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Self-reflection
selfie
not a camera trick
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three turquoise Fiat Panda cars parked side by side: except the middle one is a tiny slice barely wider that the headlight. It's a driveable one-off electric modification
am i doing ai
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A post from linked in. It reads...
Mark Butcher
Digital sustainability & Gree...
3d
1) Sandra used Al to write a report
2) Bill used Al to summarise the report
3) Bill used Al to write questions about the report
4) Sandra used Al to respond to the questions
5) Bill used Al to create a presentation about the report
6) Jane used Al to take notes from the presentation
7) Jane's team used Al to summarise the notes she shared
No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers.
No business value was achieved
But but but Al adds business value.
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Mark Butcher
Digital sustainability & Gree...
3d
1) Sandra used Al to write a report
2) Bill used Al to summarise the report
3) Bill used Al to write questions about the report
4) Sandra used Al to respond to the questions
5) Bill used Al to create a presentation about the report
6) Jane used Al to take notes from the presentation
7) Jane's team used Al to summarise the notes she shared
No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers.
No business value was achieved
But but but Al adds business value.
352 Comments + Follow 98 Reposts
Please pretend this is the future. The stock prices of Meta, Alphabet, And Amazon desperately need this to not turn out like 3d televisions.
I work in AI (non-generative) and can tell you that genAI is utter crap for most purposes involving critical thinking, authorship, and everything else that makes individual endeavor valuable.
Claude is nice for bringing me a top-line summary of something I know nothing about, but it also hallucinates. And it's supposed to be one of the good ones.
And yet, every college student, MBA, and corporate exec in the world trusts genAI as if it were an oracle.
Claude is nice for bringing me a top-line summary of something I know nothing about, but it also hallucinates. And it's supposed to be one of the good ones.
And yet, every college student, MBA, and corporate exec in the world trusts genAI as if it were an oracle.
@MackReed I work in analytics and have been studying machine learning and AI as a part of my field for a long time. I really appreciate how it can work 'like magic' for some things. It is actually very good at specific stuff.
I just wish it wasn't being sold to normal people like it is actually capable of telling them which settings to use on a washing machine if you upload a photo of the dirty clothes.
"Yeah but it can read the tag...." - NO. Stop that. Your clothing tag has a set of symbols that could easily be trained using image recognition on a raspberry pi in an afternoon by a motivated middle-school student able to read and follow instructions. It does not need to be tied to a power-sink data center to do it in literally the least efficient way possible and then still have a reasonably large chance to get the answer wrong. Large-scale generative AI is not trustworthy and very expensive, just like the billionaires that are trying to shove this unwanted crap into the market.
I just wish it wasn't being sold to normal people like it is actually capable of telling them which settings to use on a washing machine if you upload a photo of the dirty clothes.
"Yeah but it can read the tag...." - NO. Stop that. Your clothing tag has a set of symbols that could easily be trained using image recognition on a raspberry pi in an afternoon by a motivated middle-school student able to read and follow instructions. It does not need to be tied to a power-sink data center to do it in literally the least efficient way possible and then still have a reasonably large chance to get the answer wrong. Large-scale generative AI is not trustworthy and very expensive, just like the billionaires that are trying to shove this unwanted crap into the market.
Every tech company and investment desperately wants LLM _now_ so they can have a labor force they can deduct on their taxes like they do any other business expense. Every media company wants to get out of royalty payments and residual shares, etc.
A sleeper clause from the first trump admins tax cuts has gone into effect that means tech companies can no longer deduct payroll for the R&D teams as an operational expense. In case you’re wondering where also those big tech company layoffs came from recently.
A sleeper clause from the first trump admins tax cuts has gone into effect that means tech companies can no longer deduct payroll for the R&D teams as an operational expense. In case you’re wondering where also those big tech company layoffs came from recently.
The Blue Album
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Gozer the Destructor of Sweaters
Moebius
sandy blonde
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photo of a 2.5 year old’s head covered in sand
luna playing in the sandbox
Aww. I remember my daughter as a kleuter.
So wonderful these moments.
So wonderful these moments.
What i saw
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Burnt orange plastic, some of it in the shape of a heart
Your orbital imaging is exceptional ...
Gemini Makes Cheese Dreams EZ
good morning, let's
This is a problem
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A burnt out hotend
Looks like I need a new one.
(It's the part of a 3D printer that heats the plastic.)
(It's the part of a 3D printer that heats the plastic.)
and/or Uhura's communicator has malfunctioned ...
Champion Spark Plugs, for over 100 years
Can’t you just 3D print one?
tickets please
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upside down photograph of an empty movie theater multiplex lobby
source: https://www.reddit.com/r...
What an exceptionally confusing photo
@stereoplex Well, understandably….they’ve made the letters in the Welcome sign backwards!
ǝsɐǝld sʇǝʞɔıʇ
Jetty
Ceramic Figure
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But hark!
and they’re like, it’s better than yours
johnny, it’s monday
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A dummy in a taxi driver costume (bluejacket, peaked cap, button down whirt, black tie) says over his shoulder to the huge, exhausted looking man in his back seat, “Hell of a day, isn’t it?”
the door opened, you got in
Before he joined Starfleet.
King Vulture | Modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler
Tomatoes
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Two planter boxes are united by a mesh cow panel arched between them, supporting several tomato plants that have grown up to be more than five feet tall when the photo was taken.
You may recall last year’s post about my tomato mystery (the closer box in this photo routinely had identical varietals cared for identically produce plants half the size of the opposite box). This year I have made sure to provide double or treble the water to the “weaker” box after last year seemed to confirm that the water just drained faster in that box for some reason. That seems to have done the trick - it not only has multiple volunteer plants from leftover seeds from last year starting to flower now, but the plants generally match the height of those on the other side. Victory!
Unfortunately, very long story short, we were several weeks later than usual getting them I. The ground to begin with, so we will have only a fraction of the fruit of previous years.
Additionally, we chose a couple full-size varietals this year instead of all cherries. Hopefully they won’t all die or come ripe while we’re out of town for a couple weeks in the near future.
P.s. the red spiral in the foreground is a fun tomato support for a volunteer tomato that sprouted in the yard that I moved to a pot amongst my mint.
Unfortunately, very long story short, we were several weeks later than usual getting them I. The ground to begin with, so we will have only a fraction of the fruit of previous years.
Additionally, we chose a couple full-size varietals this year instead of all cherries. Hopefully they won’t all die or come ripe while we’re out of town for a couple weeks in the near future.
P.s. the red spiral in the foreground is a fun tomato support for a volunteer tomato that sprouted in the yard that I moved to a pot amongst my mint.
Thank you for the update. Sorry you won't get as much nom noms as you were hoping for but I'm glad you solved the conundrum and figured out the watering needs.
@samh ❤️😊❤️
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Taxi Driver scene in which he says "June 29th. I gotta get in shape now. Too much sitting has ruined my body."
I want to fly, but I can't even swim.
Bullies
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CDN media
No open bar, either, I suspect. Or only open bar for Prime members?
golden
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I've never played this game yet I somehow have second-hand nostalgia for it.
@urlnotfound
I didn’t own an n64 myself but in my group of four high school friends the one kid who did would hold epic sleepovers. We would be up until dawn playing GoldenEye and MarioKart. There was substantial skill mismatch so we would make up all sorts of goofy scenarios, adjusting the settings so that the map had no weapons but it was one shot kill, so we’d go around karate chopping at each other and laughing our heads off we essentially eye poked one another to death.
I didn’t own an n64 myself but in my group of four high school friends the one kid who did would hold epic sleepovers. We would be up until dawn playing GoldenEye and MarioKart. There was substantial skill mismatch so we would make up all sorts of goofy scenarios, adjusting the settings so that the map had no weapons but it was one shot kill, so we’d go around karate chopping at each other and laughing our heads off we essentially eye poked one another to death.
I wasn’t until a few days ago, when I rewatched it for the first time in decades, that I realized that Pierce Brosnan is in “The Long Good Friday”
Finally a way for people with chronic illness to get taken seriously
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@byjove on Tumblr
"I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving."
"I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving."
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Jon Fauxvreau?
Hehehehehe…. I had a buddy in S.F. who looked a great deal like Jerry Rice. Needless to say, we didn’t pay for drinks OR ❄️❄️ whenever we went out with him!
snow? booger sugar?
boss says put it here
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A flat, barren expanse with a small platform in the middle. A large, horned monster is being lowered onto the platform, probably via a crane. The monster is a purplish orange and is holding a suitcase. To the left of the monster stands a figure wearing an orange helmet and construction vest with reflective yellow stripes. The figure is directing the crane. The ground is a dark purple; the sky is lavender. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Goodbye Lenin, 2003, dir. Becker
Shari & Lamb Chop - Official Trailer (2025)
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Stripe?
@Xedrik FINE
@Xedrik We don't do "angry upvote" here but if we did you would get one from me.
Green-Crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula)
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photo by Mike Melton
source https://bsky.app/profile...
source https://bsky.app/profile...
The other day, as I was standing on tiptoe to hang up the feeder after refilling it, an Anna's buzzed in, landed on the feeder, and started chugging while I was still reaching for the hook. Probably the closest I'll get to being a Disney princess, but I'll take it.
Our Spiderwort Thriving, Too!
Miss you Mimi.
