Back in the early naughts I had an Dan Lyke / comment 0
Back in the early naughts I had an elderly friend who hung out at the same coffee shop as me. Journalist with many cool experiences.
He became convinced that he'd finally figured out a mechanism for betting on horses.
This is also a post about conversations with people on how they use LLMs.
agonizing over fries Dan Lyke / comment 0
Rick Gualtieri @rickgualtieri.com
AI Bros always want credit for how tough it is to come with their prompts.
I'm guessing they're the same people who hold up the line at McDonald's agonizing over medium or large fries.
Which, yes, but/and... I think there's a lot of "who's responsible for the product of labor" here that, just as in art, we as a society are going to have to do a lot of unpacking on.
Wrong audience Dan Lyke / comment 0
The Independent @Independent@flipboard.com
Commencement speaker shocked by graduating class’s visceral reaction to AI
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive.
when you’re inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn’t.
Jed Brown @jedbrown@hachyderm.io
It is truly heartwarming to watch the pro-oligarch/pro-AI bubble slam into the cold reality of an auditorium full of students booing their commencement keynote.
The schadenfreude at this bootlicker stammering is surpassed only by the sheer joy when the camera pans to the students.
Every university administrator needs to watch this clip of the University of Central Florida commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield.
Reddit thread, including Anto-bisbi31's comment
I was part of the class graduating. Mind you this happened during the ARTS AND HUMANITIES - School of communication and MEDIA ceremony. So majors like game design, film, and the arts in general, this majors feel a treat to find jobs due to AI, and we are taught to deal with this huge human disconnection, and how beneficial yet damaging it can become in our topics of study. It was a very out of touch and controversial topic to speak about. And let me also add that she started the speech talking about Jeff bezos and praising him.
Third spaces inversely correlated with far right voters Dan Lyke / comment 0
The demise of the French ‘tabac’: How bar closures are fuelling Le Pen’s far right
Nathan Domon on European Correspondent: Close a bar, gain a far-right voter
Subtil described bar-tabacs as “third spaces”: places outside the home and workplace where people from different backgrounds mix. When those places disappear, people socialise within a narrower circle of like-minded friends and family. “That, over time, erodes the social fabric and weakens in-person ties,” he said.
Via Dave Rahardja @drahardja@sfba.social, though the original post he was quoting has blocked him or been removed or something.
Meta study touting ChatGPT in education retracted. Dan Lyke / comment 0
This was all over a few days ago, and I figure I should at least put one story in the thread: Ars Technica: Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
LLM misinfo and Petaluma budget Dan Lyke / comment 0
Reddit thread in /r/Petaluma in which a commenter offers an "AI"/LLM generated analysis of the city budget proposal, and I push back, gently pointing out that it's making claims that, in fact, are flat-out false.
ChatGPT coached a shooter Dan Lyke / comment 0
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter
At one point, the lawsuit alleges, ChatGPT said that it’s much more likely for a shooting to gain national attention “if children are involved, even 2-3 victims can draw more attention.” Later, on the day of the shooting, the lawsuit says, Ikner asked about what “the legal process, sentencing, and incarceration outlook” would be.
Via Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social:
we need a strict liability regime for AI. that’ll sort this stuff right out.
John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not. Dan Lyke / comment 0
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
Older people see benefits from air purifiers Dan Lyke / comment 0
Science Alert: Air Purifiers Could Boost Your Brain Function, Study Suggests
Participants 40 years or older with HEPA filtration completed Part B 12% significantly faster than participants who had sham filtration in the preceding month (54.0 versus 61.4 s, ratio of means = 0.88, p = 0.02). No significant reduction in completion time was observed for participants < 40 years old. Among older healthy adults, there was an improvement in cognition following one month of in-home HEPA filtration. Further research is needed on the short-term effects of air pollution among individuals with some level of cognitive impairment.
Autistic people relate differently Dan Lyke / comment 0
PsyPost: Brain scans reveal how people with autistic traits connect differently
People with similar levels of autistic traits show greater social attraction to one another, and their brains synchronize in unique ways during active conversation. A recent experiment published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that social difficulties related to autism might be a problem of mismatched communication styles rather than an inherent social deficit.
The "Results" section of the paper says:
Individuals with similar autistic traits reported higher interpersonal attraction when sharing consistent opinions. Neural analyses revealed context-dependent interbrain coupling patterns: During passive story listening, low-autistic-trait dyads exhibited higher intersubject correlation compared with high-autistic-trait dyads. In contrast, during active communication, low-autistic-trait dyads exhibited higher interbrain synchronization (IBS) in the right temporoparietal junction, while high- autistic-trait dyads showed higher IBS in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, suggesting distinct neural mechanisms underlying social interaction across autistic trait levels.
Data Centers compared Dan Lyke / comment 0
Rob Ricci @ricci@discuss.systems's thread on Utah datacenters, including the proposed 9GW Stratos Project, which seems to be slated for the Military Installation Development Authority Stratos Project Area as referenced by the Utah Governor's FAQ (PDF).
While the entire project area encompasses 40,000 acres, most of the acres will remain undeveloped. The different types of power generation contemplated for the data center have different footprints. For example, solar will require a larger footprint than natural gas. The actual data center footprint will be a fraction of the size of the MIDA project area.
So the 62.5 square miles isn't projected to be entirely building.
Utah used 34,688GWh in 2024, so assuming you could smooth out demand roughly 4GW continuous.
What's wrong with AI Dan Lyke / comment 0
A good comprehensive What's Wrong with AI, Via, which includes the Hacker News link.
Compressing text search Dan Lyke / comment 0
Because I'm gonna be faced with some text search stuff in the not too distant future: Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary