Notices by Krzysztof Sakrejda (wronglang@bayes.club)

@inthehands which really suggests the protests are an endurance game, the hard and unpleasant physical "no thank you" that's usually required to get those types to loose political support. I'm really not looking forward to it.

@inthehands I agree he's working on getting over the activation energy to fascism. Not very effectively necessarily but in the way that a stumbling bully and his posse usually do. It's schoolyard terror politics but on a continental scale.

I love this definition of a programming language from @inthehands

"HTML is a way for humans to express their ideas and their intentions in a form that is unambiguously interpreted by a machine. We express our ideas, then turn them loose. The machine's interpretation may diverge from our human understanding; when it does, our ideas talk back to us and they •surprise• us.

If that’s not programming, I don’t know what is."

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113671358312102577

relevance to #rstats #statistics + lang wars

@cwebber @wordshaper I'm much closer to an expert on this topic and your summary gets my stamp of approval (for what that's worth).

@inthehands I have gone through the exercise of trying to talk the chatgpt instance the university of Michigan makes available to its staff into terrible ethical positions and I gotta say it performed better (on, e.g.-Palestine) than a lot of the discourse in the mainstream news media so maybe there's some value to having a machine that produces average text... at least in the context of.. whatever we're experiencing right now...

@inthehands the definition of AI is disappointingly thin these days

@inthehands

no one in particular: ...
me: I could argue HTML is also #AI, we just ask it to lay out documents using simple phrases and through the magic of parameters learned from decades of design experience the HTML interpreter presents a nicely optimized presentation. It's basically magic!

@_elena that's a really aggressive open source nerdery schedule!

@rysiek wow, there are a lot of tankies in here!