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@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-06-18 20:25:48

“Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?”
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/why-d
In the example, you have Google engine…

Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?
For some people, it seems, AI is an amazing machine which - while fallible - represents an incredible leap forward in productivity. For other people, it seems, AI is wrong more often than right and - although occasionally useful - requires constant supervision. Who is right? I recently pointed out a few common problems with LLMs. I was discussing this with someone relatively senior who works…

@anneroth@systemli.social
2025-06-19 11:07:57

Der MDR verlässt X/Twitter, aber nicht, weil es damit ein Problem gäbe, sondern weil es bei Meta und LinkedIn mehr Reichweite gibt.
Bitter, denn mind. Meta (Insta, FB, Threads) ist ja ähnlich schlimm.

Tweet von MDR Aktuell, vor 21 Stunden: Wir fokussieren uns publizistisch bei Social Media auf andere Plattformen, weil diese mehr Relevanz und Reichweite haben. Das ist auch eine Frage von Ressourcen, die uns zur Verfügung stehen. X wird laut ARD/ZDF-Onlinestudie 2024 nur noch von 4 % der Deutschen täglich genutzt.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-07-18 15:34:37

As we're getting more into hikes around our new home – and I record tracks of them to also improve #openstreetmap – I've made a #wanderer profile at @… to share some nice trails.
It's an open source trail/track sharing platform that's federated thanks to #ActivityPub, so if you can read this post, you can follow my profile there too!*
* that is except you read this through the bridge to BlueSky, then you're out of luck and should give the actual Fediverse another try 😉

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2025-06-19 05:07:25

Seems to be a rather complicated way of saying „we don‘t want no foreign students no more“ …
New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
Diplomats to look for ‘indications of hostility towards citizens, culture or founding principles of United States’

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-19 08:08:47

"New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts. For example the first computers in the 1940s and 1950s, often little more than glorified electric adding machines, were nevertheless described as “electronic brains”. More recently, large language models (LLMs) have been touted as “artificial intelligence”, and complex physics experiments have been touted as …

Marcel Waldvogel (@marcel@waldvogel.family)
Earlier this week, Peter Gutmann and @sten@chaos.social published a bombshell paper: The looked at all the reported factorization "breakthroughs" in quantum computing. And found that all of them essentially were magician's tricks, "sleight of hand". The two reconstructed the algorithms used on a 1981 home computer (a million times less powerful than what you hold in your hand now), an #Abacus and with a #dog. #VIC20 #VC20 https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-07-18 14:56:10

WHAT THE FUUUU... I had to triple check that this was actually real... Jesus, Mary & Joseph.
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uzu6z

@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-06-19 12:38:57

Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) posted about an analysis done by David R. Hagen related to his "missing 11th" comic. Great read, which includes some nice statistical analysis, but more interestingly, bias and artifacts.
bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com/post

image/png a "calendar of meaningful dates" is shown with the day for each month varying in size. From XKCD comics by Russell Monroe CC-BY-NC.

Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com)
David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-20 02:41:00

ICE agents say posting names endangers them, Nashville mayor says real problem is masking (Karen Aguilar/WZTV)
fox17.com/news/local/ice-agent
memeorandum.com/250619/p122#a2

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-19 10:35:57

Fascinating technology. I always thought the impulse engine was just a clever piston doodad that transfers momentum from an artificial gravity pocket 😃
Impulse engine | Memory Alpha | #StarTrek

Impulse engine
An impulse engine or impulse drive was a common propulsion system used on starships used to create impulse power in order to achieve impulse speeds. In Federation starships, the impulse drive was essentially an augmented fusion rocket, usually consisting of one or more fusion reactors, a driver coil assembly, and a vectored thrust nozzle to direct the plasma exhaust. The fusion reaction generated a highly energized plasma. This plasma, ("electro-plasma") could be employed for propulsion, or...

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-19 05:49:57

Lower exposure video shows the detonation more clearly
and also shows a r ank farm (visible on the right.)
bsky.app/profile/punkey.org/po

Kasey Kagawa (@punkey.org)
Lower exposure video shows both the detonation more clearly but also shows all the shit that SpaceX just placed willy-nilly around the pad where they *fire rockets to see if they're safe or might explode*. Tank farm is visible on the right.