I'm Anthony and I'm an organic computer scientist and a Luddite. I believe that unsound research lends itself to social harms.
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Last Notes npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony I think abduction is a deeply underappreciated aspect of human reasoning. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony I'm tinkering with an argument based on algorithmic complexity that if it were possible to make something like an "automated mathematician" or "automated scientist", then these would be expected to eventually produce outputs that we humans would be unable to distinguish from random noise. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…n8q3 I don't have the foggiest idea what you are saying nor why you chose to say it. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Perhaps the most (in)famous and illustrious American computer scientist and acknowledged principal pioneer of the discipline now known as artificial intelligence (AI), Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’ It is significant that the English language distinguishes between ‘‘flesh’’ on the one hand, and ‘‘meat’’ on the other. The latter is dead and may be eaten, thrown in the garbage, fed to pigs, and so on. Flesh, on the other hand, is living matter and, as such, deserves the respect and dignity for life of which, among others, Albert Schweitzer spoke eloquently. The word ‘‘merely’’ in Minsky’s sentence means essentially ‘‘nothing but,’’ that is, also not deserving unusual respect. His statement is a clear reflection of a profound contempt for life that, as I see it, is shared explicitly by important sectors of the AI community, the artificial intelligentsia, as well as many scientists, engineers, and ordinary people. Daniel C. Dennett, an important American philosopher, once said that we must give up our awe of life if we are to make further progress in AI. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…5k9x This is not quite an answer, but to the extent that corporations are the main purchasers of image generators, the promise seems to be similar to what LLMs promise. Confine human endeavor to a small, controllable world that seems "creative", but is incapable of generating a true challenge to the powerful. Here I am using Leonard Savage's small vs. large world distinction. The former is like living in a chess game according to the rules of chess; the latter is like living in the real world, where you can knock over the board, refuse to play, draw a smiley face on the Queen, etc etc etc. If chess grandmasters convince people that all of society's concerns should be decided over a chess board according to the rules of the game then they've locked in their power because there is no rule of chess that allows you to suspend the rules of chess. That's how I've been seeing the value of AI (to the powerful) lately. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…sd57 It's interesting how different people experience such a thing differently, especially with regards to whether it's a positive or negative experience. I tend to associate noise with disaster! Though I can see how the silence after the noise could be chilling. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned? npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…d8se Yes. It's partly why I'm so critical: Nature has played a large role in uncritically spreading AI disinformation. Till they reined it in arXiv did too. Corporate marketing in a lab coat is still corporate marketing, and I don't think scientific publishing platforms should be publishing it next to scientific communication as if these two forms of communication are of a piece. I also think crithype is a real phenomenon. There are ways to present a fuller picture of a technology, including the voices from corporate labs while staying within the bounds of the scientific, but it seems Nature has chosen not to do that, at least as far as I can see. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…d8se I wouldn't call someone from Anthropic an expert. They're a businessperson with significant amounts of money, reputation and their own livelihood on the line. We need to get out of the mode of ignoring deep conflicts of interest like this, especially when they seem to be driving the viewpoints expressed. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony ...and now the power's back on. I think CMP's alerting system could use a bit of calibration. It's currently saying my road does not have power. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony I love the quiet of a power outage, especially when there's snow on the ground. These breaks in the otherwise relentless grinding of the world machine are such a relief. I suppose people uaccustomed to it find it unsettling. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Now they're saying 11am. Yeah. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony CMP is saying there are roughly 2,000 people without power, about 1,100 of whom are in Alfred, about a third of the town! Looks like it's a local outage, a good sign. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Central Maine Power is claiming power will be restored here by 7:15am, about half an hour from now. But as I recall that's what their alerts said last time, at least until it became clear it would be an extended outage. So I've hunkered down in case this one lasts awhile. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony We didn't get that much snow, but the temperature is hovering near freezing so it's wet and heavy. Probably tore down some tree branches. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Power went out at 5am here in Alfred. The fire alarm beeping because of the power loss woke him up, which in turn woke me up. Good thing. Fire's stoked now. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony To spell that out a bit: the other major strands of programming involve a bureaucracy intended to suppress the messiness inherent in the stateful behavior of digital machinery. The ubiquity of notions like leaky abstractions, weird states, bugs, exceptions, errors, faults all point at (a) the messiness is intrinsic; (b) the messiness is negatively valenced, meaning to be suppressed. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Weird thought of the day: the revolution lies in imperative programming. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony The backyard scene after last night's and today's snow. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…62r4 I don't know your class or students, and all of this might be stuff you already do or not relevant at all, but here are some things that popped into my mind from my own experiences, in case it's of any use: npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…2rm9 @nprofile…2xyh I use phanpy with snac and it works well. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…xej4 I've been tracking @nprofile…0cr3 's fork on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/rereading/arcalibre . It's a bit strange to put a no-AI fork of something on Github, the AI slop platform, in 2025. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony For anyone tracking what's going on with generative AI appearing in the eBook software calibre, the calibre developer seems to be asking us to avoid his software: npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Ughhhh, et tu calibre? npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony If Cloudflare really is "verifying" that I'm human with its obnoxious widget, why does it do this for multiple web sites and over and over again for a given web site? Shouldn't it be able to verify I'm human once and for all? What exactly are they doing with their sprawling control of all these web sites if not adding value through economy of scale? npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony David Dayen at The American Prospect has a decent explainer article The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think. It gets into the so-called "private credit" mechanisms being abused to inflate this bubble, and why they are so dangerous. This stuff used to be called "shadow banking" because private entities that are not chartered banks are essentially providing banking services to other private entities. What happens if there's a panic and the equivalent of a bank run? Who knows! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony The Verge article about CoreWeave by Elizabeth Lopatto is amazing. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…vc9q You should know that I am actively migrating away from KeePassXC, and have been telling everyone I know to do the same, because of your acceptance of LLM use in the software. Speeding up software development of a password manager is trust-eroding; speeding it up with AI is trust-destroying. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony The Boston Tea Party was about one person having unilateral power to impose tariffs (duties). The US was formed out of an opposition to this power and the US Constitution has specific language about it. It'd be quite a thing if the US Supreme Court undoes this founding principle. You might call that counterrevolutionary. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Fill in the blank without using a search engine to find the original source! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…rhsn Right down to actually holding the bad view while pretending to rise above it all! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony US tariffs boil down to a regressive sales tax that largely affects non-wealthy people after the removal of the de minimis exclusion. Combined with the bill that reduced the tax burden of the wealthy and corporations, the net result is to accelerate the movement of wealth to the wealthy. That's been happening for decades, but at this point it's now eroding ordinary peoples' hobbies to the point that they might have to give them up. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony I like to poke LinkedIn once in awhile with an "AI" critique to see what I can stir up. One reason I do this is to keep an eye on the changing form of the booster rhetoric. Nowadays a lot of folks respond to critique with some form of "today's LLMs are bad but tomorrow's will be amazing", the true believer/quasi-religious response with a touch of false humility for flavor. Yesterday I got a "AI critics are just as bad as AI boosters" false dichotomy, which by my read was a variant of the "AI critics are hysterical and irrational" with the twist that the speaker was suggesting that boosters are too. That felt new-ish to me. Granted, the hubristic "we're the smart guys in the room, you should do what we say" framing is ancient in the tech industry. Suggesting the boosters are also not the smart guys in the room is an interesting move because it's an attempt to go meta. Neither the boosters nor the critics are the smart guys in the room; the smart guys in the room are actually the ones who can see that (and so you should do what they say, which is more LLMs always). npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…eyct Thank you! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…97lc Thank you! I hope you're settling in well in your new place! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…gzc9 Haha! Thank you! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Entering my 53rd year. 53 is the 16th prime, and is also the number of bits used for the significand in IEEE 754 double-precision (binary64) numbers. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf @nprofile…64t5 @nprofile…4cja The purpose of generative AI is to make computing less accessible to all but a privileged class, not more. That's why the investment is so high. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…a3zp Not to overcomplicate matters, but https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Oversimplification is not a form of elegance. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…a3zp Yes but isn't Pareto efficiency what all social structures should be striving for? (/sarcasm) npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…qvst I have six wisdom teeth as well as an extra tooth embedded in the gums above and between my two front teeth. My grandmother had three kidneys and it's possible I do too, but I've never had a scan or x-ray there so I don't know. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf This is good to know. If he makes that we'll have to get some. I like the kind of rye bread we have in the US, but I have no idea how it compares to Danish rye bread. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf Unrelated to the song, I thought you might be interested to know that my small rural town has a clan of Danes visiting it and I see them walking down my road every day. One of our neighbors was a successful chef in Denmark who eventually worked as a chef in Paris before retiring to rural Maine with his wife. We've gotten to know them over the years and they're both very nice. He makes and sells bread but so far we have not bought any from him (to our discredit, almost surely). They have family visiting and they all like to take walks. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…hgvh Please use a hasthtag like #ScalaDays2025 in your posts so that folks (I) can mute the hashtag if they don't want to see your live posts from the event. I don't want to have to mute your account but I also don't want my feed filled with these posts as it has been. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…5j7k They should make these tubes like this! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-toothpaste-tube-that-gets-every-last-bit-out-180950268/ npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Not a single mask in sight. Very disappointing to see this, especially as we're in a COVID uptick. The number of people in photo 1 who have their hands up is probably roughly equal to how many will leave this conference with COVID or some other respiratory illness. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…f6r7 @nprofile…04q3 Please don't ever put AI into Obsidian proper. I'll cry that day and then stop using it. Too many apps I used to really like went down the path of "experimenting" with AI and before you know it they were dedicating significant development resources to it, at the expense of core features and bugfixes. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf Oh yes but the tree might outlive the descendants of all of your relatives: siblings, cousins, second cousins... npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf The baobab might outlive you and your entire family line! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf "You can search for your own name, if you know it." npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Part of route 302 in Windham closed and shelter in place order issued because of a shooting in North Windham. Just got an emergency alert about this. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony LinkedIn changed how they code their landing page and I needed to adjust my uBlock Origin rules to hide the cluttered up "news" (really, ads) feed they put down the side of the page. If like me you want an uncluttered experience and use uBlock Origin, here's a rule that hides that feed: npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…xzgc @nprofile…xzgc To scold is to chide coarsely, which is how I read your post. How I read it is what matters. You may disagree of course, but in that case I'll have to mute you from now on. I'm not here for this. It's unhelpful, unwanted, and counterproductive, and life is too short. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…xzgc You clearly do not appreciate the desire not to be scolded, because you just did it too. Scolding people does not reduce the spread of misinformation. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…tv9a @nprofile…l20m If that's what they're up to I'm embarrassed it worked on me. I can and should definitely be more careful about what I share and why. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…rhsw Oh no worries, I just added it. I just wanted to share in case it's helpful at all. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…rhsw Please see the edit to my original post thanks. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dfdx I don't need to be scolded online, thanks very much. Take that elsewhere. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…l20m Thanks for this. I looked into it more and now I think I was tripped up by the wording Phoronix used in this post. They could have made it clearer that this was a third-party project. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony I guess I won't be using GNOME ever again npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Once again a fully automated, non-human system is denying me access to a resource on the internet because it has determined I am not human enough. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…m0rm Be wary of those editors that convert tabs into 4 spaces--you may find yourself receiving unexpected space bills npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony I have a feeling the commercialization of space is going to end very badly. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” @nprofile…64t5 npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony If you created a text corpus consisting only of true, declarative statements in English and trained a large language model on it, a generative AI system built with this trained LLM would still output false statements sometimes. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…h3m5 Tandy Color BASIC. Among other things, I built an arithmetic test generator that generated 20 random addition and multiplication problems. I wanted to practice at home and get faster at them because my 4th grade math class had a competition where you could win little toys if you finished arithmetic tests the fastest. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…gu3y Thanks for this reference Dan. I managed to get a copy of it and look forward to checking it out. I hadn't come across it but it looks quite interesting and relevant. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Maybe I missed the memo, but I find it surprising that Ars Technica is publishing OpenAI ad copy as if it's an article. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…97lc I haven't been to a beach since she wrote this, but given my affinity for a gothy death-adjacent mindset I fully intend to try inhabiting this view next time I'm on one! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Beach vacations only became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy in Western countries. Early Europeans, and especially the ancient Greeks, thought the beach was a place of hardship and death. As a seafaring people, they mostly lived on the coastline, yet they feared the sea and thought that an agricultural lifestyle was safer and more respectable. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony AQI is 155 (unhealthy) where I am, the result of wildfire smoke blown south from Canada. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…gu3y Hi Dan--I thought this was a very interesting interview and appreciate your thoughts on AI. I had a couple reactions to your application of Juenger's notion of total mobilization to what's going on with AI I thought I'd share, for whatever it's worth: npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…22h8 If it helps in your debugging, I saw this item posted twice in a row about 20 minutes ago. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…22h8 Are you aware that you've posted this exact same text nearly 20 times over the last few days? npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony New uBlock Origin rule to clobber the intrusive "Copilot" button that recently appeared in Outlook web mail: npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf Oh wow that's cool. Do you get to see the butterflies up on the ceiling inside the building during the winter? npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf Nice! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Saw a monarch butterfly in the yard a couple days ago. Hadn't had a chance to see any up close yet this year. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Big turkey family in our yard today. 3 adults, maybe 10 little ones. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…5j7k Not us. We're going strong and I can't imagine any of us easing up about COVID until there's a sterilizing vaccine and massive indoor air quality improvements at an absolute minimum. It's hard to imagine why anyone would be careful about COVID up to this point and then just stop even though conditions have not changed. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…ljtw @nprofile…d6p8 Nice!! npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…d6p8 I have spent more time than I'm willing to admit thinking about this and doing web searches, and now I'm desperate to know a solid example of four. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…wpfr We benchmark GPUs and CPUs in a multitude of ways, including FLOPS, number of transistors (per unit space), etc. In fact performance-per-unit-of-power. Ignoring all the other ones in favor of a single metric that's removed from what you actually do with the device is bizarre. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony It's odd to me that people talk about data centers in terms of megawatts, a measure of electric power. For one example among many, a Bloomberg article from March about Microsoft cancelling data center plans began: npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…23gf I don't have great resources on hand but these look OK to me: npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…23gf I wouldn't be able to teach you how to read source code on Mastodon any more than I could teach you how to read Greek. It's a skill that takes sustained effort and practice. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony It seems to me that the ability to read source code will become more and more important over time. This skill is rarely taught, as far as I can tell. The learning situation resembles that for natural language: knowing how to produce/generate text does not immediately translate into the ability to read it, let alone read it well. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…dqzf One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…hmjf I do tech consulting, and more than once since 2022 I've advised small-to-medium-sized businesses about LLMs. It's extremely valuable to have analysis like this in hand and be able to link to it. Throwing an analysis into the wind may not change minds, but those of us in the trenches can make excellent use of it. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…frcv You are now the second person who has 'splained at me how banking and credit works, without knowing a single thing about my circumstances or the nature of the account I'm using. You didn't ask any clarifying questions, nor inquire into whether I was seeking advice (which I'm not), before writing all that--including a suggestion to switch banks, which is absurd. What is going on out there that people think this is a good thing to do at someone on the internet? npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…4zct Why do you think you're entitled to dictate to me how I live my life? You know nothing about me nor how I make my choices. This is an astonishingly inapt thing to post. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony My debit card's "fraud protection": npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…3dym npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…a3zp When I lived in the Boston area I felt like it was extremely common to see people parked on the road idling with the AC or heat on. I always assumed these were people like real estate agents who were waiting on someone. Still, lots of needless waste that might not be happening if people were more attentive. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…3dym Taking actions that undermine the value that your actions are intended to obtain is not clever in any interpretation of that word that makes sense to me. I'd use "shrewd". There's a cunningness about it--many con artists and cheats surely have that--but it's self-serving, destructive, and ultimately self-defeating. There's certainly nothing intellectual about cheating the scientific publishing system. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…3dym It's really not clever at all. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony @nprofile…a3zp Defactualization is death don't go gentle into that particular goodnight. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony At the moment it's sunny again. Looking at the radar map it's possible we may not get much of a storm here after all. npub16mygm6jgnmygqclck9q9jz68aryf0zljp9q8yxspqux00ak2m3ls2u7w9x Anthony Rain just started where I am in York county #maine It's windy but nothing unusual yet.
