It's so weird to me that it's the AI Ethics crowd getting constantly bashed for "fear mongering" because we describe systemic racism, while AI Safety people are literally saying we're all gonna die from AI...
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When we ban books in schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we are of them dying.
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the american devotion to free speech is a mile deep when it comes to things like inciting genocide, but it’s a layer of paint when it comes to say “teaching kids a factual history of slavery” or “letting chinese people run a communications company”
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Devs: check out my new project, a real-time database that runs in any page, with indexes, event feeds, automatic replication, and cryptographic verifiability. Did I mention how easy it is to use compared to other solutions? fireproof.storage Light up your data!
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There is a glorious terribleness it - a banality that will not be denied but must stand up and be heard. Like if Cotton Mather got Chat-GPT to write an essay he could declaim on the theme of 'since the beginning of time man has wondered what is tolerance' before accusing a witch.
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Educacioun ys about helping people fynde the power to chaunge the worlde and to lyve the good lyfe that thei choose. Educacioun, to quote Freire and hooks, ys the 'practice of freedom.' To make educacioun all about 'workforce' and 'economy' ys an insult to the human soul.
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Reality: the vast majority of mass killings tracked by the in the US in the last decade have been committed by right-wing extremists.
Fiction: Lethal violence by extremists in the US is equal on "both sides."
reports on false beliefs:
washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/ #ddj
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BioBuilder is on the air! Check out Natalie's interview in the second half of #WEEI, #MIX104.1 here.
audacy.com/stations/weei/
#BioBuilder #StartLearning
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Somewhat overshadowed by all the news about Microsoft Bing/Sidney's mistakes, but here's my Radar post about AI hallucinations as a glimpse of artificial creativity:
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My monthly Trends news summary (for January):
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So excited to share that _AI at the Edge_ is available for purchase! It's a practical guide for engineers, PMs, and engineering leaders, written by @jennymplunkett & I.
The ebook is available right now, paper copies in a week or so. Grab yours here 
amazon.com/AI-Edge-Proble
amazon.com/AI-Edge-Proble
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Zoom used to update at the *end* of a meeting, which was surprisingly polite. But no more.
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Your typical phone/tablet/computer has so much going on that it is a complex system.
Every change in such a system can lead to unexpected disruption.
It therefore seems more respectful to put the end-user in charge of when they face such a disruption.
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Just created @mikeloukides@hachyderm.io. Honestly, I don't expect to be very active; I'm only rarely posting on Twitter (and not particularly because of ).
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Elon Musk is the same guy who was dismissive of an *actual* assassination attempt on Pelosi’s husband and used the platform to promote conspiracy theory about it, right?
Just checking.
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Does anyone actually dispose of a printer cartridge bc the printer says it's empty? Wait until the print goes bad; shake the cartridge up; wait until the print goes bad a second time. Gets you 100-500 more prints. (Worked for one of the first laser printer companies.)
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How honest is your printer? @andreas_bastian ran a CT scan of an "empty" toner cartridge and found that it's still got lots of toner left. The big surprise is that a new cartridge turns out to have only a little more toner than the empty one!
lumafield.com/article/is-thi
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Regulation is how God teaches Americans geography
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Elon Musk told by the EU that Twitter will be banned from Europe unless they censor more disinformation, be more careful in bringing back banned accounts, and undergo an audit.
Will any American politicians speak up about foreigners forcing a US company to engage in censorship?
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The “anti-witch hunt” party is now going to spend the next two years conducting actual witch hunts that yield zero criminal charges, indictments, and serve no legitimate legislative purposes.
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Agamemnon: They'll never go for this
Odysseus: trust me, I spent $8
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I just got spam telling me about visiting Iceland in the winter. Better than your usual spam...
A new Radar post: Formal Informal Languages. (Or Informal Formal Languages. You choose.) About talking to generative art models (etc.)
Just received the first copy of my book (3rd edition), woohoo! 🦎🎉😁
You can get it at:
homl.info/amazon3
Play with the notebooks at:
github.com/ageron/handson
See what's new at:
homl.info/changes3
Huge tx to everyone who made it happen!!! 🙏
Hope you'll find it useful!
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Why would they fix? Playing to grievance is a much better political strategy than actually addressing the grievances. If they addressed any real issues, their base would dry up pretty quickly. twitter.com/jamesbritt/sta
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Axiom: Every time change something, it gets worse. Does generalize beyond Google? Certainly applies to Apple. And I don't think it's just me being an old fart.
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So that's what 's providing satellite Internet service to Ukraine was really about: getting a chunk of the DoD money that's buying weapons for Ukraine. Can't say I'm surprised. Class act, dude.
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Another new article on O'Reilly Radar: The Collaborative Metaverse bit.ly/3yzSYJC What is the Metaverse really about? Better collaboration tools, not necessarily VR. Dylan Field () and understood that.
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This has been challenging af to work on (still working on it) but I think this means that it will be worth it in the end. Early Release (2nd Edition) is now live on the platform learning.oreilly.com/library/view/z
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What is Hyperautomation? A new (long) post on O'Reilly Radar. bit.ly/3eqSRZT Hyperautomation may be no more than a ploy in buzzword bingo--but how do you automate business processes well?
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Happy to share all the e-books that and I have written. Plus we made all of them free and under lid
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Final series of the TV adaptation of Pullman's His Dark Materials will come out starting Dec. 5!
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Since I discovered prompt injection, I owe you all a thread on how to fix it.
TLDR: Don’t use instruction-tuned models in production on untrusted input. Either write k-shot prompt for a non-instruct model, or create your own fine-tune.
Here’s how.
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Learn about the top 10 problems that have been fixed in Terraform since the 2nd edition of Terraform: Up & Running, now in its 3rd edition, by Yevgeniy Brikman
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The ebook is now available!
It's on Kobo, Kindle, B&N, and Apple Books. I'd love to hear if you see it anywhere else.
Print version in a few weeks.
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