siddharth
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siddharth
@engineering-why.bsky.social
Oo...the YooKay will announce sanctions. Russians must be quivering in their boots now that Europe's backwater countries are deciding to get uppity.
February 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
No they are not. Germany's dependence on dirty coal has deepened. The only thing that keeps those numbers from being publicized is borrowing nuclear energy from the French.
"Fossil fuels are losing their grip on EU energy. At the start of the European Green Deal in 2019, few thought the EU’s energy transition could be where it is today; wind and solar are pushing coal to the margins and forcing gas into structural decline"

Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy
European Electricity Review 2025 | Ember
The EU’s electricity transition continued at pace in 2024, as solar overtook coal for the first time and gas declined for the fifth year in a row.
ember-energy.org
January 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
You forgot to optimize your model for originality or quality of prose. We've all been there.
I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks
January 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM

"what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"
and the 'finished' version of keith haring's Unfinished Painting is already more subversive than anything 99% of artists have produced
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
January 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Oh this is fun...if you don't like me shitting on your head, do as much about it as you are about the genocide. Do you think a bit of feces on your head is more important than children dying?
ATTENTION: @australianlabor.bsky.social

I am led to believe Labor's party room has seen some graffiti that upset everyone. Why not just do what the party room already does so well. #auspol #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM
If only it were a consistent thing, unmarred by the biases and duplicities of those who write it...
December 10, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Speaking of professions people find contemptible, I wouldn't draw attention to myself if I were you.
People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering. As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the ppl in power who enable it.
December 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM
It is fascinating to observe librarian-worship and having to contrast it with the ones I know IRL.
If I had AI-backer VC money instead of making a new LLM I would hire an elite team of librarians to find Actual Information
December 5, 2024 at 9:36 AM
That's...kinda pathetic, either iteration of it.
Happy Sunday!!! :)
December 1, 2024 at 8:09 PM
There's a vulgarity to anti-AI activism that I find difficult to quite put my finger on, despite the cause itself being a valuable one.
The typical anti-AI person writing an angry post on their way home doesn't realize that AI:

1. Silently fixes their spelling mistakes on their iPhone
2. Calculate the fastest way home on Uber
3. Pick the right music for the ride on Spotify
4. Keeps their credit card safe to buy their subscriptions
Did you know that 99% of email today is spam? Your inbox isn’t 99% spam because AI is used to filter it.

The same 99% will happen here too, but if AI researchers continue to get perma-banned for making available the datasets needed to filter it, it’s going to make this platform unusable.
November 29, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Almost as if just ChatGPT isn't enough and it's a process involving you and an algorithm.
November 28, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Reposted by siddharth
I heard people wanted a million Bluesky posts? So I made an open-source script that allows anyone to scrape the Bluesky firehose and collect everything people post.

This will be a useful resource to anyone who wants to archive this data or train generative AI. Have fun!

github.com/deepfates/bs...
GitHub - deepfates/bsky-scraper
Contribute to deepfates/bsky-scraper development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Every time I come across people attacking ML researchers for "training generative AI", I will scrape another artist's work to finetune stable diffusion. Good luck.
November 27, 2024 at 11:54 PM