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[Foster @foster_type]

This is such unbelievable horseshit. Not a minor. Not a private conversation. No evidence they are 'trolls'. Not even any evidence the guy considers them "mistakes" or any suggestion he feels any contrition at all. Shit said by a 25 year old on a public forum whose job is to make justiciable recommendations about funding and employment for the United States government. Let him go work at the Musk company he did until two weeks ago.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

I've spent hours experimenting with using multiple large language models (LLMs) such as Bard AI, GPT-4, GPT-3.5 and Bing AI for academic research.

They're extremely powerful but with some very painful pitfalls.

Here's my guide to using LLMs as your personal research assistant:

[voidstar @postfantastical]

@ChuBailiang Larger point taken that the terms were absent and then restored, and that their use is couched in a way that lends them discordant nuances that weren't there before. I just mean to say that it felt like I was reading two articles that weren't aware of one another put together

[voidstar @postfantastical]

@ChuBailiang As a reader, it was fairly jarring to read an article whose thesis seems to hang on the phrases "strategic opportunity" and "peace and development" being in neither the speech nor the report, only for the next paragraph to describe how the two phrases appear in the report.

[voidstar @postfantastical]

It seems pretty clear that nullification has been tried before and, uh, isn't a thing you can do? https://t.co/uOwFE02SeH . Bill source: https://t.co/v1sBiQVe88 /end

[voidstar @postfantastical]

Louisiana HB 813, among all the other insane provisions it contains (chiefly defining abortion as murder without exception from the moment of fertilization), says it invalidates all federal laws and judicial decisions that would contradict it /1

[voidstar @postfantastical]

LA HB 813 also states that any judge within the state who would issue a ruling preventing implementation of the law is subject to impeachment and removal. I have no idea what the LA state political numbers are as far as whether this bill could actually pass, but.. /2

[voidstar @postfantastical]

@hankgreen Totally agree w/ your sentiment that we shouldn't be refusing to play/hear Russian music. But also that's not what they're doing. In the article the dir points out they still plan on an upcoming concert w/ Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Rimsky-Korsakov, & Tchaikovsky is a fav of his

[voidstar @postfantastical]

@bibebananajam @Avidskier391 @NPRKelly @ashishkjha Good point, I hadn't noticed that. I ordered some a few weeks ago and got them within a few days, but it looks like that has changed. I also see a pretty long delivery time now if I were to order more (not to mention the still-high price, can't get very many at $17 a piece).

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

Good afternoon.

Dr. King was an anti-war, anti-capitalist justice seeker who rejected poverty, racism, militarism and the death penalty.

[voidstar @postfantastical]

"We posit that if even a small fraction of the millions of dollars that are invested into training language models were instead put into collecting better training data, significant progress could be made to mitigate language models’ harmful side effects." https://t.co/HHiC6qz6ni

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Lots of people are rediscovering and re-sharing this post this morning, so I’m putting it again here.

Listen to @esglaude. Really take in his words.

The work we have ahead of us is deep, and transcends elections. It always has been. And we are called to do it.

[Carli Brosseau @carlibrosseau]

Earlier today, I attended the “I Am Change” march in Graham, which was supposed to end at the polls. At least a dozen people were arrested, and the crowd was repeatedly pepper sprayed. #ncpol 1/

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)

[voidstar @postfantastical]

@JoshDean00 The internet feels your pain (2 years old, but could just as well have been today). https://t.co/ySQStoB8s7

[voidstar @postfantastical]

@EvanStewart23 We had the odd situation of our governor making a similar announcement without having informed the universities first.

[voidstar @postfantastical]

Lots to get done today. Soundtrack is Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances (which are weirdly metal and amazing) followed by Tchaikovsky. I usually go for Symphonies 5 and 6 (one of my favorite pieces of music), so trying new today and going for Symphony 4 first.

[voidstar @postfantastical]

@EvanStewart23 That's amazing. Also, my whiteboard markers going dry makes me crazy.

[vicki @vboykis]

Baby: Sleeping
Sleeping
Sleeping
Sleeping
Sleeping
Sleeping
Sleeping
Me: He’s still sleeping?! Maybe I can finally get back to writing some code
*opens up PyCharm*
*types ‘def’*
Baby: Aaaaaaaaa