@whodasam
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
I would have liked more detail on his assessment of how such a tripartite diagram would look, but can see benefits in distinguishing naturalist philosophy from the more a priori laden analytic philosophers.
Found a cool poison pill for GenAI LLMs that consume writing.
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A fun logic puzzle
Carrying around exploding batteries may become a relic.
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they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh
watching tiktok go down I feel like i did when I didn’t bother getting to know a friend’s ex
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
The universal basic income project started in August 2020 in the village of Welle, Uganda, in cooperation with the Ugandan NGO AFARD. The village then had 350 inhabitants, more than half of whom lived in extreme poverty. For the past three years, INclusion gave all the inhabitants of Welle - adults and children - 15 euros per month, without conditions. Such a partial basic income is called an unconditional cash transfer (UCT) in discussion of development cooperation and aid. Concrete findings A "baseline measurement" was conducted before the project began, and in December 2022 residents were interviewed again so that it could be assessed what had changed after 2.5 years. The just-released research report was written by Lisa van Dongen, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Economics
Some of Van Dongen, Lensink and Mueller’s concrete findings are: extreme poverty has decreased from 55% to 10% food security increased significantly, as did access to clean drinking water elementary school participation increased from 70% to 87% there was 75% less dropout from work and school due to illness many residents built new, more sustainable homes residents also invested in land for agriculture the percentage of households owning cattle increased from 9% to 49% ownership of solar panels increased from 19% to 74% Given all these positive changes, it is not surprising that the residents also told the interviewers that their stress has greatly decreased - such as daily worries about food and medicine - and that they are now more optimistic about their future
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%.
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www.rug.nl/feb/research...
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!
Quasi-Magic:Marginal effects at the mean, average marginal effects, and #Stata's margins command
www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-ma...
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
A map showing results from the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index for countries around the world.
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...
But in most cases I've seen media is pretty locked down by the regime.
Corruption charges are used frequently on internal dissenters.
And, distrust can frequently be turned outward on enemies of the State.
Feels like this kind of psyop is more effective in systems that require trust to function.
Their systems don't require the same level of trust from society, so giving them a taste of their own medicine won't be effective.
Quote from Jean-Paul Sartre (black text on white with little thumbnail pic of Sartre)- "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Jean-Paul Sartre"
Just debating them is what they want. It's their tactic. Sartre knew about fascists-
Bingo
'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
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.
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/...
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.
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...
Buzzfeed justifying my distain... again
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Add another to the list of "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should"
*define
538 favorability unfavorability aggregate polling of Donald Trump showing -2.3% unfav.
Definitely "shaping"?
A reporter has the option to give an account based on CNN poll or an aggregate poll (e g , 538).
CNN poll without context enables reporter to make a statement that is imprecise at best, but online with reporters objective.
538 or context would provide a different account.