🎶 two, four, six, eight: time to excommunicate! 🎶
🎶 two Dan Lyke / comment 0
🎶 two, four, six, eight: time to excommunicate! 🎶
Let's talk about ebike safety Dan Lyke / comment 0
By contrast, if we consider a compact SUV, the most popular car for purchase in North America (Brazeau 2021), weighing approximately 1,500 kg (Axsen and Bhardwaj 2024) with an average of 1.2 passengers (“EOD23 - Enquête Origine-Destination,” n.d.) weighing 100 kg each (same assumption as e-micromobility), the maximum speed of the car would need to be 7.3 km/h to match the same 3,375 joules considered for the e-micromobility. For a full-size SUV (approximately 2560 kg), the maximum speed would be 5.7 km/h (Hawley 2021).
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how developers react to AI Dan Lyke / comment 0
Cynthia Dunlop: Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts
So if readers think your article is AI-assisted or AI-authored, most will immediately leave (78%), avoid you forever (71%), and try to downvote you if they can (57%). 17% try to finish but lose interest, and around 15% will only continue if the underlying insights seem authentic.
All of the caveats about sampling bias and self-reporting and all of that...
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Lace Safety Vest Dan Lyke / comment 0
Lace Safety Vest (dot) Com. Probably not for those "I want to look official so nobody bugs me while I do this illicit modification", but definitely for those "I want to look fabulous while I do this potentially dangerous activity" situations.
Carefully inspect the channel... Dan Lyke / comment 0
Ugh I'm running the Ubuntu LTS on my Dan Lyke / comment 0
Ugh. I'm running the Ubuntu LTS on my server, which has Perl 5.28.2. Sanko Robinson's Bluesky module wants 5.40.0.
Guess POSSE for Bluesky waits for a while yet.
(I need to move Flutterby.net to a static server anyway, probably do the posting from my home server...)
LLMs more "authentic" than the original Dan Lyke / comment 0
More in the "LLMs are an attack on human perceptual weaknesses" front: LLM- impersonated debate contributions are more authentic, relevant and coherent than their original: A representative study using BBC1’s Question Time Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, Zlata Kikteva, Annette Hautli-Janisz
Based on a cross-section of British society, we show that LLM-generated responses to questions drawn from a broadcast political debate programme in the UK are judged to be more authentic and relevant than the original responses given by the panel members who were impersonated. We also show that stylistic differences do not influence these judgments, meaning that the distinction of original and generated content is challenging for the general public. Taken together, this means that LLMs can be made to deceive the public regarding the nature of statements in the political domain, with the consequence that there is a dire need to inform the general public of the potential harm this can have on society.
Virtual Kaboom Dan Lyke / comment 0
Brian Krebs reports that Boeing may be dealing with a "rapid disassembly of their company-wide IT network".
SF city code rewrite not approved Dan Lyke / comment 0
San Francisco supervisors balk at 362-page city code rewrite
‘I ran it through Claude,’ San Francisco supervisor says of lengthy legislation
JFC.
The ordinance is itself a product of AI research — the result of a collaboration between the city attorney’s office and the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab, or RegLab, at Stanford University. The research group used AI tools to identify and analyze redundancies, which were then manually reviewed by city attorney staff.
That's not terror inducing at all.
I mean, sounds like there's some stuff that needs to get cleaned up, but this appears to be an epic clusterfuck.
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