Posts by foundhistory@hcommons.social
(DIR) Post #ASJXsf6nYGtsDm4iXI by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-02-03T20:50:32Z
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Think you’re cold? The scientists on top of Mount Washington have -37F with gusts up to 127 mph and -95F wind chills right now. And the sun isn’t even down. https://www.mountwashington.org/experience-the-weather/current-summit-conditions.aspx
(DIR) Post #ASJjFhZDg0XY0BYdaC by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-02-03T23:08:08Z
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@CitizenWald It’s 6 in Murmansk at 2am. So that’s pretty cold. https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Kildinstroy+Murmansk+Russia?canonicalCityId=4a0494d1dc034baaf57580362b1ba036ad7d0b5f74297f38b4d0d32f210833bc
(DIR) Post #ASJjhMvW0iOi5yB9w8 by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-02-03T23:13:08Z
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@CitizenWald Definitely not in Murmansk. Safe and sound in Hartford (7°F).
(DIR) Post #ASXsPJgsvFikeBF2Tw by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-02-10T17:23:38Z
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Kareem on “What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record”#thecaptain https://kareem.substack.com/p/what-i-think-about-lebron-breaking?utm_medium=ios
(DIR) Post #ASYFxoM7qVx6fnq8ps by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-02-10T23:08:43Z
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I am constantly filling out Doodle polls and constantly double or triple booking. Does anyone have a good system for managing calendar holds?
(DIR) Post #ASZN4am1dWofPf5wVE by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-02-11T12:15:00Z
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@Clackable @CitizenWald Love it!
(DIR) Post #AT9ffhr53zWUxKrcVk by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-02-28T23:37:41Z
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What Millennials and Gen Z call “influencers,” Gen X called “sell-outs”https://cintra.substack.com/p/the-nyt-op-ed-i-just-took-a-kill?utm_medium=ios
(DIR) Post #AT9ifCza6v136CIJ04 by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-01T01:06:32Z
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@CitizenWald Yup. Boomers too.
(DIR) Post #ATZmGl9w4S2ZymwwNM by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-13T14:13:01Z
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The U.S. doesn’t have a daylight savings problem. It has a time zones problem. Detroit and Boston (12° longitude apart) have as much business being in the same time zone as Denver and San Diego (also 12° apart). Put the far eastern seaboard on Atlantic time, get rid of seasonal time changes, and all will be well.
(DIR) Post #ATZmGlk5u0xpmvrojg by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-13T14:13:01Z
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New York will be an hour closer to European markets, New England will keep its summer evenings (rather than dealing with a 3:30 a.m. daybreak), and Marco Rubio will satisfy his campaign donors in the golf industry.
(DIR) Post #ATg65u08vFQsMtGjyK by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-16T15:21:46Z
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The whole cottage industry of journalists trying to trick ChatGPT into making mistakes for headlines is an epic waste of energy. All they’re revealing are isolated exceptions that only prove the rule: that ChatGPT is really good. The story isn’t the mistakes. The story is how hard they have to work to get the AI to make one.
(DIR) Post #ATgKbcyp8oeyCcfr2O by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-16T18:42:26Z
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@CitizenWald I don’t mean “good” in any moral sense. Just technically, it’s very good at writing almost anything but the most fidgety things.
(DIR) Post #ATxJ5gs7Ch2fqxVzAe by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-24T14:53:46Z
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Here are statements I agree with:- LLMs are not really “intelligent”- Standardized tests are not a measure of intelligence - LLMs make lots of mistakes - The tech industry cannot be trusted - Technology reproduces inequity- The Silicon Valley hype cycle is tiresome- Engineers do not have the expertise to speak to humanistic questions- Text and writing are two different things - Image creation and art are two different things - LLMs cannot tell truths- LLMs are a BIG F’ING DEAL and suggesting they’re not, or hoping they won’t be, on the basis of any of the above will land us in real trouble.
(DIR) Post #ATxJ5j0LH4oMT3NaGu by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-24T15:02:08Z
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If there’s anything we should have learned from the past 25 years of the history of the internet it’s that academics “calling bullshit” is not a plan for dealing with unwanted technology outcomes
(DIR) Post #ATynZyxTiMeyPyLMuW by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-25T16:31:53Z
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@TedUnderwood Unbelievably bad. The web app is a *little* better than the mobile app.
(DIR) Post #AU7lPHSg81wr8LLVyK by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-30T00:08:14Z
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I worry that the use of the term “AI hype cycle” isn’t doing the work its proponents think it is. My understanding is that those proponents hope the term will help people see through the breathless predictions of corporate interests and focus instead on harms they’re perpetrating in the present. I worry, however, that it reads, to the casual observer, as “nothing to see here.”Surely that’s not the outcome we want.
(DIR) Post #AU7lPIwUcfOJj6Iq5A by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-30T00:08:31Z
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I could be wrong.
(DIR) Post #AU9jb89x8eHJi7M1IW by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-03-30T23:09:05Z
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@CitizenWald @aristofontes Love the Dark and Stormy, but it’s sneaky cold today.
(DIR) Post #AUHW9WveqVY7y5yvMO by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-04-03T16:31:09Z
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“But we are not actually talking about the facts or data of higher education. If we were, there might be more articles about how accounting majors are down or even glancing attention paid to the National Survey of Student Engagement’s findings that the most popular college major—business—often fails to deliver anything resembling an education to the students who’ve chosen it.”https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/04/02/letter-from-an-english-department-on-the-brink/
(DIR) Post #AWUI3qtUnmgxBvvSIC by foundhistory@hcommons.social
2023-06-08T13:12:20Z
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Question: Has anybody from the U.S. government offered Canada any help in fighting these fires? Seems like bringing some of our resources to bear on this would be good for everybody?