Micro.Blog day 9 📷 prompt is wood.
Here’s a favorite from Fenner Nature Center 2 years ago featuring my daughter.
Micro.Blog day 9 📷 prompt is wood.
Here’s a favorite from Fenner Nature Center 2 years ago featuring my daughter.
Day 8 of Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompts is travel. Here’s some of my favorites from Almaty during last summer’s HALE trip to Kazakhstan.
Today’s Micro.Blog 📷 prompt is switch
Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompt for today is contrast.
The experts found numerous and troubling flaws: the code relied on older, general-purpose models not suited for the task; the model hallucinated contract amounts, deciding around 1,100 of the agreements were each worth $34 million when they were sometimes worth thousands; and the AI did not analyze the entire text of contracts. Most experts said that, in addition to the technical issues, using off-the-shelf AI models for the task — with little context on how the VA works — should have been a nonstarter.
Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompt for today is reflection.
I’m using a photo from a recent rainy day walk on the Lansing River Trail
Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompt for today is nostalgia.
I went with this photo from Artprize in 2010. A time I still remember fondly.
Day 3 of Micro.Blog’s 📷 challenge is about shadow.
Here’s a photo of Rollins College’s campus. If you’ve spent time in FL outside in summer, shaded walkways make all the difference.
Day 2 of Micro.Blog’s 📷 challenge. Prompt is “curve.” Here’s a sketch my daughter drew.
When the people say, “We are sick,” tell them, “Nay, you are mortal.” Watch as the budget balances itself. Experience the serenity of actuarial software achieving nirvana.
Healing the body is expensive. Transcending the reality of space and time is free. It’s just so obvious once you do the math. Do the math now. Then we shall cut every math department.
Micro.Blog 30 day 📷 challenge. Day 1: tree.
Here we have an Eastern White Pine and some Norway or Blue Spruce.
Any time some post drifts across my social media feeds involving some slavish assertion about worship or bible studies occurring in the White House I drift back to this public health dashboard showing excess death projections resulting from federal funding cuts to public health programs
IMHO the Lansing River Trail system gets nowhere near the publicity and acclaim it deserves in mid-Michigan
Taking a Python Intro course this summer and turns out if you need to code late into the evening Olde Pine is a great companion:
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Oh hey summer.
Elizabeth Bruenig addressing ‘pro-mortalist’ ideology:
Life is good and worth defending.
Hello there.
Another piece of evidence that Pennsylvania is an east coast, not Midwest state (maybe this isn’t actually up for debate??). While boarding at a FL airport for Grand Rapids the gate next door was going to Allentown, PA: the whole process included gate agents begging passengers repeatedly to wait their turn and allow more time for previous zone.
Barely a peep from our gate agents.
Carla Hayden’s firing this week hits especially hard for me because my spouse and I just finished watching a fantastic PBS distributed documentary on the history of libraries in the U.S. Hayden’s featured briefly near the end.
It’s a great watch, neither of us could keep a dry eye at different moments.
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I took Amazon immolating $700 million dollars to distill a pure moment that evokes Tolkein at his best–as I remember him when read to me in my childhood–so good job I guess?
It really is best viewed on a big screen with a good sound system:
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UUgh, just encountered a cherished song from my youth utilized in a commercial for a conglomerate selling sugar water, so I guess I can check off that box.
Some thoughts on Carla Hayden’s firing:
There is likely “nothing personal” against Hayden in President Trump’s action, except the ongoing intention to sideline, silence, and punish those who dare to represent the best in their fields through imaginative, enthusiastic, and more truly diverse leadership. The vast overreach involved in the new “epistemic secession”—related to tribal epistemology– into a “remaking” of the nation’s universities, cultural institutions, and even its primary library of record, is the driving destructiveness that causes leaders like Carla Hayden to be dismissed.
One of the kiddos is going to through a major Peppa Pig phase so right now when they ask me for something and I fulfill the request they respond “thank you my good man” in their best attempt at a British accent. ❤️❤️😂
‘I Loved That AI:’ Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident:
Using an AI generated video to have a dead victim deliver “their own” impact statement is unprecedented. AI avatars are obviously not the real person, and what they say must either be scripted by a different person, or generated using an LLM that is not the person. In this case, the video was used to help determine the prison sentence of a living person. The video that Pelkey’s family played contained several minutes of video of Pelkey from when he was alive, but everything the AI avatar said was scripted by his sister.