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Entry: 2024-11-20 19:26:29.294894+01 On Safe C++ by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm doing a lot of thinking about career direction, and trying to figure out languages to commit to, and whatnot, and I love C, and have enjoyed the expressiveness of C++, but boy the direction of the latter appears to be a total shitshow, both in terms of the language, and the culture. I was aware of the Patricia Aas thread, this follows up a bit: On "Safe" C++
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Entry: 2024-10-31 15:21:42.071566+01 Amanda Strong stop motion animation by Dan Lyke comments 0
This screen shot looks amazing: Stop-motion animator Amanda Strong creates immersive worlds for Indigenous stories
Inkwo for When the Starving Return trailer. Some video of process at Behind the Scenes with Amanda Strong | X Company | CBC resulting in Breaking Point | X Company | CBC
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Entry: 2024-10-25 16:25:02.760471+02 Good morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Good morning, San Francisco Bay!
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Entry: 2024-10-13 18:40:03.310188+02 I try to avoid Amazon but ended up by Dan Lyke comments 0
I try to avoid Amazon, but ended up signing up for a free Prime trial to watch a movie last night, and... I could either, on Tuesday, drive 25 miles to hope that Electronics Plus in San Rafael has what I want in stock, or have 20 of them delivered for ten bucks tomorrow.
And given the number of things delivered in my neighborhood, I'm sure that that's dramatically fewer vehicle miles traveled.
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Entry: 2024-09-18 21:01:03.397076+02 Clean-record agreements by Dan Lyke comments 0
This is a devastating piece of reporting and an incredible read: SF Chronicle: This is the secret system that covers up police misconduct — and ensures problem officers can get hired again
In many cases, police departments hid alleged misconduct even while maintaining it occurred. In every case where reporters could establish the outcome of a department’s internal investigation through documents or interviews, they found that clean-record agreements were given after police agencies had fired the officer, or had begun the process of doing so, based on what they saw as clear evidence of wrongdoing.
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Entry: 2024-09-17 16:37:35.091392+02 Giant chicken costume by Dan Lyke comments 0
Awesome: San Francisco cops are using a silly stunt to catch crosswalk violators
“If you don’t see someone in a giant chicken costume, then we really have a problem,” he said.
Also awesome because after several years of apparently not enforcing traffic laws, SFPD has decided to start again.
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Entry: 2024-09-16 20:02:15.299518+02 Transbay Tube by Dan Lyke comments 0
BART's PR folks are having fun (and it's a neat article): The Transbay Tube turns 50: Inside the groundbreaking history and future of the Bay's underwater crossing
To some, it was a preposterous notion – train rides under the ocean?!? -- but the nonbelievers quickly hushed on that fateful day in 1974. They, too, wanted to take an underwater voyage from Oakland to San Francisco.
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Entry: 2024-08-12 20:08:07.662806+02 SMS spam via network injection by Dan Lyke comments 0
Google: Keeping your Android device safe from text message fraud, in which we learn that cell site simulators (usually driven around, or carried around in a backpack) are being used to send SMS spam.
The method is straightforward and replicates known techniques to trick mobile devices to an attacker-controlled 2G network. SMS Blasters expose a fake LTE or 5G network which executes a single function: downgrading the user’s connection to a legacy 2G protocol. The same device also exposes a fake 2G network, which lures all the devices to connect to it. At this point, attackers abuse the well known lack of mutual authentication in 2G and force connections to be unencrypted, which enables a complete Person-in-the-Middle (PitM) position to inject SMS payloads.
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Entry: 2024-07-12 21:31:51.397696+02 Not all heroes wear... anything by Dan Lyke comments 0
San Francisco is healing: ‘Nailed the guy’: Nudists tackle ‘pirate’ after random attack on tourist in the Castro
The naked samaritans—Pete Sferra of San Jose and Lloyd Fishback of San Francisco—were letting it all hang out on a July 2 stroll through the neighborhood when they spotted a “crazy kind of pirate guy” threatening a man with a blowtorch.
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Entry: 2024-07-10 20:08:35.196238+02 Cybertruck review by Dan Lyke comments 0
Giggle: SFGate: I drove a Cybertruck around SF because I am a smart, cool alpha male
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary drove the (in)famous Tesla vehicle around the city and lived to tell the tale
Shades of the 2002 Car & Driver review of the Cadillac Escalade EXT that I've mentioned previously.
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Entry: 2024-06-06 01:57:30.553885+02 DJ Illenium & AI poster art by Dan Lyke comments 0
JFC people, it's freakin' June of 2024, the whole AI image generation thing is pretty played at this point, y'all should know better. Stadium-filling DJ Illenium is getting roasted for his SF concert poster
“My mgmt ended up using the ai art because they’re stupid and have no taste,” he wrote, adding that a new piece of artwork would be coming soon.
But, hey, dude got an SFGate article about his upcoming shows out of it...
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Entry: 2024-05-19 02:55:02.373666+02 We had some glass butterflies and a by Dan Lyke comments 0
We had some glass butterflies and a hummingbird that we picked up somewhere, and a piece of lemon verbena that came from Charlene's grandmother's house in San Francisco, so I made a lamp
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Entry: 2024-04-27 03:15:02.956025+02 The idea he said is to do to San by Dan Lyke comments 0
”The idea, he said, is to do to San Francisco what Musk did to Twitter." Wait, I thought London Breed was trying to do this already.
The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
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Entry: 2024-04-15 18:40:03.311367+02 So Oakland airport is renaming by Dan Lyke comments 0
So Oakland airport is renaming themselves to include "San Francisco" in the name, and... if you can figure out how to get people from one airport to the other in less than 30 minutes or so, I bet you can print money.
Those travelers showing up at the wrong airport who *need* to get across the bay...
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Entry: 2024-04-10 19:59:25.967316+02 Hoodline "local news" generated by LLM by Dan Lyke comments 0
Gazetteer: Hoodline using AI to generate news stories and journalist profiles
Following a Gazetteer SF inquiry, the neighborhood news site publicly confirmed its use of artificial intelligence to power an 'In-House Writing Collective'
Broke Ass Stuart: Hoodline caught using AI generated writers to make AI generated articles
To be fair, it seems like maybe they're feeding it things like police press releases and getting overly flowery summaries out, and unlike some other recent breaks, don't appear to be outright spreading lies.
Yet.
But this sure is a consequence of the Google created SEO environment.
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Entry: 2024-04-01 19:05:00.187621+02 Infrastrucutre & inadvertent eugenics by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT squifish @thesquirrelfish@sfba.social
One of the things about caring about infrastructure, particularly transportation but really all of it, is how quickly people reveal ideas based in eugenics. They don't even connect it.
Ultimately when you hear people say that pedestrians and cyclists need to look where they're going instead of drivers driving more carefully that effectively means people of limited capabilities shouldn't be safe in public.
Not everyone can look where they're going. Brains aren't developed for that kind of responsibility for like a decade or more! And then that capability gets intermittently lost again on the other side of life. Then there's stuff like medication, drunkenness, blindness, distractions, being tired, etc etc.
These are all reasons people shouldn't be driving, and if they're also excuses for why people aren't safe walking, people with these conditions aren't safe anywhere.
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Entry: 2024-03-28 17:07:05.828244+01 Society is broken by Dan Lyke comments 0
Streetsblog SF: Guest Commentary: Traffic Engineers Must Put Safety Over Driver Throughput
No other field would tolerate this level of death and destruction. The tragedy of West Portal is more evidence that the traffic engineering profession is fundamentally broken
I mean, yes, in most other engineering-adjacent professions designing systems like we do for traffic would be career limiting, but... City of Petaluma has two traffic engineers who come out and do walk arounds, point out all of the ways that our roads are awful and deadly, and that our relative lack of pedestrian and cyclist deaths comes primarily from suppressing those activities and ceding our public spaces to automobiles, but they're also hampered by budget and public will.
We need to fix society, not just traffic engineering.
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Entry: 2024-03-27 18:09:15.697783+01 Easter Approaches. Be Afraid. by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Inertial Invites @intransitivelie@beige.party
Jesus: impossible to kill, reproduced asexually. Jesus is canonically a fungus. Clearly the part the Romans crucified was a fruiting body of some kind, leaving the bulk of the organism below ground, safe and secure. And every Easter, we find Jesus' multi-colored spores hidden in dark places. The rabbits tried to warn us. But now it's too late. He's metastasized across the whole planet. Soon enough, he will come again, and when he does, no cross in the world will be big enough to keep him at bay.
*Twilight Zone music intensifies*
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Entry: 2024-03-16 20:30:01.905228+01 I love how staff and consultants put by Dan Lyke comments 0
I love how staff and consultants put subtext into contextual documents.. "The downtown was a mix of commercial and residential uses during the late-nineteenth century, as lack of easy transportation led people to live near their place of business or job."
This Berkeley Shattuck Avenue Commercial Corridor Historic Context and Survey is a thing of beauty.
https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages...ttuck%20context%2005-28-2015.pdf
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Entry: 2024-03-13 00:41:43.194164+01 New Orleans PD "losing" evidence by Dan Lyke comments 2
Y'all have read about this New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick complaining about the conditions in headquarters, and that rats are eating evidence?
"Golly, I don't know where that cannabis went, the rats must have eaten it" is about the most bullshit line a cop can deliver.
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Entry: 2024-03-08 19:02:59.40213+01 If our science is right, this will be fine. by Dan Lyke comments 0
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board: Tank Explosions at Midland Resource Recovery
Before starting the MP odorizer draining operation, SPSI’s business development and special project manager, a former DuPont employee with 30 years of emergency response experience and at that time a governor-appointed officer on the West Virginia State Fire Commission, conducted a briefing for MRR and agency representatives. When asked by a representative from a state agency why SPSI thought this operation would be safe – given that a similar approach to draining the MP odorizer had resulted in the May 24, 2017, explosion – the SPSI manager asserted, “If our science is right, this will be fine.”
Unable to directly engage SPSI about the safety issues regarding its plan and lacking confidence that MRR or SPSI understood either the cause of the May 24, 2017 incident or the full range of possible reactive chemistry involved, CSB investigators took shelter behind a shipping container (conex box) located behind a building more than 150 feet away from the SPSI operation.
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Entry: 2024-03-08 18:45:03.64606+01 SF Downtown by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Tired of the SF Downtown is dying stories when (1) downtown has always been dead (2) it was planned that way (3) most of the businesses complaining about crime and poor sales are simply not relevant (4) no SF resident goes downtown for fun or voluntarily (even me, and I'm only a mile away)
It's so easy to blame homeless people, when imho it's much clearer to blame poor planning and poor business people for most of it
RT Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
Homeless people are not gathering in Union Square in great numbers. Have you seen the number of police cars there?
You can't build a downtown with little to no housing, fill it with bad restaurants, and then say no one's coming
No one was going to Macy's even pre-pandemic except tourists
I always had to explain to my European and Asian friends that American downtowns are not... downtowns you think of. SF downtown was already underwhelming before any of these breathless stories
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Entry: 2024-03-04 21:13:34.624737+01 the IDEs of March by Dan Lyke comments 2
RT fraggle @fraggle@octodon.social
A reminder to everyone to stay safe and only use basic text editors this month. Beware the IDEs of March
A reminder that I should probably figure out how to get LSP-mode for Emacs configured...
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Entry: 2024-02-28 21:15:02.786216+01 But that's going to damage the trolley by Dan Lyke comments 1
"But that's going to damage the trolley and disrupt service! Why do you hate public transit?"
(Image says that the solution to the trolley problem is to "slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do, in order to cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt, from https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/111779015415697244 )
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Entry: 2024-02-24 22:40:02.923631+01 At Elsie Allen High School for the by Dan Lyke comments 0
At Elsie Allen High School for the Sonoma County District 3 Candidates forum, and I guess this is the school sportsball team, but the "Lobos are safe" banner is just making me think "See the doggy! Pet the doggy! Doggy!"
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Entry: 2024-02-15 18:55:38.682174+01 Traffic enforcement by Dan Lyke comments 0
Portland Police Bureau officer admits traffic enforcement messaging was politically motivated
Various people have looked at San Francisco's enforcement suggestions say that it sure looks like SFPD has stopped doing traffic enforcement.
Via Matt Haughey 🦣 @mathowie@xoxo.zone who notes:
During covid, the Portland Police Bureau's budget was cut by 5% and the cops revolted, stopped enforcing crimes, and claimed it was due to defunding. The city is less safe due to the last few years of cops not doing their jobs.
I missed last summer when during a press conference a cop admitted they disbanded their traffic enforcement, told everyone in public there was no traffic enforcement, and all to score political points and get their funding back.
And:
it's kind of amazing when something dumb happens in city politics, and everyone says hey it looks like they're faking a story to push fear into the public while holding the city hostage until we pay the cops off (cops are already the biggest portion of the city budget), and then two years later a cop admits on record yeah, we totally made all that shit up to force everyone into a funding increase for cops.
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Entry: 2024-02-14 01:19:19.820714+01 E2EE & EU Comission by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Patrick Breyer @echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social
🇬🇧European Court of Human Rights today bans general weakening of secure end-to-end encryption #E2EE because it keeps us all safe. https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng/?i=001-230854 (par. 76 pp.)
This makes the client-side scanning on all smartphones contained in the EU Commission's #ChatControl 2.0 proposal clearly illegal.
EU governments must now finally remove the destruction of secure encryption from the #Chatcontrol 2.0 plans - as well as the blanket surveillance of non-suspects! We #Pirates will continue to fight for this.
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Entry: 2024-02-12 21:20:45.793194+01 Waymo fireworks in the cabin by Dan Lyke comments 0
There are a number of different takes on this: San Francisco crowd attacks Waymo driverless car. Apparently the vehicle tried to drive through the middle of a Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown.
I like this one: RT Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
@AndyGER @mastodonmigration Reading between the lines: an EMPTY car tried barging its way through a Chinese New Year CROWD in Chinatown. Totally unsurprised they got angry!
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Entry: 2024-02-07 05:04:13.692544+01 Square Dance Calling whine of the moment by Dan Lyke comments 0
Tomorrow night we're going down to Marin for a song circle with Marv Zauderer. Thursday I'm driving... I'm allowing 2 hours there, probably an hour and a half back... so 3 to 4 hours ... to call in the East Bay. And I've turned down quite a few East Bay calling gigs recently. And I'm thinking about square dance calling vs song circles, and what I'm putting my energy into, and how square dancing *needs* more callers here willing to subsidize the hobby ('cause calling is not a cheap hobby), let alone in the East Bay, and what we put our energies into.
One of the nearer clubs getting my services of late made some huge shifts in their calling because they wanted to feel like the caller was more a part of their social circles. And as I compare square dancing to song circles, I see just how much the idea of the caller as separate is baked into the activity, and how the song circle community can have nurturing additional leaders integrated into the activity.
One of Charlene's complaints with me calling is that we don't get a chance to dance together as much as she'd like. I don't know how to change, to reimagine, square dancing as an activity to be less hierarchical, to be more nurturing of new callers, to have a better mix of dancing and calling.
It really means an extreme re-work of the activity.
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Entry: 2024-02-06 20:18:12.61718+01 AirTag attack surfaces by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT brettshavers @brettshavers@infosec.exchange
I just peer-reviewed a forensic analysis in a case.
The suspect mailed a package with a hidden Apple AirTag in it to a victim's old home address.
The package was forwarded to her new (and formerly safe) address....
Might be good to warn DV victims of unexpected mail.
@SwiftOnSecurity Just
Pernicious that this is a route that wouldn't show up with AirTracker or similar...
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Entry: 2024-01-15 02:15:02.13692+01 Bike parking at the Safe Streets by Dan Lyke comments 0
Bike parking at the Safe Streets Petaluma meeting, on the new city racks
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Entry: 2024-01-11 17:21:16.094537+01 The Big Dig, mentioned again by Dan Lyke comments 0
The thing about listening to "The Big Dig" podcast from WGBH is that, sure, we can look back on that project and say it was a boondoggle and disaster of epic proportions, but at the time people were saying the same thing.
Anyway, thinking a lot about the 101 widening (for the same price we could have gotten electrified SMART with 15 minute headways) and the upcoming highway 37 project (where, you know, we could also tear it out and just make Marin County, and, let's be fair, Petaluma, allow developers to build some workforce housing.
Meanwhile, as a bunch of people have pointed out, 2023 was the warmest year of your life and likely the coolest year of the rest of your life. And the IPCC 1990 predictions for "no action" are pretty much exactly on track.
Anyway, I'm in Episode 4, and it's a good listen.
https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-big-dig
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Entry: 2024-01-05 18:34:06.174502+01 The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language by Dan Lyke comments 0
Some were meant for C — The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language
For true “systems” programming (as I will define), C’s benefits are of another kind. Again, performance is not the issue; I will argue that communication is what defines system-building, and that C’s design, particularly its use of memory and explicit representations, embodies a “first-class” approach to communication which is lacking in existing “safe” languages
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Entry: 2023-12-22 20:14:40.575113+01 Paving & speeding by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice@xoxo.zone
With apologies for the Twitter link, this is an excellent thread on why paving without traffic calming is unacceptable: https://twitter.com/BerkSafeStreets/status/1737951950228877754
The key finding from @navgattu is that speeds on a recently-repaved street in #Berkeley went up by about 5 mph—next to a school—because the poor condition of the pavement was effectively acting as traffic calming before. Our position (https://www.berkeleysafestreets.com) is that paving and safety features need to be paired.
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Entry: 2023-12-20 18:07:15.281025+01 Food safe 3d printing by Dan Lyke comments 0
Hackaday: Food safe 3d printing
Matt Thomas] wanted to answer the question of whether 3D printed structures can be food-safe or even medical-safe, since there is an awful lot of opinion out there but not a lot of actual science about the subject. As a mechanical engineer who dabbles in medical technical matters, he designed as series of tests using a wide range of nasty-sounding pathogens, to find once and for all what works and what does not.
Though that blog post is August 2022, it references (and looks like a republishing in HTML of) The Impact of Sanitation Methods of 3D-printed Parts for Food and Medical Applications, January 2019 Advances in Science Technology and Engineering Systems Journal
Results from various testing methods used in hospitals and FDA approved microbial surface testing, indicate that 3D printed parts of PLA/PLA+ (Polylactic Acid), and PETG (Polyethylene terephthalate glycol) can be cleaned to safe levels using warm water (120 °F), and non-concentrated dish soap. Examination and verification of cleanliness were completed via Petri dish preparations, and protein residue testing. It was found that Colony Forming Units (CFU) and Plaque Forming Units (PFU) had been reduced by 90%. Experimental results indicate that using 2g of baking soda, when used with soapy water, eliminates biofilms by chemical and physical action, neutralizes acidic bacteria, and removes mucus. It is recommended (not required) and tested by surgical technicians, that a 2-minute room temperature bleach water soak (200ppm), after washing and rinsing should be done to ensure pathogens are at safe levels. Acetic acid from vinegar was tested as well via petri dish for CFU reduction and can effectively eradicate biofilms due to the ability to penetrate the biofilm matrix and the cell membrane. Acetic acid is not recommended for disinfecting, only for biofilm reduction. It is noted to the reader that sanitation in this context refers to the method of bringing a surface or object to safe levels of cleanliness for food or medical preparation and storage. Furthermore, mass spectrometry readings indicate that no contamination from heavy metals, or other toxins are present in PLA+, and PETG before and after printing. Lastly, filaments made from a pull-trusion method from recycled soda or water bottles has been tested and found to be safe.. When using 3D-printed items for liquids, it is highly recommended to coat the 3D-printed parts in resin.</bockquote>
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Entry: 2023-12-11 01:35:02.079446+01 At a Safe Streets Petaluma meeting by Dan Lyke comments 0
At a Safe Streets Petaluma meeting, as the sun goes down.
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Entry: 2023-11-29 20:38:03.925277+01 ChatGPT training data by Dan Lyke comments 0
404 Media: Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
“We show an adversary can extract gigabytes of training data from open-source language models like Pythia or GPT-Neo, semi-open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and closed models like ChatGPT,” the researchers, from Google DeepMind, the University of Washington, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California Berkeley, and ETH Zurich, wrote in a paper published in the open access prejournal arXiv Tuesday.
Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT
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Entry: 2023-11-23 19:02:46.823929+01 Advances in Bullshit Generation by Dan Lyke comments 0
Nature: ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
Our aim was to highlight that, in a few minutes, you can create a data set that is not supported by real original data, and it is also opposite or in the other direction compared to the evidence that are available,” says study co-author Giuseppe Giannaccare, an eye surgeon at the University of Cagliari in Italy.
The ability of AI to fabricate convincing data adds to concern among researchers and journal editors about research integrity. “It was one thing that generative AI could be used to generate texts that would not be detectable using plagiarism software, but the capacity to create fake but realistic data sets is a next level of worry,” says Elisabeth Bik, a microbiologist and independent research-integrity consultant in San Francisco, California. “It will make it very easy for any researcher or group of researchers to create fake measurements on non-existent patients, fake answers to questionnaires or to generate a large data set on animal experiments.”
doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2023.5162
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Entry: 2023-11-08 20:01:11.174451+01 Doom Loop by Dan Lyke comments 0
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Entry: 2023-10-31 17:44:13.862185+01 [they] Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars by Dan Lyke comments 0
I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars
While my managers are very happy, they quietly suggest it may be unwise to roll out the changes to all the computers (I only did a few to be safe) because it would oversaturate the department to hear about us all day. And invite unwelcome questions. The subtext is that if we do this all slowly enough, it might seem like it took a lot of effort instead of just clicking buttons that I said had to be clicked almost a year ago.
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