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I make #dark (goth-adjacent, in my intentions) music: https://pgcd.bandcamp.com/
I work with #python and #django and all the usual suspects.
I'm a big #ScienceFiction and #sff reader.
I'm scared for the future of my progeny (thanks to #climate and #fascists).
I made a game: https://pgcd.itch.io/wordrush
I hate bigotry in all its forms, I love good #perfume.
A _friend_ has this awesome website: https://www.opinionated-reviews.com/
(Profile is searchable)
AI is a 0.01 quality JPEG.
It ingests a staggering amount of data to produce a relatively tiny file that you can decompress with a lot of guesswork on the computer's side.
The result is, usually, mostly ok on a larger scale but when you try to look at individual pixels, they're the correct color only by pure luck.
the Guardian
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittificati...
If Trump runs again in 2028, Obama should, too.
What ingests large quantities of data, applies some math and outputs a much smaller set of data that can still be used to reconstruct what was ingested? Compression algorithms, right?
And some of them compress *so much* that data can only be extracted partially and the rest needs to be "guessed" - like JPEGs.
LLMs ingest TB after TB and compress that into a few miserable GB.
And that's why the info they produce is like a JPEG with a compression factor of 1000 and more.
Following a discussion on reddit of all places, here's a poll. Please spread far and wide because [garbled audio, static, unintelligible noises]
The question is: do you normally listen to and enjoy audiobooks?
Also, this is what I mean by "inner monologue" (sorry it's not WP but that page terrifies me)
#askfedi
Psychology Today
How Inner Monologues Work, and Who Has Them
Inner monologues can represent a rich experience for some, as long as they don’t get out of hand.
hunting for fluorescent minerals has unexpected results
A somewhat shitty day vastly improved by discovering that the French version of #bluey has Bandit speaking Italian in Pavlova
If GenAI companies were serious about how good their "agentic" stuff is, they would give write permission to their git repo to their agents and ask it to improve its own performance 10x.
Angry, confused and worried about police – behind Instagram bans
Hundreds of people have contacted the BBC to say they have wrongly been shut out of their accounts.