abstracttesseract.bsky.social
(sometimes-computational) linguist, AI/ML unenthusiast, Luddite, they/he
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When I was a teacher and walking with my teacher friends to school, sometimes their toddler-age kids would play pretend a little bit too hard and scare themselves and need to take a break for a minute
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My favorite part of this is then getting told to do un-validation a couple months to a year later, because after thinking about the product idea for more than five seconds they realize that actually nobody wants it, but they can't admit the validation was, uh, invalid
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I like watching movies but my mind often wanders and then I miss/forget things, do you have general tips for paying better attention during a movie?
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I was 9 years old and one of my earliest memories was that the military was sent in to shut down protests against white police officers getting to beat the shit out of a Black man with impunity
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15% of people hit by these things are permanently injured. 3% die. they are so dangerous and they are used so recklessly!
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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aw thanks!
You know what's funny I was just sending Sapna Cheryan's work on masculine defaults in fields to folks I met at Craft conf. E.g., psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-... and journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
despite the difficulty of this time it feels people want to talk about this
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as I was reading this skeet I could feel a middle manager sneaking up behind me to whisper "build or buy??????" in my ear
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THANK YOU. I have heard "you can run an LLM at home" used to dismiss everything from the data and labor theft to the environmental devastation, and like not to be a curmudgeon but please think about this for more than five seconds
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@grimalkina.bsky.social wrote a great piece on that very topic.
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Reminds me of the middle manager who tried to insist that we start labeling tasks as "coding" and "non-coding" tasks, to make sure that we were appropriately prioritizing the "real" work. Fortunately we had an excellent program manager who stepped in and said "absolutely the hell not"
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In part this stems from existence in a highly litigious society where any outlet can be annihilated by a billionaire who doesn't like what they're saying, but in greater measure it comes from the only real liberal principle: authority itself must be appeased and obeyed.
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I am the staunchest opponent of prescriptivism, "this is the weapon of the enemy" and all that, yes, HOWEVER each time someone does something racist or misogynist we get to dunk on their spelling one (1) time, that's just the rule.