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Published: October 18, 2024 05:32

Read a NY Times article about attempts to make polling more accurate. What it revealed is that they keep adjusting the polling based on what went went wrong last time. This is only useful if the same thing keeps happening, but if that were the case, why…

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Published: October 18, 2024 02:56

So Google has decided that hovering my mouse over a video (which shows a preview) counts as a "watch" and is now listing every video I do this to in my watch history. . . This is basically the Tiktokization of Youtube.

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Published: October 17, 2024 22:59

Half a million new people have joined bluesky in the last 24 hours. That's great! I welcome all my new followers. If you'd like people to follow you back, consider adding a meaningful description (and a pic) to your profile.

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Published: October 17, 2024 13:13

Can't post custom GIFs here, so imagine this: Grommit is labeled "LLM," and the tracks he is laying down in front of the train are labeled "next word." This is all you need to know about how LLMs "think"!…

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Published: October 17, 2024 00:40

If there is any justification for AI, surely it would be to do something like this? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 16, 2024 23:22

Email apps are pretty good at catching SPAM now, but how about automatically catching and deleting these emails as well? - We've updated our privacy policy - We noticed you logged in to your own account - You just spoke to our customer service chatbot,…

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Published: October 16, 2024 05:54

My 1000th Bluesky follower will get a code to stream our 2011 documentary Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir! for free. (Normally $8.99) https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dontbeatmesir

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Published: October 15, 2024 23:22

Can't help but feel for @edyong209.bsky.social here: "it felt like I would bust my ass to do one of these only for an equal and opposite piece to emerge, sometimes in my own publication, that kind of neutralized the effect of whatever I was trying to…

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Published: October 15, 2024 22:31

If reporters had been doing their job all along we wouldn’t be in this mess. “When questioned about the specifics of his plan, and if he was aware of its pitfalls, Trump seemed ignorant of basic economic principles”…

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Published: October 15, 2024 00:48

I don’t understand the hype over the new Apple LLM study. I mean, did anyone actually believe that LLMs could perform formal reasoning before this study came out?

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Published: October 13, 2024 10:20

Here is the full text of my remarks on "politicide" at today's march: https://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2024/10/13/politicide [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 12, 2024 14:11

I like Pixelfed as an Instagram alternative. Feels like old Instagram the way Bluesky feels like old Twitter. Follow me there: pixelfed.social/kerim https://pixelfed.social/kerim

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Published: October 11, 2024 05:01

Trump’s vision of executive privilege is less about granting more power to the executive to wage foreign wars without congressional oversight1 and more about using the executive to secure personal power and punish his enemies. [contains quote post or…