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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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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

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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GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini pretends AI generated photos show black Trump supporters registering to vote.

(ETA: no wonder he needed AI, the fictions compound. Black republicans? Republicans registering black people to vote? Black Trump supporters? It's all made up like the star on that "American" flag.)

(Look carefully)

kellogh ,
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@futurebird they’re going to need more than 3 hands if they expect to beat biden

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Wow.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

kellogh ,
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@lowqualityfacts that’s…not entirely wrong

kellogh , to random
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i’ve become disappointed with the lobste.rs community lately. it used to be the best technical discussion on the internet, to the point that i would skip the article just to read the comments, they were that good.

but the comments on my latest blog were 100% about packaging stuff, like appearance, linking, etc. it’s weird but hacker news is now where the real conversation happens and lobste.rs became a cesspool

https://lobste.rs/s/xnzvea/htmx_is_composable

kellogh OP ,
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the comments that set me off were about my use of “AI art”. my dude, why are you calling it art? it’s just an image that fills a role. a couple people ganged up to say that use of “AI art” is a signal of low quality, implying that the blog content itself was low quality but without actually addressing anything of substance in it. what a toxic place…

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then to top it off, i got yet another comment this morning saying they couldn’t understand the post because there wasn’t any links to the source code

narrator: there were 3 separate links to the source code, an entire file was pasted inline, and there were 2 additional links to other posts explaining the project.

what has this place become…

kellogh OP ,
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and if it were just this one isolated incident, whatever, but every story i’ve clicked into seems to get similar treatment these days. comments being dominated by topics other than the content of the post.

kellogh OP ,
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i post a lot of other people’s thoughtful analyses of technical subjects that are honestly incredible. but if it has anything AI related in the title, or if they can in any way sniff out AI, the entire post will flop or they’ll leave similarly off-topic comments. i’ve been getting angry at AI vegans lately and this is largely it — they’re killing technical discussion, the internet is now infected by their righteous anger, and there’s no room left for building people up

kellogh OP ,
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@mnl right? people complain that online content has gone down since GenAI, and yeah, it has! but maybe we got the causal relationship backwards…

mnl , to random
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elasticsearch, after I complained for the nth time about it's $#@$!% lack of schemas and documentation:

{"dynamic": "false"}

"false" <- a string, not a bool

FML

kellogh ,
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@mnl honestly that JSON object is as close to poetry as you’ll find in code

mnl , to random
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I find it weird that this "copilot assisted code is less secure than manually written code, especially in the hand of beginners" gets boosted around like some gotcha.

Any code written by a human is insecure unless proven so. The dismal result in the control group show that manually handcrafted code is almost just as problematic.

The problem here isn't LLM or not LLM, it's the software development workflow around security critical software.

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kellogh ,
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@mnl agreed. imo it’s a weird take because it punts the responsibility to the LLM.

you and you alone are responsible for the code you commit. it doesn’t matter if you hand-crafted it, copied it from stackoverflow, or generated it. it’s all your code now. sure, you can commit code without reading it first, but you’re risking your reputation. if that’s fine, then whatever. that’s a judgement call

mnl , to random
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You can't both complain about AI not meaning anything and then keep complaining about "AI" as if it is a thing...

I really wish I understood the psychological triggers that lead to such lack of clarity. Say "OpenAI" or "LLMs" or "diffusion models" or "classifiers" or "training corpus" or "LLM backed search" or whatever.

There's plenty to argue and debate about there. Else we conflate applications and research and companies and ethics and a conversation can't be had.

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kellogh ,
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@mnl a "conference" of interesting ideas

mnl , (edited ) to random
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"with llms all conversation is going to be bullet points to email back to bullet points".

Yo when I write an email, I first make myself a list of bullet points and then write them out.

When I receive an email, I read it and if I'm actually conscientious I will study it and write out some bullet points for my notes.. Otherwise I'll just let it wash over me and whatever sticks sticks.

Human communication is not some magic "i beam my thoughts into yours" stuff.

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kellogh ,
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@mnl i’ve used a lot of bullet points and formatting for years. it’s a style i spent a lot of time and thought perfecting. the idea was to let the reader decide what was important by providing “beacons” that their eyes can catch onto. also, i often read paragraphs backwards, so i’m also writing for myself, to some extent. i guess openai also decided that it’s a good format philosophy. i’m not sure why that’s a suddenly a bad thing, just because <<entity you don’t like>> started doing it

kellogh , to random
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i find the AI criticisms of Emily Bender & friends to be valuable, but they’re misquoted frequently to support arguments that AI is worthless. the papers themselves essentially just argue that the terms researchers use to talk about AI are misconstrued by the general public — basically that AI went big too soon. they acknowledge in just about every paper that AI is quite valuable

kellogh OP ,
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@mnl her social media presence is, but if you read the peer reviewed content (the stuff that has to abide by standards), it’s actually fairly solid

mnl , to random
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i've spent the whole day procrastihacking on things, and I"m just amazed by how comfortable the whole "how the heck do I do this", "oh no I have to do $tediousStuff", "ohh... I wish I could learn more about X but I don't have the time" has become.

Like I legit feel I kind of wasted my day, but...

kellogh ,
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@mnl procrastihacking… good one

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