kellogh

kellogh, 4 days ago to OpenAI

anyone else seeing an #openai outage? even perplexity is out for me

kellogh, 6 days ago to random

i’ve seen a lot in my career, but until now, i’ve never seen religious fervor like there is against AI. there’s a lot of religion around AI in most directions, but crypto had that too

what’s crazy about this phase is that if people took time to understand what accelationists see, they wouldn’t come to the same conclusions, and we’d have far more interesting and productive conversations about it

but instead we’re caught in tired arguments about “it’s just linear algebra”

kellogh, 6 days ago to LLMs

one thing i love about #LLMs is asking it “how tf do i do X” and it responds with 5 ideas, four of which are terrible but one is far better than anything i’d thought of. or their all terrible but one makes me realize i’ve been thinking about the problem wrong

kellogh, 8 days ago to random

new rule, in order to have “lab” or “labs” in your company name, you must register as a public benefit corporation

kellogh, 9 days ago to random

whoah, trump is convicted? i guess we can have nice things

kellogh, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

do you answer spam calls?

kellogh, 9 days ago to random

when learning about computers, i can’t imagine how people do it without “hacking” — tearing things down to the most basic components, building them back up in quirky ways

i had a CS prof that demanded everyone use Notepad.exe as their exclusive code editor and i kinda dig that mindset. you don’t need to efficiently write code when you’re learning

kellogh, 9 days ago to northcarolina

they say #northcarolina is a purple state, but it’s more like a bimodal “flaming red” AND “ice blue” state depending on where you are

imo the blue parts feel far more liberal than any part of #seattle. i debate if that’s because the south is just more superficial about everything, or if people in seattle simply don’t talk to literally anyone so we don’t actually know if it’s a liberal or conservative area

kellogh, 10 days ago to random

i know “ginormous” didn’t used to be a word, but is it a word now?

kellogh, 10 days ago to random

it’s funny that “legalistic” means a very strict interpretation, but in 2024 general society has become so saturated with computers and technology that actual legal interpretation seems vague, muddy and subjective

kellogh, 11 days ago to rainbow

the other day we had a #rainbow in our front yard. absolutely crazy seeing a rainbow so close. oddly there was no pot of gold or unicorns. the 3yo was ultimately disappointed
#rain #outdoors

kellogh, 12 days ago to random

calling that MS Recall thing a “keylogger” is simply unfair to keyloggers

kellogh, 12 days ago to random

i’m thinking about unfollowing all the threads accounts because replies don’t seem to work, afaict. not a fan of one-way bridges

kellogh, 13 days ago to random

the 8yo tried sounding out “Raleigh” and gave me a death stare when i told her how it’s actually pronounced

kellogh, 15 days ago to LLMs

i’m very excited about the interpretability work that #anthropic has been doing with #LLMs.

in this paper, they used classical machine learning algorithms to discover concepts. if a concept like “golden gate bridge” is present in the text, then they discover the associated pattern of neuron activations.

this means that you can monitor LLM responses for concepts and behaviors, like “illicit behavior” or “fart jokes”

https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-model

kellogh, 16 days ago to ai

iTerm2 developer caves to the bullies and moves the #AI feature to a plugin

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458135

kellogh, 16 days ago to LLMs

if i had more time, i'd love to investigate PII coming from #LLMs. i've seen it generate phone numbers and secrets, but i wonder if these are real or not. i imagine you could look at the logits to figure out if phone number digits were randomly chosen or if the sequence is meaningful to the LLM. anyone aware of researchers who have already done this?

kellogh, 17 days ago to random

this has been bugging me a lot. like, yeah, there’s definitely AI scams out there. and yeah, a lot of people are using it from the wrong end, but it’s also clearly a substantial technology. time to realize that
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112484753548884371

kellogh, 17 days ago to random

“One House Republican called the incident "vile" and said it has caused concern among GOP lawmakers.”

anonymous coward, show thyself!

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/22/rnc-vials-blood-capitol-police-suspicious

kellogh, 17 days ago to ai

thinking about my education growing up, my k-6 teachers were wretched with getting facts right. one teacher didn’t have a single science experiment work. lots of stuff i was taught k-12 was outright wrong.

the thing is, students exceed their teachers all the time. a teacher isn’t the limiting factor for a student

i keep hearing that #AI is worthless bc it hallucinates. yet it’s taught me functioning skills within UI dev, graphic design, 3D printing, 3D design

maybe i didn’t actually learn?

kellogh, 19 days ago to random

alternative title: Scientific Study with Dubious Methods Produces Shocking Results
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112474329186430771

kellogh, 20 days ago to random

this is in reference to super-alignment & safety, but my cousin also had her DEI team disbanded and “distributed” in the same way

on the surface, i think safety, DEI, and similar topics should be embedded in the culture and not centralized into a specific team. centralization would cause people to say, “oh that’s not my job”.

then again, any time a centralized team is disbanded, my immediate thought is, “apparently safety/DEI/etc. doesn’t matter to this company”. it’s a paradox, i suppose

kellogh, 23 days ago to ai

i get a whole lot of emails about “generative #AI expert immediately available for new role”… 🤔 expert?

kellogh, 24 days ago to random

holy shit

yesterday while trail running i came across this fallen tree. it looks like a thick vine wrapped and choked the life out of it, and the storm this weekend finally took it out. i couldn’t easily identify the vine, but whatever

this morning i wake up and i’m breaking tf out with what sure looks like poison ivy rashes.

i came back, and identified the vine as, yep, poison ivy. thick woody 1/3” vines up and down the full tree

A close-up of two green leaves with visible veins and black specks on their surfaces. The leaves are attached to a thin branch with a blurred background of other foliage and tree bark.

kellogh, 25 days ago to random

i can’t believe tomorrow is friday already