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Daily Archives: April 3, 2023

“the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won’t be exhausted as soon as previously predicted”

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Fewer 80+ post COVID.

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NASA astronauts more or less blew off the fake meeting where they were assigned to Artemis.

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Sounds like they aren’t great at doing dumb meetings.

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Apple’s weather app forecasts 80s in MN. Why that’s dumb.

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “The forecasts in question look to be heavily reliant on one model, the commonly named ‘American model,’ or more officially the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Forecast System model.”

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Rise of the bland: when everyone and everything looks the same.

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I could go with less black.

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“However, April 1 came and went, and the blue checkmarks largely remained. (One exception was the official New York Times Twitter account”

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Hilarious.

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Twitter algo: “external links get you marked as spam”

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. WTF.

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We need a new word for the historical singularity.

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The “Rapture of the Nerds” has taken over the original concept of unpredictability, so now we have a rather important concept without a useful English label. Maybe there’s a German name we can use?

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Attention Is All You Need: Google’s transformer architecture paper from 2017.

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Five years later we had the LLMs.

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Japan’s social recluse: “cabinet office surveyed 30,000 people between the ages of 10 and 69 across Japan last November. The poll found that just over a fifth of respondents aged 15-39 had been socially isolated from six months to less than a year”

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. COVID exacerbated Japan’s longstanding hikikomori problem, but elsewhere the article states hikikomori are only 2% of age 15-62. So this is hard to interpret.

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Remarkably interesting article on ChatGPT code generation.

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “The Google Brain team published a paper in 2017 called Attention is All You Need.
It introduced the now-famous Transformer architecture that you see to the left.
Everyone uses this now. It replaced ~everything in AI.
Google did absolutely nothing with this invention, opting for violent knee-jerking later, as per their usual M.O.”

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Mastodon Explorer: a workaround for mastodon tags being (mostly) scoped to a single instance.

Posted on April 3, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Via Martin Steiger responses. A helpful service while we wait for a better solution to topic tracking across federated communities.

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