verbman

verbman, 1 month ago to random

Taranaki Maunga and the Aurora

verbman, 1 month ago to random

Been making things again, this time building on the "love letter" format (does it need a new name now?) with an annotation UI for the UN's Global Digital Compact document
https://ref.synco.pt/un/gdc/zero/en/?annotation=brainboxinstitute-25april2024

verbman, 1 month ago to random

Noticing that public chat LLM's when challenged; can very easily and readily state that they were wrong and then try a new sequence of words. Kind curious where they got THAT training data from.

sarahhbickerton, 2 months ago to random

Nothing like editing a paper into the evening while high tempo trance music plays through your desktop speakers …

adamgreenfield, 2 months ago to random

In a low-diligence culture like the UK – a term I’ll explain shortly – overlaying digital systems (like these smart meters) over the processes of everyday life results not in efficiency or productivity gains, but in just the opposite: compounded failures that take extra time, effort and resource to correct. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/26/smart-meter-rollout-number-faulty-machines-leaps-great-britain

morganm, 2 months ago to random

Your man morgan is getting married and is here to stay stateside it seems.

I love Aotearoa and will visit back there someday soon enough but all of life's indications tell me I wont be living there much in the coming decades, but who knows what will or could bring me back

verbman, 3 months ago to random

Been reading about the Irish Potato famine and the role of the middlemen. Middlemen are basically the same as Property Managers today. Gives a historical perspective on how far humans will go to maximise rent in even the most dire of circumstances.
Sobering just how much food was being shipped out of Ireland over the same period.
https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1653&context=mulr

AnnemarieBridy, 3 months ago to random

I’ve just been introduced to the concept of Swedish death cleaning, and I like it quite a lot. (YMMV, but I think it’s much less macabre than it sounds — and more metal than all that stuff about ‘sparking joy’.)

verbman, 3 months ago to random

Running a script that’s taking 5 hours and handling about 90mb of legislation. I could probably make it more efficient as it’s chugging along at 15% cpu.
This be me answering the question “but does it scale?”.

verbman, 3 months ago to random

I'm forcing myself to play with LLM's today and I feel like something between a luddite and Will Smith in iRobot.

verbman, 3 months ago to random

Happy Valentine’s Day Nerds!
(New blog post)

https://hamish.dev/happy-valentines-day-nerds

sarahhbickerton, 4 months ago to random

Christopher Luxon’s Waitangi speech was so boring it became insulting | The Spinoff https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-02-2024/christopher-luxons-waitangi-speech-was-so-boring-it-became-insulting

Xas, 4 months ago to random

Started playing Frostpunk tonight, and I can already feel myself turning into some sort of heartless Dickensian tyrant. I've already had my first citizen get something lopped off due to frostbite, and my first thought was 'Bloody layabout!'. 😬👀

nathanaelcbr, 4 months ago to random

How does one bring a jerry can of amp-hours to a stranded EV?

laurence, 4 months ago to random

If you could rethink the design of the standard academic paper, what features would you want it to have?

Thinking of the format and the medium, rather than the content or aesthetic (though that might feed into your answer).

What affordances should scientific publications have?

verbman, 4 months ago to random

So I found some bugs in NZ legislation and figured I should write them down in a blog post before I forgot what they were.
Tell me this was worth it!!!

https://hamish.dev/no-notes

verbman, 4 months ago to random

For the sake of research I installed Llama 2 on my local machine and ran a query. I think I need a shower and some time outside under a tree.

sluttymayo, 4 months ago to random

an air conditioner doesn't "make the air colder," strictly speaking. technically, it moves the heat from the inside air to the outside air.

similarly, a light bulb doesn't "emit light." it sucks up the darkness and puts it outside. that's why it's dark at night, because people have their lights on inside.

verbman, 4 months ago to random

So that happened - we got to dark red on the rain radar!

verbman, 4 months ago to random

As tāngata Tiriti I say you cannot morally or ethically or decently legislate via referendum to redefine our treaty. Changes to any treaty need to be renegotiated to the agreement of all parties to the treaty (which from a democratic perspective gives the crown just one “vote”). To me it’s a given we should be honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Proposing a referendum could only be valid if the treaty explicitly created that mechanism; it does not. The proposal itself therefore is dishonouring.