Sam A
@whodasam.bsky.social
Data Engineer & AI/ML Product leader.
PolPhil, CogSci, Science nerd; Left Libertarian incrementalist.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
PolPhil, CogSci, Science nerd; Left Libertarian incrementalist.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
Found a cool poison pill for GenAI LLMs that consume writing.
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Here’s how I’m stopping AI-generated comments dead in their tracks with a poisoned watermark.
It creates an immediately visible signal that AI was used inappropriately, while also making the output unusable.
medium.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Found a cool poison pill for GenAI LLMs that consume writing.
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A fun logic puzzle
Challenge your mind with this brainteaser: five bags of gold, one fake. Use a digital scale only once. Can you solve it?
Only 'most intelligent' people can solve tricky brainteaser about 'bags of gold'
www.irishstar.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A fun logic puzzle
Carrying around exploding batteries may become a relic.
Researchers develop a way to power wearables through human skin
Researchers develop a way to power wearables through human skin
The dream of battery-free devices has taken an unlikely turn, as Carnegie Mellon researchers debuted Power-Over-Skin. The technology allows for electrical currents to travel through human skin in a bid to power things like blood sugar monitors,…
tcrn.ch
January 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Carrying around exploding batteries may become a relic.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh
January 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh
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watching tiktok go down I feel like i did when I didn’t bother getting to know a friend’s ex
January 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
watching tiktok go down I feel like i did when I didn’t bother getting to know a friend’s ex
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I tested 20 models on the Jetson Orin Nano so you don't have to. I ran Ollama (because of course) with a bunch of smaller models. How does it measure up? Check it out and see.
www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/tech/nv...
#JetsonNano #AI #MachineLearning
www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/tech/nv...
#JetsonNano #AI #MachineLearning
How Fast Does the Jetson Nano Really Run Large Language Models?
Can your Jetson Orin Nano handle the latest LLMs? We test a range of whooping models to see how fast they run.
www.jeremymorgan.com
December 29, 2024 at 5:41 AM
I tested 20 models on the Jetson Orin Nano so you don't have to. I ran Ollama (because of course) with a bunch of smaller models. How does it measure up? Check it out and see.
www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/tech/nv...
#JetsonNano #AI #MachineLearning
www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/tech/nv...
#JetsonNano #AI #MachineLearning
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A 7-year universal basic income project in Welle, Uganda, released preliminary results in 2023 after the first 2.5 years. In a village of 350 people, everyone (adult + child) is receiving the same amount (€15/mo).
Extreme poverty has decreased from 55% to 10%.
More: 👇
www.rug.nl/feb/research...
Extreme poverty has decreased from 55% to 10%.
More: 👇
www.rug.nl/feb/research...
December 29, 2024 at 3:06 PM
A 7-year universal basic income project in Welle, Uganda, released preliminary results in 2023 after the first 2.5 years. In a village of 350 people, everyone (adult + child) is receiving the same amount (€15/mo).
Extreme poverty has decreased from 55% to 10%.
More: 👇
www.rug.nl/feb/research...
Extreme poverty has decreased from 55% to 10%.
More: 👇
www.rug.nl/feb/research...
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Think about reading and sharing more reporting - which includes new facts, conversations, and documents- rather than punditry and aggregation. Those do have value but when our media diet is overly balanced on takes rather than reporting, it is not as healthy!
December 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Think about reading and sharing more reporting - which includes new facts, conversations, and documents- rather than punditry and aggregation. Those do have value but when our media diet is overly balanced on takes rather than reporting, it is not as healthy!
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Quasi-Magic:Marginal effects at the mean, average marginal effects, and #Stata's margins command
www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-ma...
www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-ma...
ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and Stata's margins command - kai arzheimer
Stata's margins command greatly facilitates the interpretation of models. But what are average marginal effects and marginal effects at the mean?
www.kai-arzheimer.com
December 25, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Quasi-Magic:Marginal effects at the mean, average marginal effects, and #Stata's margins command
www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-ma...
www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-ma...
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George Borjas and I dug into our crowdsourced experimental data to show what he suspected: that researchers' findings on a politically relevant topic followed their political ideology. www.nber.org/papers/w33274
Ideological Bias in Estimates of the Impact of Immigration
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 23, 2024 at 2:31 PM
George Borjas and I dug into our crowdsourced experimental data to show what he suspected: that researchers' findings on a politically relevant topic followed their political ideology. www.nber.org/papers/w33274
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Where people live
8% Full democracy
37% Flawed democracy
18% Hybrid regime
37% Authoritarian regime
According to: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. The EIU classifies the US as a flawed democracy.
www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-dem...
8% Full democracy
37% Flawed democracy
18% Hybrid regime
37% Authoritarian regime
According to: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. The EIU classifies the US as a flawed democracy.
www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-dem...
December 20, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Where people live
8% Full democracy
37% Flawed democracy
18% Hybrid regime
37% Authoritarian regime
According to: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. The EIU classifies the US as a flawed democracy.
www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-dem...
8% Full democracy
37% Flawed democracy
18% Hybrid regime
37% Authoritarian regime
According to: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. The EIU classifies the US as a flawed democracy.
www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-dem...
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Just debating them is what they want. It's their tactic. Sartre knew about fascists-
December 15, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Just debating them is what they want. It's their tactic. Sartre knew about fascists-
'The empty raincoat is to me, the symbol of our most pressing paradox. If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. The challenge must be to show how paradox can be managed.'
from 'The Empty Raincoat'
Charles Handy
from 'The Empty Raincoat'
Charles Handy
December 14, 2024 at 4:35 PM
'The empty raincoat is to me, the symbol of our most pressing paradox. If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. The challenge must be to show how paradox can be managed.'
from 'The Empty Raincoat'
Charles Handy
from 'The Empty Raincoat'
Charles Handy
What's the polio vaccine done for you recently?
This cartoon is from 1930.
It could have been today.
It could have been today.
December 14, 2024 at 5:34 AM
What's the polio vaccine done for you recently?
Not sure how the genie goes back in the bottle.
But, I'd love to see Big Tech's collective faces if the legal system decided LLMs weren't a legitimate "derivative" use in many ToS and weren't protected by fair use policies.
But, I'd love to see Big Tech's collective faces if the legal system decided LLMs weren't a legitimate "derivative" use in many ToS and weren't protected by fair use policies.
“In an interview with the New York Times …Balaji argued OpenAI was harming businesses and entrepreneurs whose data were used to train ChatGPT…he told the outlet, adding that “this is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole.””
December 14, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Not sure how the genie goes back in the bottle.
But, I'd love to see Big Tech's collective faces if the legal system decided LLMs weren't a legitimate "derivative" use in many ToS and weren't protected by fair use policies.
But, I'd love to see Big Tech's collective faces if the legal system decided LLMs weren't a legitimate "derivative" use in many ToS and weren't protected by fair use policies.
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In 2022, Democrats and Republicans in Congress were further apart ideologically than at any time in the previous 50 years, according to Pew Research Center analysis. Republicans moved further to the right than Democrats had to the left.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
The polarization in today’s Congress has roots that go back decades
On average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.
www.pewresearch.org
December 13, 2024 at 9:06 PM
In 2022, Democrats and Republicans in Congress were further apart ideologically than at any time in the previous 50 years, according to Pew Research Center analysis. Republicans moved further to the right than Democrats had to the left.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Nothing self-serving in a multi-billion dollar for-profit company pushing for its approach to be subsidized by public institutions.
Well, nothing new anyway.
Well, nothing new anyway.
Ah nothing like reading the Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a“godfather” of GenAi advocate for the outright pillaging of all of our creative works. Thank you for letting us know our livelihoods and work mean nothing, as long as their dear for profit tech has fodder to train with. 👍
December 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Nothing self-serving in a multi-billion dollar for-profit company pushing for its approach to be subsidized by public institutions.
Well, nothing new anyway.
Well, nothing new anyway.
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Probably not news for api touchers, but I found a repo by @why.bsky.team that implements a bunch of simple and less simple feed generators, including ones using ML to classify posts.
Pretty straightforward. Wonder how the ML models keep up with firehose throughput though
github.com/whyrusleepin...
Pretty straightforward. Wonder how the ML models keep up with firehose throughput though
github.com/whyrusleepin...
GitHub - whyrusleeping/algoz: Bluesky custom algo hacking
Bluesky custom algo hacking. Contribute to whyrusleeping/algoz development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:57 AM
Probably not news for api touchers, but I found a repo by @why.bsky.team that implements a bunch of simple and less simple feed generators, including ones using ML to classify posts.
Pretty straightforward. Wonder how the ML models keep up with firehose throughput though
github.com/whyrusleepin...
Pretty straightforward. Wonder how the ML models keep up with firehose throughput though
github.com/whyrusleepin...
Buzzfeed justifying my distain... again
The $82.5 million sale of "Hot Ones" studio First We Feast is part of a broader strategy at BuzzFeed to shift away from human editors, writers and content producers in favor of artificial intelligence, which result in "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
BuzzFeed sells "Hot Ones" studio for $82.5 million as it pursues more AI-driven content
The company said the sale will allow it to depend less on human-created content in favor of "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
thedesk.net
December 13, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Buzzfeed justifying my distain... again
Add another to the list of "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should"
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research
Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Add another to the list of "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should"
Rockefeller's net worth circa 1920 would be roughly equivalent to $25-30B today.
Bill Gates net worth when he became the richest person in the world ~1994-95, would be roughy $30B assuming 3% inflation.
Today, the richest person is worth over 10X that.
Bill Gates net worth when he became the richest person in the world ~1994-95, would be roughy $30B assuming 3% inflation.
Today, the richest person is worth over 10X that.
Elon Musk becomes first person to surpass $400B net worth, according to Bloomberg
Musk spent a quarter of a billion dollars this year helping elect Donald Trump to a second term as president.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Rockefeller's net worth circa 1920 would be roughly equivalent to $25-30B today.
Bill Gates net worth when he became the richest person in the world ~1994-95, would be roughy $30B assuming 3% inflation.
Today, the richest person is worth over 10X that.
Bill Gates net worth when he became the richest person in the world ~1994-95, would be roughy $30B assuming 3% inflation.
Today, the richest person is worth over 10X that.
How come everything is 5 years off, always?
Is there a psychological barrier that makes people more amenable to reality warping when it's framed this way?
Far enough to seem possible but close enough to invest?
Does it make people imagine regulatory and social hurdles will be eliminated by then?
Is there a psychological barrier that makes people more amenable to reality warping when it's framed this way?
Far enough to seem possible but close enough to invest?
Does it make people imagine regulatory and social hurdles will be eliminated by then?
Tech bros know what every parent wants: children who sleep less
December 11, 2024 at 5:22 PM
How come everything is 5 years off, always?
Is there a psychological barrier that makes people more amenable to reality warping when it's framed this way?
Far enough to seem possible but close enough to invest?
Does it make people imagine regulatory and social hurdles will be eliminated by then?
Is there a psychological barrier that makes people more amenable to reality warping when it's framed this way?
Far enough to seem possible but close enough to invest?
Does it make people imagine regulatory and social hurdles will be eliminated by then?