B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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activist, aspiring-polymath, problematic feminist working to better this world @b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town avatar: Portrait of B against colorful background banner: Collage of creative commons illustrations
Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—compressed to run cheaply. USC's Emilio Ferrara argues this compression is treated as a safety nonevent, when it should be treated as a change to the deployed system. This has policy implications, he says.
The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship
Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—with under-appreciated ramifications for AI safety, writes Emilio Ferrara.
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it is, at long last, the Year of Linux on the Desktop. www.techspot.com/news/113326-...
Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why
The shift stands out because the change was not gradual but abrupt. Linux's rise came largely at Windows' expense, while macOS saw only limited movement over the...
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fair enough. can't personally argue with this as a dividing line blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...
rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy | Inside Rust Blog
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
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When you prompt a model that is designed to produce text in the shape of a plan, it should not surprise you when a plan emerges
A beautiful animation may impress someone once. A well-designed form, search system, table, error message or undo mechanism may save someone frustration hundreds of times.
In visual art focused work you are trying to capture attention via pretty whimsical stuff but for daily workhorse software design all you are trying to do is make people's daily work life less exhausting.
UX or what's called Product Design nowdays has been about designing tools used in daily work for hours, its design work whose output will be seen and used by ordinary folks as part of their daily routine to make, do things.
I have a theory. Brand design, Capital D graphic design work or any kind of design work that requires a lot of very fine talent for visual art where the output is consumed for seconds via landing page assets or packaging is really for the rich by the rich.
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
“If we reduce the complaints, we reduce the discrimination”
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
When I was a kid I used to roll a pair of dice and record the scores with hash marks, watching the bell curve emerge with 7 pulling ahead of 6 and 8. It was like a race. I was 8, though. Grownups should know better
I really hate this part of election coverage. "So-and-so just pulled ahead..." No. No, the didn't. I've gotten to the point where I basically wait until the next morning and ignore the "race" stuff the night of. The attempt to make it dramatic is so tedious.
This is a good point. Counting votes is not a "battle." We should resist the urge to frame the framing of a procedural act like tallying votes as contested just for the sake of drama. It is dangerous to democracy.
Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 15h agoNo, they are not "locked in a tight battle." The campaign is over and now election officials are just counting the votes.
everyone come watch Cherry_tree_moving_in_the_wind_1.gif and listen to Wind_in_Swedish_pine_forest_at_25_mps.ogg with me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind
Wind - Wikipedia
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the wikipedia page for wind is actually tremendously soothing
smh people get on this website and just post obvious lies. everyone knows today is March 2333rd, 2020.
Phoebe ↙↙↙@pcberry.bsky.social · 16h agoReceiving word from my lawyers that 2010 was not in fact a decade ago
Very plausible, but it would be just as illegal and appalling if they WERE involved in drug trafficking.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
I last worked on a corporate investigation 30 years ago, so I’d want the advice of more competent counsel than myself, but believe it remains worth doing. Outsiders may lose access to some facts, but it can be good for insiders to move early to identify & solve problems w/o increased repercussions.
The thing about using slop flyers for advertising is that there’s no way to visually differentiate between a lemonade stand, a BBQ joint, a car wash, and a laundromat. They all look exactly the same and from a branding perspective that’s bad, actually
You’ll see him in your nightmares, You’ll see him in your dreams
old roadside pics@roadside.xor.blue · 3d agofreezo ice cream sign, knoxville, tennessee, 1984
The Taco Principal is enshrined in law to varying degrees as the investigatory privilege. Basically, courts will sometimes deem an internal investigation undiscoverable if undertaken in good faith to find & fix a problem. We *want* that. see generally, www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/le...
Legal privilege of corporate internal investigations under US law - 2019 caselaw update | JD Supra
Understanding the boundaries of legal privilege in corporate internal investigations is critical. When counsel, either internal or external,...
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A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
This is because unregulated betting markets exist and I'm not even kidding
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 17h agoIt is cracking me up that NBC News has a “Kornacki Cam”
"Starálfur" by Sigur Rós in "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" wrecks me every time. The Bowie covers by Seu Jorge are sublime too. Also "Where Is My Mind" by The Pixies at the end of "Fight Club" is the perfect needle drop.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 19h agoName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
Long day of work, but still managed to do a little work on "Run the Set". It's coming out pretty cool, I think! Also, I cannot wait to drag my other friends into this one with me lol
Conover is catching hell for this in the comments but he’s not wrong about a lot of it, particularly the union angle youtu.be/GnHyKckbwIw?...
We love work from home, but it's also making us depressed.
YouTube video by Adam Conover
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Families deserve fairness from even the most powerful corporations. During a nationwide affordability crisis, Illinoisans have demanded answers, transparency, and relief to help them make ends meet. We are responding in Illinois.
