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We’re excited to announce the launch of our essay collection, Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity.This collection grew out of a 2-day workshop where experts across disciplines and industries gathered to explore the past, present, & future role of AI: doi.org/10.18130/03d... (1/n)

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Happy Wednesday!

submitted 9 days ago • 244 comments

I bought a Routledge published book from Amazon (Russell’s ‘Analysis of Matter’ FWIW) recently. The paper quality and binding was poor, like a photocopy. The edition dating was questionable. I suspected Amazon (or someone else) has access to Routledge’s catalogue and is maybe printing on demand?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

LLMs/AI generally aren't a problem, it's the user hostile way it is frequently deployed similar to how there is nothing inherently immoral about crypto (it is just an exchange medium) but it frequently is deployed for fraud or get rich quick schemes

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

This value is way too low. I eat credit cards for breakfast.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re going to have long-running collaborative AI agent workflows, each instance of the workflow will have to have its own runtime. I just don’t see any way around it. No-one else seems to be hitting this bottleneck, or talking about it. What am I missing?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

'Spearheaded' is a such a CV word. You wouldn't say it in normal conversation, but it seems almost expected to put it on your CV.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

YIMBY lobbyists who think nuclear energy is a guaranteed vote winner might want to take a look at how the Australian Right's pro-nuclear stance was successfully used against it as part of the Centre Left Labor Party's campaign to gain overwhelming victory

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 22 days ago • 47 comments

Starmer worries me as falling for a tech utopian vision. Yes, there is great potential for technology to enhance the NHS. This observation isn’t new. There are very real structural challenges to gaining the full potential of technology for the NHS. New tech is not the answer alone. Never has been.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

submitted 29 days ago • 57 comments

This definition of a terrorist who hates America, after the 9 - 0 ruling, would include every current member of the Supreme Court.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

tech bro is short for technically broken

submitted 45 days ago • 30 comments

I wonder whether it will ever break through to the wider electorates in countries like the UK that modern right-wing economic policies are incredibly stupid and destructive, and make most people much poorer

submitted 46 days ago • 16 comments

It’s quite something to reflect that the tariff thing he’s done he doesn’t even have the legal right to do.

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

The positive side of all this, is that Brexit is no longer the dumbest trade policy that a country has inflicted on itself.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing them like this, nothing like their public personas, has brought me great joy this morning.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Gamergate is still going?

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submitted 52 days ago • 27 comments

This sadly neglected building is foundry where the Liberty Bell of Philadelphia, which was rung for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, was forged.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I see Big Brother from 1984.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

All I’m asking is that our systems be able to expose unprincipled, narcissistic charlatans, before we make someone the most powerful person in the world. You may call me a dreamer…

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

raise your glass to Brian James who has left this plane of existence www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxF...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

That's it in a nutshell. Those were real, historical people. They were there. They did what they did. White-supremacist racists want that reality erased. They shout about pride in history, but they really want to preach lies unchallenged.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Personally, I'd add a third. Reflective look back sessions which analyse a sequence of events to establish how we arrived at a certain outcome, like Retrospectives and post-mortems. AI does not solve for this either, but I've seen results from analytical tools often be useful in this contexts.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

A story in 3 parts and an example set by history.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

When asked what happened to the town’s money, the mayor said, “The traveling salesman who sold us the monorail is working very hard. I have seen the big machines myself and they are currently digging a very large hole. I am sure everyone will be very impressed when the project is finished.”

submitted 87 days ago • 86 comments