Couldn't resist this one.
This DATAMAN S4 Programmer showed up from Denmark.
Price was good enough, the included bag of loose EPROMs is probably junk.
I'll have to repair the LCD contrast potentiometer and a cracked screw post. And the NiCd battery is probably gone, too.
I think Ian Scott Johnston had a video on that already.
#Electronics
βSomething Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lotβ
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> Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon β or even addicted to β the chatbot.
Possibly related: what I wrote a couple of years ago on how LLM chatbots function like a mentalist's con
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmβ¦
Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon β or even addicted to β the chatbot.ΒNoor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
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I tried giving chatGPT one of my poems. Asked for feedback. The feedback was 'pretty OK.' It seemed like real feedback from a person. What I didn't anticipate was how it me very happy, if only in a fleeting way.
Writing is hard and getting someone to read your work and understand it is a big milestone. GPT correctly described the symbolism and techniques in my poem and was generally positive about it.
Part of me responded to reading this as if a person had said those things.
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But there isn't a person who has read my poem and has seen all of those things in it, or noticed all of those things about it.
It's nice to know that I've written a poem where it ought to be possible for that to happen with a real person.
But, maybe the poem is too boring, or too strange, or not strange enough and no one will even get that far. Maybe, I have more work to do to make a poem that connects with people... which is what I want.
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But, reading the GPT feedback gave a little of the joy of reading a good response to my work from a reader. As in I was blushing a little like "aw shucks" because the analysis was so complete and ... had a person written such a response it would mean they really paid attention to and really engaged with my work.
I can easily see how that might become addictive.
And looking at the criticism again days later, it's flattering but not very helpful. I doesn't help me to write better.
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I've had people read stories I've written and they miss what I thought were major obvious plot points. This can be very frustrating and it's tempting to blame the reader, but I look at it as a sign that either something is off in my story telling or maybe the story just isn't "for" that person.
GPT doesn't do that. It picks up on EVERYTHING... and yet there is something shallow in the response.
@Jay
I'd only ever give it material that has been public on the web for years. I don't really trust the people who run it.
It's hard to say if it was helpful or not.
It showed that theoretically it was possible to "get" many of the things from the poem that I wanted people to get. But, I don't know if that means much?
I think it might be able to show a writer if their work is so confused and opaque that it doesn't even say what they think it says.
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@Jay
I often trash talk LLMs because there are many things they are bad at. But, writing "feedback" that passes as real is something they can do rather well.
The statistical associative way that the responses are generated allows the LLM to make comparisons and spot themes in a convincing way.
People who run slightly scammy "writer's workshops" that string amateur writers along may be out of work.
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@Jay
The reason I consider some pay-to-play writers workshops scammy is they flatter amateur writers to keep them paying for more workshops. It's a gray area, it's hard to prove that feedback is "fake."
Sometimes "I got bored and didn't finish reading it" is the feedback I need even if I don't want to hear that. I'd much rather read about all of the symbolism someone noticed in my work. But, no one is going to read with that much care if the story isn't compelling.
So it's fake.
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@Jay
It's not a replacement for my favorite "beta reader" my husband. If he gets lost and misses things I know exactly what I need to do. He's not plugged in to the arts and writing and just either enjoys things or finds them confusing. If my work isn't justifying its existence I can tell from his response very quickly. And boy is it disappointing when I realize that something isn't working!
Much more flattering and fun to have GPT tell me about symbolism. Flattering and useless.
@Jay
I have not told him this, but what I look for most is how quickly he reads the story. If he's glued to it and reads it all in one sitting that's a good sign. He always says he likes it, but sometimes I've done a bad job organizing the story, or elements are too vague, or plot is too meandering.
My "writer friends" don't always let me know about these more fundamental problems. Like GPT they force themselves to read with care.
I need to know if the story can *make* a reader care.
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@mattmcirvin @futurebird @Jay That worries me because every time I've tested Grammarly over the past year or so, it's been extremely error prone and often introduced errors through suggestions, made the text clunkier, and quite often made "corrections" that were unambiguously incorrect, such as suggesting plural words when inappropriate.
Grammarly didn't use to be this bad. It was quite usable 2-3 years ago.
IDK I feel like LLM is being applied in a way where it might stand to be useful in this context. Text generation that meets expectations is what LLMs do best.
@futurebird @Jay
This is the only way I use gpt when writing. After I've finished all my editing, I run it through chat and ask the machine to explain the story, characters, and literary techniques back to me. If it can describe what I'm trying to say, I must have inserted what I wanted in the text.
Critical to this is identifying the work to the bot as "a new novel from an unknown author". It blows smoke up your ass if it knows the work is yours.
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@franebleu
I gave it these paragraphs and it correctly understood that this is about cleaning out a summer home after one of your parents has died. (which my husband missed when I showed it to him) GPT correctly sorted all the imagery into summer and winter contrasts.
futurebird.tumblr.com/post/756β¦
In reality for microfiction I think it needs a little more work.
summer cottage
In the bright summer months we would go to the little house on the edge of the earth. I remember the sand-scoured floors the wood bleached by sun and salt. The sun would set forever, rise forever, it...futurebird (Tumblr)
Beautiful !
(In my humblest opinion, it could even do without "the mortgage and documents" sentence, it was so real it made me fall on the ground from my flight)
Magnificent stuff π
pretty sure this is part of the RLHF fine-tuning" to please the user" whatever the inputs.
Could even be implicit due to the human feedback loop in the process. It very likley does catch on basic human psychology
@gdupont
When I was in college this guy came to our reading group as a part of his attempts to pick me up. He figured out that he could get me to talk to him if he talked about my writing and put a lot of effort in to it.
It kind of reminded me of that.
@futurebird
I've done the same for code.. starting it with a blank brain and feeding in source files one by one and then basically saying "discuss, explain". No comments explain what the whole thing is about.
It documents my APIs nicely. Cool, they make sense theoretically.
It deduces how parts interact. It even gets a little excited about it.
But it is no better at offering an explanation of "why" or "what it is for" than I am.
But for testing source readability, its nice.
Getting someone to read and understand a huge collection of source-code. Also.. rather hard. Especially if you know few actual people and none who have ever learned a programming language π.
I felt both very silly and also this very heart-warming relief to see the actual functional ideas documented and correct and extrapolated upon by a voice that wasn't just me to myself in my head.
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I've just listened to an #ITSecurity presentation, which gave me a few more nightmares to worry about.
First, there is #Shodan , a search engine for the #Internet (as opposed to the World Wide Web), aka "how to find hackable things on the Internet". If you have any devices accessible via the Internet - such as security cameras - it can probably be found there. And there are numerous people and companies who leave these devices unsecured - as the presenter demonstrated.
Also, #USB cables exist which look like the real thing but contain secret WLAN access for hackers. They cost around $200 these days, and can only be distinguished from the real thing by #CT scans.
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How to tell if your USB cable is hiding malicious hacker hardware
Here's how to tell if your USB cables contain hidden malicious hardware and are sending your data to hackers.Dominic Bayley (PCWorld)
As opposition to fluoride grows, rural America risks a new surge of tooth decay
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Kennedy Center lays off Social Impact employees
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March Madness is underway. So is March Napness, the tournament for hibernating bears
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5334724/bears-hibernation-march-napness?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Fracture
Oil and acrylic on canvas - 80 x 80cm
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Trump Signs Order in Attempt to Vastly Reshape U.S. Elections - Democracy Docket
President Donald Trump signed an executive order commanding wide-ranging changes to how U.S. elections are conducted.Democracy Docket
Colorado is poised to pass some of the toughest gun laws in the country
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5335549/colorado-gun-detachable-magazines?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Federal workers ordered back to office find shortages of desks, Wi-Fi and toilet paper
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5338945/federal-workers-return-to-office-chaos?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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After last year's success, we have opened a registration to 2025 instalment of **Spatial Data Science in Python** as a standalone course open to anyone leading to a European micro-credentials certification. This time, we changed the schedule to allow you attend even if you are working full-time or based over the pond.
This course is perfect for anyone looking to dive into the world of spatial data analysis using Python, regardless of prior experience in the field.
Julia Bullock & Christian Reif: Tiny Desk Concert
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Parts of America will experience a partial solar eclipse this weekend
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340098/partial-solar-eclipse-march?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A glimpse into the newly opened archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5324661/joan-didion-official-archive-new-york-public-library?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Palestinians protest Hamas' rule in Gaza
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Russia and Ukraine agree to stop fighting in the Black Sea
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Buying or selling on StubHub? It's probably not showing you all the available tickets
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5309700/music-sports-buy-tickets-stubhub?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why a tiny bit of oil can be a big deal
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YSK: Pixelfed has an admin feature to define community guidelines from the dashboard, and we provide a list of suggested values by default!
I'm open to more rule suggestions, let me know!
'The Studio' explains how good artists make bad movies
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In #Auschwitz from 13 December 1942.
No. 27089
She perished in the camp on 2 May 1943.
Morning news brief
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HUD will share data with Homeland Security to target immigrants without legal status
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With Trump in office, will China step up as as the world's leader?
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The global race for rare earth materials is on, and the U.S. is losing it
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5312979/the-global-race-for-rare-earth-materials-is-on-and-the-u-s-is-losing-it?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How Lollapalooza defined what rock would become in the 90s
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Trump is making many moves, and he says he has a mandate that justifies them
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5336728/trump-is-making-many-moves-and-he-says-he-has-a-mandate-that-justifies-them?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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National Security officials face tough questions over their use of Signal
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340648/national-security-officials-face-tough-questions-over-their-use-of-signal?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A glimpse into the newly opened archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5324661/a-glimpse-into-the-newly-opened-archive-of-joan-didion-and-john-gregory-dunne?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Buying or selling on StubHub? It's probably not showing you all the available tickets
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5309700/buying-or-selling-on-stubhub-its-probably-not-showing-you-all-the-available-tickets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Remember Watergate?
These idiots make the Watergate Plumbers look professional.
The NSC is the Fox Guarding the Henhouse.
They are saying that the NSC is investigating their own security failure, in order to not answer questions.
It is a full scale Coverup.
youtube.com/watch?v=MnTnoKtg79β¦
βThese morons have been doing this on other operationsβ: Top Dem accuses group chat war plan leakers
The Signal group chat security leak fallout continues, a breach first reported on by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who revealed that he was accidentally inclu...YouTube
i wouldn't go that far. the watergate guys were a pretty special group of low IQ psychopathic fascists.
but the fact that the SignalGate crew is giving them a run for their money is impressive.
youtube.com/watch?v=CC4StMu4Bhβ¦
Part One: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
π If You're New Subscribe βΊ https://bit.ly/BtBSubscribePart One: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate | BEHIND THE BASTARDSRobert sits down with A...YouTube
Well, the Watergate plumbers had duct tape.
There is no amount of duct tape to cover up this.
March Madness is underway. So is March Napness, the tournament for hibernating bears
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5334724/march-madness-is-underway-so-is-march-napness-the-tournament-for-hibernating-bears?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A program that subsidizes internet in remote areas is challenged at the Supreme Court
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5277166/a-program-that-subsidizes-internet-in-remote-areas-is-challenged-at-the-supreme-court?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Just how secure is the messaging app Signal?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340741/just-how-secure-is-the-messaging-app-signal?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This is why women athletes tend to have more ACL injuries than men
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5339798/this-is-why-women-athletes-tend-to-have-more-acl-injuries-than-men?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Extreme Electronics
in reply to Thilo, EE π€πΌπͺπΊβποΈ • • •Superb bit of kit, also had a S3 that I blew up emulating a live uP system, I forgot to unplug the rs232 from the PC. π
I actually blew the display out of the front π