jtierney.bsky.social
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Thank goodness for these...
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And cracking soundtrack.
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Their pronouncements on which trade agreements are/ are not acceptable would be 'FTAwahs'
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But one cruel word from its lips causes heartache forever
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Underrated biography...
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An offline AI tool? Trained on your 'style' and casework, and not import from/ export to the web (so no slop, which is a real concern; and more privacy friendly). You can review/ personalise and avoid the awful template approach?
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Taught him everything I knew and not even a postcard...
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Theraflu. Important to engage with local culture. And it's pretty effective (like turbocharged lemsip).
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www.theverge.com/2017/11/21/1...
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No idea if it's true or not, but someone told me that all the 'prove you're not a bot' clicks on bridges, sidewalks, buses, cars etc was part of training exactly such pattern recognition.
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Self-heating, Wagyu beef bento boxes?
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Well put.
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AlphaGo, debateable. AlphaFold, however...
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You missed out the examples, but you seem happier in doing so so on you go.
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If you don't believe any medical practitioner when they talk about eg AI in pattern recognition/ diagnostics then again that's fine. I call it AI, you don't.
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Read back through my replies.
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But you don't believe anything is AI, so rather a pointless endeavour.
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You want me to personally convince you of something that nothing else out there (from even AI using companies themselves) has yet convinced you? I think you're projecting now. Again, it's fine to have that view.
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Here's something interesting. But again, it comes back to if you don't think what the companies themselves refer to as AI, or contemporaneous scholarly articles about AI, are actually AI, then I'm not sure I personally will convince you otherwise..
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But as I said, if you want to cling to your AI isn't AI position, that's absolutely fine and I think it matters more to you than to me.
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And then answering specifically your separate, citation needed point.
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I was answering specifically your point re: Bluesky.
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I think if you don't think AI is actually AI, that's absolutely fine.
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Well, you did ask specifically about Bluesky.
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I could dig out my uni' course notes and referenced essays, including one on AI and moral panic(s), but somehow I suspect it'll elicit only 'aha, wrong...'.
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Ok.
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But it was always AI? There's a lot of interesting commentary about why the term wasn't in wider public use in the 80s and 90s, inxcuding some fun moral panic stuff.
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Not sure we will agree on any definition general computation, but
would you consider linear algebra to be general computation?
Dot products and matrix multiplication underpin all deep learning and neural nets.
What do you think is different in AI computation?
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Any help/ use?
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I'm honestly not sure you'll agree with any example.
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If anyone's interested, see the Lighthill Report, a UK govt sponsored report on pros/ cons of AI in the 1970s. Lots of familiar stuff in there. It's short and informative, and credited towards the AI 'winter' when govt funding was pulled.
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The 'Discover' feed, for one example? My mistake, the 50's not 60's (see Dartmouth project).
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Well, AI is an exceptionally broad term when you consider its applications and the raging debate around the 'intelligence' it is supposedly imitating. But otherwise no, I'm not really.
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But plenty of good/ useful applications for AI, also, especially in medical and agriculture. A lot of the scepticism and concern, and the 'I won't use AI' seems more about Gen AI than AI per se.
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Exactly. Every time we use our smartphone, like interacting with Bluesky or googlemaps or checking the weather, we're using AI. AI has been around since the 60's.
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Cate Blanchett in Tár(iff)
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Diminishing marginal returns?
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There's a Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History episode on this.
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...the view from hillside vineyards on a sunny afternoon is truly lovely. This timeout type site has some good tils if people ever visit viennawurstelstand.com
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Recognise this, but I think it's a lot about place, timing and luck. Sterile, blank streets suddenly get warm and buzzy when people pack the cafes and bars you didn't even notice before. Chocolate box prettiness comes alive during the many festivals and events. There's no cityscape but...
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That is so good. Ordered just now!
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Denis Denis (Taylor), oh with your eyes so blue...
#snookerpop
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London, early 80's, 5ft4
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Are you not a networker with extensive global contacts because you once sent emails to people in other countries?
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The balloon is more efficient because I squeezed and now my bit needs less air.
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Luke's severed hand escapes to adventures across the galaxy in the style of The Littlest Hobo.
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Or that they're the first to discover/ divine the principles of broader life