Parienve @Parienve@social.cleverlibre.org

In my AI & Machine Learning course, I have each student choose and read a book about the social context of AI. Here's the current list of options:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IfAQx8gbiDUQaQFDGcW0o353BKtizoR3N4Jp7zy1MkQ/edit?usp=sharing

I'd be interested in your suggestions, with the following constraints:

1) It has to be nonfiction.
2) It must be no more than ten years old.*

Thanks!

#ai #ml #MachineLearning #ethics #TechEthics #bias #privacy #justice #equality #AlignmentProblem

*Every time I open this to suggestions, someone comes out of the woodwork to suggest that students read some Really Important book that was written in 1974. That may very well be, but they should do it in a course in philosophy or the history of technology, not this one. The world has changed too much.

US Supremes deny Pegasus spyware maker's immunity claim https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/01/09/supreme_court_pegasus_spyware/

The #Rust compiler codebase looks like this, so that the output you see can look like that

what is your old person trait?

just discovered this fun little #usbc horror. usb-c to usb-a adapter
usb2.0 one way, flip for usb3.1

Regarding recent news about mass surveillance directives in India…

“to help India defend against cybersecurity attacks, protect the security of the state and public order, and prevent offenses involving computers”

Seems similar with excuses lawmakers in the US make with “but this law will protect the children!”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/india-requires-internet-services-collect-and-store-vast-amount-customer-data

Devilish

I thought "#compiler is allowed to do anything under #UndefinedBehavior" was a bit of a meme, but it's shocking to see it in practice.

Do is a static (local to this file) function pointer and it's only ever set in NeverCalled. So even though NeverCalled never actually gets executed, the compiler performs the set at compile time as an optimization and this is allowed because there is undefined behavior.

Source: https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/z2jk23/a_better_way_to_borrow_in_rust_stack_tokens/ixhfpb3?context=3

#c #cprogramming #cpp #rust

post punk

Learning #RustLang in 2023: Call for Discussion

https://naiveai.hashnode.dev/learning-rust-in-2023-a-call-for-discussion

EFF is proud to defend the @internetarchive in this case, and we will keep fighting for a robust and vibrant digital future.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/fighting-digital-future-books-2022-review

I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚

«Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.»

👇
https://standardebooks.org/donate

#standardebook #ebook #publicdomain #book #reading

Happy the year of the Linux desktop to everyone!

Annual reminder that while many #cybersecurity professionals are also deeply invested and interested in privacy, sometimes the two align and sometimes they’re opposed to one another in practicality. Always be conscious of when you’re sacrificing your (and more importantly other peoples’) privacy for the sake of security, and be very careful and measured about those decisions. Lost privacy rarely comes back. Not in business, and not in society at large.

Short intro: I'm Colin from Germany, a software and reverse engineer, who started as an application developer and joined the #ReactOS Project in 2007 to work on all parts of the OS stack.

I discovered #rustlang in 2017 and ported the HermitCore unikernel (https://github.com/hermitcore/libhermit-rs) from C to Rust as part of my Master's Thesis.

Since then, I'm using Rust for new projects whenever possible, and bring the Windows and Rust worlds closer together. I'll likely talk about my latest Rust projects here.

I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.

Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

For this year's gingerbread I made... Curiosity!

#space #gingerbread #nasa #mars #curiosity #baking #astronomy

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

Stop Talking To Each Other.

Being an elderly #millennial myself, the #essay on the commodification of the social commons on the #web by Cat Valente resonates deeply, and sadly as it is a dead spiral.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

The essay is further given context by a masterful description by @pluralistic on why #mastodon matters.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/#free-as-in-puppies

Take time to read through it. Also, be like Andrew of Dairyland: "just a guy making a thing that people liked and giving a shit about it."

Another reason not to run large scale AI models for everything. They are so resource intensive, in terms of hardware, electric power and, here, water.

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html

"The records show that Google’s water use is up threefold since 2017, the year before the company opened a third data center in The Dalles. Data centers are packed with hundreds or thousands of powerful computers. The water provides essential cooling, and Google said the increased water consumption reflects the demands of its newest local data center.

Google’s data centers used 355 million gallons of The Dalles’ water last year, 29% of the city’s total water consumption. ...l, has a population of about 16,000.

...

And like much of eastern and central Oregon, The Dalles has been in a multiyear drought that has farmers, environmental watchdogs and tribal fishers worrying about the future.

“I don’t believe that the best interests in the greater community have been in mind. It’s been more of a short-term economic deal … just to get Google in. And then Google’s become a water vampire, basically,” said Dawn Rasmussen, who lives in an unincorporated area of Wasco County outside the city limits."