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doboprobodyne

@doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz

Dipping a toe. I have some understanding of the most elementary fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, some practical physics and organic chemistry. I'd like to do a little passive learning if I can, with a view to learning programming later in life. We all see the same truth through a different paradigm, but sometimes math helps us better see and understand and convey the same thing. What a lovely backbone upon which to build a body of communication and thought. I treasure this server.

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seddon, to random
doboprobodyne,
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@eagerpebble @seddon

Hah yes, and the GNU licence, which they have compiled into their inference models!

#GNU #FOSS #AI #LLM #TLA #coding #oobabooga #law #license #licence #AIIsJustACleverMultiStageCompiler #almostAllAIIsProbablyFossByNow

mimsical, to random
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whenever an ai or a robot does something better than a human and someone slobbers all over themselves to declare that this shows the robot takeover is nigh, it tells me so much more about them than it tells me about our proximity to such an event

doboprobodyne,
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@mimsical

We're hoping the machines will raise the bar ;)

#AI #Singularity #GAN #LLM #ML #robotics

baldur, to random
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“Not so private room: Zoom’s AI privacy fiasco exposes how vulnerable we are to Big Tech’s whims” https://www.salon.com/2023/08/11/not-so-private-room-zooms-ai-privacy-fiasco-exposes-how-vulnerable-we-are-to-big-techs-whims/

doboprobodyne,
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@baldur

Cracking thing to highlight. And 's card want to know about you visit, and lots of other .

Perhaps now is the hour of and and other potentially free &/or &/or to shine!

Although someone might need to lay some groundwork with some or and promote an among the gen pop, first 🤪


😉

wendyg, to ai
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This week's net.wars, "The data grab" watches uneasily as many more players scrabble for new sources of data to feed their AI models...and existing models make trouble in the real world: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/08/11/the-data-grab/ #NetWars #AI #algorithms #OpenSource

doboprobodyne,
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@wendyg

🤯
Can you imagine if all Machine Automation written using public #data without having explicitly sought the author's permission had to be published under the #GNU licence?

> Whatever has been going on until now with data slurping in the interests of bombarding us with microtargeted ads is small stuff compared to the accelerating acquisition for the purpose of feeding AI models. Arguably, AI could be a public good in the long term as it improves, and therefore allowing these companies to access all available data for training is in the public interest. But if that’s true, then the public should own the models, not the companies. Why should we consent to the use of our data so they can sell it back to us and keep the proceeds for their shareholders?

https://
netwars.pelicancrossing.net/20
23/08/11/the-data-grab/

#datagrab #AI #openSource #copyright #law #LLM #government #licensing

thunderbird, to random
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This feature would be fantastic in Thunderbird, don't you think? 👀 😉

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/firefox-117-private-translation

doboprobodyne,
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@thunderbird

Wow. Thank you for sharing this on-device #translation #Firefox capability.

I see why you want this for #thunderbird! Personally I hope #SelfHosted translation comes to #openSource #messaging and #documentSharing platforms like #nextcloud too.

doboprobodyne,
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@nextcloud @thunderbird

😀 Thanks, #nextcloud !

Arotrios, (edited ) to 13thFloor
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Lyft driver last night decided to tell me his life story. The guy was more than a bit unhinged, so I just let him talk.

Veteran, tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Starts talking about his domestic violence towards his ex-wife and children, laughing about how he had only jokingly threatened to break his children's legs, and when he stabbed his wife in the arm with a wire, it wasn't really a stabbing.

"I told the judge, if I had wanted to stab her, she'd be dead."

Complains in great detail about all the money she took from him, his prison time for the assault, and describes with glee hiding his assets in his vintage car. "New chrome, new hood, new tires - bitch wasn't gonna see that money!"

Continues on about how his new girl came from Iraq and knows what a war zone is like. Brags that he'll send her back if she doesn't marry him. Turns out he's never seen her in person, but has sent her over $7k through some online hookup site that charges per message. Goes off on how he helped her move from Canada to Chicago (we're in California), and complains about how each time he sends her money to come out west, she never shows up.

"I've bought the tux, the wedding dress - it's all ready to go - it's that or Iraq."

Note that all of this was punctuated with constant bouts of chuckling and provided completely unprompted - I said maybe three words the entire trip.

Why do I relate this story? First, it was watching bad karma in action, both the fuck around and find out phases wrapped up in a tidy taxi ride.

But I found myself wondering what he was like as a child... he was clearly struggling in the smarts department, but he had a natural friendliness that belied the horrible shit coming out of his mouth. It got me thinking to what this guy might have been like had the army not put a gun in his hand and sent him overseas to kill. He was in his forties, but his mind was that of a violent teenager - almost as if it had been frozen at the point in time when he was deployed.

I speak about this because I've seen the same pattern in other vets I've known, including some I went to high school with (1st Gulf War vets). Something gets permanently broken in them, keeping them in a state of constant angry adolescence that takes childish glee in abuse, cruelty and savagery as a way to normalize their experience.

And then they come home, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake as they try to integrate to a peacetime existence, unable to grow up, Peter Pan with a gun in hand.

I wish someone had made this clear to my friends who joined up. There's more than one of them who's too dangerous to be a friend to now.

doboprobodyne,
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@Arotrios

I have yet to read it, but I understand the book "Achilles In Vietnam" might be the tome for which you don't know you're looking ;)

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/isbn/9780684813219/

#psychiatry #medMastodon #PTSD #ADHD #military #war #vietnam #classics #greek #history #afghanistan #iraq #veteran #combat #trauma #family #relationships

doboprobodyne,
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@Arotrios

Thank you! :D

rikefranke, to random
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Quite a shocking read.
“As their profits have grown, Greece has lobbied successfully to dilute sanctions on Russian oil. A merchant navy, run by a small group of Western oligarchs, keeps money flowing into Putin’s regime.”

Vladimir Putin’s secret navy - New Statesman

https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-report/2023/08/putin-secret-greek-navy

doboprobodyne,
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@rikefranke

Paywall bypass

https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstatesman.com%2Fthe-weekend-report%2F2023%2F08%2Fputin-secret-greek-navy

animemer, to random

hey, in a debate with @thecatcollective

over parents being delusional,

can you list any open source software that has become the industry standard, so far i got

  • obs- video-streaming
  • android
  • Linux and BSD on servers
  • both chrome and firefox are
    based on open source
doboprobodyne,
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@kkarhan @animemer @thecatcollective

#openBSD runs servers and computers at #banks and other high-reliability-requirement institutions.

It gave rise to #openSSH and #libreSSL which I believe windows 10 uses to improve your parents' security online.

#ada was #DOD developed for defence application and now runs everything from #missiles to #railway signalling networks to #autopilots

The same is also true for #freeRTOS and #RTEMS which drive rockets into space. There are many #openSource programs involved in rocketry at the highest levels, both civil and martial.

Perhaps most importantly to them, these are things you can exploit freely, a torch passed to you by others, free as in speech, a tool to better command whatever hardware you elect to use.

I hope you succeed in giving them some food for thought about different ways to achieve success ;)

baldur, to random
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Always a bit annoying how consistently some tech types degrade themselves by insisting that language models “learn” and “reason” in exactly the same ways they do.

doboprobodyne,
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@baldur @ErikJonker

Always a bit annoying when humans believe they 'learn' and 'think', and need hard cold science to show them just how useless their 'learning' and 'thinking' has been ;)

igorwarneck, to linux German

Question to the and community:

Is there a working and free software for speech recognition under Linux?
I would like to dictate directly into the writing program and would not like to make a diversion via Google - i.e., preferably offline.

I would be very grateful for any tips!

doboprobodyne,
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@downey
@igorwarneck

@geb has generously published #Numen #SpeechToText under an #OpenSource licence, and it looks very cool. I'm waiting for the day I can talk to an automated #AirTraffic controller on #Flightgear #FlightSimulator !

https://sr.ht/~geb/numen/

simon, to random
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Woke up to find one of my old blog entries spent the night on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843484 - it was this one, "It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate" https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/17/standing-out/

A lot of people take offense to that one. Reading comments on it is a pretty fascinating anthropological exploration of different attitudes to work, interviewing, hiring practices and suchlike

doboprobodyne,
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@jugmac00 @simon

Are there any #schools that exclusively use/teach #OpenSource #software ?

I feel like a lot of what we do we learn in school...

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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I'm going to the Orkney Islands! I'll be staying in Kirkwall but plan to visit various archaeological sites - in particular the Ness of Brodgar, on the same island. This is a complex of monumental Neolithic buildings dating from around 3000 BC. There's a dig there now, but in 2024 it'll be covered over and backfilled to save it for future archaeologists. So this may be the last time to see it before our civilization crashes.

Speaking of which: due to the climate crisis I try to avoid flying around and spewing out carbon, but I haven't managed to completely resist traveling, so I've compromised by only making one long flight this year, for a 6-month visit to Edinburgh. While here I will indulge myself in some local travel. The bleak and northerly Orkney Islands, with their many Neolithic sites, have always fascinated me.

doboprobodyne,
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@johncarlosbaez
The #archeology open to the public in #Orkney is second to none. Don't forget to visit the fudge factory too 😜 and find an excuse to go to a ceilidh!

WingedAssault, to random

I love how I can scroll through Mastodon without seeing any ads or promoted posts. It's so refreshing to be able to see what my friends and followers are up to without being interrupted by all the marketing crap.

I know some people think that ads are a necessary evil, but I don't. I think we should be able to use social media platforms without being constantly bombarded by ads.

So thanks, Mastodon, for being a place to connect with my peeps without having to worry about ads. I appreciate it.

doboprobodyne,
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@sysop408 @WingedAssault

Hear hear. I think 'evil' is perhaps a step on the road to hyperbole, but if we might stick to the (OK, only marginally more objective) #economics of #decentralised #SocialMedia , the users externalise their costs, unless they're making it worth the provider's expense. (Thanks @ColinTheMathmo !)

I'd love to know if it was possible to throw context dependent #advertising up alongside a #kbin instance to fund its operation, as I don't think most users are ready to pay for social media, but I wouldn't wish to fund it by mining their data and selling it.

kellogh, to random
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“Back in my day, ‘defederation’ was when a vacuum tube got clogged”

doboprobodyne,
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@kellogh
If we're ever looking for a new picture of what probably looks like, I'm voting for this .

LukaszOlejnik, to random
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Blowing up a dam is a violation of international humanitarian law, I cite Protocol Additional I to Geneva Conventions. "installations containing dangerous forces, namely dams, ..., shall not be made the object of attack"

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doboprobodyne,
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@LukaszOlejnik

Thank you for posting this -
concise reminders of international are always welcome in my feed!

I'm always wary when I find myself agreeing with a politician, so with that caveat, I note the said the "only reason this is an issue at all is because of Russia's unprovoked full-scale invasion". The Kakhova dam on the Dnipro river provided a vehicular bridge that may have been useful to 's in re-establishing Ukraine's borders as they were understood when the was agreed to. https://liveuamap.com/en/2023/6-june-level-of-water-in-kakhovka-water-reservoir-is-rapidly Only the top of the dam is damaged but I hope might tell us about how fragile or robust these structures are.

Is now the time for discussion of a or mission to the Power Station, and secure it from all military activity?

At the risk of sounding corny, I think most people in the world would agree that re-opening for generations a pathway toward is an essential pillar of preservation, and human .

doboprobodyne,
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@kravietz @LukaszOlejnik

Thank you! that's a really thoughtful post. To me, it really drives home @LukaszOlejnik 's excellent observation about the #GenevaConventions.

Humanity's striving to respect the #RightToLife of non-combatants has been observed to occur both as a religious (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_peace_traditions#Peace_of_God) and martial (https://cilj.co.uk/2020/08/30/sun-tzus-art-of-war-and-the-first-principles-of-international-humanitarian-law/) principle, but was only really codified into law by Lieber in #America 's #CivilWar (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp) and took longer still to be brought into widespread #InternationalLaw (https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.32_GC-III-EN.pdf)

I realise that's longwinded, but that #respect for life I describe the "world" as having - even in #war - is as fragile as it is important, and it's formal adoption is still being kindled, being fanned into the torch that we all hope will light our way forever. I hope such careful posts as yours will continue to galvanise to action those who want a pathway toward #non-combatants not being killed en-mass to achieve paltry, indecisive #martial objectives.

I include a link to the wikipedia #WestphalianSystem article for completeness, as I suspect the principles it describes, and upon which it sought to maintain peace, are those on which people often very widely agree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_system

doboprobodyne,
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@kravietz @LukaszOlejnik @EugeneMcParland
I just wanted to add to this thread a link to a post with a very acute observation: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/110514271602258230
Days before the damage to the dam, investigations into accidents at hydro-technical structures that occurred as a result of military operations, sabotage and terrorist activities were prohibited by law in Russia.

Oddly specific!

Em0nM4stodon, (edited ) to linux

Linux Users! What is your favorite #Linux distribution? :tux:​✨

doboprobodyne,
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@Em0nM4stodon
I think #qubes is the most revolutionary OS, but #openbsd is what I really aspire to use.

If it isnt forcing too broad a scope, I also feel #TempleOS deserves its honourary mention! :P

molly0xfff, to random
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the weather's beautiful, pls send me your best grilling recipes

(omnivore, no allergies/dietary restrictions, novice but eager griller with a charcoal grill)

doboprobodyne,
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@molly0xfff
Hallou-mi!

ColinTheMathmo, to random
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If something is not 'unanimous', does that mean that it is 'animous'?

doboprobodyne,
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@ColinTheMathmo

Sounds right. Animosity implies disagreement.

glynmoody, to random
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virtual power plants - https://www.brattle.com/real-reliability/ "A VPP is portfolio of distributed energy resources (DERs) that are actively controlled to provide benefits to the power system, consumers, and the environment." makes sense (v @azeem)

doboprobodyne,
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@slothrop

Oh my days, is this an opportunity to use Renewable, Blockchain, and AI in the same sentence? Investors will be foaming at the mouth with excitement!

@glynmoody @azeem

Pwnallthethings, to random

A lot of my international friends have asked me--a Brit--if I’m excited for the #coronation this week, so I wrote this to roughly sum up my views on it https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/long-live-the-king

doboprobodyne,
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@Pwnallthethings

Fantastically rich thoughts about the #coronation. I completely agreed. I was feeling grumpy toward both monarchs (couldn't lead their way out of a paper bag) and politicians (also couldn't lead their way out of a paper bag), and thought both sides are a bit silly. Thank you for explaining the benefits of the Third Way, and doing it with such eloquence!

chris, to random
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    doboprobodyne,
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    @chris

    Not sure if it cheers you up, but out of ignorance, today I asked chatGPT-3.5 what the Manjaro Linux equivalent was of apt-get update. It gave me the correct answer!

    I know, it will be some time before it can teach a person how to think, but between Large Language Models and Khan Academy (or it's ilk), maybe one day we'll have good education for all!

    @ColinTheMathmo

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