Posts by jhilden@vis.social
(DIR) Post #APvdl5fdEGDEGdXo7U by jhilden@vis.social
2022-11-24T09:35:51Z
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well this is a fairly suspicious bot profile. It liked my post, I reported it. #fediAdmin
(DIR) Post #ASh6XjIEtbekHH9MdE by jhilden@vis.social
2023-02-15T05:47:27Z
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@TedUnderwood i would love to see people put more effort in designing, to quote Rodney Brooks, ”An AI system with an ongoing existence (no day is the repeat of another day as it currently is for all AI systems) at the level of a mouse.” That would certainly be unsettling too, but in a more manageable way since we’d understand it as non-human.
(DIR) Post #AShNoOhyNjfYZuijEe by jhilden@vis.social
2023-02-15T07:55:47Z
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@TedUnderwood some descendants of the current language models might reach a point where they actually have something akin to ”intelligence” for all i know, but it will be terribly obfuscated by Turing test language fluff! Non-verbal AI agents would be interesting to interact with.
(DIR) Post #ATAtVlcRo6ecFa8Mvw by jhilden@vis.social
2023-03-01T14:42:45Z
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@TedUnderwood
(DIR) Post #ATw5wPQgKMv7TRVxa4 by jhilden@vis.social
2023-03-24T08:45:54Z
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The Finnish language wikipedia article is mildly chaotichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language
(DIR) Post #AU5NZdoP6BEk8EzmBU by jhilden@vis.social
2023-03-28T19:23:45Z
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”Finland, national parliament election 2 April:Preliminary turnout after final day in early voting period:2015: 31.9%2019: 35.7%2023: 39.9%The early voting has ended with a new record.”Source: Finnish Ministry of Justice#Finland #vaalit23 #vaalit2023 #eduskuntavaalit2023 #EuropeElects #FinPolhttps://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1640778203831607296?s=20
(DIR) Post #AUmj7d7i9nU7wjCdtY by jhilden@vis.social
2023-04-18T18:37:28Z
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@lowqualityfacts Ah, Senior Coconut, that was a fun band.
(DIR) Post #AUrB0MRdLOntXXgQmO by jhilden@vis.social
2023-04-20T18:34:51Z
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This webstore has a great Stock of ”Sorry, as an AI” products.https://www.proshop.fi/?s=sorry+as+an+AI
(DIR) Post #AcvrCbFYlsGFyBEW48 by jhilden@vis.social
2023-12-18T06:36:30Z
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This time table diagram from 1923 by the Finnish National Railways is so cute. I would be overjoyed if connections like this were restored. My personal Solarpunk utopia is ”what if pre-1950 but without the coal and with modern electronics”.”Travelling routes to Finland”. #history #diagrams #landBasedTravel https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/81773#&gid=1&pid=3
(DIR) Post #AcvrCdf9nfvPS9DzF2 by jhilden@vis.social
2023-12-18T07:43:41Z
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@janvenetor For sure, I went with my partner and kids all the way from Helsinki to Porto and back in summer 2022. Thanks to modern trains, land-based travel is probably faster than back then. Still missing the boats though! Until the 1990s you could sail from Finland to England on a passenger ferry.
(DIR) Post #AcvrCfPHJgParToKlk by jhilden@vis.social
2023-12-18T07:18:39Z
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Another nice one, this is a larger timetable book in Finnish and Swedish from 1934, published by the Finnish Tourist Association. Apparently these were published up until the early 2000s. There are explanatory notes on page 4 in English, French and Esperanto(!). One detail: the train Jyväskylä–Suolahti (which no longer runs) took 1 hour 20 minutes, only a few minutes slower than the bus that serves the route now. #history #timetables #landBasedTravel
(DIR) Post #AcvrCgHs2i53anLvrU by jhilden@vis.social
2023-12-18T10:56:01Z
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@tml @janvenetor yeahh… I mean Hurtigruten could be fun, but ”Den originale Kystreisen”, 7 days Bergen–Kirkenes, starting price ~1,670 €. Including full board, but still – even expensive compared to cargo ship travel. On the other hand, perhaps actually competitive compared to staying at hotels in Norway!
(DIR) Post #AcvrChG8QeHobhY3nM by jhilden@vis.social
2023-12-18T08:32:07Z
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One thing that is interesting about this is how rail-based the intercity communications were. Bus routes were used for the last mile. Which makes sense, since travel on roads in the 1930s was slow. Presumably even most major roads had gravel surfaces.
(DIR) Post #AiJ18zUsmrFcwVITtQ by jhilden@vis.social
2024-05-27T04:45:20Z
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@foone Kind of what they did with RACTER (the program which supposedly wrote ”the Policeman’s beard is half constructed”, although I guess the ”novel” is assumed to have involved some heavy human editing)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
(DIR) Post #AjkYquOfr7s00JENvM by jhilden@vis.social
2024-07-08T19:58:39Z
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This is interesting stuff: Ed Zitron writes on how Goldman Sachs, who like any investment bank ”will gladly hype anything if it thinks it'll make a buck” soured on generative AI.”A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen.”https://www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
(DIR) Post #AjkYr1AkfHtP19lrhA by jhilden@vis.social
2024-07-08T20:04:56Z
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Hahah”Perhaps Sam Altman's energy breakthrough could be these fucking AI companies being made to pay for new power infrastructure.”
(DIR) Post #AkDpUOOqTMNdpVFHgu by jhilden@vis.social
2024-07-23T06:12:59Z
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@liw @magdalenahai Ylipäänsä kaikkien kaksitahtimoottoreiden myyntikielto ja vaiheittainen olemassaolevien romuttaminen olisi suht. helppo ja hyödyllinen tavoite. Epätehokkaita ja aiheuttavat valtavasti hiukkaspäästöjä. Ks esim:https://yle.fi/a/3-5104789Ammattityökaluille kuten moottorisahoille voisi olla jotain poikkeuksia.
(DIR) Post #Akb0mlINeYuyBRGHnE by jhilden@vis.social
2024-08-03T14:55:30Z
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Now that the new Finnish e-library is starting to be worthwhile content-wise, I’m on the lookout for an e-ink Android tablet where it works, to replace my Kobo Libra H2O. Any suggestions?
(DIR) Post #AqbfmaFnOMHzM0IzZY by jhilden@vis.social
2025-01-29T14:05:38Z
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Something that I just remembered (not the complete list!)