Wish Mastodon had a show me this Dan Lyke / comment 0
Wish Mastodon had a "show me this user's posts without RTs" option. It's sometimes hard to tell if a new follower is just content farming, or there's actually a person adding value to the web there.
Though I suppose that if it's hard to tell, then I have my answer.
The AI has come Dan Lyke / comment 0
Sean Conner: The AI has come for my code.
Seriously, Github needs a “dismiss with prejudice” button. Now!
Fixing that AI Generated Content Lacks Dan Lyke / comment 2
Fixing that "AI Generated Content Lacks Soul" image.
Oh dear Facebook Offering an LLM Dan Lyke / comment 0
Oh, dear, Facebook. Offering an LLM summary of a Chuck Tingle post to tell me "Why AI Generated Content
Lacks Soul" sure is... a thing.
If I still believed that companies needed to provide value in order to thrive I'd suggest you short your Meta stock, but I'm too cynical for that.
The Onion, 20 years ahead of its time again Dan Lyke / comment 0
I try to be cynical, but I just can't keep up: The Onion, September 1 2005: Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index
This is actually happening now
bike lanes don't harm business Dan Lyke / comment 0
The new “CDOT Economic Impacts of Bike Lanes Study” examined six Chicago corridors where bike lanes were installed and compared them to nearby “control” corridors without bike lanes. While the report stops short of claiming bike lanes directly caused economic growth, it repeatedly found that bike lane corridors performed similarly to — or in several cases better than — their comparison corridors on measures like employment, commercial vacancy, sales tax revenue recovery, and property values.
The market anticipates Trump Dan Lyke / comment 0
Some amazing data visualization in this post: The Conversation: The market moves before Trump posts
Hundreds of millions of dollars are changing hands, but can we call it insider trading?
Because I saw Calishat @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host's response to this post.
brownfield development Dan Lyke / comment 0
Bond villain has developed a device that will destroy the planet. The British government sends James Bond to offer him tax incentives to build the device on brownfield land in the East Midlands.
OUI Dan Lyke / comment 0
I'm reading Medium: UX Collective: The rise of the Orchestrated User Interface (OUI). It's paywalled, I don't particularly think it's worth clicking through, but I find this interesting:
In the OUI era, we must now become gardeners.
We plant the seeds (user goals), set the boundaries (guardrails), and nurture the system as it grows (reinforcement learning). We are designing systems that learn from the user, becoming more accurate and personalized over time.
Because all I can think of is the Spanish speaking guy with the old beater pickup truck, bed filled with assorted tools, doing my neighbor's landscaping... Or, maybe, we can aspire to be the Oliver Mellors of the situation...
Also see that previous entry about using LLMs for analysis reinforcing cultural stereotypes, I suspect that the systems are shaping the user far more than learning from the users.
Cultural stereotypes as data Dan Lyke / comment 0
Adam Kucharski: Real signals or artificial stereotypes? In which the author creates 2,000 survey responses, copies them labeling one set "US" and another set "UK", and sees how Copilot thinks the responses differed.
A response to Pirate Wires Dan Lyke / comment 0
Chad M. Topaz: Receipts are receipts — A response to Pirate Wires on Tressie McMillan Cottom.
Via Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, who quote skeeted Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social describing the post as:
So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.
Random security incidents Dan Lyke / comment 0
Grafana Labs security update: Latest on TanStack npm supply chain ransomware incident, in which the extorters threaten to release Github repos.
Which is different from InfoWorld: GitHub admits major source code leak after 3,800 internal repositories breached, Forbes: GitHub Says 3,800 Repositories Breached— TeamPCP Hackers Demand $50,000.
Which is different from Krebs on Security: CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github, Gizmodo: ‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub, Tech Republic: CISA Contractor Exposed Sensitive Credentials in Public GitHub Repository .
VT AI Economic Taskforce Dan Lyke / comment 0
There is so much wrong with this.... A new body will recommend how state government and Vermont businesses could adopt AI. I mean, obviously, there's starting with the flawed premise:
Through an executive order, Gov. Phil Scott created the Vermont Artificial Intelligence Economic Taskforce on Monday. And first on its agenda, the body must present up to five recommendations within 90 days for how state government could adopt AI to better serve the public. The group will also work to educate state leaders on how they could apply AI to their work.
But then we get to idiocy like this:
Given AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT that prove powerful “off the shelf,” Lunderville said the technology could be a leveler for small companies. For example, he pointed to small manufacturers using AI to draft requests for proposals, which could cut a 20-hour process down to five hours.
Sooooo... what Neal Lunderville, CEO of Vermont Gas and "...experience holding multiple Cabinet-level positions in Vermont", is telling me is that off-loading the RFP process to a third party that everyone else is using is going to give small companies a competitive advantage?
A "leveler" perhaps in that what's obviously an overly cumbersome RFP process is gonna turn into a die roll.