Business strategist and innovator. Recovering particle physicist. Eye for the tragicomic & absurd in tech, biz, science, politics, & life. Views my own. She/her
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This quote has been on my mind:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2nd Inaugural Address, Jan 20 1937
We are failing at progress.
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What we are witnessing, once again, is the alignment of white power against racial justice and redress. We now have a legal landscape that takes the very laws created to eliminate the anti-Black caste system and uses them destroy racial justice efforts. The Supreme Court has determined actual school segregation is fine, but efforts to remedy it are unconstitutional.
The next LLM trained on data will keep spitting out 34 when asked for a random number, won't it?
Sweet
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Neither member of the Trump-Pence ticket will vote for Trump '24.
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Dear companies. If you have some bad news to disclose, now would be the moment
What many US-based stans of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang aren't aware of is that plenty of impromptu footage of him can be found by following #Taiwan social media and news
๐ง โจ First-ever bilingual brain implant! A stroke survivor can now communicate in both Spanish and English thanks to AI decoding brain signals. A major leap for neuroprosthetics #Innovation #Hope #AIforGood
nature.com/articles/d41586-0โฆ
I am optimistic about the use of AI avatars to provide sign language interpretation and increase access for the hearing impaired.
But I am so weary and so so wary of the current direction of gen AI applied to avatars. We need more women developers.
Tired: "My dog ate my homework"
Wired: "All the facts about Oppenheimer online were about Einstein"
Every time I see news updates like this my mind goes to
Big news โ Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro and Advanced results are out!๐ฅ
- Gemini 1.5 Pro/Advanced at #2, closing in on GPT-4o
- Gemini 1.5 Flash at #9, outperforming Llama-3-70b and nearly reaching GPT-4-0125 (!)
Pro is significantly stronger than its April version. Flashโs cost, capabilities, and unmatched context length make it a market game-changer!
Huge congrats to @GoogleDeepMind on the incredible
Gemini launches! Can't wait to see what new applications Gemini unlocks!
More breakdown analysis below๐
As gen AI tools become more widespread, so will the notion of "probabilistic knowledge"
Not much can be determined for certain using gen AI, other than probabilistic rankings like
P (the U.S. has the most billionaires)
> P (Italy is in the top 10)
> P (Australia is in top 10)
Asking Claude Golden Gate questions is like talking to a very narcissistic person who's reddish gold, tall, and well, a bridge. ๐
This week, we showed how altering internal "features" in our AI, Claude, could change its behavior.
We found a feature that can make Claude focus intensely on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Now, for a limited time, you can chat with Golden Gate Claude: claude.ai
For the 10,000th time, I wish there were more women in tech. I'm so tired of seeing only images of scantily clad young women highlighted as example images on AI image generation sites.
As a reminder, most of the 49ers rushing for gold did not get what they had hoped. Merchants - store owners, innkeepers, etc. catering to prospectors' needs - were more likely to get rich.
This is only a historical observation, apropos of nothing happening currently.
Look, gen AI's output isn't wrong, it's just the answer to a better question than the one you knew to ask with your limited intelligence
It gives you boomerang axes instead of xyz coordinate axes because it's the answer to all those ax throwing places seeking differentiation
Kudos! NASA engineers are the real deal, and they've done it again. Just like with Apollo 11 landing people on the moon with less computing power than a calculator.
Sounding a little more like yourself, #Voyager1.
For the first time since November, Voyager 1 is returning useable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. Next step: Enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again: go.nasa.gov/49PQ6bh
ALT After receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in five months, members of the Voyager flight team celebrate in a conference room at JPL. About 15 members of the team sit around a long conference room and are shown cheering and clapping upon receiving the good news.
Arghhh
I'm "pixel optimizing" (new euphemism for using genAI) with an existing selfie
After a series of prompts, the genAI app has now gone rogue and spit out a pic of me as a man
Putting aside that it's a pretty hot picture, I'm now down to one credit
#firstworldproblems
Prompt: A mostly transparent blue ball that is centered on x, y, and z axes that makes it look like the picture is 3 dimensional. The axes should be labeled x, y, and z
I didn't know the x and z axes were the same. Also, can we make the Xs in the lower right-hand pic into a font?
But my favorite is the lower right-hand pic. Cool beans, it's the YEZA XZZ coordinate system, folks!
