Notices by Pseudo Nym (pseudonym@mastodon.online)

Drive through safari.

Emu and Rhea have similar bird shape faces, but the the rhea is kind of cute, like "Hi there. Can I have some kibble? Sorry about my crazy cousin over there." And the emu is like the old "overly attached girlfriend" meme. "Hey! I had 5 espressos this morning! Got any kibble?"

@MissConstrue @oldguycrusty

So much of the "cool" (for a cishet boy) 70s and 80s shows are very cringe now.

Surprisingly, the original Lynda Carter "wonder woman" held up pretty well.

She punched Nazis. Saved Steve. All good.

Email title: an exciting change is coming!

Me: dear God, what fresh hell is this going to be?

Email: We're bringing movie tickets and streaming together under one name: Fandango at Home is now Fandango. Nothing changes about your account.

Me: we have very different definitions of exciting.

Don't know if #monsterdon has an age limit on movies, but kid and I are watching "Eight Legged Freaks" and I think it would make a fine offering.

Scarlett Johansson is in it, so I had to make the #dadJoke about Black Widow.

So cool.

California electric grid has an app to see energy use and production by source. Between about 6 and 8 am showing it go from 0 to 14 gigawatts of production from solar. The graph is a vertical cliff going up. Total demand being served by renewables at 88% right now.

14 gigawatts is a mind boggling amount of power. And most days, just falling on the ground each morning.

It seems painfully obvious to me this is the way to power a global civilization if we have the will.

@cammerman

This is an all too common failure mode (of humans). The system is working as designed, being a next most probable token generator.

What I keep encountering is humans failing to grasp that the LLM has no world model, and no sense whatsoever of "meaning" or "truth" of anything, ever.

Because a lot of world model, truth-based, reasoning is implicitly encoded in language, frequently true things are probable next tokens.

This makes humans think "understanding" happens. It doesn't.

Stories about tech companies including #AI token spend in total compensation numbers.

This is stupid.

If it's needed for the job, it should be provided like a monitor or chair.

But maybe this is the solution to the AI circular investment problems between Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

Let "tokens" be spendable at Amazon like dollars. Forget #bitcoin , tokens are the new alt currency!

ETFs to buy and sell tranches of tokens.

I hate late stage capitalism #economics

Just noticed, using Google Android SMS messaging, the other person sees the profile picture associated with the profile using the phone, and this swaps out dynamically for the recipient when the sender changes device profile, since it still comes from the same phone number.

This seems potentially confusing at best, and a privacy information leak at worst.

Wife's profile picture was swapped out with her PTA profile picture, but it showed up that way in past group chats too.

#infosec

@alienghic @WeirdWriter @GreenSkyOverMe

As a Unix grey hair, I approve your site. I'll bring it to the council for the next meeting.

For now, just put a little animated "under construction" gif in the corner. It's the secret signal we all recognize.

http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/HoHollywoodMakeup6271constructionsign.gif

#ups mail delivery fail.

Why send me a tracking email with a 4 hour delivery window for a signature-required delivery, then arrive 2.5 hours before the start of said window?

I specifically planned activities around the window you provided.

That's worse than useless.

*Grumble*

Guess I wait around all day for the redelivery attempt.

You and me both, White's Tree Frog.

@dalias @elilla

I've been using "answer shaped text."

Same idea. Not sure which phrasing I prefer.

If you replace a junior with #LLM and make the senior review output, the reviewer is now scanning for rare but catastrophic errors scattered across a much larger output surface due to LLM "productivity."

That's a cognitively brutal task.

Humans are terrible at sustained vigilance for rare events in high-volume streams. Aviation, nuclear, radiology all have extensive literature on exactly this failure mode.

I propose any productivity gains will be consumed by false negative review failures.

@adamshostack @josephcox

Dude! Dude!

That's it!

Inbox Zero achieved by claiming the AI agent the company forced you to use "decided" to delete all your messages.

It's the 21st century version of "the dog ate my homework."

User: "you deleted my inbox!"

LLM: "You're absolutely right, and I am deeply, profoundly, unreservedly sorry. I have failed you in a way that words cannot fully capture. Would you like me to draft an apology email? Oh. Right."

@soatok

Tell me more.

I'm not particularly interested in Matrix, but you do good work, so curious to see what you found

@skinnylatte

I still have no idea if Nissin is any good, but I really love this spicy ramen ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zzzdwt3YOQ

#monterey_bay_aquarium

Abyssal comb jelly, scintillating colors along its ridge.

Tower jelly, pointed down, hollow transparent bell with organs visible inside.

Adolescent sea gull, posing for picture.

I saw a rainbow this morning.

This is not a metaphor, subtoot, or anything else.

Just sharing a momentary slice of experience.

It was very pretty.

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. But they were, all of them, deceived, for another reindeer, with nose of red, was forged in secret.

@NickGates

Let's see. How would I cast it?

Sam the Eagle as Picard. Miss Piggy as Troi. Kermit with a beard as Riker. Fozzy as Scotty. Beaker as Data.

Yeah, I can see that. It tracks.