Dave
@davetheginge.bsky.social
Is a little blind faith too much to ask?
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
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Again... we need a taxonomy which separates Machine Learning, and data matching, to GenAI from LLMs pattern matching.
The two have very different parameters, and outcomes.
Conflating them harms the former, and whitewashes the latter.
The two have very different parameters, and outcomes.
Conflating them harms the former, and whitewashes the latter.
Catastrophic flooding in Western Washington illustrates how important it is for scientists, engineers and emergency planners to anticipate extreme weather - and how useful a new AI tool that's being developed by @microsoft.com and NASA can be. www.geekwire.com/2025/microso... #Hydrology #Copilot
Microsoft and NASA create AI agents that can help scientists anticipate floods and other water woes
Microsoft and NASA are turning to AI to help researchers figure out how to cope with flooding and other water-related nightmares.
www.geekwire.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Again... we need a taxonomy which separates Machine Learning, and data matching, to GenAI from LLMs pattern matching.
The two have very different parameters, and outcomes.
Conflating them harms the former, and whitewashes the latter.
The two have very different parameters, and outcomes.
Conflating them harms the former, and whitewashes the latter.
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"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value. The definition has since expanded to mean "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence" Great choice @merriam-webster.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value. The definition has since expanded to mean "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence" Great choice @merriam-webster.com
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Here is the actual fresco - no people, the bridge isn't a bridge it's a ramp and the entire thing is fuzzier, as you might expect.3/n
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here is the actual fresco - no people, the bridge isn't a bridge it's a ramp and the entire thing is fuzzier, as you might expect.3/n
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here's a handy mnemonic for remembering how this type of switch works:
O = it's Off
I = It's on
O = it's Off
I = It's on
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
here's a handy mnemonic for remembering how this type of switch works:
O = it's Off
I = It's on
O = it's Off
I = It's on
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Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
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You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.
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Growing up, the main bus in my town was every 10 minutes and always packed. I didn't worry about timetables I just left the house and knew it would be there. Now it's every half hour and completely deserted. This is no coincidence. Fund buses properly and people will use them.
October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Growing up, the main bus in my town was every 10 minutes and always packed. I didn't worry about timetables I just left the house and knew it would be there. Now it's every half hour and completely deserted. This is no coincidence. Fund buses properly and people will use them.
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"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
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I wrote this.
Let’s Make Selling Out Embarrassing Again
Let’s Make Selling Out Embarrassing Again
The fallout from the Riyadh Comedy Festival has been swift and forceful. The devil's row of comedians who signed up to play the controversial event, and agreed to heavy contractually obligated self-censorship in the process, are now facing pushback from...
Read more...
www.pajiba.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I wrote this.
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Ofc an even more accurate description would be "the run-down hotels where asylum applicants, a majority of whom will prove to be refugees fleeing persecution, are being dumped with minimal subsistence and no right to work, while the Government takes years deciding a huge backlog of their cases"
September 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Ofc an even more accurate description would be "the run-down hotels where asylum applicants, a majority of whom will prove to be refugees fleeing persecution, are being dumped with minimal subsistence and no right to work, while the Government takes years deciding a huge backlog of their cases"
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked
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Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.
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I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
August 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
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i dont hate acronyms i just hate what they stand for
August 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
i dont hate acronyms i just hate what they stand for
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there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
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You're not being "discriminated against" based on how you voted or what business you've gone into. You're being judged. There's a difference.
August 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
You're not being "discriminated against" based on how you voted or what business you've gone into. You're being judged. There's a difference.
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You can say what you like about test cricket, but it's hard to top "Had to send a guy out with a dislocated shoulder and his arm in a sling in a last ditch attempt to save the game, and it almost worked."
August 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
You can say what you like about test cricket, but it's hard to top "Had to send a guy out with a dislocated shoulder and his arm in a sling in a last ditch attempt to save the game, and it almost worked."