Yep. It also reminds me that the explicit policy aim of child care and social care was to give women time to work, largely in manufacturing. There’s no way anglophone centrist governments are going to be that focussed, especially when there’s a jobs shortage
💯 I’d add that I’ve experienced some automated systems now responding to ”speak to a person”, though that might be a US thing
Plus, to frame it in a non-snobby way, having worked as an editor/ghost writer:
Even when tools improve, the TRICKY bit is that to use instagram well, you still need to be able to take great photos, have a clear aesthetic, stories to tell and do all of these consistently. Surprisingly rare
I think instagram had 10+ filters, and even then those early timelines were pretty samey. So perhaps not so surprising that the writing we’re seeing feels v derivative and dull
I don’t think you’re being snobby!
At the moment, the retail LLMs are pretty much at the level of quality that the first instagram filters were for photo editing. But there’s only 3 mainstream options, and people tend to use the one that’s the weakest stylistically (ChatGPT)
Blog search (if only as a reminder of a different web) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_...
My condolences!
I imagine it could be, in a parallel to the case of California students being allowed to choose an alternative form of assessment when it came to dissecting animals in biology class: stanforddaily.com/2019/04/29/b...
I’m so sorry about all of this!
I’ve found lawyers to be pretty careless abt what information is shared — legally covered, as in your case, but not careful
The alt text is poetry 🚲💕
Or barring that, just a functionality that lets you export your chats with the chatbots and ”live agents”.
So you have a trusted record that the gov has told you to ignore their emails
A practical application of the ”ethical tech” debates we’ve seen in the UK public sector: a single log of all the communications you’ve received from the government about your case
Far too self-critical :) ”Like a comedian, Chomsky knows what material works and he knows when to use it,” is an especially good observation. Sounds like a fascinating day!
How was interviewing Chomsky??
I checked out interviews and panels with the examiners I suggested, to screen for academics whose interpersonal behaviour seemed cruel/dismissive/unreasonable
Was worth the effort — most of my PhD experience was dreadful, but viva was by far one of the best parts
I’d add:
- start early, because scheduling can take time (mine took 11 months)
- find people whose research you respect but don’t idolise
- if difficult to find examiners with exact match of discipline/area, go for tangential ones whose approaches you agree with
Also: it’s meant to be a lottery for people who live in LA.
There should be an option to prove this, eg with state ID. The software and infrastructure for this exists!
Instead, there’s just a threat that if you put in a fraudulent zip code you might lose your tickets 🤷🏻♀️
Registered!
But LA28 need to begin hiring some service designers:
* random email the other day changing Terms and Conditions undermines trust
*FB/insta dependence locks people out
* reminders for registration arrived several hours after it opened
* weird you’re in/no you’re not loop
The waiting list for the waiting list for the LA Olympic ticket draw
”Hanging tight” but not hopeful
This is my second fave ”false positives” story ever
The farting herrings, who were not submarines, is difficult to beat
www.iflscience.com/for-15-years...
Hehe thanks!!
And apologies if that’s too reply-guy-y of me! Am slowly dipping my toes back into social media
That’s sort of true, but also there’s a lot of interesting work being done about post-quantum cryptography and how to deploy it. This panel is pretty technical but interesting:
youtu.be/sdOXO-KlK4w?...
”If a large language model can produce a "good" text on demand, then perhaps producing good papers was never the intellectual accomplishment we claimed it was. GenAl has revealed a deeper issue: we have confused form with content, polish with understanding, and product with learning.” Screengrab from the article
Echoes, here, of why so much LLM writing is hollow
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/asses...
Glad it’s useful! Reminds me that I should pick this up again for current project…
I mean it *will* mean more explaining about the need for production ready code, but that sort of thing keeps me employable soooooo…
It’s on my list of things to do once my current project is over — exactly the sort of thing I’m excited about
I don’t know what about the Tesla left with its doors open outside Lionsgate HQ for half an hour makes you say this
I’ve been asking designers-who-can code to write a post about this forever. This will save me a lot of gentle ”the Figma map is not the product territory” explaining
gavinelliott.co.uk/blog/why-i-b...
