Notices by Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)

“ The problem with #AI and ethics is training, the source. A good writer takes training, and that includes willing teachers, reading, experience writing, and feedback. A good AI requires the same thing, they call the feedback "curation." That's "educating" it what is crap and what is gold. ” -
#EthicsInAI #techConsequencesInRealWorld
https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/113771969864497878

@eaton @scottjenson

I’m hacking on regular forum software, that solves my conversation focus with reply threading, branching & digressions, to figure out if it could do orchestration work as a POSSE approach: https://indieweb.org/POSSE.
I post on the modified forum software & it logs in to the target specified server(s), posts, boosts & collects any comments, likes, etc with the relevant sequencing etc.

Also allows me to take time to create & review posts before publishing, plus scheduling.

@troed @scottjenson @nyquildotorg
Rather than a “Fediverse ID” have an account/profile/ whatever that allows more then 1 ID to be supported, a concept tweetdeck et al introduced. You could manage, schedule and post to 1 or more IDs. You the person decides what the purpose of those IDs serve and take action accordingly.

3/7
Now, after the lecture, really understanding & creating your individual, applied reference mental model for the topic is up to you, ignorant student, to figure out on your own. Formal tool used are assignments & homework that provide evidence you can “confidently” repeat (parrot) the material, at will, not that you understood or can apply the material. Basically a Human LLM.
So I’m not surprised that formal students are resorting in droves to LLM to complete assignments and homework.

2/7
Current “formal teaching” system:
1. You attend a lecture where syllabus, maybe lecture material and hardly ever the exam questions are shared.
2. You’re expected to sit, listen & take notes for 30-45 minutes, maybe answer a few questions & rarely ask any.
3. Content delivery completed.

1/7
Interesting thread on formal teaching, specifically mathematics & students who, by design, are ignorant of the subject/topic. Students are resorting to commercial Large Language Model(LLM) for explanation, self-study & producing content for completing assignments - https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling/113555911887640230
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Root-0:
2025 is my year of communal, autodidactic learning & education. Been thinking, reading, listening, watching, musing & discussing material on this topic for a while. It’s time for #CarefulCactusHugging

Related-“More I work in edu & read history, I’m less convinced it's possible to break free from LLMs.
At least in USA, incentives to get an education are all wrong. Rarely anyone ever concerns themselves with actually learning. Rather they're just trying to get through process as quickly & efficiently as they can to move on to a job.
Unless we sort this out & make people actually interested in the learning process, we definitely won't be able to reckon with this tech.
https://hackers.town/@mav/113564900420941301

@futurebird

… extract links from within the post and links to the source post?

@futurebird

To remove & externalise bookmark dependency from browsers, I’ve resorted to manually collecting & curating links as I find them, with personal notes+tags reminding me why they are of interest. They’re always 100% searchable & findable.

Given the inconsiderate, effective DDOS behavior of AI scraper bots, adding to that melee with more robo-indexing may not produce a usable search index - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/113741237599333856

@billt @grimalkina
Code is story time with clues frozen in inaccessible “amber” (people’s situation, thinking and practices of an era gone by). The computer instructions are secondary side effects. 😉

@vaurora

Human Performance in academic setting is more than making money for another organisation based on charging fees for publishing free content, <cough> research findings. With all that brain power they couldn’t come up with a system? That is the antonym of “thinking”.

Note: Businesses may want to replace humans as they are usually the largest expense on the balance sheet, but they don’t outsource human performance reviews. It’s a core function of a manager.

How did we end up with business middlemen gatekeeping academic careers via paid for academic journals that get free contributions from the same academics?

Alt text: Pooh bear, sitting with a pensive expression on his face, right arm folded under his left and his left paw tapping his temple, saying, “Think, think, think, think, think!”.

https://archaeo.social/@mrundkvist/113723788751363475

@futurebird @VaylLarkinPoet
Even “people of various non-western cultures” with tertiary-level formal education want to spend “precious & limited” time in places & spaces where they’re welcome. Not treated to the ever common & very politely stated, “WTF are you doing here? Go where you belong”. Their current job title, education level, where they live, what they are capable of, etc. (that isn’t stated by the way, but assumed) is secondary.
People are more than “how they earn money to pay bills”.

@Chancerubbage @noondlyt @mastodonmigration

Sampling bias
Alt: SAMPLiNG BiAS
Screen showing results of survey with 2 questions, without ”None of the above” or “Other” option,.
Q1. “Yes, I love responding to surveys” = 99.8% (no sample size number indicated)
Q2. “No, I toss them in the bin” - 0.2%

Presenter states: “We received 500 responses & found that people love responding to surveys” - without counting the people who don’t 😱
Audience:”HMM...”
From sketchplanations

Watched “Downfall: The case against Boeing” https://www.netflix.com/title/81272421 & it’s frightening cos of avarice-induced:
1. “gambling & betting” on Stock Market
2. don’t bring me problems, “do it faster”-with no training
3. “blame” pilots for no “skills” to fly plane.
4. cavalier “we’ll have software ‘fix’ in 6 weeks” produced without feedback from pilots.
It takes years to design & test a plane. It’s not like patching IT equipment in “immobile, closed system data center”.
#techConsequencesInRealWorld

Perverse version of “you control what you measure” - https://mstdn.ca/@CAWguy/113654123593956447

#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 5

MacDown - https://macdown.uranusjr.com/
MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License - https://github.com/MacDownApp

This is MacOS focused as that’s my “daily use”
operating system and not an invitation to persuade me to change.
Share equivalents for other operating systems for the benefit of the wider community.

#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 4

draw.io is an application for creating diagrams that can be used offline in a number of ways including as a stand-alone desktop application, as a progressive web application (PWA), or as a Chrome web app - https://www.drawio.com/doc/faq/offline.

#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 8

Tiddlywiki- https://tiddlywiki.com/
“TiddlyWiki, unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising & sharing complex information. Use it to keep to-do list, plan an essay or novel, or organise your wedding. Record every thought that crosses your brain, or build a flexible and responsive website.”
Code-https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5
Hands down & should have been my first post. Been using, tweaking & experimenting since 2005.
Latest adventure - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/113497459597508797