Anthony Truskinger

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

I enjoyed this article about the #AI bubble: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes

You think everything with an em-dash is the result of AI? Who do you think trained it to write that way?

"I learned recursion before for loops, and I learned immutability before mutability."

I liked this blog, I have similar opinions.

My first subject at Uni used Scheme. IMO learning about alternative functional patterns first, set me up to be a great programmer.

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We're working on it at @openecoacoustics.bsky.social !

Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.

I've done this. Leftover smoked brisket, rice, cabbage, corn, some peppers, rice, fried well, with some spices... Was pretty great

Me, history professor: "Students please don't use AI. It doesn't work, you will fail, and it destroys the environment."

Some professional scientists: "Oh the thinking box will read for me!"

Ms Casey from Severance

Your outie's code works on the first try

You can choose a relationship or being dependent on another person. If you choose a relationship, then you can be trapped if something goes wrong.

It takes months to restore the pension if your situation changes

This petition will likely not make a difference, but it sure would be nice if it did.

e-petitions e-petitions

In #Australia, if you're disabled you can get a pension, the #DSP.

But if your partner earns too much, your pension goes away. As if you're magically less disabled because you married someone who isn't.

I don't think that's fair. If you agree, see: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

#disability

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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

The more I use GenAI coding tools, the more I am convinced keeping to "traditional" software engineering practices is what works most productive here. As in 10x more productive. E.g.

- Small changes
- Test that the change works before moving on
- (unit) tests wherever you can

I haven't used it, but from what I understood it wasn't enabled by default.

That is indeed a bad choice.

I assume you were recording car things? Maybe it tried to be helpful and turned itself on...

The hangouts voice encoding thing? It's actually brilliant as far as I can tell.

Using a similar model for the pixels also seems smart for the common folk (speculation if it is related at all).

Obviously annoying for anyone doing media work, especially with a lot of other noise in the soundscape.

I remember talking with a Google guy who was involved in some technology that used a neural network to encode speech. It could encode accents and pitch, and a whole host of other speech things but it didn't have a good representation for non-speech patterns. It's used in hangouts for noise removal.

So a telephony era bandpass? Or something more complex?

What effect did speech enhancement have?

My summary of 2024

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Ok time for my first post:

"Bin Night" is the best The Wiggles song, by far.

Stuck in my head for weeks now...

They are one of many imperfect metrics. One of the most telling is last commit date (also imperfect).