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Alyx Woodward (she/her)

alyx_woodward@universeodon.com

<p>I&#39;m Alyx, and I&#39;m a science nerd and horsegirl in the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/plural" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>plural</span></a> system known as the Pnictogen Wing (host, @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social) where I&#39;m like the &quot;science officer&quot;, although I prefer the title &quot;principal investigator&quot;. I&#39;m into amateur <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>science</span></a>, especially <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemistry</span></a>, though I&#39;m working on programming and other things.</p>

Posts

  • Post #815400

    @kwadranten@social.vivaldi.net @lzg@mastodon.social that&#39;s a cool bit of regurgitated stoicism you got there, thanks for the advice! :=D

  • Post #815267

    @kwadranten@social.vivaldi.net @lzg@mastodon.social wow that&#39;s deep. so is anger evil? or fear, is that evil? is it sinful to be afraid, is that what you&#39;re saying? what are you saying? maybe lack of fear is bad. the proverbial deer in the headlamps isn&#39;t afraid of the light, just puzzled by it. until it&#39;s too late of course

  • Post #815096

    @lzg@mastodon.social @autonomousapps@mstdn.social The stakes are too high says @anildash@me.dm and I agree—MUCH too high for anyone to endure his patent waffling and double-dealing.

  • Post #814869

    @lzg@mastodon.social @autonomousapps@mstdn.social @anildash@me.dm &quot;stochastic parrot&quot; is an apt summary of how the devices work and thus a reminder that LLMs aren&#39;t actually intelligent. what&#39;s &quot;outdated&quot; about the phrase? or what about the phrase &quot;doesn&#39;t work&quot;? and why on Earth would you be trusting to government regulations to address the problem at a time when fascist Republicans control the government and Democrats mostly collaborate with Republica...

  • Post #811603

    @light@noc.social @lzg@mastodon.social @autonomousapps@mstdn.social @anildash@me.dm I would say that using any corporate technology product is immoral on general principle: the entire industry is abetting global fascism, and #LLMs are useful chiefly because they&#39;re good at regurgitation—i.e. they&#39;re good at repeating propaganda.

  • Post #809847

    @anildash@me.dm @lzg@mastodon.social Remember, kids, being morally right is FAR less important than being regarded as &quot;smug&quot; by a useless footnote to the landscape of corporate #technology like Anil-Dash-Dot-Com! Mr. Dash-Dot-Com, are you at least willing to concede, hypothetically, that useful action against destructive manifestations of technology must BEGIN with moral rejection of it? Cynical and business-minded persons such as yourself, who have no moral backbone, like to pretend...

  • Post #633821

    @Standard_Phil@infosec.exchange @_elena@mastodon.social @timnitGebru@dair-community.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social @alexhanna @DAIR@dair-community.social @cwebber@social.coop @jaredwhite@indieweb.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org No I&#39;m pretty sure @anildash@me.dm is an apologist for LLM garbage, not an opponent. He&#39;s being clever about it, trying to craft a careful &quot;both sides&quot; narrative about things so he can be perceived as somehow &quot;moderate&quot; about one of...

  • Post #308748

    @Natanox@chaos.social if you like. I&#39;m not sure what this fellow thinks a &quot;mechanical task&quot; is, or why he thinks an intrinsically untrustworthy trash generator would be good at &quot;double-checking&quot;, but...well I ain&#39;t ever using this Fluxer thing so I guess it doesn&#39;t matter that much to me

  • Post #308183

    @Natanox@chaos.social I wonder what the fuck a &quot;mechanical task&quot; is, to a slopcoder

  • Post #308028

    @Natanox@chaos.social I am seeing a report that the #fluxer developer is into #LLM slop-documentation, in which case, this alternative is a non-starter.

  • Post #274706

    @atax1a@infosec.exchange I&#39;m pretty sure Chara *is* a temporal anomaly

  • Post #201876

    @ptorrone@toad.social so you don&#39;t ever intend to conduct any actual physical experiments upon your device in order to determine whether its CO2 measurements can be trusted or not? if not, then what exactly are you selling.

  • Post #201818

    @ptorrone@toad.social what the fuck does CODE have to do with it? I am talking about chemistry here, about measuring a physical quantity.

  • Post #190683

    @ptorrone@toad.social yeah uh huh anger, right. I&#39;m pointing out a physical fact: there&#39;s a limitation to how much can trust the products of corporate technology, sight unseen.

  • Post #188417

    https://fosstodon.org/@adafruit/115979205855927539 Now, I&#39;m going to be charitable here and assume that @adafruit@fosstodon.org has a genuine interest in monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide. I&#39;m a chemist by education, a physical scientist, and that means there&#39;s only one general approach to addressing the question of atmospheric carbon dioxide and how to measure it that makes sense to me: direct physical estimation, doing real actual #chemistry. adafruit is doing here might b...

  • Post #163406

    #PeterThiel probably isn&#39;t a popular topic of conversation on the #fediverse, not even in #foss circles, but I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if Thiel hasn&#39;t got of quiet supporters here on ActivityPub social media. The public face of the #technology is such a habitually *dishonest* face, I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if there weren&#39;t #tech folks here, a lot of them, who make very sure to pepper their public words with unkind words about Elon Musk or Peter Thiel or Marc Andreessen or any o...