If people just fucking listened to trans kids and trans people in general, they would know the biggest threats to us aren't social media but narcissistic, abusive parents, legislators banning our access to necessary care, and widespread discriminatory systems that promote violence against us.

But they don't want to listen.

How to refine data for #LLMs? What does it mean that the data has high quality?

It's not about the data having fewer typos, or less wrong answers. Unless you are training a trivia bot.

The power of LLMs comes from them modelling the latent processes behind the task trajectories, the data, especially when the processes contain intelligent thought.

So, when you're generating synthetic data, or refining collected data, you will need to make sure the refinery output is of higher quality than its inputs.

This means you need to:
- Add intelligence. Make the new task trajectories perform deeper syntheses, pull in more relevant knowledge, take steps futher. Make more complex task performances out of simpler ones. Go through more possibilities. Go deeper meta-level and e.g. validate validations. Use search over alternative solutions.
- Groom out bad data. Rank, criticize, evaluate, and either improve/fix bad data or recontextualize it.
- Collect new data which is created by the data refinement processes themselves.
- Add knowledge from external sources, and synthesize it with the knowledge already known. Also consider the next level implications of all the knowledge already acquired.
- Apply skills to knowledge to produce new knowledge and new skills.

LLMs are data-defined. Data isn't a static thing, it needs to be looked at philosophically.

it's **pretty cool** watching European countries becoming more comfortable with their non-white citizens representing them artistically and athletically on international stages.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To avoid debating Kamala Harris.

#politics #vote #Kamala #kamala2024

https://youtube.com/watch?v=l1DZ0K_wLCA&si=CuTodNEad5ZkLuw-
⛔️🇷🇴Romanian video shows Russian drone impacting on Romanian soil, NATO claims ‘no obvious intent’ without knowing weather downing was accidental, mechanical, or purposeful (Reuters News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Romania #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

“Since Texas was part of Mexico, they decided all the Indians were Mexicans. They were looked at not as Indigenous people but as Mexican immigrants.”

From the archives: Lipan Apaches are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out. https://www.texasobserver.org/labeled-hispanic/

#history #culture #Texas #Indigenous #news #photography #racism

Currently sitting on a piece of furniture which people are actively filtering out of their feeds.

What a world.

#EAS #WEA for Location: PREPARE to EVACUATE in BAY POINT due to FIRE. More info at CWSAlerts.com Source: CA Contra Costa County CWS, Martinez, CA ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

In case Kamala Harris needs a mascot, let me suggest: @allstartrek #AllStarTrek #startrek

The star of the #Olympics

It's pretty clear the bullet did not take the top of his ear off as Jackson claimed because we can see it is still there. No scab or wound of any sort.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-seen-in-public-without-ear-bandage-after-assassination-attempt

Always fun to find out at the age of 45 there are still countries I've never heard of. Are they new? Are they hidden like Wakanda? Are they secret?

#olympics

VP Harris made this powerful four word promise to the audience at her first rally: “We are not going back!” And we are not!! We will defeat Trump. My new article: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-makes-it-clear-that

We have a house guest today, so the count jumps up by 14 ears tonight! Interesting observation: The Downy Woodpeckers are now working the corn. They neatly pry open the silk end of the cob and pull out the corn borers, leaving me a perfectly clean, bug-free ear of corn. Win-Win!
#BeetBear
#sweetcorn
#gardening
#allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening

Once again a winner from @Daojoan:

By maintaining a position on the far left of the political spectrum - no matter what that is - Peripheral Progressives can claim a purity of ideology uncompromised by the realities of governance. They can point to anyone who falls short of their ideal and declare them “Simps for the War Machine.” It’s a position allows them to play the perpetual critic, never risking the possibility of being wrong because they never have to prove their ideas right.

They're the political equivalent of that one friend who's always into fringe music and hates any artist who goes viral. They've got all the answers, as long as nobody asks them to actually do anything. Every policy that doesn't match their utopian wet dream gets branded as a "betrayal of true progressive values."

I've had all I can stomach of the purity race—in politics, in tech, in every corner of modern life. If you'd rather be ideologically pure in some weird idealized universe that can't exist than pitch in and help real people, just stay out of the way.

joanwestenberg.com/whatever-it-is,-im-against-it

Who did it best, Stevie or Coolio?

https://youtu.be/1TLFnokO1Oo
https://youtu.be/fPO76Jlnz6c

• Stevie Wonder - Pastime Paradise (66%, 8 votes)
• Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (16%, 2 votes)
• Both (16%, 2 votes)

12 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bOSCtZKeNRo&si=cg2yEoZbNQ6TK3j2
#RemoveThomasBach #InvestigateThomasBach
#InvestigateTheIOC #BoycottTheOlympics #BoycottTheParisGames
#487DeadUkrainianathletes
#TerroristsDontGetToPlay
⛔️🇫🇷Coordinated Sabotage Downplayed To Criminal Act: Why French authorities fear Russia may attempt to disrupt Paris Olympics (PBS News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Germany #Press #USA #Olympics #Paris #France #Mastodon #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar

https://www.europesays.com/1363034/ Há uns dias vi uma matricula que nunca tinha visto antes, com a barra de indicador do país verde claro, alguém sabe que tipo de matricula é ou de que país? #portugal

#Syracuse calm blue summer day.

@Snowshadow

Oh, Canada, my home and native land.

I'm out, I have harpooned a bacon and egg roll and a coffee ... Just reeling it in ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

jumky ??

I will edit that later

We may have suspected it already, but now the science backs it up: unmarried and childless women are the happiest subgroup in the population. And they are more likely to live longer than their married and child-rearing peers, according to a leading expert in happiness.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-happier-without-children-or-a-spouse-happiness-expert

@jerry @mekkaokereke
Mastodon does not suggest and push racist propaganda in your face, you choose who you follow, and that's what you see.

Are nazis using both twitter and mastodon? Of course. They're also using public restrooms, voting in elections, and hailing cabs on your curb. Fascists suck and eliminating their terrible traits is an endless battle we fight.

But at least mastodon isn't run by a nazi suggesting you follow other nazis and creating company policies designed to erode communities that nazis don't like.

Hi Mekka 😀 Nice to meet you

Was not wearing my regular protest cap that day, but this is the anniversary of the time I brought my #ClimateStrike placard to the RockyGrass bluegrass festival.

Curious notification shown in my Gmail spam box:

“Why is this message in spam?

Lots of messages from
privaterelay.appleid.com were identified as spam in the past.”

I asked perplexity and appleid.com apparently belongs to Apple.

Any ideas?

I'm underwhelmed with the official Harris merch, but I did buy this T-shirt, thanks to @DrVeronikaCH who pointed me to it — and @jodystillwrites who created the store, with a number of great shirts.

"Proceeds go directly to Rock the Vote to help register and empower young voters."

https://www.bonfire.com/cat-ladies-for-democracy/

#uspol #cats #democracy

https://www.europesays.com/1363044/ Hardest Pic #Altius #Citius #CitiusAltiusFortius #Fortius #Olympiad #Olympics #Olympics2024 #Paris2024

A nice vantage point to survey her domain. #Gardening #Invertebrates

Random audio post of my teenage years game that I conquered purely on sound. It sounds utterly boring now. Lol! In this short bit, I get attacked by 2 or 3 snakes, 2 giants and the last one kills me. Oh and the tick tick tick is supposed to be your heart.

The head of the FBI said it wasn’t clear that a bullet struck Trump. The NYT, of course, said it WAS a bullet.🙄

Yeah, no, I'm hoping/assuming that somebody has put it into a plugin already, but serious searching for WordPress plugins is quite hard because the searchable Automattic plugins directory is choked with minimal-functionality free versions of aggressive upgrade-demanding paid plugins. "Tesseract" gives me another helpful keyword; I was aware that there was a FOSS OCR engine but am not enough of a programmer to have ever needed to find out what it was called. Thanks!

Lazyweb question for y'all:

What if I've been spoiled by the ability of the Mastodon web client to do a one-push-of-a-button optical character recognition operation on images, as part of the alt-text entry interface?

I know NOTHING about the back-end software, services, or APIs that power that. But I want it in WordPress -- a plugin to grab text from an image as part of "Add Media" operation.

FOSS if possible; sustainable software always preferred!

#WordPress #Plugin #OCR #FOSS #Alt #AltText

Summer is practicing her superhero dog look.
She is a high flying dog.
Getting a little exercise in before we go back to our indoor chores.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

Yup. Vance caught searching for dolphin porn.

The link he ended up posting had "dolphin" and "woman" highlighted, which means those are the search terms he used.

Self owned looking for Dolphin Porn.

What would Flipper say, JD?

No scandal is complete without a good limerick.

To reach a strange state of elation
A man sought the help of cetaceans
Was he caught in a crouch
With a consenting beige couch
Or just lost in a sea of sensation?

https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-dolphin-search-history/

JD #Vance is perfect: he says the same stupid shit #Trump says, but somehow breaks the spell.

If Trump talked about never fucking a couch or racist Diet Mountain Dew or childless cat ladies, no one would bat an eye.

Vance does it and suddenly people are like "wait, uh..."

Vance is actually too "on-brand." Trump needed a Pence -- someone who looked "normal" to the disengaged middle

“On Friday, Vice President Kamala #Harris called the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot by a sheriff’s deputy in her Illinois home, according to Massey’s family members who spoke to NBC News.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-calls-sonia-massey-family-rcna163881