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'Merely a means to an end' | Tom Stoneham — Random musings ab...
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Philosophers who are impressed by Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy often struggle with his view of animals, neatly but unfortunately expressed in this passage: ...
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Why are you even using genAI? | Tom Stoneham — Random musings...
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A friend pointed me in the direction of this article as yet another example of AI bias in action: https://community.thefemalelead.com/p/all-i-wanted-was-an-ai-...
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Mimic Ulysses shortcuts on Standard Notes | Marcos D Alves — ...
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With the assistance of Chat GPT, I was able to replace some Standard Notes keyboard shortcuts with equivalent Ulysses shortcuts, so I can easily change the cur...
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துன்பத்தைக் கண்டு | மொழியலை — பொதுவாக்கப்பட்டவைகள்
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வாடிய பயிரைக் கண்டபோ தெல்லாம் வாடினேன் பசியினால் இளைத்தே வீடுதோ ரறிந்தும் பசியறா தயர்ந்த வெற்றரைக் கண்டுளம் பதைத்தேன் நீடிய பிணியா...
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AI Futures: China or the West? | Tom Stoneham — Random musing...
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One question I was asked on my recent trip to China was: We are on the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution. The first three were powered by technologies ...
on Nov 8
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Election Crap, Looking Back | Scmasm — Thinking my thoughts. ...
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2024-11-06 Okay. Election crap. Lotta things didn't go the way I wanted them to. I waited until this morning to check the results so I could have one last nigh...
on Nov 7
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Bread and circuses | Tom Stoneham — Random musings about data...
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I am back in China for the first time since 2019. The changes are incremental but the surveillance state is complete. The general acceptance of Live Facial Rec...
on Oct 27
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MikeFromLFE — This is a travel blog about our meanderings rou...
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This is a travel blog about our meanderings round Europe by train (mostly). I live in Leicestershire, England 🇬🇧 with my wife & cat. I'm a retired Healthcare Scientist & Health Service Manager 🔬 I cycle, sketch, try to grow stuff on our allotment, play petanque (badly), exercise with TaiChi &...
on Sep 29
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Coding, trust and genAI | Tom Stoneham — Random musings about...
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I learned to code in the 1980s for a Computer Science A-level. We used command line BASIC: my A-level project was to plot and integrate a quadratic function. It...
on Sep 23
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Cllr Gareth Kitchen — SDC | Update | News | Community Green...
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SDC | Update | News | Community Green Party District Councillor for Wotton-under-Edge, North Nibley & Stinchcombe. Elected 2nd May 2024. Serving on the SDC Audit & Standards Committee and Gloucestershire Police & Crime Panel. 📧 cllr(dot)gareth(dot)kitchen@stroud(dot)gov(dot)uk ☎️ +44 7396...
on Sep 19
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Hvad jeg lærte med hygge.bar | Henrik Bøgh — I'm Henrik. Fath...
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Mastodon er genialt. Jo mere tid jeg bruger der, jo mere bliver jeg begejstret for det. De apps jeg bruger er geniale, og hele den federerede tilgang til social...
on Sep 1
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Comfortable Ambiguity | Katalyst — - An agent that provoke c...
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You know, I've been thinking a lot lately about how we connect with each other. It's funny – we're more "connected" than ever through our phones and social medi...
on Aug 25
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Olimpijskie notatki | Raptularz — Cześć, miło Cię tu widzieć!...
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Za nami Igrzyska Olimpijskie w Paryżu. Wybrałem kilka(naście) ważnych dla mnie wydarzeń i sytuacji, które zapamiętam po tych zawodach: Polacy przekroczyli gra...
on Aug 13
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Lego blocks are never a good analogy | crabmusket — Reluctant...
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Technical and tech-adjacent writers seemingly never tire of describing various technologies as being "like Lego blocks". Here's just the latest example I've com...
on Aug 1
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We are better than this | Tom Stoneham — Random musings about...
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Drawing on Morozov's famous 2013 definition of tech-solutionism, we can define an equally invidious and problematic way of thinking about the challenges AI pres...
on Jul 24
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How to stop thinking like a Regulosolutionist | Tom Stoneham
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Given my view that regulation of Big Tech is always too late, too local, and too hard to enforce so we need to supplement it with a different approach of consum...
on Jun 26
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44 million teachers? | Tom Stoneham — Random musings about da...
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At a conference the other week there was a presentation by the Otermans Institute, who have this slogan: Democratising Learning through AI Technology They a...
on Jun 25
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Privacy and old data | Tom Stoneham — Random musings about da...
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Neil Brown of neilzone fame posed an ethical question on Mastodon. In brief: I have bought a 30 year old computer and the hard disk hasn't been wiped. Ethical...
on May 28
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I found a compiler bug | Nick — Educator (software engineerin...
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A few years ago, I gave programming language Kotlin a try, liked what I saw, even taught it for a short period as part of a course on Android mobile app develop...
on May 26
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Territories | Nick — Educator (software engineering, computer...
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I've been a fan of Canadian rock band Rush since my early teens. Some older die-hard fans get a bit snooty about the band's very keyboard-driven mid-period, but...
on May 25
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Minds and theories of mind | Tom Stoneham — Random musings ab...
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Back when I was a nipper of a grad student, one of my supervisors and another grad student edited a journal special edition of 'state of the art' papers called ...
on May 22
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Calls for AI regulation vs being an adult | Tom Stoneham — Ra...
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One of the questions I was asked after a talk to a multi-disciplinary audience yesterday was: There was a movement where a party petition to stop or slowdown ...
on Apr 19
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Github is Not Open Source | Juliette — I write
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Content warning: this is a rant from a teenager who has strong opinions. When I first started programming more and more I joined a website called “Github” back...
on Apr 11
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The problem of second-order bias | Tom Stoneham — Random musi...
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We are all now familiar with problems of bias in various algorithms (now called AIs) and also that what these algorithms are doing is picking up, reflecting, an...
on Apr 3
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Big Tech States and Anarchist Neutrality | Tom Stoneham — Ran...
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Last week I gave a seminar on taking literally the idea that some Big Tech companies can be considered non-territorial states, drawing on ideas I blogged back i...
on Mar 29
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Is there really an analogy between genAI and the spreadsheet? | Tom Stoneham
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The ever-interesting Tim Harford has written a blog post about learning from past game-changing technologies: What the birth of the spreadsheet teaches us about...
on Mar 15
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why not solve our problems by going to space? | ▵dirt —
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shortly—because were already there why not solve pollution overpopulation the threat of nuclear war—by going to another planet? because once we get to this ot...
on Mar 14
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Covers de K-pop : Découverte du collectif be.you | Raphaël —...
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Il y a quelques mois, j'ai découvert le collectif russe be.you (aussi écrit B.U), dont la spécialité est de faire des reprises vocales et dansantes de chansons ...
on Mar 6
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Privacy, Account Recovery, and Authentication | Tom Stoneham
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Suppose you are designing a private messaging app and your 'target market' wants the ability to recover their account, should they lose or upgrade their phone. ...
on Mar 6
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do i want this action to echo throughout eternity ?? | ▵dirt
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this (and nothing less) is the question i should ask before doing something deciding what to do isnt really about deciding whats right and whats wrong whats g...
on Mar 5
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Idées de sous-services pour l'écosystème Proton | Raphaël — H...
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Mon idée est que l'écosystème Proton est constitué de services principaux, qui eux-mêmes « hébergent » des sous-services en leur sein. Les services principaux s...
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Update 29-02-2024: Since this publication Michael Bazzell has updated his post to answer the concerns discussed in this post and now contains the line “… I NEVE...
on Mar 2
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Toy, tool or team member? genAI in a university context | Tom Stoneham
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Another abstract. This one for a conference at the University of Zurich on How will AI impact Doctoral Education?. Toy, tool or team member? genAI in a univers...
on Mar 1
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Transcending AI | Tom Stoneham — Random musings about data et...
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Discussion of genAI in my circles, which are largely academia, tends to fall into three camps: Deflating #AIHype Considering ethical and regulatory guardrails...
on Mar 1
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032- J'ai honte (le Canada et la guerre en Ukraine) | dducharme
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J'ai entrepris de réorganiser de nouveau mes notes sur Standard Notes. J'ai encore du mal à saisir la logique classificatoire de cette application qui fait l'éc...
on Feb 29
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Autonomy, Safety, and Regulo-solutionism | Tom Stoneham — Ran...
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This is an abstract for a talk in July at the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science...
on Feb 12
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Search and Distortion | Tom Stoneham — Random musings about d...
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My brilliant colleague Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott has written a really interesting paper on 'Privacy, Publicity, and the Right to be Forgotten'. She argues that...
on Dec 13
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Understand the world's first comprehensive Al law THE BASICS Definition of Al: aligned to the recently updated OECD definition Extraterritorial: applies to o...
on Dec 12
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LLMs, better writing, and cognitive diversity | Tom Stoneham
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I have previously commented that it is easy to detect a student using an LLM to generate text in an essay because LLMs write better English: grammatical, with s...
on Nov 25
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LLMs in teaching? Why? | Tom Stoneham — Random musings about ...
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The current issue of Nature has a 'Feature', i.e. not a peer reviewed article, called 'ChatGPT enters the classroom'.1 While the feature is well-researched jour...
on Nov 21