Bruce Davie
Drbruced@aus.social
<p>Computer scientist/engineer/author/runner/cyclist. Former SF resident reunited with the world's finest coffee town. Co-founder/publisher at Systems Approach, LLC. Co-author of "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach" among other computing books.<br />Occasional contributor to The Register.<br />Searchable.<br />Header photo: Melbourne city skyline seen through the trees from Yarra Bend.<br /><a href="https://aus.social/tags/nobridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nobridge</span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #3972946
RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116935294823990847 Here’s my input to ACM on opening up the Digital Library to LLMs. I would argue that LLMs are one of the most comprehensively negative developments in computer science that I’ve seen in my 40-year career. There is solid evidence that the “hallucination” problem is not going away, so they will continue to mislead people in a way that direct access to a digital library does not. Ingesting the contents of the ACM DL is not going t...
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Post #3463571
This is a good piece from @emilymbender@dair-community.social on how to use language to push back on “AI” (or “probabilistic automation” as she suggests) and stop anthropomorphising the synthetic text extruders. https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/
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Post #2547905
First batch of #hotcrossbuns for the season. Some work to be done on my cross technique #baking #sourdough
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Post #2085297
I was a guest on the Heavy Networking podcast, talking about routing performance and the recent improvements to the shortest path algorithm. A fun discussion for me at least https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/heavy-networking/hn825-faster-than-dijkstra-exploring-a-new-shortest-path-algorithm-with-bruce-davie/ #networking #podcast
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Post #1707680
Generative &quot;AI&quot; has no idea what it is doing, a story in four images. The first image is my original drawing (a Venn diagram) with a white background. The second is the same image after I removed the background using GIMP, i.e., made the background layer transparent. The third image is an effort by the &quot;AI system&quot; that is offered as part of my Wordpress setup to create a transparent background. In fact, it has created a new background that is a grey and white...
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Post #970988
I spent the last two days hiking with @Christybon across the Bogong high plains from Cope Hut to the Fainters. Day 1 started with perfect weather as we followed the Australian Alps walking track for the first 10km. #hiking #bushwalking #Bogong 1/n
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Post #782229
Never mind panic-buying petrol, I’m going to panic-buy an EV
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Post #761291
I really like this viewpoint on AI performing &quot;semantic ablation&quot;. It hits home as I work diligently to write a textbook that contains plenty of nuance and (I hope) a unique perspective on the topic (computer networking). &quot;By running a text through successive AI &quot;refinement&quot; loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses. The process performs a systematic lobotomy across three distinct stages: - Stage 1: Metaphoric cleansing. The AI id...