Jeremy Kahn / is on Nostr

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

#WestSeattle #Duwamish unceded land

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2024-09-02 17:24:38

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@npub17nm…dm57
I want this to be deeply-sophisticated unreliable-narrator ambient-storytelling pedagogy, where the student gradually comes to distrust the teacher completely

2024-08-14 13:35:39

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@npub1upk…tcwy
Bought one right away!
Please don't rush mailing mine; I'm traveling through the end of the month.
I think I'm gonna frame it for my home office 😆

2024-05-27 01:36:45

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@npub1rkt…sqek
It still blows my mind that our ex-football-player cop-loving mayor of Seattle is on this list

2024-04-16 04:28:29

Holy cow, Ed Zitron can write about the careening rolling disaster that is the useful knowledge of the web being rendered useless by the glue-factories of modern search
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/

2024-04-11 06:16:45

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But Tom Swift, especially in this second series, invents frickin everything with a nuclear reactor built in.
If he has a car, it's a nuclear-reactor-powered car. If it's a telescope, it's got radio beacons powered by plutonium.
Nuclear powered flashlights. Nuclear powered personal submarines.
2/n

2024-04-11 06:14:51

You know what the current hits for "let's let an LLM do it!" really reminds me of? I just saw it!
1950s Tom Swift stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_Jr.
I read the hell out of these during 1980s (no Internet!) summer visits to a small town where the best entertainment was the one-room public library and you could check out a book by telling the librarian which cottage you were staying in.
1/n

2024-01-14 19:10:22

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@npub1mdk…aptk
The modern crop is all built on stolen valor ("foundation models" that have scraped the whole Internet)
It's hard to match their slickness with the older, honest stuff
@npub1hzx…r4fr

2024-01-14 18:57:41

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@npub1hzx…r4fr
I've said before on this federated microbloggy network thingy
I'm maaaad that the most _fun_ application of LLMs — zany weird lateral thinking tools like a tarot deck or Oblique Strategies on steroids — has been torn from my hands and replaced with something that carefully generates banal spongecake content guaranteed not to surprise anyone
https://trochee.net/samyro/
@npub1mdk…aptk

2023-11-20 16:32:47

You know, Ilya and Sam could have just announced a "no meetings week" over Thanksgiving break and we could have waited until after the holiday for all this

2023-10-28 12:17:01

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@npub1ag0…jh3z @npub1psd…9sr7
I have one of these too, that I used for a year of commuting across the metro area (chargers available at work) before the lockdowns
Now that I work from home I use it for short distance errands and taking kid to school/sports
But I'd have to pay upwards of $10k to replace the battery, and the range would still be terrible
I want to replace it (eventually) with a 2-seater micro-car with better range, but US doesn't seem to sell those anywhere

2023-10-21 03:25:23

Duo, you okay?
https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/111/270/864/962/588/200/original/cd31599558b480e7.png

2023-10-04 07:24:40

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1pp6…tyku
That's how the US got an income tax
To the oligarchs, the income tax was far less scary than the guillotine

2023-08-11 22:59:01

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@npub1mdk…aptk that's not a third party that's a Republican vote split

2023-08-02 16:17:24

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@npub1mdk…aptk this would be helpful to make a follow-back decision too