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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5h

I have identified a fatal data flaw in the survey analysis. Takedown will be incoming but suffice to say, nobody should use Kaufmann’s data for any purpose. It has a critical methodological flaw that is quite embarrassing for him.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 10h

The planet is alternatively flooding and burning, racism and misogyny are rife and the Crown is about to steal the seabed and foreshore all over again. And the important Parliamentary discourse? Whether men should have to tie bits of cloth around their necks at work.

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 10h

#NZPol It’s fucking wild that Israel is literally bombing and shooting people in Gaza right now but our entire media is talking about the success of the ceasefire and even a good part of it is now just arguing about whether trump should get a fucking Nobel prize or not.

We have reality problems.

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 9h

i hope

Posie Parker was allowed in

#nzpol

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 21h

Ooof ... Australian Court just upheld Australian Govt decision to refuse Candice Owens Farmer (she drops the last name in her promo stuff) a visa to do a paid speaking tour. I assume that'll kill off her trip here, too (on practical grounds, even though Chris Penk gave her permission to come).

In a lengthy ruling, the high court upheld Burke’s findings. The court said:

In the absence of evidence, or agreed facts, it is not obvious that the opportunity to hear Ms Farmer speak in Australia (the so-called “lightning bolt” effect) could add anything to political communication in Australia.

Owens will have to pay the costs of the appeal.

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 9h

seriously worries me that ACT NAT NZF are going at breakneck speed to implement UK, and US -like health reforms in Aotearoa

i had to ask to be taken off the cervical cancer screening list, 'cos no cervix

mammograms? you have tits, of course you have them checked

#nzpol

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 11h

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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cmdr-unifex.bsky.social @cmdr-unifex.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, Luxon, how do you fuck up something like data.parliament.govt.nz this badly?

The site feels like a Work In Progress, and like it should be behind a BasicAuth, at minimum, at this point. Definately not allowing public signup, given that crashes in the verification links. #NZPol

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Char @kiwichar.bsky.social · 11h

Living the Kiwi capitalist dream! 🤩 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #LevelUp #Aotearoa #NewZealand #ResignNicola #Luxon #NoConfidence

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 9h

*happy, albeit odd 🏳️‍⚧️ girl*

also

*hugs ya*

i enjoy ur TL, i'd miss it

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 10h

*If it's legit then cool/s

just my personal opinion

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 10h

k, my apologies for the uncalled-for rant

gotta be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in four hours, i'd better get some sleep, it's midnight now, alarm goes 04:00

laters, if u haven't blocked me

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 10h

get you a bunch of skeetuals from Portland, or Seattle if that's a bit much

they're all too fucking scary for me now

the contextual rules of the lexicon change almost by the day, stay offline for a week and a lotta words no longer make sense

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 10h

those other languages rules evolve at a different "speed", strictly it's velocity

so across language mapping needs different temporal arrays to make sense of subtleties

this, aside from rand() decisions, is why LLM's are also garbages, they're pre-trained, their rules are at a point in time

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 10h

that's the basis i use for languages, or strictly speaking (?) the lexicon of a language

its lexicon is static at any temporal point, but its contextual rules are in-flight beside other language's rules known by the speaker

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 10h

yes and yes

i, ok we, also include a not logically definable state, not amenable to "does it exist or not exist" patterns of thinking

not binary 0 or 1

it's a real mindfuck to visualise, but in topology maths it's simply a -1 domain, array, whatevs

maths goes in both directions

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 10h

soz

geekette in full flight

i'll shout into the void quite happily, it helps me organise my thought processes

what if someone takes umbrage about [idea]?

easy, checkpoint, restart, change the pathway from there

can't avoid being called out on socmed, esp from a skeetual

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 10h

the bugbear is that there can never, should make that upper case, be a rand() decision during recovery

or you're recovering to what compiler writers lovingly refer to as undefined

it'll probably work if ur not silly

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11h

and we're a plurality, we happily interact irl from multiple vm's with shared memory under a hypervisor

sophiactual's one vm, i just happen to front the console

but that model, even if our hardware is capable and it probably is, doesn't support checkpoint and recovery on audit failure

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11h

not gonna discount the possibility

Data audits his internal environment, there's been plot themes built around this

i've broken my brain a few times trying to implement auditable breakpoints (in assembly, gotta think in machinespace) for a constrained distributed net, not a full neural net

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Count Spockula @randomancom.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you. I wish more people talked about this. As a big sci-fi fan LLMs are not in any way shape or form artificial intelligence. We are a long way off from thinking machines, if such a thing is even possible. LLMs are not it, stop calling it AI

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11h

soz, can't parse that

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11h

also ML within a constrained knowledge domain is incredibly useful, but very fucking hard to audit

across several domains it's just nuclear horseshit

English as with most languages though i'll give संस्कृतम् extra points, is hugely contextual, not given to lexing

people mis-contextualise all the time

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11h

not you personally Luke, soz ran of chars

sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11h

i loathe the use of AI as a term for LLM's

intelligence is not remotely involved

an LLM is a random horseshit generator

that's all

yes i do know stuff about Machine Learning, how hard it is to do, the nigh-impossibility of auditing a neural net

LLM's are not those, ur an idiot to believe them

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz · 11h

2°C

if anyone would like to use the degree symbol and their keyboard doesn't support it directly, copy from this link

i've got my own absurdly geekettish way of dealing with not-keyboard unicode characters, ya don' wanna know the machine-specific fuckery, let's just say never in prod

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