As one who loves you both for your works, I'll happily roll out a full rolling rack and hold all the coats.

Absolutely nobody does racism harder than so-called enlightened artists.

... I've been a Penguins fan since 1993. I've seldom had ... favorable ... thoughts toward Ovi.

Watching that show is going to be a wild ride, isn't it?

I've not yet watched anything related to Heated Rivalry, but I've been following Sid's career since he was drafted.

I won't be able to watch that show without that knowledge, will I?

He's a narcissist, much like most every other abuser. That's why.

I know there's been a recent cultural resurgence of the "vibe" of the 1990s, but I'd rather hoped the homophobia of the time wouldn't be included in that... 😒

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

The number of angry messages I got from insecure men on my article demanding men be accountable for rape culture & 'Rape Academy' reminds me to share my article repeatedly.

Men: Stop being insecure. Stop being pathetic. Start holding rapists accountable.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-nee...

My wife and I have been introducing our 11 year old to Star Trek. We ran through TNG and DS9, and started Voyager last week.

Only now the Paramount+ app won't respond to the remote after a system update on our TV. It's rather awkward.

You, Ed, and I have similar takes in that regard.

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My girl chow doesn't like most boy dogs. She tolerates her older housemate with reluctance and an occasional bout of yelling.

Husky learned the hard and uninjured way not to get close. Never before had I seen a sled dog sprint with his tail sucked so tight he looked like two males...

Pretty certain the last good move that team made was hiring a guy named Boomer.

I'll believe in AI when the same input peompt run 50 times produces the same output all 50 times.

If it's not reliably reproducible it cannot be trusted in a secure environment.

I have two Chow Chows, an 8 year old 65 pound boy and a 4 year old 45 pound girl. They stay on leashes when we go for walks.

My neighbor has a Husky who played with the dog of the previous owners of my house. Husky thinks my house is his.

Neighbor is a cop, thinks his wireless fence is sufficient.

I've become convinced that #Pinterest is a scam.

Why do I need a bunch of bookmarks with photos in a separate app when I can just bookmark the site directly?

Reporting you as a spam bot.

So the question then becomes, why did these geniuses train these systems on data that is garbage? Did they really not try to filter out nonsense, fiction, lies, conspiracy theories, and such? It feels like they didn't. It feels like they don't care.

It's enshitification on steroids from trolls.

The solution isn't more output training. It might be better decision tree training. But ultimately, they will remain untrustworthy, unreliable, and effectively useless in any system that relies on repetive process that don't vary, until the garbage is removed from the training sets.

2/

So-called AI from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic have error rates, hallucinations, or whatever you want to call them at way too high a rate. We know this. People accept this. But why?

We know garbage allowed into the dataset results in garbage output. These LLMs are indiscriminately trained.

1/

Gap is an understatement.

We all know that for everything tech, garbage in equals garbage out. Indiscriminate LLM training let tons of garbage in.

Specialized AIs, such as for identifying precancerous cells or helping with protein folding, are awesome and terribly helpful. We need more of those.

Whatever works for him. I prefer a chilled glass and a couple drops of water for my whiskey.

I rode one of those standup, powered, rental scooters in DC once. Standing still and upright while cruising at 23 MPH mere inches from side view mirrors is a life-questioning experience.

Weird issue with #ParamountPlus on #TizenOS:

System updated. PP now won't respond to directional or selection input. Reinstall doesn't resolve. Delete and install has the same issue, except now the sideways buttons move the preview carousel forward and backward. Can't Get Started or Sign In. Ideas?

I have learned, via annoying advertisements within Podcasts, that neither person who hosts the totally not gay but is a great gay podcast title, Dudes on Dudes, absolutely cannot read ad copy.

What if every ad...
Was VOICED ...
by a version of William...
Shatner...
With NO VOLUME...
Control...

Ew.

Solid sentence. No notes.

The battery in my Pixel 4 did the same thing. Thankfully I'm savvy and could swap the battery myself, but that was the last Pixel I purchased.

Here's the logic chain as I see it:

Because Google is working to replace Assistant with Gemini, with the intent of keeping all the same verbal commands the same, and people use Assistant to start timers as one of the most used features, they're going to treat ChatGPT as the new Google in all ways.

It really is. Sadly, terrible ideas seem to get the most traction at AlphaGoogleAndroidBet these days.

Similarly, Google keeps insisting on replacing the Assistant -- a fully functional, mostly local AI that responds well to verbal commands -- with Gemini, which doesn't actually include any useful features separate from what Assistant does, but doesn't work half as reliably as Assistant. 😒

When I moved to Florida in 2003, I saw a sign on a rural highway south of Lakeland that noted county statistics of teens births, in a rather condescending religious tone.

At 84k miles that engine is just getting warmed up!