chris

chris, 5 months ago to chicago

Franklin Street.

#Chicago #ChicagoEl

chris, 8 months ago to random

Typical Saturday - I have a full UNSCHEDULED day for getting stuff done that the rest of the week pushed to the back burner, and my brain refuses to get into gear.

lauren, 8 months ago to random

So apparently a lot of people spend a lot of time musing about what music/songs they want to have played at their funeral. Given my ongoing immortality project, which I expect to yield significant developments any day now, this is not of major consequence in my routine thinking.

However, if push came to shove, right now it might be a toss-up between the closing movement of "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" and Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle With You".

scheidegger, 8 months ago to random

Literally have now spent half the flight time from Tucson to Chicago in traffic from ohare to hotel. Remind me again why people like cities like this?

cdlhamma, 9 months ago to photography

It's been exactly one year since I got back into #Photography after deciding to learn the fundamentals this time around vs winging it. I've learned a ton over the past year, and am still really enjoying it! This is one of the first photos I took on the current camera #DogsofMastodon

chris, 9 months ago to LLMs

This was an EXTREMELY interesting paper on what modern LLMs can learn from older older symbolic AI / expert system approaches to improve the validity of what those statistical models generate on their own, using the Cyc system as the contrast to the modern systems.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445

#Cyc #DougLenat #SymbolicAI #ExpertSystems #LLMs #ChatGPT #Bard #AI #KnowledgeRepresentation

Bam, 9 months ago to random

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dansup, 10 months ago to random

The Sup. beta will launch in an ephemeral state without encryption and partial federation support, while we work out the final details.

The timeline for encryption + full federation will be a few weeks, during which users will be able to beta test the UI and other features, and devs can test encryption.

Spread the word 📢

emarktaylor, 10 months ago to MLB

⚾ #MLB #Baseball @baseball @baseball

Via Super 70s Sports @super70ssports
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Today in 1982, #JimRice goes into the stands to aid a 4-year-old boy who was struck by a line drive. After emergency surgery and five days in the hospital, the child goes on to make a full recovery. To this day, his family believes Jim Rice saved his life.

dansup, 10 months ago to random

sup. is an open source encrypted fediverse instant messenger, similar to whatsapp, made by pixelfed.

The beta will be launching later this month, and btw most fediverse accounts will work, not just Pixelfed 😉

dancinyogi, 10 months ago to random

I looked at my packed client schedule for next week and thought, 'This is BS! This is total BS! I've got back-to-back-to-back sessions!!!". Then I looked around for someone to blame and realized...

It's me.

That's the problem with working for yourself. When your one and only employee is off sick, the blame boomerangs and smacks you right in the.....🙄

dansup, 10 months ago to random

Once the new app build is out, I'll work on the new timeline service that will enable hashtag follows, muted keywords, blocks/mutes and better performance!

Then I'll be adding user level block import/exports and domain blocks.

Everything seems to be coming together, and I'm here for it 🚀

MissingThePt, 10 months ago to random

Saw this new social media app being promoted in the App Store, “X” — anyone know anything about it? Should I join?!

dancinyogi, 10 months ago to random

I know this is bad for your teeth, but since Dad has been in the hospital, I've become addicted to hospital ice cubes. They're really soft ice cubes with a satisfying crunch.

kjhealy, 10 months ago to random

Imagine controlling a brand whose name and associated actions have, miraculously, entered the language of everyday life in the only way that can really happen … just a purely organic process of adoption, to the point where competitors use pastiches of “your” words. The kind of thing marketers dream of but know in their hearts cannot be artificially induced. Astonishingly valuable. Now imagine you are a boneheaded narcissist billionaire with a long-term fixation on the letter ‘x'.

chris, 10 months ago to random

Brian May is an international treasure.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/23/queen-brian-may-3d-atlas-bennu-asteroid

#DrBrianMay #BennuAsteroid #SpaceAtlas

evan, 10 months ago to random

I'm writing Java for the first time in 20 years for my graduate school work.

One thing that irritates me about Java is that package names work like this: you invert your organisation's domain name, and then add the package to the end, like this:

package me.evanp.somepackagename;

It's irritating because it's backwards. It's their syntax; they could have just as easily made it:

package somepackagename.evanp.me;

bkeegan, 10 months ago to random

Everyone should go through an “obnoxious Unicode characters in their display name” phase. https://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi

benjaminwittes, 10 months ago to random

My review of the Barbie movie.
Today's #DogShirtDaily is out!
https://www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/thoughts-on-the-barbie-movie?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

chris, 10 months ago to random

Finished this gem of a show this afternoon while working.

"I am not a number! I AM A FREE MAN!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqAm62U17Pg

#ThePrisoner

chris, 11 months ago to ai

"The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from 'shadow library' websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are 'available in bulk via torrent systems.'"

Good.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai

#AI #LLMs #Copyright