dgerouvillefarrell.bsky.social
@dgerouvillefarrell.bsky.social
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I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶
May 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I am really pleased to see this.

Although designers and teams often care about sustainability it often goes overlooked because there is no overt / official moment where it is given focus.

The benefit of making this explicit is that creates that space and permission and a priority to such focus.
April 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Big news - a new UK Government Design Principle:

Minimise environmental impact

services.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/02/a...
Adding sustainability to the Government Design Principles
We’re adding a new design principle for sustainability. This will help teams take responsibility and ownership for the sustainability of services.
services.blog.gov.uk
April 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Two AI things I learned reading Kent Hendricks' annual "Things I learned" blog post (bit.ly/4gy9zBu) :

1: ChatGPT led to a 2% decrease in freelance job postings on Upwork

2: while humans emit 27g of CO₂ when writing 300 words, ChatGPT accomplishes this in 4.4 seconds, producing only 2.2g of CO₂
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December 30, 2024 at 8:35 PM
I enjoyed a talk at LatentSpace Live (NeurIPS 2024) by @soldaini.net and wrote about it here: thingsithinkithink.blog/posts/2024/1...

Topics:
• Advances in open-source AI models
• Challenges in compute and data access
• Legislative impacts on AI development
Open Models in 2024: Progress and Challenges | thingsithinkithink
Open models achieved a lot in 2024, Luca from the AI Institute gives a good overview.
thingsithinkithink.blog
December 30, 2024 at 4:00 PM
A nice (thank you!) write up of a talk I gave recently about the gen ai tool I helped build for FCDO.
A really interesting use-case here of using generative AI in an context where accuracy and truth in responses to users are essential and determine whether a service can be released to end users.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgLT...
AI-Powered Transformation: Public Facing LLMs in Government
YouTube video by AI Web Connected
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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you can still back 868-BACK!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

i’d really love to have a little more in my budget so i can spend a bit on sound and light and just taking time to make it shine, it’s going to be my biggest game yet!

thanks everyone who’s backed already! 💕
868-BACK
The sequel to 868-HACK. A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.
www.backerkit.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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This is amazing
When people ask me: "What can I do as an individual about the climate?" I reply: "Don’t be an individual - work together with others."

Why you should prepare for #climate disasters with your neighbours - an interview with @euronews.com
Why you should prepare for climate disasters with your neighbours
Unsure what you can do about the climate crisis? Community action is key, says the Climate Majority Project.
buff.ly
November 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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4/n In an effort to build a FLUX level open source image generation model, the community is building a dataset of image preferences. The dataset is already open and the project is still running. Join in!

huggingface.co/posts/davidb...
@davidberenstein1957 on Hugging Face: "🔥 Dataset Drop - Open Image Preferences BlackForest Labs Flux Dev VS.…"
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 30, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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okay so here once again is the link to @smestorp.bsky.social's 868-BACK crowdfunding campaign. in this thread i'm going to try to talk about the ways the original changed my life.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
868-BACK
The sequel to 868-HACK. A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.
www.backerkit.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.

CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
April 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Hey! I've announced my next game and I am asking for money already so I can finish making it. :)
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
868-BACK
The sequel to 868-HACK. A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.
www.backerkit.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.
November 17, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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observers 🔭 - automatically log all OpenAI compatible requests to a dataset 💽

• supports any OpenAI compatible endpoint 💪
• supports @duckdb.org, @huggingface.bsky.social datasets and Argilla as stores

> pip install observers
November 21, 2024 at 8:06 PM