Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

Mechanical Turks considered in danger due to LLM/Chat tech. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15056

My experience with Trader Joe's is that they will ONLY trade for money.

Not Turkmenbashi news, but in related area. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65596470

It's one of the worst things in current online software.

Solving the problem of protein folding is easy. If you want hard problems, look to fast food automation. “You may think driving by and speaking into a drive-through is an easy problem for AI, but it’s actually one of the hardest,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, the company’s cloud-computing division.

I love how the stage for the Google I/O keynote had shelves with plants. I wonder if the design was inspired by "staging" in the sense of setting up a home's interior to get a better selling price. Staging on a stage, as it were.

I requested and Bard answered.

looks bad

Google tells me that it's World Password Day. So happy 6rjNG0pPg7u95/s7uVB!Mr to everybody!

@asymco Hearing Alex Vetter (CEO Cars.com) explain the increase in car demand (USA) as related to more remote work. Does that even make sense?

what would be the best cereal to eat while watching tiktoks? https://lite.cnn.com/2023/05/01/business/kit-kat-cereal/index.html

change is the only constant
-- Heraclitus
constants are the only change
-- modern AI architecture tuning

"Almost a third of the nurses in the United States are considering leaving their profession after the COVID-19 pandemic left them overwhelmed and fatigued, according to a survey."

Foreign Affairs article from August of last year "China’s New Vassal -
How the War in Ukraine Turned Moscow Into Beijing’s Junior Partner". Well, the world chess championship between Ding and Nepomniatchi (Chinese vs Russian) was just won by Ding.

Can't ask for better symbolism in news events.

groundcover / weeds in bloom

I saw a trailer for a movie "The Reading" - I guess it is a horror flick where people are trapped in a haunted house that starts with a seance or something like that. But my fantasy version is that people are trapped in a conference room forced to endlessly discuss a terribly written academic paper (hence "The Reading").

Which do you think would be more scary?

When is the most recent time you found facts/data at odds with your beliefs, and this caused you to change your mind?

Been too long, hasn't it?