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@nafnlaus.bsky.social
The horticultural equivalent of "WARNING: Coffee is hot! Do not pour on lap!"
It's easy to focus on the human aspect of a disaster and forget nature.
Iceland is the breeding ground of large numbers of migratory ground-nesting birds. Photographer Kjartan Þorbjörnsson watched as these eider ducks lost their nest to the lava flow, but refused to abandon it & stayed by the flow.
Djöfull, nú vil ég að Katrín sigri heldur en Halla Tómasdóttir...
www.visir.is/g/2024257873...
Vil samt helst Baldur, og svo Halla Hrund (meðal þeirra sem hafa þá möguleika á að sigra)
Ólík sýn á hvort Íslandi eigi að styðja vörn Úkraínumanna - Vísir
Efstu frambjóðendur í skoðanakönnunum fyrir forsetakosningarnar voru ekki á einu máli um hvort rétt væri af Íslandi að styðja Úkraínumenn í vörn þeirra gegn innrás Rússa í kappræðum RÚV í kvöld. Halla...
www.visir.isMan they're still sending these out trying to rally retail around Elon? Wonder if the vote isn't going the way they were hoping...
The buried news of the evening: the US will now let Ukraine do counter-battery strikes (but not long-range ATACMS strikes 🤦♀️) into Russia.
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
GMLRS attacks against Russian artillery, Lancet teams, etc etc inside Russia is now a go. But RU airfields are still safe. 🤦♀️
Biden changes stance to allow Ukraine to fire US-supplied weapons into Russia
US official says policy change relates to ‘counter-fire purposes’ and prohibits long-range attacks inside of Russia
www.theguardian.com
Who uses LLMs? TL/DR: Zoomers love them, Boomers hate them.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-does-pu...
Volcano status update: The eruption has reduced from 2000 to "only" 30-50 m³/s and steadied, with most flows near the old crater. Should help minimize further damage; Suðurstrandarvegur is probably once again spared, along with the US naval comm centre that looked doomed. Road damage is extensive.
Was playing around with unCLIPConditioning for the first time today, and I have to say, I wish I had messed with this sooner. What a neat tool :)
Here's images of people looking into the distance during a rainbow sunset, conditioned with an image of the drummer from Hatari ;)
While I was driving home and then spreading fertilizer, the eruption has shifted northward. Good news; less threat to Grindavík and the last road leading to it (Suðurstrandarvegur).
The eruption peaked at a massive 1,5-2k m^3/s and has started declining.
Two of the three ways into Grindavík have been flowed over. It is possible (though not certain) that the third - Suðurstrandarvegur - gets overflown this evening.
The live video stream on Rás 2 has been impressive today.
www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...
The encroachment against the US naval comm centre continues live. The camera occasionally pans to brown groundwater explosions north of town and overflown roads. Interviewed guests are... not optimistic.
Sprengingar og svartur reykur eftir að kvika komst í grunnvatn - RÚV.is
Eldgos hófst norðaustan við Sýlingafell um korter fyrir eitt á hádegi.Áköf jarðskjálftahrina var á Sundhnúksgígaröðinni frá því skömmu fyrir ellefu í morgun.Grindavík, Bláa lónið og orkuverið í Svarts...
www.ruv.isAt work people have the TV tuned in to watch as the lava reaches the (minimal) defences around a US naval communication centre. There's not much expectation it will survive.
* Lava has reached the Grindavík berms
* The attempts to protect Grindavík's power line appear to have failed, as the poles are now visibly on fire.
According to geophysicist Magnús Túmi, the current eruption appears to be the largest in the sequence thusfar, and has now reached 3,2-3,4km in length.
While it started more northerly than the last eruption, the focus has shifted more southward.
* Power is out in Grindavík
* The lava has flown over Grindavíkurvegur. Again. Already.
* Estimated flow rates are ~1000 m3/s, quite high.
While the current outbreak point is further north, the dike is said to be getting closer to Grindavík. Emergency personnel in the town are warned to be ready to evacuate the town at a moment's notice.
Eruption fissure appears to be about 1km long. Roughly similar in location to the last one (maybe a touch further NNE?). Lava fountaining dramatically, looks like good volume - quite visible from Reykjanesbraut.
Unbelievably nonsensical valuation. And I say this as someone who trains LLMs.
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI raised $6 billion in series B funding, for a post-money valuation of $24 billion, as investors bet on challengers to firms like OpenAI. Investors including Andreessen Horowitz + Sequoia Capital backed the funding round.
Elon Musk's xAI valued at $24 bln after fresh funding
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI raised $6 billion in series B funding, reaching a post-money valuation of $24 billion as investors bet big on challengers to companies like OpenAI in the intensifying AI race.
www.reuters.com
This was not the song I planned to make/release next, but since the song I've been working on has been delayed waiting for #Ukrainian pronunciation review and its music video, this one called...
"All Happy Families"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVs...
All Happy Families
I wasn't planning to mix a track about Annie Altman (Sam Altman's sister). I've been working on a different one, but it's bogged down a bit waiting on a revi...
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So no, OpenAI wasn't lying about not copying Scarlett Johannson's voice.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...
(I still don't believe the casting choice to go with a voice actress candidate who sounded similar to her was a coincidence, though, even if it wasn't officially cast as such)
Next, we teach the crows to code in Lisp.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Can crows solve Bellman equations" is perhaps a bit far but...
📉📈
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This here IMHO is the actual problem with Google's "AI results" RAG summary. They *directly tasked it* to trust top results from an internet search & repeat them with confidence.
It matters to the searcher whether the top result is from e.g. nature.com vs. from theonion.com. But not to the summary.
“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet.”
AI search results: what if I did tho
Me after the 263rd time in the day that someone mixes up RAG summarization and direct AI answers of queries.
ht/Sigurður Ringsted
You almost feel sorry for it. They've basically programmed in a brainworm. ;)
www.anthropic.com/news/golden-...
Kudos to Anthropic for their continued work on deciphering how LLMs "think", and also, their demo amuses me ;)
www.anthropic.com/news/golden-...
Kudos to Anthropic for their continued work on deciphering how LLMs "think", and also, their demo amuses me ;)
In the Russian propaganda circus, Solovyov is the star clown.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAa-...
I don't think people have yet thought through the consequences of a GDPR-like law based around training data.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
With GDPR, it was sufficient to restrict users by IP. But "internet text and images" bounce around between servers unrelated to the geolocation of the user.
Europe sets benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws
Europe's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a technology used in business and everyday life.
www.reuters.comA pox on both Likud and Hamas.
OK this is HUGE - ICC Prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders AND Israeli leaders - Netanyahu and Gallant. War crimes/crimes against humanity charges.
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of Palestine
Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine. Image ICC Prosecutor Khan on applicatio...
www.icc-cpi.int
Parrot has spoken, I'm not allowed to edit music today. ;) (As soon as I try, he starts trying to play with my headphones. ;) )
Питання до українців: коли я слухаю людей, які читають «Заповіт» (наприклад: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bevo...), «умру» звучить як «умуру», а «порвіте» звучить як «поривіте". Що це за правило вимови?
#Ukrainian #Language
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Питання до українців: коли я слухаю людей, які читають «Заповіт» (наприклад: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bevo...), «умру» звучить як «умуру», а «порвіте» звучить як «поривіте". Що це за правило вимови?
#Ukrainian #Language
Тарас Шевченко "Як умру, то поховайте" (ЗАПОВІТ) Аудіо вірш
Аудіовірш "Заповіт (Як умру, то поховайте)" Тараса Шевченка Слухати вірш "Як умру, поховайте" варто, щоб проникнутися його настроєм, зрозуміти мотиви.Додатко...
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These are the sort of ads that The Economist is running on my Facebook feed.
Exactly why is The Economist even covering this sort of topic at all, let alone creating availability bias on the topic, let alone advertising their availability bias-creating tripe? The *best case* scenario is ragebait.
In case it's appearance wasn't already divisive enough, let me introduce you to...
Mastodon to Bluesky works (but watch those character limits!) :)
Testing Bridgy (https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/fediverse-bluesky-bridge/) from the Mastodon side. :)
TL/DR:
Follow @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky if you want your Bluesky account to show up on Mastodon
Follow @bsky.brid.gy on Mastodon if you want your Mastodon account to show up on Bluesky.
Bluesky a…
Bluesky skeets showing up on Mastodon - this is cool :)
Testing bridgy (wedistribute.org/2024/05/fedi...) from the Bluesky side. :)
(TL/DR: follow @ap.brid.gy on Bluesky if you want your Bluesky account to show up on Mastodon, follow @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy on Mastodon if you want your Mastodon account to show up on Bluesky)
Testing bridgy (wedistribute.org/2024/05/fedi...) from the Bluesky side. :)
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So, TL/DR: Tesla is cutting 20% of its workforce to save money, but also spending money by paying Musk to advertize to Tesla shareholders on Twitter to vote to give Musk $55B in stock.
electrek.co/2024/05/13/t...
Man, I can't tell why the judge ruled that the board wasn't independent!
Tesla now spends ad money to influence shareholders approval of Elon Musk's $55B payday
Tesla has now disclosed that it is spending money to promote its shareholders vote to approve of Elon Musk’s $55...
electrek.co