The AI trust crisis
If you've ever experienced Facebook showing you an ad for something that you were talking about out-loud about moments earlier, you've already dismissed everything I just said. You have personally experienced anecdotal evidence which overrides all of my arguments here.
Here's a Reply All podcast episode from Novemember 2017 that explores this issue: 109 Is Facebook Spying on You?. Their conclusion: Facebook are not spying through your microphone. But if someone already believes that there is no argument that can possibly convince them otherwise.
I've experienced this effect myself - over the past few years I've tried talking people out of this, as part of my own personal fascination with how sticky this conspiracy theory is.
From my point of view: the only model of development for the future of AI is open source. Especially because of trust issues. People are really afraid of AI, and without a deep understanding of how it works, it's impossible to bring it into society.
Microsolf Phi-2 Language Model - it's an old and new way of doing language models. Instead of using a lot of random data, we can use a small subset of high quality data and use that to train the model. Just like in the "good old days" of classical machine learning.
As a result, we have a small and effective model that can be used on mobile devices.
The idea is that in the near future, this will be the main method for the creation of LMs:
- It's easy to control the results
- The result much more effective
- Much more robust
Time diaries indicate that married fathers spent an average 6.5 hours a week caring for their children in 2000, a 153 percent increase since 1965. Married mothers spent 12.9 hours, a 21 percent increase. Single mothers spent 11.8 hours, a 57 percent increase
Do Parents Spend Enough Time With Their Children
There are two sides of modern fertility crisis:
- economic. It's mostly connected with percentage of income that parents need to spend on their child.
- cultural. Is that there is a gap between parents’ self-evaluations and the currently high cultural expectations for “intensive parenting.”
It looks to me that the second problem is wider, deeper and more robust
Henneguya zschokkei is notable for its lack of mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA, aerobic respiration and its reliance on an exclusively anaerobic metabolism.
H. zschokkei is a highly unusual multicellular animal that does not rely on the aerobic respiration of oxygen. The creature instead relies on an exclusively anaerobic metabolism. It lacks a mitochondrial genome and therefore mitochondria, making it one of the only known members of the eukaryotic animal kingdom to shun oxygen as the foundation of its metabolism.
How LLM works. With clear graphical explanation.
Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies
Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección
Writing Documentation for Your House
Brilliant idea. Modern houses contain a lot that needs to be documented. Several steps to develop the idea:
- create the uniform format for it
- create the platform to link the documentation with a real building
- make the docs more interactive: connect it to smart house devices, more graphical representations, interactions with utility services
E-mail providers - which one to choose?
My attempt to find an email provider that was reliable, fancy and not too geeky failed. But I haven't seen most from the list during my search. The only service that looks promising to me – Migadu
Nostr protocol
The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
Awesome list for Nostr
It looks like another attempt to create decentralised social site. More geeky one than Threads and even Mastodon, but simpler and more flexible. Must try to create transport for Zomia to Nostr as alternative to RSS.
It looks like global warmer accelerating
This autumn, it adopted the goals of the 2050 Paris Agreement on climate change:
In September it was +1.75 to the pre-industrial level.
ChatGPT is better at answering to common nutrition questions than Nutritions
I have been using LLM as a nutritionist for some time. Not only for a food, but also for supplements and medicines (not a recommendation).