Analytics+Data Viz+FOSS Geek // MCR 🐝 // Data Solutions Architect @ Jisc // Partner @ Cetis LLP. Mastodon: @scottbw@social.targaryen.house
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the one software engineer at your company who actually understands the legacy code
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A new paper in Nature found that you cannot, in fact, train AIs on AI-generated data and expect them to continue improving.
What happens is actually that the model collapses and ends up producing nonsense.
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👀Claude handles an insane request:
“Remove the squid”
“The document appears to be the full text of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It doesn't contain any mention of squid that I can see.”
“Figure out a way to remove the 🦑“
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Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers:
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Wow. This is...profound. Google has become so #enshittified that limiting your searches to results before 2023 results in much higher quality results. @doctorow was right.
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Do I know any good freelance data viz folk? Relatively small bounded brief
Fab day with @PraxisAuril. Its always a pleasure to deliver the open source part of the software commercialisation course!
Its going to take me a while, but eventually I'll block every single blue tick account that's trying to monetise pissing me off.
enjoying #starfield but feel I would be enjoying it a lot more if it was actually an #expanse game
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Still nearly 30% of the country planning to vote Tory as their child’s school collapses into a river of shit
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Enid Blyton's work grew increasingly dark in her later years. news.sky.com/story/five-arre…
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Two things:
1. All Mastodon accounts are also RSS feeds by default using this format:
[domain]/@[account].rss
2. The Mac/iOS RSS reader I’ve been using for — *checks notes* — nearly 20 years now (Google Reader who?) is free: netnewswire.com
Do with this what you will.
'Where you off to?'
'Ssssssss...'
'Shipley? Aye, platform 5'
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#uxfail filling in a form that insists on using a calendar widget (no text entry allowed) to enter a date of birth. Took 500 taps to get back to the 1970s!
