@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-08-28 22:05:22
It is perhaps not obvious that the way we talk about intelligence tends to employ circular reasoning. Here’s a sketch.
The trouble is that that the word “intelligence” is defined •ostensively•, i.e. by examples instead of by criteria — but we talk about intelligence as if it is some real unified •thing• that underlies all those examples. That leads to circular reasoning like this:
Q: What is intelligence?
A: It is the characteristics exhibited by intelligent beings, such as [examples of intelligence go here].
Q: And what are intelligent beings?
A: Beings which exhibit intelligence.
Q: And what is intelligence?
…[stack overflow]…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-06-28 09:00:17
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-07-30 14:08:40
I left a comment last week on Smashing’s “Design Patterns For AI Interfaces” (which is still in moderation):
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/design-patterns-ai-interfaces/
Essentially, if your UI doesn’t also try to prevent harm then it might …
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-28 13:27:55
As if overburdened CISOs don't have enough challenges, they also face a central problem in their organizations: their peers don't really know what they do.
Check out my latest CSO piece on this stumbling block and how CISOs can communicate their missions to colleagues.
Thanks to Andy Ellis, Bethany De Lude, Susan Chiang, and Omar Khawaja for their insights.
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-29 08:59:01
MINERVA: A NIRCam Medium Band and MIRI Imaging Survey to Unlock the Hidden Gems of the Distant Universe
Adam Muzzin, Katherine A. Suess, Danilo Marchesini, Luke Robbins, Chris J. Willott, Stacey Alberts, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, Yoshihisa Asada, Gabriel Brammer, Sam E. Cutler, Kartheik G. Iyer, Ivo Labbe, Nicholas S. Martis, Tim B. Miller, Ikki Mitsuhashi, Alexandra Pope, Anna Sajina, Ghassan T. E. Sarrouh, Monu Sharma, Mauro Stefanon, Katherine E. Whitaker, Roberto Abraham, Hakim Atek,…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-22 15:39:35
Cowboys' Micah Parsons to get overpaid extension if he abides by Jerry Jones' demands https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-micah-parsons-get-overpaid-ex…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-07-25 03:00:14
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-24 23:22:55
News companies have been warned of a “devastating impact” on online audiences
as search results are replaced by AI summaries,
after a new study claimed it caused up to 80% fewer clickthroughs.
https://www.thegu…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-06-20 22:00:20
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
