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mmccleary.bsky.social
Centrist; North Dakotan; Fmr.Special Ed Student; Have NVLD; History of Special Ed Transition Policy; Mental Health Advocacy is my Profession. Casual Audiophile.
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"History buff".... (also, as the OG I had coffee with last week said: do you know how many books there are on Napoleon? And most of them aren't doing new things. So it's irresponsible TO sit & read all of them instead of doing some work in archives!)

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Metallica- Load

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Instructive reading for pols. www.politico.com/story/2018/0...

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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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i agree with the ceo of google deepmind about this except i think it’ll be mermaids that do it

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This piece going round on why LLMs hallucinate is absolutely excellent. LLMs don’t fact check. They can’t, they won’t, and they probably never will. If your work relies on facts being correct DO NOT USE GenAI garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-do-lar...

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

I am old enough to remember the arrival of the truly global and astonishingly useful worldwide web. I really did not expect to witness its death, poisoned by carelessness and greed.

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

It’s time to play North Dakota’s favorite new game — Smoke, Fog, Smog or Foke?

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The cheeseburger contributes to the economy.

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The Buy Physical Media Discourse comes and goes, so here's a quick breakdown: 1. "Yeah, well, discs decay and the technology to play them may stop working, so what's the point!" Archivists and collectors have been playing stuff that wasn't even playable WHEN NEW. But you need the recordings.

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

The DMCA is for the plebs.

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Accepting these is to have successfully grappled with one's mortality

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

@timmiller.bsky.social It’s 43 here today. Chicago, the Windy City, ain’t got nothing on our cold!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

What the hell is the point of a podcast you won’t watch, won’t listen to, or scour the transcript?

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One wonders if they will make users download yet another app.

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One of the petty satisfactions of getting older is watching the same people who thought they would stay cool forever (unlike you) realize that they were never especially cool, just young, and this cycle comes for everyone.

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

Alright, @sonnybunch.bsky.social, sometime I’ll see what I got myself into!

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

“Several decades”? She’s 38!

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I suppose this is a good time to mention that “One Hell of a Gamble” was one of my favorite histories. www.amazon.com/One-Hell-Gam...

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It’s been a good run I’ll miss you folks

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

Franklin is tired from having me chase him and his giant stick around the backyard

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Aside from some moments in time, most of the public-facing writing about universities is stuck in the framework of the early to late 1960s. For one thing, despite the protestations from article writers that we more focus on community colleges needs to happen, it’s all centered on Ivy Leagues.

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I would think that pointing out AI doesn't know anything would help make the case.

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Ok stream is broken. But Cyberpunk 2077 on switch 2? Oh hell yes. Bethesda and Microsoft please be next! #switch2

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Not exactly liking the paid upgrade path for Switch 2 Edition games. #switch2

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

#switch2 #nintendo So far, so good. The device is getting better, the social stuff is there, but not too obtrusive. 4K resolution for the dock.

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