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If you want a rigorous analysis of why statistical #AI models collapse when continuously trained on their own data without external supervision and constraints, read this amazing paper from last year.

If you want to get a visual intuition of how model collapse looks like, look at this video.

When AI stares at its own reflection for too long, and its inference is purely rooted on statistics rather than reasoning, this becomes statistically inevitable.

Keep this in mind whenever you hear someone talking about โ€œAI models learning from their own outputsโ€ without addressing the statistical parrot issue.

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature

ย Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data fromย the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality outโ€ฆ
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posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

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20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

Hereโ€™s how Apple โ€œPermanentlyโ€ locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure. After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer, authoring technical books on Appleโ€™s own programming languages (Objective-C and Swift), and spending tens upon tenโ€ฆ
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison (hey.paris)
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DG1JAN ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

@rowan btw. If you have a second look, I also host my public project at #codeberg and I'm running a private Forgejo instance for my own stuff.

I don't consider mastodon as important, so no need for self hosting. Prefer to support the radiosocial admin directly.

#codeberg @eli (หˆeฬหli), vampire kitsune

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elisp nonsense

I've been playing around with keymaps. Apparently they can be used to create menus that give the user a visual list of options. The canonical way to make them is aparently with make-sparse-keymap to create the menu and define-key to add options to it, but this causes some confusing behaviour.

Take the following example:

(let ((menu (make-sparse-keymap "My menu")))
  (define-key menu "a"
    '(menu-item "Foo" foo))
  (define-key menu "b"
    '(menu-item "Bar" bar))
  menu)

Yields the following:
(keymap (98 menu-item "Bar" bar) (97 menu-item "Foo" foo) "My menu")

Each new entry is added to the top of the list, so when the menu is displayed, they're listed in reverse order. This is very counter intuitive.

Now, I understand that the nature of lists in lisp make inserting an element at the top of the list less computationally expensive, but when you've already got to walk the whole list anyway to ensure the key binding isn't already present, this no longer feels like an adequate excuse.

Am I missing something?

#emacs #elisp

#emacs #elisp

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I virtually never set custom keybindings in #Emacs preferring instead to rely on M-x function calls because I had such a hard time finding key sequences that weren't used by something else. Since learning that C-c /[A-Za-z]/ is reserved for user-defined keybindings, I've gone mad with power.
#emacs

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#PSA: Calling someone cringe is cringe.

Just let folx like stuff :floofPlead:

Don't try to blow out someone else's candle because yours is dim.

#PSA

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nerdy computer stuff

I've long known that certain ASCII control sequences could be mimicked by holding control and pressing a key, e.g.: backspace is CTRL-H, newline is CTRL-J, but I was today years old when I learned that the ASCII control code is just the ASCII value of the key being pressed along with control bitwise and-ed with 0x1f.

It feels weird that I hadn't caught onto this sooner.

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more venting

Welp, it looks like our Instacart account is probably cooked. We need to find a replacement for that income quickly.

Fortunately, we were already in the process of trying to do that because of the wear and tear it was putting on the car. I have a few irons in the fire, but nothing concrete yet. We need something we can do on an on-demand basis so that we can work when our mental health permits.

I'm notoriously bad at interviewing for jobs. It always involves some element of exaggerating the truth (a.k.a. lying) which I suck at. It turns out for instance that the honest answer to "why do you want to work here?" (so I don't starve and end up homeless) isn't a good answer. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

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venting about the medical system in Ontario (vague for privacy reasons)

My partner has been dealing with $condition for a very long time. In that time we have tried many therapies and medications without much success. We have found $medication_a which actually helps, but causes $side_effect which is not sustainable. Fortunately, we've found $medication_b which makes $side_effect tolerable.

She's been on a waiting list to see a specialist for a while and finally had her first appointment today. After a single 30 minute appointment, his solution was to increase $medication_a while completely stopping $medication_b. When she objected about $side_effect (which she'd already told him was the reason for $medication_b) he said to just do $obvious_thing as though we hadn't tried that already.

What's worse is that he faxed the order to our pharmacy canceling her previous prescriptions.

Of course, I am not a doctor but what the hell is this guy thinking??

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Long-winded post about Emacs and gripe about modern computing

I think I've been able to pin down what it is that I like about #Emacs so much. When I first started using computers, I was using a TRS-80. If you didn't have a cartridge inserted, It'd boot directly into BASIC where you could program the machine directly. That wasn't a bug, it was a feature.

Modern computing seems to do its best to hide all that stuff away. Everything is treated more like a simple (albeit specialized) appliance, not a powerful machine that can be made to do literally anything you want. Instead, it's about what the various software vendors want it to do.

Emacs by contrast not only gives you all the tools you need to modify it in any way you want, but actively encourages you to do so. It feels a lot more like the computing systems of old. Perhaps that's not for everyone. There's a reason computers were so niche back in the early days. Most people just didn't care to learn what was going on under the hood, and that's valid. There's something to be said for a tool that just works effortlessly out of the box. Also, to be clear, you don't strictly speaking need to dig into the internals to use Emacs, but I prefer for my technology to serve me, and I'm willing to put the effort in to make that happen.

That's why it's a good fit for me.

#emacs

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Welp, I guess it's finally time to retire my jacket. I keep fixing it and it keeps tearing in other places. I got four years out of it, which isn't terrible by modern standards, I suppose.

It turns out they still sell that exact same style of jacket, so maybe Santa will be nice to me this Christmas. In the meantime, I'll just have to fall back on my older coat and just layer sweaters and such underneath.

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I use a giant #org-mode repisitory to keep myself organized. I synchronize this repisitory between multiple devices using #git because occasionally I'll find myself out without an internet connection and it's useful for merging when they fall out of sync.

To that end, I frequently find myself issuing the command git commit -am stuff, which makes me feel kind of dirty, but it's just the easiest thing to do.

Luckily no one but me will ever see this repisitory.

#VersionControlCrimes

#git #org-mode #VersionControlCrimes

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So I cancelled my YouTube Music subscription a while back. Interestingly enough, it still works without a paid subscription; they just add anti-features (i.e.: a ton of ads and the inability to navigate away from the app without stopping the music).

As it turns out, all these anti-features go away if you use it through a browser with an ad-blocker. I wonder how long it'll take them to lock that down.

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Zenie

You could try package-build-create-recipe
It will need to be filled in, but if your headers are correct, with author, packages-required, version, etc.

Edit the recipe for your git. You'll be in recipe mode.
Saving it puts it in .../elpa/recipes/
Building it with C-c C-c will make a package and install it in your elpa..

That might teach you what you need.

It will automatically pick up .el and .texi files.
Not eld, but if you have some odd file, you can add the pattern to the recipe. I have an eld which is not in the list of automatic files.

See the contributing doc at GitHub Melpa.

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We've all heard the tale of how to own a Nazi bar, i'm fairly sure.

I was drumming up interest in a local board game group i really enjoy, on my local queer Discord server. I got some interest.

Someone on the board games group's server asked "why did you make a point about us being queer friendly?" Not rudely, just curious.

"Because a lot of community groups are invisibly closed to us. We daren't reveal ourselves because of antipathy to queer folk. This place doesn't do that, at all. So i tell people it's safe, and they feel more comfy coming along."

Someone said, "Oh, so it's like the Nazi bar story, only good." I thought for a moment, and they're right. Sort of. Because unlike Nazis, queer folk aren't an invasive species. We don't push people out. Assholes just self-select choosing not to be associated with a bar that's queer-friendly.

Which is fine, system working as designed.

So...how do we tell the tale of the Queer-friendly bar, and the positive feedback loop that can occur when a business is explicitly friendly to queer folk?

Cause I think that could be a simple, true, and effective point about the great difference between choosing to be nice to Nazis instead of queer folk. Or vice versa, being nice to queers and bum-rushing the Nazis.

The Nazi Bar story is one we all know. Anyone got a proposal for how to do a good tale of how the bar got so lively? "Oh, I bought a drink for this gay fella once, and soon there were loads. But they're great guys, and if ya tell them no, they stop bugging ya, which is giving me weird feelings about how I treat women. And we get a lot fewer assholes, too."

Someone? Got a seed for the good story lurking here? I wanna make us some rippin' good properganda.

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I just accidentally dropped my Jinhao 10 #FountainPen and bent the nib slightly (at least it wasn't an expensive pen, right?).

I did my best to bend it back into shape by hand and oddly enough, I kind of like the way it writes now better than before.

#fountainpen

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It's been brought to my attention that while #BuyNothing groups are pretty useful, they tend to exist mainly on Facebook. It'd be nice to have such a group for #WaterlooRegion here on the fedi as well.

I'd be happy to set one up, but if there's one that already exists, I'd rather use that than start from scratch. Is anyone aware of such a group here?

#KWAwesome #WRAwesome #Kitchener #Waterloo #Cambridge #Guelph

#Cambridge #Waterloo #waterlooregion #kitchener #wrawesome #kwawesome #guelph #BuyNothing
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Mark Connolly ๐Ÿป ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ (he, him, his)

FWIW, while Iโ€™m not what a # BuyNothing group talks about, the local KW Techs Slack team has a # buylocalandcanadian channel that has great recommendations for local and more-broadly Canadian products, and is focused mainly on independent businesses. It's a great resource, though obviously not fediverse.

Also FWIW, Iโ€™d love to see something similar here.

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A comic that I will think about every day for the rest of my life, probably.

(Sauce: analognowhere.com/_/ogmxha/ )

wisdom of the pentium-m man

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