Posts by jetjocko@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #ARorJvAQpfEi3ps9BI by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-01-20T01:41:08Z
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@clive My old pal titanium white blows up yet another art forgery. (It’s what got the Vinland Map, too: https://news.yale.edu/2021/09/01/analysis-unlocks-secret-vinland-map-its-fake)
(DIR) Post #ARosUEb1YDEBAVnBWi by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-01-20T01:54:50Z
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@clive Far as I know the first piece of fine art to use titanium white was Arp's Shirt Front and Fork, 1924. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.61452.html
(DIR) Post #ARovbsKqV42eJ4YnA0 by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-01-20T02:29:47Z
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@clive It’s a very Sherlock Holmes move. The wrong pigment!
(DIR) Post #ASSW78uP6LQjDGh6VU by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-02-08T04:52:27Z
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@clive @chrisbaker1337 that’s what Death in the Afternoon is about
(DIR) Post #ATQSHJpxOQA61axFzs by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-03-09T01:13:46Z
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A) Institutional Review Board sign-off is no guarantee of ethical practice, and B) holy crap you gotta be kidding me with this. Come on. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9m3a/horribly-unethical-startup-experimented-on-suicidal-teens-on-facebook-tumblr-with-chatbot
(DIR) Post #ATQVEL7KTbFMzNLqvw by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-03-09T03:24:26Z
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@clive the technical term for that in bioethics is “some fucked up shit.”
(DIR) Post #AU4xEQbUPja4HHBAHY by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-03-28T15:16:19Z
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Still no restaurant in the garden atop the Transbay Terminal in SF, because the NFT-powered, membership-driven, hyper expensive one that was announced is—no! The deuce you say!—stalled. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/salesforce-park-sho-restaurant-goes-silent-17858831.php
(DIR) Post #AU52wX4IEvIsq7VA9o by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-03-28T16:51:29Z
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@clive imagine moving through the world while seeing things that way, you know?
(DIR) Post #AUMaBOkf4cCuN9g0VU by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T03:54:02Z
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@clive but Clive! Exploratory search is the issue, right? That’s why people think they like chatbots. Highly trained symbolic analysts are not the modal user.
(DIR) Post #AUMeG4yUQljQIedG2y by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-04-06T04:39:44Z
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@clive I’m going to name my newsletter “the modal user.” Or my bar.
(DIR) Post #AV89pEsEM7cCbfZjUm by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-04-29T02:36:24Z
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A way I am dumb is that I would assume that, in general, a person who wanted to be a Supreme Court justice would try to be even more ethical than the official rules demanded. Like, beyond reproach, even. Hah! So dumb.
(DIR) Post #AVKVz21dVfYeXhZJY0 by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-05-05T01:45:56Z
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Well. Come on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/
(DIR) Post #AYCW2gZkRiUuqAzZwm by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-07-29T22:48:51Z
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@clive I’m starting to wonder if this is a consequence in part of so few of the technical papers on LLMs getting peer reviewed? Like Reviewer #2 would definitely make this point.
(DIR) Post #AYF5cjvRM0oaMnzApM by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-07-31T04:36:42Z
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@clive or even if the technical papers that mention risk have.
(DIR) Post #AZHQXmQcdMeXlFxuJE by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-08-31T05:32:27Z
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@clive it’s *possible* that acetaldehyde is a cause of hangover symptoms—nobody really knows. Acetaldehyde is so fleeting that it’s hard to get blood levels, so as far as I know no one has ever associated it cleanly with hangover….
(DIR) Post #AZIahdR07ZhhSkRMG0 by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-08-31T05:36:13Z
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…and it’s *possible* that these folks have made a bacteria that makes an enzyme that breaks down acetaldehyde. But whether they have it packaged in such a way that it survives the trip through your GI tract and delivers that enzyme in quantities large enough to break down the acetaldehyde we make after drinking? Well…
(DIR) Post #AZIaheHoxBxG6Z9XaS by jetjocko@mastodon.social
2023-08-31T05:38:34Z
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…absent evidence of a strong link to hangover, and absent a good study showing the enzyme produced in a human gut, and absent a good study showing a reduction in perceived symptoms *and* objective markers like inflammatory response? I’m skeptical.