Witnessed two AI abuses today:
1. A busy pharmacist checking a medicine for interactions read the Google AI summary right in front of me.
2. A relative asked a LLM to value a house.
When, and how, will this madness end?
In Sync with the Sun
A thoughtful animation, just under 4 minutes.
A short animation by Emily Downe exploring the rhythms of waking and resting embedded in the natural world. The film explores the impact of productivity boosting artificial technologies on our world.
We can do more, make more, profit more, but without boundaries. What do we lose when we pursue limitless productivity?
#SleepWell
Sent a suggestion on the Grauniad app to enable me to mark all articles read and also suppress read articles. This would stop me having to scroll through the same stuff multiple times. I wonder if other online newspapers offer these features?
#guardian
I recently found that a blog post of mine had a broken link to a Mastodon thread because the owner of the post I linked to chooses to expire their posts.
In future, I should:
* Summarise the thread in the blog post for posterity, reflection, and ease of reading.
* When it seems essential, link to my own Mastodon post(s), since these don't expire.
This feels like a corollary of POSSE. Anyone got further thoughts on this?
#POSSE #blogging
Scientists map the connectome of a fly's brain, consisting of 130,000 cells and 50 million connections.
"The wiring diagram was made by slicing up a fly brain [...], photographing each of the 7,000 slices and digitally putting them altogether. Then the Princeton team applied artificial intelligence to extract the shapes and connections of all the neurons. But the AI wasn’t perfect – the researchers still had to fix over three million mistakes by hand."
New blog post: Formatting maths using Typst
#Mathematics #Typst #TexLatex #LaTeX