Angus Taylor Swift
@manpageman.bsky.social
Socially Coherent Amateur Cultural Marxist. Asian or Asian Adjacent Kiwi. Reverse Parker, Nerd, Lawful Cat/Dog Lover. He/Him. Wordle Hard Mode.
Same handle on Mastodon and birdsite.
Gadigal Country, Sydney, Australia.
Same handle on Mastodon and birdsite.
Gadigal Country, Sydney, Australia.
Ok. I'm officially chuffed.
January 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Ok. I'm officially chuffed.
I've just made a couple of really excellent loaves of bread and recently been turning out very good croissants.
This is more pleasing than any single episode of my professional career, probably because the path to success was far more pleasant.
This is more pleasing than any single episode of my professional career, probably because the path to success was far more pleasant.
January 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I've just made a couple of really excellent loaves of bread and recently been turning out very good croissants.
This is more pleasing than any single episode of my professional career, probably because the path to success was far more pleasant.
This is more pleasing than any single episode of my professional career, probably because the path to success was far more pleasant.
Could have gone with a stupid word but didn't.
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November 18, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Could have gone with a stupid word but didn't.
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November 18, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Woot
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This is precisely the thing that entities that produce LLMs should be held accountable for.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google and Meta could face defamation risks over AI-generated responses, Australian experts warn
Lawyer says tech platforms could be held liable for what their AI ‘spits out’, as Google Maps rolls out new features with Gemini
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2024 at 9:04 PM
This is precisely the thing that entities that produce LLMs should be held accountable for.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Wow. AI really is amazing, the next 30 years will only take 10, or even 5.
Let's not forget the bubbles in the history of the Internet industry. On this dickhead's reasoning, AI should pop in the next couple of years. Sounds about right, actually
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Let's not forget the bubbles in the history of the Internet industry. On this dickhead's reasoning, AI should pop in the next couple of years. Sounds about right, actually
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 27, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Wow. AI really is amazing, the next 30 years will only take 10, or even 5.
Let's not forget the bubbles in the history of the Internet industry. On this dickhead's reasoning, AI should pop in the next couple of years. Sounds about right, actually
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Let's not forget the bubbles in the history of the Internet industry. On this dickhead's reasoning, AI should pop in the next couple of years. Sounds about right, actually
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Ominous and lacking in creativity is their Values statement isn't it?
Sources: many OpenAI staff were taken aback by a proposed ChatGPT logo with a simple, large black "O", which struck some as ominous and lacking in creativity (Kali Hays/Fortune)
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September 21, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Ominous and lacking in creativity is their Values statement isn't it?
Look what Grohl has done with Kurt's beautiful dream.
Nirvana, which provides insurance verification and cost estimates to healthcare providers and their patients, raised a $24.2M Series A led by Northzone (PYMNTS.com)
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September 15, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Look what Grohl has done with Kurt's beautiful dream.
Having read a few company values statements recently, I have decided to change my career to "Values Envisioneer".
August 16, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Having read a few company values statements recently, I have decided to change my career to "Values Envisioneer".
How do cops get to choose who oversees them?
The police can't refuse accountability for putting people into the justice system. They have immense discretion on how people are treated at every stage from the arrest onwards.
Cops can't fix things. Just limit them.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
The police can't refuse accountability for putting people into the justice system. They have immense discretion on how people are treated at every stage from the arrest onwards.
Cops can't fix things. Just limit them.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Police had a plan to help reduce Aboriginal incarceration. Then this happened ...
Prison numbers are going in the wrong direction for Aboriginal people. But NSW Police say they should not be held accountable for helping to bring them down.
www.smh.com.au
July 28, 2024 at 9:41 PM
How do cops get to choose who oversees them?
The police can't refuse accountability for putting people into the justice system. They have immense discretion on how people are treated at every stage from the arrest onwards.
Cops can't fix things. Just limit them.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
The police can't refuse accountability for putting people into the justice system. They have immense discretion on how people are treated at every stage from the arrest onwards.
Cops can't fix things. Just limit them.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
I noticed today that when one applies for citizenship on Australia, you have to agree with a set of values or feelpinions just to lodge the application, one of which is acknowledging that Australia's National Language is English. Not Official, mind. National. Why do that?
July 28, 2024 at 7:59 AM
I noticed today that when one applies for citizenship on Australia, you have to agree with a set of values or feelpinions just to lodge the application, one of which is acknowledging that Australia's National Language is English. Not Official, mind. National. Why do that?
When confronted with a choice between going to the equally good pub with good food or the hole in the wall Italian with good food for a solo dinner, I'm now the guy who goes to the Italian.
Maybe because it's quieter and I never wanted to talk to anyone anyway.
Maybe because it's quieter and I never wanted to talk to anyone anyway.
July 24, 2024 at 8:50 AM
When confronted with a choice between going to the equally good pub with good food or the hole in the wall Italian with good food for a solo dinner, I'm now the guy who goes to the Italian.
Maybe because it's quieter and I never wanted to talk to anyone anyway.
Maybe because it's quieter and I never wanted to talk to anyone anyway.
Ooh. I just discovered electric arc "candle lighters". My nipples explode with delight
3A is a good jolt.
3A is a good jolt.
July 24, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Ooh. I just discovered electric arc "candle lighters". My nipples explode with delight
3A is a good jolt.
3A is a good jolt.
I think it's great that old mate is driving around in a reality distortion field that he is responsible for and only works on him.
Current and former Tesla staff: self-driving data annotation staff were told to prioritize analyzing car data of VIP drivers, like Elon Musk and YouTube stars (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
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July 9, 2024 at 9:32 PM
I think it's great that old mate is driving around in a reality distortion field that he is responsible for and only works on him.
Praxis
Canada authorizes the implementation of a 3% levy on revenue from large tech companies that provide digital services to or sell data of Canadian users (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)
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July 4, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Praxis
The human centipede crossed with a circle jerk.
OpenAI details CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4 to catch errors in ChatGPT's code output, assisting human trainers in assessing and spotting errors (Will Knight/Wired)
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June 28, 2024 at 2:27 AM
The human centipede crossed with a circle jerk.
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I wrote about Google's bold decision to use cutting-edge error-generating technology to make its core product much worse, and why I find that decision so inspiring. defector.com/googles-got-...
Google's Got Nothing But Wrong Answers | Defector
When Google’s new Gemini AI program responded to the search query “how many rocks should I eat each day?” with “at least one rock,” it did not cite the original source for that extremely funny, extrem...
defector.com
June 5, 2024 at 1:26 PM
I wrote about Google's bold decision to use cutting-edge error-generating technology to make its core product much worse, and why I find that decision so inspiring. defector.com/googles-got-...
This will be an impressive feat of it can product a functional app.
However, it actually leads the app owner down the garden path so they can be clubbed to death behind the woodshed: how are they supposed to maintain the app? Security will be a nightmare...
techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/w...
However, it actually leads the app owner down the garden path so they can be clubbed to death behind the woodshed: how are they supposed to maintain the app? Security will be a nightmare...
techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/w...
Wix's new tool taps AI to generate smartphone apps | TechCrunch
Website builder Wix has launched a tool that leverages generative AI to create smartphone apps from text descriptions.
techcrunch.com
June 5, 2024 at 9:37 PM
This will be an impressive feat of it can product a functional app.
However, it actually leads the app owner down the garden path so they can be clubbed to death behind the woodshed: how are they supposed to maintain the app? Security will be a nightmare...
techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/w...
However, it actually leads the app owner down the garden path so they can be clubbed to death behind the woodshed: how are they supposed to maintain the app? Security will be a nightmare...
techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/w...
Putting aside whether the writing is any good, or to say nothing of the voices and acting, the idea of putting this much effort into watching TV does not appeal.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Hollywood Nightmare? New Streaming Service Lets Viewers Create Their Own Shows Using AI
Fable, the studio behind the viral AI-generated 'South Park' clips, has announced a streaming platform that allows users to create their own content.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
May 31, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Putting aside whether the writing is any good, or to say nothing of the voices and acting, the idea of putting this much effort into watching TV does not appeal.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Wow. Pichai is a fucking idiot. Of course language is not intelligence. It's not even close.
www.theverge.com/24158374/goo...
www.theverge.com/24158374/goo...
May 26, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Wow. Pichai is a fucking idiot. Of course language is not intelligence. It's not even close.
www.theverge.com/24158374/goo...
www.theverge.com/24158374/goo...
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I have been waiting for this story to drop: Mark Pesce stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug
Models with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored?
www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/a...
Models with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored?
www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/a...
I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite and no one wants to fix it
Models with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored?
www.theregister.com
May 23, 2024 at 9:57 AM
I have been waiting for this story to drop: Mark Pesce stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug
Models with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored?
www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/a...
Models with flaws can be harmless … yet dangerous. So why are reports of problems being roundly ignored?
www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/a...
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One of the toughest problems Microsoft has to solve is that Windows has to serve two very different types of users: business users who don't want this at all, and home users who don't want this at all.
May 22, 2024 at 11:08 AM
One of the toughest problems Microsoft has to solve is that Windows has to serve two very different types of users: business users who don't want this at all, and home users who don't want this at all.
Interesting in the sense of the limitations they've discovered. It doesn't sound like they'll be able to cluster concepts or functions, so nuanced safety measures like Asimov's Three Laws and gross excisions like lobotomy seem equally impossible.
Inducing monomania sounds doable though. Yay tech!
Inducing monomania sounds doable though. Yay tech!
Anthropic researchers detail their attempts to peer inside the "black box" of LLMs, to find associations for a given prompt, which has largely been a mystery (Steven Levy/Wired)
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May 21, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Interesting in the sense of the limitations they've discovered. It doesn't sound like they'll be able to cluster concepts or functions, so nuanced safety measures like Asimov's Three Laws and gross excisions like lobotomy seem equally impossible.
Inducing monomania sounds doable though. Yay tech!
Inducing monomania sounds doable though. Yay tech!