Advanced persistent curiosity.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined October 2015
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Came up with "Crypty McCryptoFace" at #MISCconf as a joke, now consensus is that I need to make it my display name. OP delivers!
@onepay My partner’s husband died, and when she called to let you know you shut down *her* account instead, causing her paycheck to be returned. She’s now being told she has to wait half a week for deposit to clear. Memorial service is tomorrow. Worst customer service ever.
@onepay CSRs refuse to acknowledge the *colossal* mistake, blandly reiterate process as though from a script without any interest in escalation, and offer zero ideas to attempt help. CSRs refuse to *identify* themselves beyond first name. I have never been more disgusted.
I have been a OnePay customer for four years. She has been one for almost ten years. Neither of us will ever trust @onepay with our finances again.
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In the interests of transparency, here is a listing of some of the @DOGE "lieutenants" currently rifling through government files & databases without much oversight. (We've sorted by gender and age, just for the fun of it.)
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Already not looking forward to it... 😆
But let's have a good one #Woofgang !! 🐾🐾
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Actually, really liked the Apple Intelligence announcement. It must be a very exciting time at Apple as they layer AI on top of the entire OS. A few of the major themes.
Step 1 Multimodal I/O. Enable text/audio/image/video capability, both read and write. These are the native human APIs, so to speak.
Step 2 Agentic. Allow all parts of the OS and apps to inter-operate via "function calling"; kernel process LLM that can schedule and coordinate work across them given user queries.
Step 3 Frictionless. Fully integrate these features in a highly frictionless, fast, "always on", and contextual way. No going around copy pasting information, prompt engineering, or etc. Adapt the UI accordingly.
Step 4 Initiative. Don't perform a task given a prompt, anticipate the prompt, suggest, initiate.
Step 5 Delegation hierarchy. Move as much intelligence as you can on device (Apple Silicon very helpful and well-suited), but allow optional dispatch of work to cloud.
Step 6 Modularity. Allow the OS to access and support an entire and growing ecosystem of LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT announcement).
Step 7 Privacy. <3
We're quickly heading into a world where you can open up your phone and just say stuff. It talks back and it knows you. And it just works. Super exciting and as a user, quite looking forward to it.
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Scientific paper mills (networks for publishing fake academic papers) are proliferating with the advent of LLM AI's -- and the scientific establishment has yet to grapple with it. Here, Sabine @skdh breaks it down... youtu.be/6wN8B1pruJg?si=NERj…
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Today I learned you can cancel floors in elevators by long pressing them… WHAT!?! You don’t have to wait it out if someone pushes something then gets off…. Apparently this has been normal for decades….
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I was looking into methods to hook my Obsidian vault up to my own server / potentially have a folder where I can drop things to trigger a hugo build with a new post. Found this from the CEO of Obsidian on vcware and principled software. Really resonates.
stephango.com/vcware
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FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀
Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station!
Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑🚀
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ALT Image of Xanthoria elegans, also known as Rusavskia elegans, commonly known as Sunburst Lichen, growing on a rock. It's bright orange!
ALT Image from the ISS: Looking out of the 'Cupola,' an observation window of the ISS built by the European Space Agency. The dome weighs over 1800kg and is equipped with shutters in case of contact with micrometeorites and debris. PHOTOGRAPH BY PAOLO NESPOLI AND ROLAND MILLER
And the @ATT outage gets more egregious still. "Use wifi calling", they say. This is what happens when you try to enable wifi calling. Which is predictable: the sheer load of all the customers panicking to do EXACTLY THAT effectively creates a massive DDoS attack on the network.
Getting more excited by the minute to run the #Biohacking Village for @CypherCon and SecretCon this year. With all the new developments just in the past three months alone, it's gonna be off the HOOK.
