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@mz2 👋 What is the #fedi22 tag in your bio?

Naturally: "our experience is roughly that Democratic states allow us in and Republican ones don’t" https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/11/dutch-observer-heads-to-michigan-for-the-us-presidential-vote/

I’m old enough to remember when voting for local offices required researching the candidates because you couldn’t count on whether the Democrat or the Republican was the batshit crazy one.

Reading up on what it would take to deploy an LLM that auto fine-tunes on user sessions and we’re still a long way from “consumer ready” with AI agent infrastructure, aren’t we?

Unfortunately, it seems that today’s big LLMs are more like physicists than philosophers. Rather than more knowledge improving their awareness of their own ignorance, it only makes them more cocksure about knowing everything. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03137-3

@adwright oh, wow, that is such a perfect story of entrenched ideologies and sexism it reads like a barely-believable movie. I mean, the guy who dismissed her reviewed her dissertation and then later got credit?

I’d love to learn more about how acknowledgement finally shifted back to her.

All the hate-baiting anti-trans political shit has real consequences 😢 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5

@genmon this seems adjacent to your last post https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_txoN_S50-/

Saving this for later because I'm a bit fatigued by how excited the frontend/UX world is about Linear.
https://mastodon.social/users/tmcw/statuses/113040242254960415

I just re-read this classic post about leadership in the metaverse and it strikes me how similar the experience seems, from my outsider perspective, to running a large open source project. Is OSS a metaverse? https://cruftbox.medium.com/my-years-as-a-metaverse-warlord-1f7c830a3173