How come patiently explain things to a Dan Lyke / comment 0
How come patiently explain things to a device with no ability to learn in order to get the desired outcome for a particular question, that may not work again tomorrow, is a "prompt engineer", but the same thing with humans is a "special ed teacher" or "memory care assistant"?
browser on the ancient Kindle Fire is Dan Lyke / comment 0
The browser on the ancient Kindle Fire is no longer running GrumpyPlayer. What's the current state of "play digital music" devices? Preferred is attach to my WiFi, let it get files via HTTP or something, second is copy media to the device or an SD card. Last is a Plex or similar server.
Putin ally calls for Russia taking back Alaska Dan Lyke / comment 0
Just so I can find it again, especially the next time someone tells me that Putin's invasion of Ukraine is payback for NATO expansion or somesuch: Putin Ally Russian TV host Vladimir Solovyov Calls for Alaska’s Return to Russia
"Do you think I'm joking when I mention Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova? Everything returned to the Russian Empire. And Alaska too, while you're at it," Solovyov said in a translated video.
Implies the existence of BSDM? Dan Lyke / comment 0
normal about bugs @crimson_clouds23@normal.style
the original BDSM was obsoleted in the 1990s; these days there are multiple continuations of it, including NetBDSM, FreeBDSM, OpenBDSM, and several others,,
Congestion pricing reduces pm2.5 pollution Dan Lyke / comment 0
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs
In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ), which encompasses all local streets and avenues at or below 60th Street in Manhattan. The team also reported declines across the city’s five boroughs and surrounding suburbs.
Kessler event probabilities Dan Lyke / comment 0
Our calculations show the CRASH Clock is currently 2.8 days, which suggests there is now little time to recover from a wide-spread disruptive event, such as a solar storm. This is in stark contrast to the pre-megaconstellation era: in 2018, the CRASH Clock was 121 days.
Via Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets@mastodon.social (that entire thread is worth a perusal).
AI flags Hegseth war crimes Dan Lyke / comment 0
Maybe AI isn't so bad after all? Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth’s War Crimes
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
Oilwell mindfullness app Dan Lyke / comment 0
Oilwell.app: Relax… it's only the climate crisis
Oilwell is a wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos, created by Edelman, Oil and Gas PR
including:
Lo-Fi Beats to Frack To — Lo-fi sounds for a hi-carbon future.
Gricha macro-photo Dan Lyke / comment 0
Via Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social who notes:
The code went from 3,000 lines to 18,000 lines. Claude just loves adding code. It added thousands of lines of "utility functions," and since this was iterative, it ended up adding utility functions to support utility functions.
We do this is in real life, but... with taste and discretion.
Although, anyone who's worked on a code base that has lots of ideas exploration in it knows about dead code and confusion...
it's not social engineering Dan Lyke / comment 0
You may be tempted to think of prompt injection attacks against language models as "social engineering." Resist this temptation.
Prompt injection is a mathematical attack against a non-deterministic system. Language may be the substrate, but the substance is numerical vectors.
Good reminder to not limit our thinking as we look for ways to attack, and protect, these stochastic bullshit machines.
From that thread: LLM Visualizer
Democrats working for an AI takeover Dan Lyke / comment 0
The American Prospect: Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. About Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) recruitment of Ted Lieu (D-CA), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Frank Pallone Jr. (D- NJ), and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) to carve out exemptions from civil rights and consumer protections laws for "AI" "innovation".
Via rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social</> who notes that
NIST literally changed the definition of risk that they have been using for the past twenty years just for the AI risk management framework.
Look up OMB 130A 2000, the original 800-30, the CSF, the regular RMF, the PF, the INITIAL PUBLIC DRAFT OF THE NEW PF. And then look at NIST AI RMF.
Deconstruct anything you were indoctrinated into Dan Lyke / comment 0
Danielle Foré @danirabbit@mastodon.online
“Transgender for everybody”, but unironically. As in, spend some time deconstructing your gender and then actively choose what gender roles and expressions you actually do and don’t want to perform. Deconstruct your sexuality too. Deconstruct your religion. Deconstruct anything you were indoctrinated into so you can be authentically you
They droned back Dan Lyke / comment 0
This is fascinating: Digital Digging: They Droned Back
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases.
Ah yes Apple which conveniently Dan Lyke / comment 0
Ah, yes, Apple, which conveniently provides "NSNotFound" as a constant returned when a function that returns an index into an array of data has no valid results.
Except when that function returns -1. Or something else out of range.