attacus.net
Computational entomologist, privacy enthusiast, historian. Perpetually raging against the ghost in the machine.
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It still made mistakes (kept âforgettingâ it was a monophonic synth, for example), but I only trusted it to reword the manual and define new-to-me terms, not teach me synthesis.
I donât need it for that any more. It had a place and a time and a very focused purpose. And now I pay a human teacher.
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Over the Xmas break I was gifted a synthesiser (itâs rad). The manual with the instrument was factual but not instructive. Giving the manual to a model and asking it for a pathway through helped a lot with getting started and figuring out what to look up and read or watch to learn more.
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I have used some of these tools to prototype an idea or debug a problem when working solo, but I would not publish code that I could not talk through, line by line.
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If youâre thinking (or overthinking, hear hear!) youâre doing it right.
This stuff leads to either dreck or danger when the operator doesnât think at all.
Of your objections, the only one I would push back on is âlazinessâ. If youâre learning something new & asking questions, youâre using your brain
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Whatâs the âwrongâ feeling for you? Too easy to get something working? Too much like you arenât sure what to do next or how to keep going in a responsible fashion? Too much like youâre disrespecting a different profession or skillset by using AI to do that work? Another thing?
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A thousand percent this. Theyâll make a mint this coming week with all the new year resolution purchasing.
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Replace âgenetic knowledgeâ with âAIâ and Iâm pretty sure I saw a post with that opinion just last week
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Oh hey, @hacks4pancakes.com! We were also introduced over on Mastodon. I would be happy to chat!
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Maybe the range of trust between most and least trusted is from .5/100 to 1.3/100, or something
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If it wonât clutter your list with people who didnât/couldnât actually attend, then sure! Thank you!
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I can see that some others have already asked about recordings, and youâve answered that. As Iâm in Melbourne, Australia, and this is happening throughout my night, is there any other way I can catch up on the proceedings afterwards? E.g. publications or otherwise?
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I certainly wouldnât have thought the dictionary themselves would have made a mistake about the etymology!
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Done!
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It is! Added!
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Hello! Please add me. I do information security, Python things, digital rights advocacy, and I interview people and speak about technology on the radio.
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Done!
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Youâre in!
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Definitely add me!
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âSome members of [the data] community have been so overwhelmed by the success of a certain technology for processing data that they have confused this technology with the natural semantics of information. They have forgotten any other way to think [âŠ] â the mentality of the punched card.â
Dang.
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đ Hello, yes please!
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In the first chapter I learned that the California DMV once solved the Ship of Theseus problem for themselves.
They once declared that a car is the same car as long as the engine block remains the same, regardless of literally any other modifications.
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Iâm about a quarter of the way through, and mostly thinking that the book could be subtitled âFalsehoods Programmers Believe about the Universeâ.
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Oh, this is going to be interesting. It already has me thinking about many things and Iâm not yet through the original preface.
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Iâm in!
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Oof. Iâm glad you figured it out and also annoyed at the dark pattern.