Notices by Justin 🌻 (onyxraven@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs @zacbir +1 - you’re also conflating computer science and computer/software engineering (even though there’s no professional computer engineering certification). Science is about making some ‘pretty’ equation / theory proof. Engineering is about making it work in reality. Though neither *really* concentrate on the user. Human Computer Interaction is a specialty (My original plan was to go into HCI with minor in psych but couldn’t make the program fit at the time)

@thomasfuchs heck, computer science from the science (or math) dept is really just theoretical stuff, which is why we see blowhards talking about eigenspaces and category theory and not making people and tech work together.

@thomasfuchs I’m actually wondering if those are a serif number code point in UTF8?

@thomasfuchs bring back strong skeuomorphic designs! I’m here for it.

@thomasfuchs seeing folks discover ‘ssr’ as a revelation continues to send me

@thomasfuchs @Migueldeicaza oof. Yeah. It felt like they were getting so good.

I’ve dealt with two kinda difficult search domains in my career. I kinda want to try again.

First was helping at photobucket - we were trying to blaze a new path with a distributed compute index. Had solr atop hbase and did some pretty cool stuff. There was a lot more we could have done there as those domains really matured.

Now we have a tough domain in consumer products at Ibotta - we are absolutely leaning in on the vector relativity stuff. Inference/imputing in sparse input data is really interesting.

@thomasfuchs @Migueldeicaza agree - these are some of the amazing uses of vector encodings and transformer - expanding actual relevancy in the search index, related terms, etc - a better paradigm then just tf-idf alone. The problem is that the attention is on using JUST the compressed data :/

@thomasfuchs @Migueldeicaza yes but the search index is lossy-compressed. It pulled the factual pixels into more layers of search. It encoded ‘the world’ with 2000 era mp3s stolen from limewire

@thomasfuchs specifically PC Card slot? Wild.

@thomasfuchs I had a hunch but had to look it up. And now I have more fond memories browsing through the other ITU specs.

@thomasfuchs compounded by the fact that if you’re looking for investors, you’ve needed to have AI in your investor pitch for at least a couple years now.

@thomasfuchs good lighting too! 😁

@thomasfuchs seeing it at the theatrical re release a few years ago was amazing. Just so well done on every level.

@thomasfuchs anyone who doubles down on using the words ‘reasoning’ or ‘thinking’ when talking LLMs should be dismissed :/

@thomasfuchs I was going to link an image seen on reddit of a stock pot with 5 handles on it, but looks like they pulled it (probably because it was indeed AI)

@thomasfuchs those indie games (Exp33, Valheim, etc) are scaring the crap out of the big studios spending 300m dollars and 8 years to release a game that doesn't have the same impact. So they turn to exploitation because they don't know anything different.

@mekkaokereke this is what I’m wondering. Could a fork or alternative that can move faster (maybe gets foundation or angel funding?) take a large share?

@molly0xfff is there a good resource of 501c’s supporting journalist law/defense costs?

@thomasfuchs this is wonderfully unhinged.

@thomasfuchs meat buildup is a phrase