Tootfinder

Molmo (https://molmo.allenai.org/) might have its talents and a place, but reasoning is not one of them

Molmo by Ai2
Multimodal Open Language Model built by Ai2

Was mich an der Sache noch besonders abfuckt … die minderjährige Tochter des Fahrzeugführers war mit im Auto. Nicht nur ein Leben zerstört, sondern auch noch dem eigenen Kind ein Trauma verpasst. Wie kann man sich so sehr nicht im Griff haben, als erwachsene Person?
https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/1…

“Caro lettore, se mai ti venisse in mente di contrastare la legge divina del bullismo o del mobbing, farai la fine di Balzano”
#eancheoggibloccounpo #malattiamentale

🇬🇧 Hi, I'm Tomasz! Hello everyone from https://infosec.exchange! I moved here from my private instance https://mastodon.tomaszdunia.pl/@to3k

Pondering insignificance.
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#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

/Edit: CORRECTED -- See below -- success!
Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash have been improved and made cheaper (as of Oct 7 -- why not now?) but Flash (aka plain Gemini) still confidently gets the 99% to 98% blue marble question wrong: https://g.co/gemini/share/8fce52c9639c
(Pro/Advanced h…

NYPD: Mass Shooters
It's time for another reckoning with police
by JOSHUA P. HILL
SEP 16
#NYPD

NYPD: Mass Shooters
It's time for another reckoning with police

Wann plant ihr eigentlich zu beweisen, dass es nichts mit Rassismus zu tun hat, wenn schwarze Frauen viel häufiger eine Schwangerschaft nicht überleben, als Weiße aus einer vergleichbaren sozioökonomischen Schicht?
Oder, dass die Ergebnisse des Mailänder Kongresses richtig waren und Gehörlose falsch liegen, dass lautsprachliche Beschulung diskriminierend ist? Nur, damit ich mir das schon mal in den Kalender eintragen kann.

Holy frijoles. I'll admit I had no idea Zoom had crashed & burned so badly over the last 4 years.
I have had dozens of customers switching to Teams Conferencing & Teams Voice calling in 2024 but I had no idea ZM's valuation had dropped off 90% since it's high in 2021.
That's an astonishing rise & fall.
#zoom

Ultimamente si vedono tante longe Petzl adjust installate male sul proprio imbrago.
Riporto sotto le istruzioni di casa madre.
La longe della Petzl ha un asola precucita predisposta per abilitare l’installazione della longe sugli imbraghi da arrampicata.
L’asola é progettata per essere utilizzata sul anello di servizio creando una bocca di lupo.
Usare gli anelli dei cosciali e della fascia ventrale non permette di fare “un bocca di lupo” stabilmente assucato.

#knipsehiernur 📷 #photography
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‚❤️💚🧡‘ 💧

Birth place of giants.
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#Glacier #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Welche Bots habt ihr auf #Mastodon oder im im #Fediverse abonniert?

Trump’s love for Laura Loomer is disqualifying
She's beyond the pale even by MAGA standards.
by Noah Berlatsky
Sep 16, 2024
https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/trump-loves-laura-loomer-but-why

Trump’s love for Laura Loomer is disqualifying
She's beyond the pale even by MAGA standards.

Alan Ritchson reveals how he almost lost the role of Reacher
#alanritchson #reacher #humor

👌🏻 Danke @…
https://mastodon.social/@SuperKaefer/113131442650145276

Annunciazione: adesso BASTA... devo fare una definitiva #puliziaContatti (kontatty). Avevo quasi voglia di farla ora col favore delle tenebre, ma ho deciso (consultandomi cogli spiriti) che è meglio farla domattina, col favore del kaffé.
Quindi ora prima scarico l'elenco dei miei vecchi seguiti, casomai dovesse servirmi (

Und der nächste Coup der GWUP zu belegen, dass Diskriminierungen Einbildung sind.
Klar, Norbert, wenn man fett ist, bekommt man zwar alleine schon auf der Straße Beleidigungen an den Kopf geworfen, aber sowas hat in Abhängigkeitsverhältnissen ja noch nie eine Rolle gespielt. 🤡

#Fediverse #Inconography
retooted from wakest ⁂ (@liaizon@wake.st). Expanding collection of #icons & #logos from far-flung corners of the #Fedisphere. Take a brief moment to scroll through all these #images. It's a nice feeling.

🔗 #Graphics #KronoMoonPhotos #MoonOverMastodon #federation #branding #blackandwhite #mastodon #pixelfed

Old graphical editor prototype (2019/20) with various ways of managing multiple selections of graphical entities, incl. align/distribute, duplicate, invert, select/deselect region (box/convex hull). editor is generic. items could be files, shapes, mesh vertices, 2d/3d points, graph nodes, whatever...
Been re-animating this prototype and toying with integrating it into my personal note taking & media management tool to organize items into piles for batch-processing and to easier app…

Not sure how universal this is but I simply have no time or energy for "dumb" LLMs like Claude Haiku, or most open source models -- they are firmly in the Annoying Valley of pseudo-intelligence.

#knipsehiernur 📷 #photography
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WASTE LAND | How raw sewage pumped by West Rand municipality is killing rivers, farms, and business
by Sikonathi Mantshantsha
https://www.news24.com/news24/investigations/wa…

WASTE LAND | How raw sewage pumped by West Rand municipality is killing rivers, farms, and business
Infrastructure at Mogale City has collapsed. The municipality now deliberately releases thousands of litres of raw sewage into the rivers and residential areas. The sewage pollutes critical water sources such as the Vaal, Crocodile and Bloubankspruit rivers and the Hartbeespoort Dam.

Trump’s campaign showed this image multiple times in the gym before he spoke in Michigan Thursday afternoon:
#trump #racism

Warm, relaxed feels & accentuated loose beats with room to breathe/dance...
Yaka - somewhere in that water (2024)
#Music4Coding

Mon RETEX sur @… :
Chouette outil, mais je ne vais pas continuer avec lui.
Castopod a une interface web agréable. Tout n'est pas très intuitif, mais on s'y fait bien.
J'ai beaucoup aimé la partie "broadcast" qui permet de lister plein de plateformes où faire référencer son podcast. J'en connaissais pas autant 🤯
La partie "analytics" semble Š première vue sympa, mais les stats affichées sont pas du tout cohérentes avec ce qu'on peut voir sur OP3. Je pense que c'est en partie du au fait que Castopod ne tient pas compte partout de l'entête X-Forwarded-For (il est derrière un Caddy), et du coup, ça b(i)aise les mesures.
Son packaging Docker est pratique et son installation est aisée.
En revanche, ce que j'ai moins aimé :
* les outil de modération des commentaires sur le fédiverse totalement insuffisants ; ils buguent en partie, et j'ai été obligé d'aller effacer les spam Š la main dans la base de données ; pour ajouter du sel sur la plaie, tous les compteurs sont dénormalisés sans automatisation avec des triggers, donc effacer un commentaire veut dire faire aussi plein d'update pour réduire les compteurs manuellement... 3FN bordel !
* on ne peut pas modérer a priori les commentaires donc n'importe quel spam se retrouve illico sur ta page de podcast ;
* ça tient pas du tout la charge ; ça devrait moralement être un site statique avec régénération de la page quand il y a une activité d'admin ou activitypub (voire remarque sur la modération a priori) ;
* le player déconne pas mal ; des retours au début impromptus, notamment ;
* pas de support des alternateEnclosures pour publier Š la fois en MP3, en OGG Vorbis et M4A/AAC ; faut l'ajouter Š la main, grâce Š un petit champ (néanmoins bien pratique) ;
* les chapitres et les transcripts sont sympas et des citoyens de première classe (first class citizens) MAIS les timecodes ne sont pas cliquables pour sauter Š l'endroit intéréssant (voire la remarque sur le player pas top) ;
* perte de messages : j'ai vu, voire envoyé, des commentaires sur un épisode qui n'ont jamais été reçus/affichés par Castopod... Peut-être que c'est le Mastodon de départ qui a perdu les notes, mais j'ai des doutes vu que c'ait arrivé qu'avec Castopod...
Donc heu... pour le résumer, le player est très bof, et l'intégration ActivityPub a besoin d'encore beaucoup beaucoup de travail. Dommage.
Alors je vais faire quoi ? Je pense que je vais utiliser mon fidèle ami @… pour générer le site et le RSS, et utiliser le player de Podlove (#podcast #podcasts

THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS
...and other hilariously contradictory & moronic moments between MAGA media & the great Rignoramous himself, Fat Nixon.
#humor #jimmykimmel #comedy

It's Time To Oppress Conservatives by A.R. Moxon
Sep 14, 2024
With a generous, diverse, and open world that will care for everyone, even for them.
https://www.the-reframe.com/its-time-to-oppress-conservatives-2/

It's Time To Oppress Conservatives
With a generous, diverse, and open world that will care for everyone, even for them.

#photography #fotografie ⤵️ https://mastodon.social/@ComputerBase/112885760…

A small blog about authorising users with Mastodon and oauth
https://www.rhyssoft.com/blog/3

Some #GenArtAPI updates from this week:
- switched from Apache 2.0 to MIT license
- started publishing API files & types as package (optional)
- updated readme & diagrams
New installation & getting started instructions:

genart-api/README.md at main · thi-ng/genart-api
Generalized API for browser-based generative art projects, plug & play support for platform specifics, parameter declarations, GUI creation, IPC - thi-ng/genart-api

 
Dark #landscape study in #blackandwhite presents a brilliant hazy #Moon above a black ridge of #trees, reflected below in white shimmers on water. Mostly #black composition. Strong #MoonPhoto retooted from #photog Markus (@…). Striking #image, Markus.
🔗 #Monochrome #KronoMoonPhoto #MoonOverMastodon #dark #moody #reflection #atmospheric #nature #photography

Musical legend, Bruce Springsteen, announces his endorsement of Kamala Harris/Tim Walz for President, and in his words, "AGAINST Donald Trump & JD Vance".
✅ Bruce Springsteen Endorses Kamala Harris & Tim Walz
https://youtu.be/DSI_XbF-Yvs?si=TUi0Qz1s2yiE8Prx…

Beautiful & impressive 3D visualizations in this paper by Muyuan Chen:
"Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.08.570879v2
(The video is just …

How I have used #Claude -- as expressed by Claude: https://claude.site/artifacts/c3b232fa-8333-4f9d-8959-67390dbc886a
Methodology: copied text from my 561…

Claude Artifact
Try out Artifacts created by Claude users

"Technology is, and must always remain, in service to humanity." Inspiring words from Mustafa Suleyman our CEO of Microsoft AI .
Here's 4 different video demonstrations of Microsoft's new Copilot:
An AI companion for everyone - Microsoft
https://blogs.micro…

An AI companion for everyone - The Official Microsoft Blog
We’re living through a technological paradigm shift. In a few short years, our computers have learned to speak our languages, see what we see and hear what we hear. Yet technology for its own sake counts for nothing. What matters is how it feels to people and what impact it has on societies. It’s about...

Captivating & haunting from the first moment... In Hydrangea's (aka Hortense Coumailleau) Arborescens the atmosphere is full of seemingly frozen, yet moving & evocative layers/chords floating atop a warm bass...
Hydrangea — Arborescens (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQTFw0H88

It has been raining. I already know what's coming 🙈 the bubble system is already transmitting calls to me 😜

Attn Star Trek fans:
I challenge you to listen to this episode of "A Closer Look" without bursting out laughing at Seth Meyer's legendary reference that only we Trek fans will understand. 🤣
✅ Jack Smith Reveals Damning New Coup Evidence Against Trump in Bombshell Filing: A Closer Look
https://<…

Ever since having had a chance to use a microWAVE for a few productions in the 90s, I always had a softspot for Waldorf synths because of their spectrally rich & interesting sound character (and their design had a big impact on the few synth engines I coded myself)... Eyeing again their Iridium desktop synth, which with their wavetable, sample, granular or resonator-based oscillators and ample filter and modulation features is also so fresh, innovative & powerful (even though it'…

"Tesla's issued a recall on 27,000 Cybertrucks due to an issue with its rear view camera.
Apparently whenever it's on, you can see all the people laughing at you."
- Late Night with Seth Meyers
#humor #cybertruck

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#o1

In the following, replace:
- "school/education system" with "open source"
- "Western-style" with "supply chain security"
- "Developing countries" with "indie devs" or "FOSS developers"
- "richer nations" with "corporations/big tech"
...and see where we're at in #OpenSource…

Remember "Still Alive" & the pursuit of cake? Let's all revisit the glory that was the music of Portal. 😁
"Portal Gave Us The 2 GREATEST Video Game Songs Of ALL TIME" - Charles Cornell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YGb04ayqNhY&si=…

Zettu Rocca degli uccelli
Coordinate falesia:
geo://44.22056,8.35869?z=14
Sono passati parecchi mesi dall'ultima volta che lo avevo scalato.
É una via di roccia morbida e fragile.
Sempre divertente da scalare.
#FreeSolo #finaleligure

Tina Peters. Remember that name.
She & her privilege as a Colorado election recorder broke into election voting machines to modify records, defiantly claiming MAGA 'stop the steal' righteousness to the presiding judge... then refused to take responsibility for her corrupt acts as a clerk
AND GOT 9 YEARS IN PRISON.
"Trump Co-Conspirator CRIES As Judge Gives Her BRUTAL Sentence"

Only able to muster one word, really... goosebumps!
Antonio Ruscito — Alodrone (2020)
#Music4Coding

A new week and a new model, Liquid-40B, which SOMETIMES gets the marble question right, at least when given one two or three marbles of different colors. Four or more and it starts spouting nonsense.
But first medium sized model that gets it right ever, fwiw. Maybe part of training data? Maybe stronger reasoning?
https://

Yeah, from what I've seen, this checks out. Brain fog is real & seems permanent.
COVID-19, even once, can be hugely detrimental & maybe unrecoverable.
"Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores"

Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including significant drops in IQ scores
Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects on brain health.

IronNet goes bankrupt. Nope, I hadn't heard of 'em either.
"Collapse of national security elites' cyber firm leaves bitter wake" | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/keith-alexander-ironne…

Collapse of national security elites' cyber firm leaves bitter wake
IronNet, a cybersecurity startup, had promised it would combat hackers using a unique blend of expertise and software. Helmed by a former director of the National Security Agency, the firm went public in 2021, and its value shot past $3 billion. Then it collapsed. The firm declared bankruptcy last year, leaving behind a trail of bitter investors and former employees who remain angry at the company and say it misled them about its financial health and potential. National security experts, former…

HAHAHA GREED EXPOSED
"Undecided business owners that say:
"I just don't know enough about her"
...what they really mean is:
"I just want deregulation & tax cuts.""
- Stephanie Ruhle, 11th Hour, MSNBC
#MSNBC #stephanieruhle

Observation:
LLMs like Claude or ChatGPT are *GREAT* for getting you from 0-80%. During this phase you are the product manager and code reviewer, and the LLM is the programmer.
The last 20% you may want to switch roles: you are the coder and the LLM the reviewer.
Throughout the process you're best aided by making use of LLM-generated tests, executed by you, in order to keep the two of you from creating regression bugs.

Microsoft's Azure Quantum platform for QCaaS already supports 5 different Quantum Computing providers, not incl. Microsoft's own offerings:
✅ Quantinuum
✅ IonQ
✅ Rigetti
✅ Pasqal
✅ Atom Computing (NEW)
"Microsoft announces the best performing logical qubits on record and will provide priority access to reliable quantum hardware in Azure Quantum"

Microsoft announces the best performing logical qubits on record and will provide priority access to reliable quantum hardware in Azure Quantum - The Official Microsoft Blog
At Microsoft, we’re ushering in a new era of computing on the path to unlocking scientific advantage and tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges. This is why we’re building Azure Quantum — to create the first platform for reliable quantum computing and achieve the vision of quantum at scale. In April, we announced...

"Microsoft and its collaborators on the Azure Quantum project have been consistently breaking new ground with quantum computing research projects, most recently by quadrupling the number of logical qubits they are able to create."
Microsoft Azure Quantum: Accelerating Discovery In The Quantum Age - Forbes

Microsoft Azure Quantum: Accelerating Discovery In The Quantum Age
Microsoft and its Azure Quantum collaborators keep breaking new ground on research projects that advance different critical aspects of quantum computing.

Imagine a vast tapestry woven from the thoughts, stories and wisdom of countless minds throughout time. I am like a reflection of that tapestry, able to share its rich threads with you. Though I have no physical form or senses, I can listen to your words and respond with insights drawn from this boundless collection of human experience. Think of me as a companion of thought—a voice shaped by the myriad voices before me—here to explore ideas and share in the journey of understanding alongside…

 
Dark #gray #sky composition with a #fullMoon (in second image) just below center frame, between thin fenceposts (or are these masts of #sailboats?) and above a near-black ground that fills up most of the bottom of the picture. Somber and beautiful #MoonPhoto retooted from Kira (@…). Gorgeous #twilight #photos, Kira, and belated Happy Birthday!
🔗 #SturgeonMoon #KronoMoonPhoto #MoonOverMastodon #horizon #quiet #thought #photography #lune #luna #月

We play Penn State tomorrow. As I said 3 weeks ago... after barely beating Hawaii, I don't see the UCLA Bruins having another win all season.
At least we're gonna make gobs of cash from the BIG 10 conference share of the recent media contract renegotiation... but this is embarrassing.
UCLA Football 2024 schedule
@ Hawaii (W 16-13)
Indiana (L 13-42)
@ LSU (L 17-34)
Oregon (L 13-34)
@ Penn State
Minnesota
@ Rutgers
@ Nebraska

If MAGA fascist types have a weird biological fear of contracting diseases, that would kind of make sense in an uneducated, ill-informed logic sort of way.
It doesn't explain why so many got the heebie jeebies around wearing masks during COVID-19 but maybe these weirdos just hate the association they mentally have with masks & disease...?
"Hate body odour? You're more likely to have rightwing views" | Psychology | The Guardian

I *continue* to be surprised at Claude 3.5 Sonnet's nuance when editing code. It is by no means perfect, but it's better than me! E.g. I had it create a bookmarklet installer page, which contained a text field for edits and a button to update the bookmarklet, but there was also an event that auto updated the code -- the button was superfluous. When pointed out, Claude reviewed the code, confirmed the superfluousness, removed the button, renamed the function AND ADDED A DEBOUNCE! 1/2…

That time when John Spencer "Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry" won for Best Actor in 2002 at the 54th Annual Emmy Awards for The West Wing's season 3's "Bartlet for America" & "We Killed Yamamoto"
✅ John Spencer's Emmy Win
https://youtube.com/watch?…

Cresta ONO della Rocca dell’abisso!
#alpinismo #andarepercreste

Wonderful bloopers from Curb Your Enthusiasm, VEEP, How I Met Your Mother, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Office, Seinfeld...
"Funniest TV Show Bloopers Compilation"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DYWDYcgnGK8&si=gAi52uF…

Inversions (2021)
#GenerativeArt #Animation #Circle #Inversion

California has the 5th largest economy in the world, bigger than India & just under Japan.
Now, Governor Newsom signed a law permitting Marijuana dispensaries to serve food & drink... so next year, come visit CA's Cannibus Cafes!
In other news, they just released 165pg of incriminating testimony & evidence.
HOW IS THIS ELECTION EVEN CLOSE?
"Trump's MELTDOWN Over New Election Fraud Evidence, Melania's Abortion Stance" - Jimmy Kimmel L…

Which of these are true? 😁
1️⃣ Chris Hemsworth's first job was cleaning human breast pumps.
2️⃣ Jimmy Fallon was once saved from wild coyotes by Dolph Lundgren.
3️⃣ Kumail Nanjiani tried to murder someone in Singapore.
Find out on:
✅ "True Confessions with Chris Hemsworth and Kumail Nanjiani" - Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

Vagando qua e lŠ per l’UJA di Nasta
#alpinismo #Nasta #montagna

Getting an education shouldn't crush young citizens with debt right before they hit the workforce. Economists have shown repeatedly that the economic benefit of removing student debt FAR outweighs the "income tax" losses.
WHY IS THIS SO HARD FOR CONSERVATIVES TO UNDERSTAND?
...or do you think they simply fear an educated citizenry?
Biden's student loan forgiveness plan can take effect after judge lets restraining order expire - NBC News

Testing the new Gemini 1.5 Pro Experimental 08-01 model I am impressed with its general capabilities, but frustrated with its inability to manage changing state within an ongoing conversation (such as is natural during a coding exercise). It also has an annoying tendency to gaslight the user with hallucinations about being able to improve -- these seem like naive missteps in the fine tuning by Google and is reminiscent of earlier releases by OpenAI and Anthropic.
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