aidan

Move slow and fix things.
Software Engineer, MLOps, AI Ethics

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[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

@oasis Wow. We really did get the oasis reunion before gta 6

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Wes Streeting very very nearly lost to @LeanneMohamad, an independent British Palestinian candidate standing against Israel’s genocide - and for an alternative to Tory policies.

Labour presumed this seat was a walkover.

Just look at this!

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

My highest ever finish. 6th
My highest ever parliamentary vote. 308
My highest height advantage. 2ft 6in
#BindependenceDay has come.

[Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel]

Errrr, I would suggest that using ChatGPT to get data and analysis about the election that you’re then explaining on a live TV show is… not smart

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Made it.
#GeneralElection2024

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.

[Akshat Rathi @AkshatRathi]

2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.

2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.

Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.

Story with @dinabass: https://t.co/TP8e9BPvNL

[Kyle Corbitt @corbtt]

Spoke to a Microsoft engineer on the GPT-6 training cluster project. He kvetched about the pain they're having provisioning infiniband-class links between GPUs in different regions.

Me: "why not just colocate the cluster in one region?"
Him: "Oh yeah we tried that first. We can't put more than 100K H100s in a single state without bringing down the power grid." 🤯

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

This is precisely what statisticians used to say. "If you can predict well the next data point, they you understand the reality or the process that generates that point". They said it and said it until Causal Inference proved them wrong. Understanding takes more than prediction. #Bookofwhy

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?

The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.

Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.

In short, they said:

It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.

This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:

“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”

The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership.

Don’t take my word for it.

You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am.

They must all resign in disgrace.

If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.

Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world?

Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context.

To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.

On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing.

It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.

If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.

[Morgan Herlocker @morganherlocker]

Notified today that my insulin pump controller has a bug where the leading decimal point will be dropped, ie: changing a dose of .21 units to 21 units. I can reproduce randomly ~1 in 5 times so probably a race condition. Easily one of the worst software bugs I have ever heard of.

[Nanjala Nyabola @Nanjala1]

Half of the journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last three weeks. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, this is the highest fatality rate for journalists in any conflict in history.

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

This, from @ClimateSciBreak is just…perfect. Watch the full clip, you won’t be disappointed. 🧑‍🍳

[Jan Boon @kaetemi]

@mechanical_monk The year is 2038. Instead of solving any housing problems, we've spent all of our resources on building a giant machine, occupying several massive datacenters, that is capable of writing a plausible critical blog article about whether or not there is in fact a housing problem.

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

THIS IS A SCAM

'We are in a dangerous dystopian future.'

Scammers are using an AI–generated 'deepfake' video of @MartinSLewis to convince victims to part with their money.

Martin has warned lives could be ruined unless this is stopped.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

WARNING. THIS IS A SCAM BY CRIMINALS TRYING TO STEAL MONEY. PLS SHARE.

This is frightening, it's the first deep fake video scam I've seen with me in it. Govt & regulators must step up to stop big tech publishing such dangerous fakes. People'll lose money and it'll ruin lives.

[Leonardo @Leonardonclt]

🚨Generative AI has a serious problem with bias🚨

Over months of reporting, @dinabass and I looked at thousands of images from @StableDiffusion and found that text-to-image AI takes gender and racial stereotypes to extremes worse than in the real world.
🧵 1/13

[Mark Riedl @mark_riedl]

OpenAI: please regulate us

EU: okay

OpenAI: not like that

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

My brain is leaking out of my ears. What the fuck did I just read. This is not how laws, or policing, or morality, or epistemology, or “AI”, or anything works.