Notices by Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)

Are you more pro-Canada, or anti-America?

Post for people planning to buy an E-reader:

I own a Kobo. Some may not consider it a Canadian brand, but it started in Canada, and their brand's headquarter is still in Toronto, Ontario.

Really good stuff.

https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-clara-bw

#Canada #ElbowsUp

This subreddit has some pretty good stuff in it. https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/

@evan

California Roll

"Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour’s soybeans"

https://www.ecoportal.net/en/two-minnesota-solar-farms-native-wildflowers/29160/

@evan @realn2s

Speaking of hot sauce, I once got capsaicin poisoning.

Not fun.

Thankfully, the medical literature seems to point to it being generally a non-issue, other than extreme pain, enough for someone suffering from it to call an ambulance.

@evan

I want cannabis to be as legal as tobacco (with even fewer restrictions than tobacco), but I'm not convinced that this stuff is healthy for an adult that's otherwise in good health.

@evan

Instance: internal node

People (or actor): lead node

@dalias

The person's profile has "polymath" on it.

Reminds me of this post that I saw.

The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney).

"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

#CanPoli #CanadianPolitics #CanadaPolitics

The fediverse is full of real life superheros.

Let's shed some light on a few:

@dansup - Pixelfed & Loops

@quillmatiq & @snarfed.org - Building https://brid.gy + @anewsocial

@silverpill - Managing FEPs + @mitra

@julian - Building @nodebb

@jesseplusplus - Building @frequency

@jaz - Building @teamtoot + @iftas

@thisismissem - Building https://fires.fedimod.org

@benpate - Building https://emissary.dev

@koen - Building https://procolix.eu

Show em' some ❤️

(Yes, this is a copy+paste of @dansup's original post)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@torgo/115995086918168132

I may be wrong, but it feels like Europeans are a lot more active in the civic duty of providing alternatives to big tech.

Mad respect.

For reasons I would have used ChatGPT for, I use Claude Code entirely for that.

The advantage of Claude Code is that it is really good at identifying that a prompt contains one or more URLs, and if the system determined that it is compelling enough to visit it, then it will actually go visit it.

@freemo

I think I'm using the wrong term.

I'm referring to "argument extraction".

@freemo

They could be.

LLMs are used for so many NLP purposes, but sometimes, we really need to sharpen an LLM's saw to focus solely on "tool calling", and a lot of tool calling involves NER. Without the fine tuning, you get lots of "hallucinations" (bad results).

That said, a lot of off-the-shelf LLMs have already been trained to handle NER just fine, and fine-tuning is not really that necessary.

@freemo

I mean, calling it "special" gives the illusion to people that MCP is something only those seasoned in fine-tuning LLMs can deploy.

But other than that, sure, it is powerful, with lots of emergent properties.

I don't want to be expressing too much cynicism, but just a heads up: there is nothing special about MCP and Skills; those just work on top of whatever fine-tuning that a lot of off-the-shelf models are capable of.

Fedicon in Vancouver is going to be the best Fediverse-related event to have happened in a long time.

Definitely check it out!

I will most certainly be there!

https://fedicon.ca/

#Fediverse #Fedicon #Vancouver #VancouverBC #VancouverBCCanada #VancouverBritishColumbia #VancouverBritishColumbiaCanada #BC #BritishColumbia #BritishColumbiaCanada #BCCanada #GreaterVancouver #GreaterVancouverBC #GreaterVancouverBCCanada #VancouverCanada #GreaterVancouverCanada #MetroVancouver #MetroVancouverBCCanada #MetroVancouverCanada

Bear in mind, I know full well we elect MPs, but in common parlance, what do y'all say about how a Prime Minister gets to power?

Do say something along the line of being "elected by the people", or do you say something else?

@freemo I guess `main` being default is a macOS thing

I may be wrong.

I don't recall ever having changed that.