Robert - DevOpsBob

Happy World Book Day!

What is your favourite book?

Here we share a delicate embroidered book cover - the perfect accessory for any book lover in the 17th century.

This cover was made in England in 1632 and originally contained the third part of the bible.

🪡 WA2010.19

Ute-Bock-Preis für Shaher Alyousef – Ein Lehrer, der Hoffnung schenkt Ein Flüchtling, der zur Stütze für Tausende wird – Shaher Alyousef erhält den Bock Preis für ehrenamtlich engagierte GeflüchteteShaher Alyousef weiß, was es bedeutet, alles zu verlieren – und trotzdem...

Der Peter von @www.pcsfueralle.at hat mich auf dad projekt Kinderhaus Gatamo aufmerksam gemacht. Ich find das eine super Sache.

Wer mag und hat, möge dort Geld einwerfen. Reposts sind auch willkommen.

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Die drei Geheimnisse der französischen Küche: Beurre, Beurre, Beurre. Bei uns auch.

Probably even worse: The US will have lost credibility as a military force and this was the only credibility that was left after a year + of the Trump presidency.

It is sad and confusing.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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Hey, suprise! The big foundation model providers are not complying to the @ec.europa.eu AI act.

Indeed.

Sure, but not without all the other code used for training.

There is one thing that is not considered: training of the models was done based on code that was existing. So it cannibalizes the work of others. This is why it works as it works.
I understand we just have to accept this?

Seems there still is at least one person who can do it!

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Sacred harmony: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch Golden Age architectural painter & draughtsman (1597-1665); pioneer of ‘church portraits’, whose subtle, tonal compositions foreshadow abstract modernism.
St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Macht nicht viel Hoffnung auf eine geschlossen agierende EU. Traurig.

AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

I made a bingo card

Totally agree. The rationality of voters is generally totally overestimated. The number of people using a (good for me/bad for me) list for decision making before they vote is probably rather small.

In memory of the great late Lou Reed, American musician, singer, songwriter and member of The Velvet Underground, born on this day in 1942, New York City

Photographer unknown

#punk #punkrock #protopunk #rocklegend #loureed #thevelvetunderground #history #punkrockhistory

The Double-Edged Sword of Automation Here’s a fun fact: my business has a fax number. No, really. Nobody’s faxed me for more than 20 years, but I still have a fax number. I pay a few quid each month for a fax-to-email serv…

There's a reason why businesses keep a human in the loop in many of their core processes. And it's the same reason I keep myself very much in the loop in "AI"-assisted programming.

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The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.

The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

Miniature, painted on vellum by Limbourg brothers & Barthélemy d’Eyck 1412-16 & 1440.

The month of March
Mars, Le Château de Lusignan, Poitou
Miniature, on vellum,1412-16 & 1440
Two oxen pull a peasant’s plough; vines are pruned, soil turned & seed sowed. A dragon (Mélusine) flies over the right tower.
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly

March is the time for digging the beds in the garden. #MedievalCalendar
MS M.399; Da Costa hours, illuminated by Simon Bening; ca. 1515 CE; Belgium; f.4v

Uh, my regular jogging area 😀.

Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

Thank you - will check it out.

Yes, exactly! Thanks so much.

@olivia.science are you aware of any recent discussions o the paper in the context of AI? Sorry for the questions but would assume that you have a very good overview about the current publications. Thanks!

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten

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Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

La Primavera by Sandro Botticelli A woodland scene in spring, where the figures of Mercury, Three Graces, Venus, Flora, Chloris & Zephyrus appear to move gracefully and rhythmically in a classical frieze composition.

Evening gown by Rosa Genoni 1906, inspired by Flora’s gown of spring flowers featured in Botticelli’s Primavera. Proust’s later description in 1919 of Odette’s ‘Primavera gown’ (covered with daisies, cornflowers, forget-me-nots & campanulas) is found in À l’Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs (Vol 2 of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu).

La Primavera, c. 1480, tempera on panel, early Renaissance masterpiece by Sandro Botticelli, Florentine painter (1445-1510). Flora’s robe inspired Rosa Genoni’s design in 1906 of ‘La Primavera’ evening gown, & Proust’s later description in 1919 of Odette’s ‘Primavera’ gown.
Galleria degli Uffizi

”Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium…”
Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, Elizabethan dramatist, university wit, alleged government spy, born #OTD 1564.
Portrait: @corpuscambridge.bsky.social