in my lifetime, i've experienced the transition from a single channel black&white tv all the way to streaming, from rotary phones to smartphones, from lack of printed traffic maps to gps,.... never before have i seen a technology being shoved down people's throats as forcefully and urgently as llms.
And this coming from one of the regents who fired Schlissel verrrryyyyy publicly over similar behavior 😅
We had a tornado warning last night here in SE Michigan. First time I experienced that since I moved to MI 8 years ago. For some reason my phone emergency alert didn’t make a sound but my spouse’s phone did. 🤔
Appliances shouldn't connect to the internet.
We need to think deeply about our responsibilities to future generations — globally — with respect to the night sky. Who gets to decide what they will see when they look through a telescope at the moon? Right now there are no democratic processes for that. 🌔🧪🔭
I wish this were a bit. Science and antiscience are not the two sides of science. Much of the criticism you are receiving is because people were not born yesterday and they actually are familiar with disinformation campaigns and science denial
🧪 Me responding with vitriol:
There’s a reason biologists refuse to be empaneled with “creation scientists.”
There’s a reason climate researchers refuse to share podiums with climate deniers.
And it’s the same reason why platforming those destroying science is terrible. Hint: It’s not popularity.
Much like we don't dump food uneaten directly into the toilet, a lot of other human activities relating to thinking, new skills, need to pass through your system (you need to deeply engage with situations and materials) too sans AI. You can't outsource parts of something and still consider it done.
Categories are human inventions that are often useful in systemizing nature. Nature, however, is under no obligation to respect them, and often does not. Misunderstanding this is "antithetical to science."
There is no blueprint for the "correct hummingbird" male or female. It is whatever results...
"I can't use Quarto because my coworkers don't code and they need to edit docume-" 👀 ✋🏼🔜 quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#rstats #quarto #databs
Shiny crow on black
Now let's start talking about why you might want to make crow friends.
I can't begin to enumerate the reasons, but I'll try. The best one is simply that interacting with beautiful wild creatures with sublime intelligence that recognize us as individuals adds immeasurable beauty to our lives. (19/n)
I'm not trying to be pedantic here; the language matters. Children of immigrants are not some special, weird category of citizens; they owe their citizenship to the same thing that the vast majority of the rest of us do. That's the point!
you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship
LLMs and other automated tools can surface reliable information about the world that already exists.
In the vast majority of cases, they cannot produce it. And the people who produce that information are becoming rarer and rarer.
Just be normal. Support good policies because they're good and will help people. Don't make it sound like you're trying to triangulate everything to death.
The problem is if you use your personal GitHub for work, and your company buys a copilot license for you, there is no possibility to use copilot for personal use and all copilot settings are controlled by your company.
The DC Metro
Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.
The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.
Project Hail Mary was pretty fun and had a good alien in it.
It’s sentimental, but in times like these, I’ve got a pretty high tolerance for pro-science odes to cross-cultural teamwork.
It is also *long* but I was at a theater that brings alcohol straight to your seat which helped a lot
I'm certain my physical therapist endorses this message
unfortunately my thoughts are unfit to post publicly 😳
omg it's worse than I imagined
bsky.app/profile/mrmm...
OH NO!
The topic of discussion was a proposal to update our noxious weeds ordinance to make sure that native plant gardens aren’t cited by the city.
You can tell I turned 30 recently because I’m growing native plants from seed in milk jugs in my back yard, the only reason I don’t have a bird feeder yet is I’m reading up on how to deter invasive house sparrows from using it, and I went to a city council meeting for the first time ever last week…
I totally missed that detail! Keen eye!
I once crashed my bike at low speed because my derailleur threw my chain into my casette. My helmet made a loud cracking sound when it hit the pavement, had a huge dent in it. Amazingly I didn’t have a concussion! Helmets aren‘t just to prevent deaths and not just for car collisions!
reminds me of Ball State University: “we fly”
It sure feels like spring today in Michigan! A house finch family is building their nest in a tree right outside my office window again this year 😍
If you've never done an architecture boat tour in the summer I highly recommend it!
Tl;dr: Americans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. He is part of the broad wave of far right parties/politicians since 2008 across rich democracies. Our institutions just suck more.
Europeans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. See above.