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AI slop turned Facebook into an anaerobic lagoon of botshit, the laziest, grossest engagement bait, much of it from rise-and-grind spammers who consume get rich quick "courses" and churn out a torrent of "shrimp Jesus" and fake chainsaw sculptures: https://t.co/NxsYuVfDcm 16/
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A small, portable vector database powered by SQLite for on-device RAG? 🤯 sqlite-vec is a new vector search SQLite extension written entirely in C with no dependencies, MIT/Apache-2.0 dual licensed. sqlite-vec queries: - 1 million 128-dimensional vectors in just 17ms - 500,000
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The paper we have been waiting for essentially shows that #timeseries #llms do not work in forecasting. Back in 2022, paper “Are Transformers Effective for Time Series Forecasting?“ challenged the appearing narrative that transformers are useful for forecasting. By removing
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Don't worry, all politics is human geography and all human geography is history and all history is phenomenology.
Interesting - think this is the first time I've heard someone critique "omnicause" campaigning outside of very online policy circles. Cutting through
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Stand back advertisers - someone just said something sensible about #AI on Twitter!
Models are not dangerous. Models trained wxth more FLOPs or parameters are not inherently more dangerous. *Systems* built using models are dangerous in proportion to the amount of power they have over peoples' lives, with absolutely no connection to how "powerful" the model is.
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This interesting thread swerves into eugenics at the end - the explanatory variable here is going to be culture not genes.
The Chinese Communist Revolution consolidated its power by taking land from the elite. In the following generation, the previous elite once again reclaimed their social advantage. This is not an isolated phenomenon: A Thread on the persistence of status 🧵
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Tried to listen to an O'Reilly book on building data intensive applications and had to abandon it for asinine tedium - like an introductory lecture phoned in by a bored and overconfident lecturer - People could crash cars falling asleep to this.
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This is a shame on Ireland
This reminds me of all the decades of #Travellers being evicted to nowhere for decades. That was wrong just like this is!
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE-TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage; and more! Archived at: https://t.co/9oQDp3Z7DP
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Is this a peak failure of imagination - the high water mark of cultural poverty?
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Emmanuel Candes is the math legend and is one of the best mathematicians of our time. His lecture on conformal prediction 'Emmanuel Candès - A Taste of Conformal Prediction' has recently become one of the most watched #conformalprediction lectures and is an amazing lecture to
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It's like if someone was really impressed by my Stephen Hawking impression, so they decided to fire Stephen and have me take all his teaching and speaking and writing gigs instead (because cheaper!). Except I don't know anything he knows. My entire skill was copying him.
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Feels like Microsoft and Open AI are about to piss away billions on AI like Facebook did on the metaverse
breaking: Microsoft and OpenAI are drawing up plans for a $100 billion AI supercomputer The supercomputer, codenamed "Stargate," would contain *millions* of GPUs and require several gigawatts of power Full story here w/ @amir for @theinformation:
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Some colorful abstract pieces by Fritz Stuckenberg.
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Needs a straw
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The digital scholarly record is at risk
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Drawing on Crossref DOI data, Martin Eve finds the standard of digital preservation could fall short of ensuring persistent accurate record of scholarly works.
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So much implicit work being done by "generate" here. The entire multicultural life-world fractionally equivocated with the monopolistic mass production of sequential linguistic probabilities. When the #AI bubble bursts it will be known as derivative AI.
The "number go up!" free radical finds yet another macromolecule to bind to/attack.
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