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kellogh

@kellogh@hachyderm.io

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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futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Which celestial body is the most creepy?

kellogh ,
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@futurebird moons are creepy, obvs, and Jupiter has the most of them. Easy vote

futurebird , to random
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When there is an incumbent a debate is an opportunity for the country to "get to know" the challenger. When both candidates are former presidents, neither of whom have been out of the news even for a moment... what is the point?

Will we learn anything new?

I'm seeing a lot of panic and "This is bad for Biden" flickering by, and I'd agree ... if he wasn't someone we already knew.

Never-forget the implicit desire media has for a horse race.

I'll be curious to see the ratings.

kellogh ,
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@futurebird i think you have a lot of clarity of mind that is probably lacking from the majority of america. hell, i have a hard time even visualizing presidents as just a cog in the system. i’m worried about this debate, because i don’t think people dismiss superficial performance that easily

@nazokiyoubinbou

futurebird , to random
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For the love of god don't buy your kids AI generated coloring books. Most of it looks "OK" but... look at that mouth. Nightmare fuel.

Here is a link to an artist selling a better alternative:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1465125233/the-carpenter-ant-printable-adult?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=carpenter+ant+coloring&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&dd=1&content_source=0c8f3a80e48a089dcd54e664cfc78b7831bf7a1a%253A1465125233&organic_search_click=1

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@futurebird sheesh, that’s better art than most metal bands can come up with

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

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

nopatience , to random
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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

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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    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/

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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

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