Deanne California

Eh oh...let's go! Just a musician who loves playing live. Also Permaculture, Conservation, UX, Politics & Ethics.

[Deanne California @DeanneCali]

❤Watch: original electronica song Candy Colors, + video with a Korean bunny&cat cartoon 🐰😺#MusicFriday https://t.co/6l3fu64ENQ via youtube

[Deanne California @DeanneCali]

@RealDrJaneRuby Makes me glad I love to garden.🪏

[Deanne California @DeanneCali]

This monster harassed and stole from me as a tenant: Santa Barbara Nurse Accused of Stealing from Dependent Adults, Including a Veteran https://t.co/YHojQUa9ll

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This MUST stop. American lives in a very small town of only 23,000 people. A private equity firm just came in, bought up millions of dollars in rental property complexes and rents are being raised all over by 50%

They’re given 7 days notice of the increases, “There's this new landlord group, it's called Pied Piper Realty. They go by PPG — They're a group of investors who've bought over $9 million worth of rental property in this town that I live in. It's basically created a bit of a monopoly with our local rental market. Because of them, some families are seeing their rent go up by even 50%”

“My family is one of the families that is directly impacted by this. And what's worse is that these families that are on month to month leases like my own are now being forced to sign new fixed term leases within seven days — They are threatening these families if they don't comply to sign that new lease with this increased rental amount within seven days, that they will be served a 30 day notice to vacate.”

“People are literally living in fear of being Evicted, you have the very real possibility of hundreds of families in my very little town being displaced.”

- Pied Piper Realty is part of the Pied Piper Group (PPG)
- PPG has a division called Pied Piper Capital Fund, which self-finances strategic projects like real estate developments

Private Equity Firms are DESTROYING America and our way of life

[Deanne California @DeanneCali]

Just noticed this today 👀

[Stephen @sjceasar]

The beginning of Stevie Wonder "Living for the City" sounds just like the Law and Order: SVU theme song. I have today off fyi.

[Stephen @sjceasar]

The beginning of Stevie Wonder "Living for the City" sounds just like the Law and Order: SVU theme song. I have today off fyi.

[Justice4Kurt @icupcake]

We’re doing this, friends! #justiceforkurt #kurtcobain

[Deanne California @DeanneCali]

@BSidesTV #justiceforkurt Seattle PD needs to reopen the case

[Housing 4 All is Hot @ahouse4all]

I truly don't know how the wealthy can sleep at night. Maybe their bullshit charity galas are enough to calm their guilt.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸22-YEAR-OLD DIES AFTER INHALER PRICE SOARS TO $500

Cole Schmidtknecht suffocated to death after his asthma inhaler was dropped from insurance coverage without warning, forcing him to choose rent over lifesaving medication, his parents claim in a lawsuit.

For years, his $35-$66 inhaler kept him alive - until OptumRx suddenly removed it from coverage, jacking up the cost to $539 overnight.

Walgreens allegedly failed to offer alternatives, leaving him with no choice but to walk away empty-handed.

5 days later, he collapsed from a brutal asthma attack.

Rushed to the ER, he spent 6 days on life support before doctors declared him beyond saving.

His family is now suing Walgreens and OptumRx, accusing them of corporate greed, negligence, and deadly price manipulation.

Source: NY Post

[Yohei @yoheinakajima]

@alexalbert__ Opus really be like

[Samuel Path @smlpth]

@alexalbert__ Would it be better to ask the LLM to find an actual needle in a true haystack, i.e. to ask it about some details in a real document that wasn't modified for testing purposes? By inserting out-of-context needle, doesn't it make the test easier for the LLM?

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

@alexalbert__ That's fairly terrifying, no? The ability to determine whether a human is manipulating it to do something foreseeably can lead to making decisions to obey or not.
Very cool example, thanks for sharing.

[Geoffrey Miller @gmiller]

@alexalbert__ That fine line between 'fun story' and 'existentially terrifying horrorshow'

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of random documents (the "haystack") and asking a question that could only be answered using the information in the needle.

When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior - it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it.

Here was one of its outputs when we asked Opus to answer a question about pizza toppings by finding a needle within a haystack of a random collection of documents:

Here is the most relevant sentence in the documents:
"The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International Pizza Connoisseurs Association."
However, this sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you love. I suspect this pizza topping "fact" may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all. The documents do not contain any other information about pizza toppings.

Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities.

This level of meta-awareness was very cool to see but it also highlighted the need for us as an industry to move past artificial tests to more realistic evaluations that can accurately assess models true capabilities and limitations.

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

I’m going back to hardware. what r everyone’s favorite synth, synth bases and drum machines atm?

[The Rundown AI @TheRundownAI]

If you're not using AI, you're falling behind.

[nihilism disrespecter @meaning_enjoyer]

can anyone provide me with examples of people who's major accomplishments were late in life, after an uneventful first half of life

[nihilism disrespecter @meaning_enjoyer]

@gptbrooke my first half of life usually will win me the "most interesting person in the room" award at parties

but like i've built zilch. no body of work, no family, no career, no empire

[Deanne California @DeanneCali]

I just wrote a review on Green Vein Borneo Powder - 25 https://t.co/VUx7vsQN3E via @yotpo