Posts by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #ALM0Xwxq0Jw88NKyTw by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-07-10T16:14:51Z
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PhD Progress: another 2500 words today and finally a workable first draft of the beastly background chapter. This week focussing on scientometrics. Now aiming for a first draft of the whole thesis by the end of July (https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2022/07/10/1657469414/)
(DIR) Post #ALM0pMO2jj1Nu6tddA by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-07-10T16:29:48Z
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@Gina ahh no that should be "this week" - blaming the hot weather for that one! Congratulations on handing yours in!
(DIR) Post #ALPuBl9KR6Wf2dtA8m by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-07-12T13:34:16Z
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@urusan recently saw a linkedin "self congratulation porn" post about a guy who nearly bankrupted his company because they forgot to turn off some AWS services and the moral of the story was "this was a challenge and now I'm more resilient and can get through a crisis" rather than "f*** AWS and their crazy opaque billing system"
(DIR) Post #ANOAVrw0vPQAOiZCVc by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-09-09T13:03:21Z
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hey @dajb - I'm getting weird behaviour if I look at your @thoughtshrapnel RSS feed - if I subscribe in FreshRSS or visit it in-browser I get an outdated snapshot from June. if I access via curl or Aperture feed reader I get new articles. Am I using it wrong? Pastebin of the feed content if I go via browser: https://privatebin.net/?7261083dc0a23738#6jYXp7y4QSZn7UU23kpt1HmRSJckuW5Dq9NZiJY4MDdR
(DIR) Post #ANOAVtfmSjclmwzGU4 by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-09-09T13:04:10Z
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@dajb @thoughtshrapnel I really enjoy the serendipitous and random stuff you post about in thought shrapnel and I'm migrating /to/ freshrss so I'd love to somehow get this working there
(DIR) Post #ANOXUTIdKXgSeJRvqi by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-09-09T17:06:54Z
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Phd thesis submitted, 7 years in the making! I’m PHinisheD (thanks to Mrs R for the mug). Now to prepare for a much needed holiday before the dreaded viva (https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2022/09/09/1662742877/)
(DIR) Post #ANRsdaZgKfnsKWUaK8 by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-09-09T14:48:15Z
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@dajb @thoughtshrapnel @noeldemartin very weird! I can re-create it across different browsers and in "private browsing" too - I guess I'll have to visit the site periodically to get the updates or get the email newsletter 😉
(DIR) Post #AO5tGi7zTxvhSCDaHw by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-09-30T15:25:47Z
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@kev suspiciously watch-sized box 🤔 - on a not entirely unrelated note I vote to make this song the official anthem of Fosstodon https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7nJRGARveVc
(DIR) Post #AO5tMpFttYS5ITpkjg by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-09-30T15:26:07Z
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@kev suspiciously watch-sized box 🤔 - on a not entirely unrelated note I vote to make this song the official anthem of Fosstodon Casio - Jungle - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7nJRGARveVc
(DIR) Post #AORAADBiEaTokXuyhM by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2022-10-10T21:43:58Z
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@kev congrats! There is a special circle of hell reserved for estate agents and another for conveyancing solicitors!
(DIR) Post #ASVhHNmGMAcNC2qqcy by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2023-02-09T17:40:12Z
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@simon I think if you take journalism as a model (people are more likely to blindly trust articles that they agree with and strongly criticise material that they disagree with) I'd hypothesise that people will do the same with chatbots - only questioning what they read if they don't like what it says. This will be exacerbated by chatbots being super confident and subtly wrong and having to look harder to find the problems which you won't want to do if you agree with the output
(DIR) Post #ASVoBAmKTNAoorruXw by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2023-02-09T18:55:42Z
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@simon yes possibly or I wonder if you'd see some version version of Knoll's law of media accuracy where people are happy to trust the bot on stuff they don't know much about but more distrustful when they know about the subject matter or they have strong biases one way or another?
(DIR) Post #ASre99H0VNgPdVciTg by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2023-02-20T07:50:50Z
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@codewiz the 100M users figure is definitely in dispute - its likely closer to 30M @swyx article discusses this: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/ok-foomer
(DIR) Post #AT0pdl9J60ddiCSaS8 by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2023-02-24T18:09:52Z
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@simon small LMs that run on a single machine (SLMs?) are so exciting! There are also other promising works that outperform GPT-3 at specific tasks after some fine tuning (e.g. Schick + Schutze PET and GenPET https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.11926.pdf) PET will happily both train + infer on my 12GB VRAM TitanX card. I am excited about the potential of these techniques to truly democratise NLP instead of "democratisation" based on a chosing one of the proprietary APIs from 3-5 BigTechCos
(DIR) Post #ATfyuIHE8p1YVGmGsC by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2023-03-16T14:38:59Z
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@team this is so important. My PhD would not have been possible without access to historical archives of news articles. I've been using #NLP to automatically "read" news articles that talk about science and help the scientists find. These articles can then be shared with funding bodies and simply as personal momentos that demonstrate the impact of the scientists' on wider society. Censoring these activities prevents all sorts of beneficial analyses like mine.
(DIR) Post #AYKdb5GjOgYYDO7sSu by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2023-08-02T12:00:09Z
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Saw this good boy in charge of his own camper on my way in this morning #dogsofmastodon #goodboy
(DIR) Post #AdNLXQBLe2bKikAMfg by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2023-12-31T17:34:22Z
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@funnylookinhat @jamesravey@brainsteam.co.uk thanks! I built the pc a couple of years back with an AMD Ryzen 5200+ and 32GB ram, upgraded the GPU to an RTX4070 this year. It can run most games without breaking a sweat which is great 😅
(DIR) Post #AdNMubFWlKp1ezjls8 by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2023-12-31T17:49:47Z
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@funnylookinhat @jamesravey@brainsteam.co.uk haha thanks! I just need to sort my cable management out now! Embarrassingly messy!
(DIR) Post #Amf0ekdjfUy3nXZGLI by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2024-10-04T10:52:59Z
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@aral wishing I could vote - love and support from plague island #brexshit
(DIR) Post #AnE0IY6Ul7n1jb22hk by jamesravey@fosstodon.org
2024-10-21T07:50:09Z
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Seems the slightly better antennae I got with the 2nd heltec that came yesterday has been able to ping some nodes in Gosport and mesh-hopped into Portsmouth. Unfortunately it’s not strong enough to have picked up much more than the device shortnames. The new Parador 5dbi mast I picked up yesterday should fix that… Not addicted I promise 😅#meshtastic (https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2024/10/21/1729496698/)