I took Nemo, the one eyed orange tabby, to the vets yesterday. His eye was looking pretty bad. They did a couple tests and decided it was, in fact, a bacteria and so we got some antibiotic lotion to put in his eye and we're awaiting a call from the pharmacy for an oral antibiotic to give him. Worst of all, though, is he has to wear a cone, which is just the saddest thing to watch.
I saw this in Carole and Tuesday, they were the only “natural” songwriters left because computers wrote songs for everyone at that point. I don’t know if that’s a realistic take, but it’s depressing nonetheless. Why can’t we have computers do things that take joy from us instead of the things that bring us joy? You know, like cleaning up dumps or solving problems we would rather not think about? Why are they taking the arts away?
@Jaden3
Off the top of my head I can think of a couple of people who follow you so tomorrow I will tag them with your message. We will spread the word.
The deadline for this year’s Otherwise Award recommendations is coming soon!
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@bookstodon The deadline for this year’s Otherwise Award recommendations is coming soon!
To recommend “a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our notions of gender” and that was published in 2023, fill in the recommendation form as soon as you can.
"The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, in a column based on conversations with his insider circle of the D.C. elite, wrote that the U.S. has been contemplating a “day after” scenario that would see the deployment of a security force “composed primarily of Palestinians who aren’t affiliated with Hamas and are willing to cooperate with the Israeli troops still ringing the borde."
If you're a blacc cop you should know this is how they see u
Ideally, this policing force would be bolstered by foreign troops, operating under a U.N. mandate.” Ignatius added, “Israeli commandos might stage raids back into the center of Gaza when they receive intelligence about high-value targets.”
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What's the thing where you reflexively say you're busy just to avoid things you don't wanna actually do, and then people stop asking if you want to do things, and you're kinda okay with that sorting itself out but acknowledge that it has tremendous drawbacks that interfere with other things you might wanna do?
Cause I still do that and its embarrassing in so many ways but like, I also don't wanna be an implacable curmudgeon, cause I'm not. Or at least I don't think I am.
If even one person ever popped me on it, like, 'are you really busy or just telling me that' I would admit I was just telling them that for my own reasons, and nervously chuckle through it, but nobody ever has. I would actually be super impressed if someone popped me on it because that would mean they really know how I work and know me then.
We had some crazy weather in Boston today (ominous pic of the crows is from last week), but at least I had some talks for my #AcademicPlaylist to keep me company while helping my neighbor clear a downed tree from their driveway! (1/9)
Next was an incredible talk by William Merrill on the limitations of transformer models at the SAIL workshop. Using complexity theory Merrill proves that transformers are fundamentally incapable of a number of critical reasoning tasks, such as inherently sequential reasoning, and workarounds impair scalability. This talk should be required listening for folks using/developing these models. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLHuwjeSf1Y (5/9) #AI#transformers
@bwaber by far the most interesting/informative thing I saw with respect to #LLMs all year is this talk by William Merrill which came from Ben Waber’s great regular digest of online talks - watch this, follow Ben…(money back guarantee)
(passing familiarity with the Chomsky hierarchy and complexity theory will help, but you only need to understand what kind of thing they are for the talk to be interesting)
the first thing I do when I get a new phone is turn off audio and haptic feedback ... the scene where O'Brien is trying to move the space station made me realize that #StarTrek would be hell for me @actuallyautistic
I literally just opened Geometry Dash and was met with a terms of service pop up.
"…Why are they showing me this? Did my data get wiped or something?"
And then I see the Tower and realize that 2.2 just released.
Glad to finally see it here. Played through Dash (which is really easy for an insane imo, beat it much more quickly than usual), and it was mostly great! Only issue is that I REALLY don't like the swing copter. It's not fun to use at all.
@juggles
Can't say I'm great at it either. Honestly, platformer game type is a weird concept for Geometry dash, but I don't mind it. The way different game modes are incorporated into it is really fun though
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