Posts by Elucidating@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AhfNiVAXRx6xyWiq5Q by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-05-07T23:34:43Z
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your theory of mind for those people is broken.
(DIR) Post #Ai47iBe9ICUN73Ol3w by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-04-01T19:52:11Z
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@danilo @Sevoris This is a problem accelerated by anti-ai folks, who seem very keen to write sweeping narratives that indict the maximal possible surface area to serve their various incentives.In a less charged context, this reckoning has been a long time in coming.
(DIR) Post #Ai47iD305HxhSQ27RA by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-04-01T20:12:52Z
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@Sevoris @danilo I mean, because we face every more critical and difficult problems of logistics and decision making at scale? The world is falling apart around us because of a lack of good, informed, long term decision making with consistent and sound strategies.If we cannot trust machines fully because of the biases that humans bleed into them, then surely we must conclude we can trust humans even less?
(DIR) Post #Ai47iEKPK3TpQhBXCy by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-04-02T04:37:01Z
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@vvelox @danilo @Sevoris I am almost certain that we're talking about different things, but if we aren't then what you're saying isn't even wrong. ML is firmly based in calculus?
(DIR) Post #Ai47iFaOe5rdKZfolk by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-04-02T04:48:37Z
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@vvelox @danilo @Sevoris I'm going to need you to start getting specific. For example, what's your specific critique of, say, Bayesian Deep Learning? Why is it required to "understand" anything to make predictions?
(DIR) Post #Ai47iFvfN0sUOXcnvE by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-04-01T20:15:09Z
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@Sevoris @danilo The "labor and discernment of humans" being absent, I might add, is an opinion projected by anti-technologists project now and have projected time and time again during the history of computers, technology and even math itself.I certainly don't view the use of modern generative tools in this fashion!
(DIR) Post #Ai47iHvNx1qEaFVblI by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-04-02T04:53:51Z
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@vvelox @danilo @Sevoris Another good example of modern and very shallow neural networks closer to your field is mechanically training load estimators based of very broad system and application specific metrics to help assist in load balancing.Some cloud providers do this. It makes their services way cheaper without you having to build a model for your app for custom load reporting.That's a neural network application. It doesn't need to know anything, just approximate a gradient.
(DIR) Post #AjCwLCpGqwAqxH42QS by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-06-23T04:04:45Z
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@ireneista @futurebird This character was readily apparent with 911 trutherism too. There is no single coherent counternarrative there and many popular theories are mutually incompatible.I've always thought this is a worrisome detail about the moon landing hoaxers. They all have basically one narrative.
(DIR) Post #AjDzsPUPHkLWo5n1Wq by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-06-18T23:47:01Z
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@J12t Do they mean to say, "The Fediverse should adopt patterns and features that support monetization strategies the way Twitter and Facebook have."Otherwise it seems like a banal statement but if that is what they meant it seems bad.
(DIR) Post #AjKwIY1bsGD3YwdJsu by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-06-27T00:01:33Z
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@foone I read the thread and on this, have you ever heard the story of how plaid got started?The ahem ahem rumor is that they just did exactly as you said, API 0 and also managed to reverse a lot of bank mobile APIs. They implemented all this and then went to the banks and said, "You can either work with us or we'll go live with this impl and we won't work with your provisioning team." Some banks were forced to improve their non-internal APIs because of this implicit threat.
(DIR) Post #AkGWXpKhTctSZj6v1U by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-04-28T17:17:15Z
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The extremely strange thing about how Twitter and a decade of walled garden Internet has shaped people's brains is that I see people talking about how they want to "convert" other users to other activitypub experiences "better" than Mastodon.Stop doing this. It's conquest brain. You're thinking like a VC. The point here is that all these systems can co-exist and organically compete. Stop trying to force things. You will only be the bad guy doing that.
(DIR) Post #AkfNX3lCJDPGOb3u1g by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-08-05T19:22:09Z
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@foone w... Where did you take this photo?
(DIR) Post #AleGN76KBaNmpAoGR6 by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-09-04T01:08:58Z
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@louis @Aviva_Gary no, Zionism is the explicitly colonial belief that the Jewish diaspora deserve an ethnostate. It is explicitly and obviously *not* about safety, because the Israeli government has obviously prioritized settlement and growth of Israel over policies that would protect their citizens life.Its very confusing how folks can argue that Zionism is about protecting Jewish people when Israel's leadership repeatedly and vocally say otherwise.
(DIR) Post #AleGN8I3lRMcVrJ9Mm by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-09-04T01:19:18Z
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@louis @Aviva_Gary I have never really heard a compelling explanation about why Jewish people both require and deserve a religiously mandated ethnostate in order to guarantee their safety, anyways. Does every religious minority deserve an ethnostate? Do white supremacists who call for their own Christian ethnostate have a right to that too?
(DIR) Post #AleUE3GaTJBdgTBPwO by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-09-04T05:59:12Z
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@mima @Aviva_Gary @louis Okay but, why does Israel need to be an ethnostste? Is that not a requirement under Zionism? I've literally never had a Jewis person, in real life, say anything other than "yes I hate that Israel is an ethnostate as well and I wish it wasn't "If you say "I'd like a Jewish homeland that isn't an ethnostate and won't do a genocide" then I'm all for it! I'm specifically against the Zionists who support current Israeli actions.
(DIR) Post #AleUE5001x6f3bRCMa by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-09-04T06:02:14Z
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@mima @Aviva_Gary @louis Like, for example, the self-styled zionists who say r*ping Palestinian prisoners is acceptable. Which doesn't appear to be the majority of Israel, but is a powerful political force.
(DIR) Post #AmJ129iPjpG91IX07M by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-09-23T18:34:31Z
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Quick reminder as you see the news float by today: most 3d printers tend to use specific non-industrial plastics made from agricultural byproducts. These have entirely different characteristics than the industrial plastics you see.Some 3d printing is done with other plastics, and you should try to avoid buying products made with PET or PETG, ASA, and ABS. These materials are not substantially better than PLA for non-industrial use (e.g., their glass transition is higher but not much).
(DIR) Post #AmJ12AZaY7nHgDPT04 by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-09-23T18:36:32Z
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There are plastics that do not induce demand for oil, can break down in the environment, and have higher glass transition temperatures. But the demand for them is too low, and so they never leave the lab. (Please note: this refers to novel plastics, PLA is industrially compostable and has a better long term breakdown story than most thermoplastics, but is old tech)We can change that by demanding which plastics are used and rejecting the idea that recycling is a valid solution to the problem.
(DIR) Post #AmJ12CXtDPchnWd8d6 by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-09-23T19:46:36Z
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@feld No. That's ridiculous. What the actual fuck are you talking about?Edit: nevermind. I will post the link later. I'm going to take care of work and mute you becuse that's such an outrageously unsupportable position I never want to hear from you again.
(DIR) Post #AnqysizcbyXQEEshiy by Elucidating@mastodon.social
2024-11-09T03:22:25Z
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@foone Wow, that's a distressingly deep well they're calling up from.