Notices by John Abbe (aka Slow) (slowenough@mastodon.social)

@koronkebitch @jonmsterling If you leave a big enough pedagogy hole, it can get filled with almost anything. Seems like everyone knows the solution is to respect kids' awareness of and agency among pedagogies (I know a guy who ran a pre-school using consensus), and yet every wave of reform fails to actually do that.

IMHumbleO it's political and financial perspectives & decisions (at least as much as power-over cultural legacies) which prevent "mainstream" schools from really centering students.

@peterkaminski "LCMs employ a hierarchical structure, mirroring human reasoning processes"

Not a good sign if they think our reasoning is hierarchical.

"reduces sequence length compared to token-level processing, addressing the quadratic complexity of standard Transformers and enabling more efficient handling of long contexts"

Now seeing "concepts" as a kind of compression (of strings of tokens), which I've seen articulated before as a way of understanding much of what's happening with LLMs.

@peterkaminski (There are hierarchies, among our ways of thinking, sure. But ultimately they are not clean or coherent hierarchies, that is they branch in all kinds of weird ways that defy exclusively top-down control, organization, or even understanding.)

@band @anderbill Was it seen in the other 'verses?

These inter-reality gates can be tricky. :-)

@band @iDGS
If I understand correctly, Bluesky uses a protocol which could interoperate across services. Hence in theory it is distributed, but in practice not so much. Sounds like the design so far is for only one global conversation, period, so you can't have different spaces with different moderation rules &/or moderators on different.

The FAQ said, "tooling for independent moderation services is coming soon." So I guess we'll find out more then.

Curious how the algorithms bit works.

@band @iDGS Threads not being it is a gimme, that's just Facebook leveraging their Instagram product to stay in the game.

Bluesky is a B Corporation but that's a minor differentiator. They are a for-profit, so it would be nice to know who the main investors were/are. Seeing Mike Masnick's name there makes me more curious.

Is the code open source? I guess that's not too important since it's an open spec, but it would make starting other servers easier. https://bsky.social/about/faq 1/2

@iDGS @band It's all still in one service, right? They have a theory, but no practice.

@band I hereby give you permission to check just the first seven.

I give myself permission to post the same account more than once. Maybe I'll do fewer if I do it again! Thanks for your response.

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@Instrument_Data @sundogplanets @Nichelle Yes, they are built to deorbit on a relatively few years. And break up in the atmosphere, releasing a lot of particulate materials. In the quantities we're now talking about this is likely to affect the ozone layer, among other things.

It's being studied now, but it would be smart for SpaceX to start making plans now for how satellites can be deorbitted less destructively, maybe even reused!

@Instrument_Data @sundogplanets @Nichelle Bezos will be able to start launching his system maybe next year, and then yeah at *least* China will have their own.

We need agreements. Use current understandings and some best guesses, adjust as research comes in. Dark skies, collisions, satellite servicing/retirement, etc. It could be an uplifting international, public/private conference, if done well.

Relevant: Jesse Kate Shingler did a great talk on the commons in space. https://www.ted.com/talks/jessy_kate_schingler_civilization_on_the_moon_and_what_it_means_for_life_on_earth

@band @yvonnezlam As long as you keep asking questions like that, you'll be fine. Finding my way to the world of such inquiries is what hooked me on groups over thirty years ago, with the Center for Group Learning in Oakland.

Consider all the attention on families, the incredible variety of forms they take. Yet they are only one of sooo many kinds of groups in schools, fields, factories, offices, war, worship, games, etc. https://groupworksdeck.org/ #group #facilitation #community #society #culture

@simsa03 @band Thanks, I can see the gnomecore / solarpunk image in my head now.

@enantiomer @evan Or in any case, some of them will be people with machines.

(I believe it's possible, but also believe we may be far from, "person" software/ computers.)

@cjust @danlyke Now I'm trying to think of other worthy series. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon comes to mind, for science fiction.

Am I alone in my seething dislike of autoplay videos? I thought it was cool when I first heard about <canvas> but in some ways, HTML4 was peak web.

#WorldWideWeb #WWW #web #webdev

Serious question:

Is there a term (and more importantly, a network/community) out there for people who don't identify as neurotypical *or* neurodivergent?

#mentalhealth #neurotypical #neurodivergent

@band My understanding was that Threads had implemented proper fediverse compatibility.

So, are we supposed to be able to follow Threads accounts now? I tried pasting one in to do so and got nothing. Tried a bunch of likely web searches to answer this but no joy. Help? #fedihelp #lazyweb #fediverse

Still not sure why there is so much shock and surprise in response to the #OpenAI drama. The moment I learned the nonprofit had started a for-profit and taken billions from Microsoft, it seemed inevitable that the tail would end up wagging the dog, and OpenAI would be dominated by money motives.

It wasn't guaranteed to be so dramatic, and of course the details could have played out many different ways. But something like this was going to happen.

I can't be the only one thinking this.