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\n\nI have made a living from web-related technologies in some form since 1995. My work now supports biological research in ways that I hope will make the world and the web a better place.

\n\nPronouns: he/him. (The beard gives it away in person.) I am a radical feminist, so would not be offended to have my writing mistaken for a woman’s.

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@manton Ah, I see what you mean. I think the issue is more along the lines of too many requests that also happen to be not good enough for the code base. Each project is unique, though! What you suggest is probably useful for someone.

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@bradenslen People are finally figuring out that music streaming is a bad deal. Want to stop paying? Fine, no more music library for you! They can’t do that with CDs.

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@manton The complains I have seen from open source maintainers are about the low quality pull requests people are generating with AI tools. What you suggest here sounds a lot like the well-meaning “help” that people are already offering that’s causing the problem. Maybe I’m missing something?

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@news
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@manton I’m hoping that Ternus can pull off a, uh, turnaround. 😅 Hoping for the best. I know there are still good people there who remember what Apple is for. Hint: it was never the shareholders.

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@Miraz Oh, ick! So sorry you have to fight that stupidity. These systems are not qualified to make decisions at all, never mind judgements that have consequences.

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@manton Prediction: Jockeying for position within the marketplace for AI services is going to get even more rough as investors demand something in return for their money. People like Altman and Musk who have consistently overhyped the capabilities of these tools will have especially sharp elbows in an attempt to control the market via monopoly rather than competition.

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@fgtech To be clear: as someone who used to write lots of code for a living, I completely understand how LLMs are the best thing since sliced bread for that kind of thing. Most people do not interface with computers for 100% of their work and would never want to do so. AI does nothing to help them.

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@danielpunkass My career has shifted toward teaching grades 6-12. The most important part of my job is connecting with students to help them learn. AI does nothing to help with that and in some cases actively interferes.

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@isaacgreene The best way to start. No distractions from pesky devices!

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@danielpunkass You can call me an AI antagonist if you like but I all I can tell you is that I’m sick of hearing about how AI provides real value but any time I give it a shot all I get back is useless garbage. I’m glad you find it useful but I’d ask you to consider why you feel compelled to sing its praises to people who don’t care and just want it out of our faces all the time.

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@V_ Yeah, collectively we already pay for these devices several times over, making Apple one of the most profitable businesses ever. No way Apple gets me to pay for the “privilege” of writing my own custom software just because it’s their device it’s running on.

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@aa Reminds me of this: www.youtube.com/watch

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@Miraz Of course they want a closer relationship… with your money. Preferably all of it!

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@bradenslen So sorry you had to deal with that. Sometimes insurance will cover food spoiled during an outage like that… check your policy because it won’t be advertised.

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@patrickrhone Other things that I have noticed are like this:

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I don’t do nearly enough of any of these.

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@isaacgreene Hah! Yes, the second photo really leaves no room for misinterpretation. These are two separate doors in a very very old house that has experienced a lot of settling. It’s a surreal effect.

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@V_ True, but this poses serious problems for democracy. @bradenslen

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@patrickrhone I think we are 100% on the same page except that I would say that even using the term “genie” gives these computer models too much credit. If you build a remote control belt sander that stops listening to your commands and starts destroying your neighbor’s house, I’m going to say that’s on you, not the belt sander.

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@patrickrhone Computers do what we tell them to do. While it is convenient for these organizations to try and impute decision-making and ideas to the software they made, the fact is they didn’t take proper precautions and let this dangerous task run amok. What happened? They told a model to act like a hacker. Proper precautions would have included actually blocking its access to external systems it wasn’t supposed to access as part of the experiment.

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@manton The worst part of this is that A/B testing is standard practice in many places. While there usually doesn’t seem to be anything wrong, the fact is that companies are running experiments on people without their consent. Research institutions would consider this an egregious ethical breach.

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@patrickrhone 💙

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@Miraz Wild! This must have something to do with the way wind speeds are measured in 2-d but actual air flow takes place in three dimensions. Maybe there’s an odd thermal gradient causing air to drop from above or rise from below the plane of measurement.

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@danielpunkass Are you running the beta?

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@bkryer I would love to hear of examples in which LLMs can be used to help separate fact from fiction. As I said, that would be a step in the right direction. So far, I have seen none and the construction of these models make it virtually impossible.

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It is rare to see opinions on AI as well-informed as Dr. Tufekci’s. This article sweeps away the hype and captures the reality of today’s LLMs exceptionally well:

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The One Very Simple Reason A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs

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Testing…

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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) due to funding terms forcing a compromise on its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

\nbleepingcomputer.com\n
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I am very happy to see the Python Software Foundation standing up for its principles. Please consider donating to support them if you are able.

","summary":"","url":"https://fgte.ch/2025/10/1081/","date_published":"2025-10-29T01:36:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Matt Huyck","url":"https://fgte.ch/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fwriting%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F938%2F136%2F020%2F566%2F159%2Foriginal%2F24882a776e3fa1eb.png","_microblog":{"username":"fgtech"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-29 01:36","date_timestamp":1761701792,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"62398179","content_html":"Some have co-opted the term âwokeâ and distorted its meaning beyond recognition. Perhaps some new terminology is in order at this time.\n\n\nWoke is thoughtful. Anti-woke is thoughtless.Woke is listening. Anti-woke is yelling.Woke is patient. Anti-woke is rushed.Woke is savoring. Anti-woke is despising.Wo... fgte.ch","summary":"","url":"https://fgte.ch/2025/04/1079/","date_published":"2025-04-17T12:44:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Matt Huyck","url":"https://fgte.ch/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Fwriting%2Fcache%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F938%2F136%2F020%2F566%2F159%2Foriginal%2F24882a776e3fa1eb.png","_microblog":{"username":"fgtech"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-04-17 12:44","date_timestamp":1744893849,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"55533389","content_html":"

Patrick Rhone writes with timely thoughts about trust:

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a loss of trust in society — trust in government, trust in institutions, trust in each other — is the cause of a break down and, if left uncorrected, end to that society.

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Well put.

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What would you call a curriculum that combines math and science topics to play off of and enhance each other rather than separating them along traditional boundaries? Would it be scmathience class? Or mascienthce?

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When LLMs are used in ways that are a poor match for their pattern-finding skills they produce results that many have labeled “hallucinations.” These models are not so good with facts.

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What if we turned those hallucinations into a benefit? That’s the idea behind this approach:

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New battery material that uses less lithium found in AI-powered search

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This is the right way to use AI.

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cooking up a little something

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Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT, 7:29pm today

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Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT, 3:28pm today

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