatever that is

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird the full saga here: https://hachyderm.io/@kellogh/112213116367373553

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    I can feel it circulating down there.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    kellogh ,
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    @lowqualityfacts right, which is why leg amputees are given a plunger to keep their blood pumping

    futurebird , to random
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    The fediverse is bigger than Truth Social and most of it isn't even a company... just a bunch of nerds running their own social network on pocket change (as it should be) and the content here is chefs kiss so much nicer.

    Maybe we should "go public" too LMAO.

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird you might say we already are public, THE public

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Very impressive.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts.

    kellogh ,
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    @lowqualityfacts well that explains why there’s so many of them at the bottom of the East River

    kellogh , to random
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    The Attack Turkey

    this morning on the run i got to the top of the hill and was resting, bc i'm out of shape, and off in the distance i see a bird trotting my way

    as it gets closer i realize it's a turkey. it had a big red gobbler and its neck was iridescent. It was actually really pretty, so i just watched as it approached

    kellogh OP ,
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    it kept coming straight at me, eventually it was like 2-3 feet from me and my feeling shifted from awe to nervousness. i don't think turkeys are aggressive, but i also don't want to physically learn about a new aspect of nature today either, so i bolted

    to my surprise, and anxiety, the bird chased after me. i sprinted across the hill, down and up a gully. It was still following me, but getting further behind, so i walked a bit, but it caught up, so i ran.

    kellogh OP ,
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    Eventually, it came to the long downhill and i lost it for good because, as out of shape as i am, i can still run faster than a turkey downhill

    unfortunately, i still had to come back. and it was waiting for me at the top of the hill. i picked up a long stick and kept it at a distance as i walked around it. as i sprinted downhill toward the creek, it followed me, but i think i lost it after the creek

    kellogh OP ,
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    part of me wonders if the owners of the new development at the top of the hill got a turkey to defend its land from intruders, my trail does thread some Posted signs. but that's crazy, right??

    kellogh OP ,
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    i’ve seen plenty of apex predators on the trail. bald eagles, black bears, moose, also rattlesnakes and copperheads. never have i been so scared as with that turkey. i can still feel the sudden shift from awe to terror as it got a bit too close.

    kellogh OP ,
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    after i got home, i looked it up and yes, turkeys can indeed be aggressive, especially around breeding time (i got news for you, Mr Turkey, i’m not your competition)

    if it happens again tomorrow, i think the answer is to be more overtly aggressive. so maybe i need to yell and chase it rather than just defensively tip toe around it. idk

    kellogh OP ,
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    TURKEY UPDATE

    yesterday i went running again, same place. said turkey was WAITING FOR ME at the bottom of the hill.

    i'm like "f this" and turned to run away but it followed me, again.

    i started yelling at it with my best Will Ramos #metal screams but it did not flinch

    i picked up a stick and swung hard it close to it's head, hoping that would scare it off. it was not scared off.

    kellogh OP ,
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    @futurebird tbh they don’t seem to run that fast, so maybe turkey trot is a great way to get in shape, or at least motivation to run faster than a 15 min mile. 🤔 new business idea

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    That explains a lot.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    kellogh ,
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    @lowqualityfacts in 2014 the CIA suppressed a political movement to rename South America to “Anti-America” by framing it as a criticism of the United States’ superior healthcare system

    futurebird , to random
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    A second republican, Mike Gallagher, has decided he will not complete his term or seek reelection. Given the narrow majority republicans hold this must be alarming.

    It makes me wonder what exactly is going on with the conference? What were they asked to do? There is the chaos with the budget... but I'm thinking about what sort of plans are being laid for November.

    Gallagher is a conservative and I don't agree with much of what he's said. But he was very rational in his response to Jan. 6.

    kellogh ,
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    @futurebird it feels like a mass exodus.

    Some replies here are saying it’s, “i can make more money elsewhere”, but no, if that were the case they’d be staying through the end of their term.

    this feels like, “i can’t take a single minute more of this madness”. Mass exodus.

    mnl , to random
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    Hello I am Manuel and I moved today. I like computers, books, drawing, producing Techno and Ambient, video games and recently photography. I like riding my bike (especially gravel adventures). I am autistic. My current deep interest is LLMs and LLMs for programming in general. Also photography.

    kellogh ,
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    @mnl oh! you’re in the US? i end up in new england from time to time, maybe ill msg you if i’m around

    kellogh ,
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    @mnl oh i was thinking you were in germany

    hauschke , to AcademicChatter group
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    Did anyone of you already receive that was obviously created by ? I can see how speed up their publication cycles, get rid of costly human interactions and deliver some seemingly plausible text to authors by just throwing manuscripts at a LLM and then let it generate reviews.

    @academicchatter

    kellogh ,
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    @hauschke @academicchatter if that’s the best a publisher can do, then there’s zero value in publishers anymore. might as well make a fully open source open science site that does the same thing

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