Posts by jakob@pxi.social
(DIR) Post #AToJbUBhHlBkFBk9Qm by jakob@pxi.social
2023-03-20T15:06:56Z
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@simon "my knowledge" is low key the biggest lie that persists,no? If there were a knowledge model bound to the language model, the bot might serve the kinds of use cases people erroneously think it is meant to serve.
(DIR) Post #AUU5QkhhZUK6zqppVg by jakob@pxi.social
2023-04-09T09:58:31Z
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@mekkaokereke @mxtthxw @stefanieschulte @22 to bring it back to what I took from Mekka's observation:Mastodon does not foster serendipity. I think this is an actual problem for relevance that runs deeper than excluding mainstream culture resonance. The cultural dissemination of *all* novel experience is filtered through a self-selection bias.Exposure to nerdy, informed takes on fashion might inspire readers to epiphanies from History Mastodon or Material Science Mastodon etc. I miss that.
(DIR) Post #AUULCJS3hFcLggeeGW by jakob@pxi.social
2023-04-09T10:28:25Z
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@stefanieschulte @Doreen32128 @mekkaokereke @mxtthxw @22 I happen to dabble in fashion from a cultural studies background. I know nothing about knitting, but I learned just how diverse the crowd is that does:I'm sure if you follow some of that crowd, the metaphorical thread that runs from weaving machines in industrialization through codifying gender when a skill gains prestige all the way to computer science will occasionally spin out in a digital thread on this app.
(DIR) Post #AUULCL9LNnpsxDujNA by jakob@pxi.social
2023-04-09T10:35:26Z
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@stefanieschulte @Doreen32128 @mekkaokereke @mxtthxw @22 I know that they do because I was lucky enough to bring some mutuals who are versed in yarn craft to this place and I keep trying to extend my network via the connections they introduced.Which is funny to me because the underlying metaphor is so relevant to cultural studies in a definition Clifford Geertz made popular:Culture is the fabric of meaning that we weave together.
(DIR) Post #AVDQEuEQILwnAl14T2 by jakob@pxi.social
2023-05-01T15:41:15Z
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@simon @jeffjarvis I don't think it takes extraordinary skill - or at least it would not need to, if the mental models of people who drive public discourse were better informed. Of course you can't understand or explain a thing well, if the metaphor you are using to describe it is ill equipped and leads you down unhelpful paths.https://pxi.social/@jakob/110283919520935594
(DIR) Post #AVDYCZyRRPtxOkwV0q by jakob@pxi.social
2023-05-01T15:48:28Z
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@simon @jeffjarvis incidentally, "answering" is already an unhelpful frame.To answer a question, as an act of human-like communication, an interlocutor needs to access a knowledge model that binds truth values to propositions. An LLM cannot answer a question in that sense.Some prompts can generate useful outputs, though. That's how I would try to approach defining sensible constraints.
(DIR) Post #AVDae1YvAyrSgnDhtQ by jakob@pxi.social
2023-05-01T17:37:05Z
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@simon @jeffjarvis it is epistemically false to purport there is a schema of question and answer that LLMs can partake in. LLMs generate outputs from large N data pools, stochastic training algorithms and prompts. That you frame the input prompt as a question is a choice.People see things all the time where an initial model of what they see is incongruent with the underlying causes. That's where journalists and Benoit Blanc come in. Hopefully only one of them is fictional.
(DIR) Post #AWi4aA8nGTRds82BOK by jakob@pxi.social
2023-06-15T08:28:28Z
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@tante @guenterhack Machtfrage lässt sich wunderbar diskontieren. Das ist doch eine der menschlichsten Eigenschaften, künftige mögliche Konsequenzen auszublenden, wenn naheliegende aktuelle Gewinne realisiert werden können. Mal vulgär rationale Entscheidungstheorien runterbrechend.
(DIR) Post #AWi6DYyCz3bS7uR0FM by jakob@pxi.social
2023-06-15T08:46:47Z
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@tante @guenterhack Discoverability ist insbesondere bei Mastodon ein für mich kritisches Defizit.Gleichzeitig würde ich nicht gar so apodiktisch eine Chance als vergeben und "die Gemeinschaft" als untätig verurteilen, aus der es durchaus Bestrebungen und Arbeit zur Erweiterung der aktuellen Affordances gibt, nicht zuletzt weil manche der Zugezogenen die Defizite nicht einfach hinnehmen sondern ändern. Und sei es auf Client-Ebene.Zukunft ist immer.
(DIR) Post #AWk03J8cmUSoigx9XM by jakob@pxi.social
2023-06-16T06:47:10Z
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@malteengeler you mean collapsible sections?https://inclusive-components.design/collapsible-sections/the native HTML also provides a <details> element that is automatically styled by browsers, if you want to not fuss about with CSS. https://inclusive-components.design/collapsible-sections/ - and if you happen to use markdown for composing, Multimarkdown parsers (and I think GitHub flavor) may even allow you to write Markdown inside this element.
(DIR) Post #AXgTehpBG210HIQEXQ by jakob@pxi.social
2023-07-14T11:52:08Z
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@dave I don't think I have to, because the vast majority of media tend to police just about everything about women, especially of women with public exposure. Comes with the territory of most western societies. And I don't even consumed US media during Hillary Clinton's run for presidency. Then again, I'm not sure what "this kind of piece" means.
(DIR) Post #Abm4D2sIp3w69EcoD2 by jakob@pxi.social
2023-11-13T20:03:46Z
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@jquillin nice!Though I posit that companies to this day by and large fail to quantify "externalities" (the thing where social and environmental costs are offloaded to society) as strategic risk. Both their own and that of the competitive landscape need be gauged to make informed decisions and drive change.I would love for truly innovative apporaches to blend fast fashion impulses with, say, circular economy principles (like https://ddc.dk/tools/tool-01-circular-strategies-wheel/#) to address those strategic shortcomings.
(DIR) Post #Ac3l7OafJTGquQqXlQ by jakob@pxi.social
2023-11-22T08:54:25Z
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@Wolven @dawnnafus this lens is quite useful in other domains of society, too, where a construct of belief structures can become more relevant than the thing itself.Understanding the foundational mythology of "democracy" in the context of post-democracy or governance breakdown was a recent example I came across.In your research, did you find some patterns what happens when mythology is threatened? Something like "When Prophecy Fails"?
(DIR) Post #Ac4JNyybCAVkpj7cwa by jakob@pxi.social
2023-11-22T15:18:22Z
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@Wolven @dawnnafus do you engage in qualifying the mythologies (I think there is some overlap with world views) akin to something Schurz tried with his force triangle? true/false vs right/wrong vs beautiful/uglyDoing so works pretty well to predict outputs: say, interpreting fascist ideology as a primacy of aesthetics, where it is morally right to commit atrocities and truth conditions yield to a higher power of a predetermined beautiful natural order of things.https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHWUR
(DIR) Post #Ac65dfCtSHcT6vJM4u by jakob@pxi.social
2023-11-23T11:38:15Z
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@esther @tante then again, speaker notes and slides you read off of instead of using them as visual cue prompts are anti patterns. They distract both you and the audience.I prefer a confidence monitor showing the current slide so you can keep facing the audience.In a visual cue paradigm (slides as graphic mnemonics for your story) the speaker notes are best used to craft and practice your message in the composition stage, not on stage.
(DIR) Post #Ac6J2afAmjjxf5ks0e by jakob@pxi.social
2023-11-23T14:24:01Z
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@tante 👍 (I'm guessing putting those few words or icon representations for them on the slides does not work for you. I would, however, reframe the problem as dealing with the regular venue limitations as part of the design constraints for talk prep. So maybe that opens up alternative possibilities and ideas?)
(DIR) Post #AdXIp0FoQUzNElXt7A by jakob@pxi.social
2024-01-05T12:50:40Z
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@tante Mag mich nicht notwendigerweise in Häme ergehen, Vereine sind lebendige Organismen mit wechselnder Verfassung und Dynamik. Es gibt durchaus zivilgesellschaftliche Bedürfnisse, denen ein Thinktank, eine Lobby und weitere Strukturen fehlen, wo irgendein Verein mit Sichtbarkeit und Fachkompetenz des Digitalen die Leerstelle notgedrungen füllen muss.Allein der Termin schon ist eine Absage an Teilhabe und entsprechende Einschlägigkeit.
(DIR) Post #ArRN8DKcTWVA78XF0i by jakob@pxi.social
2025-02-24T10:20:24Z
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@futurebird @nazokiyoubinbou @CptSuperlative @emilymbender ultimately I don't think fidelity and veracity in text generation matter all that much across most contexts, hence a bullshit machine that is 80% reliable while reducing human input to 20% of manual effort will be used everywhere the famous 80/20 rule faces no hard factfulness constraint. Hence, the users not having a more accurate mental model or groking what they do is immaterial to how the output is being used...
(DIR) Post #ArRPBRxKl4NgFRJXU0 by jakob@pxi.social
2025-02-24T10:43:00Z
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@david_chisnall @futurebird @CptSuperlative @emilymbender btw, we are working on "edge AI" in a research project and have taken to reframe "summarization" of the source information into "wayfinding" of the information.Offering fidelity estimations and affordances to navigate the source text from the condensed version should (we hope) inform the mental model of users that they are using a stochastic machine that is merely there to help work with large texts. Still early working hypothesis.
(DIR) Post #AyQAZb0lYuYFAKad3A by jakob@pxi.social
2025-09-21T05:29:41Z
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@futurebird when prophesy falls (the book) and the subsequent scholarly critiques may be an interesting read?