Jayjader

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 33 minutes ago

Can someone explain to me how this is not my president saying "buy our stuff please we were irresponsible and made too much and now it will bankrupt us"?

nobody deserves customers. Of course, it's not the technocrats nor the wealthy that will be paying for this bankruptcy but us lowly citizens.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago

15-20 thousand dollars per semester??? Only in the good ol' U.S. of A...

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Given the stochastic nature of LLMs and the pseudo-darwinian nature of their training process, I sometimes wonder if geneticists wouldn't be more suited to interpreting LLM output than programmers.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, fedia.io does not federate with lemmy.today: https://fedia.io/federation

The only way to approach "talking with everyone" on the fediverse is to host your own instance - only even then you'll probably need to defederate ASAP from any instances that send you illegal material (as in child sexual abuse material).

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Petite balle pour la gauche qui ne se mobilise pas pour les quartiers, ça fait plaisir à l'entendre hors des cercles anti-impérialistes (bien que je ne m'y attendais pas!).

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is, but maybe they mean they want no limit whatsoever on post length.

which, well, if your instance starts sending out megabyte-sized text posts I don't expect it to stay federated with many others for very long.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago

I see, thanks for the correction.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago

There used to be this website, but the url just loads up a scam site now (I've created this issue on the project's tracker if anyone has additional info to contribute).

I don't know how technical you are, @VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca , but you could try running the "defed-investigator" project locally.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

lemmy.ml, no, but I'm fairly certain that lemmygrad.ml has been defederated from lemmy.world at least, if not others.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://iceberg.mit.edu/report.pdf "We simulated 131 million human beings using LLMs and found 11% of jobs could be done by AI instead of humans" I can't tell what's real with LLMs anymore. I wonder if that's the point.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

I'll be honest, that "Iceberg Index" study doesn't convince me just yet. It's entirely built off of using LLMs to simulate human beings and the studies they cite to back up the effectiveness of such an approach are in paid journals that I can't access. I also can't figure out how exactly they mapped which jobs could be taken over by LLMs other than looking at 13k available "tools" (from MCPs to Zapier to OpenTools) and deciding which of the Bureau of Labor's 923 listed skills they were capable of covering. Technically, they asked an LLM to look at the tool and decide the skills it covers, but they claim they manually reviewed this LLM's output so I guess that counts.

Project Iceberg addresses this gap using Large Population Models to simulate the human–AI labor market, representing 151 million workers as autonomous agents executing over 32,000 skills across 3,000 counties and interacting with thousands of AI tools

from https://iceberg.mit.edu/report.pdf

Large Population Models is https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09901 which mostly references https://github.com/AgentTorch/AgentTorch, which gives as an example of use the following:

user_prompt_template = "Your age is {age} {gender},{unemployment_rate} the number of COVID cases is {covid_cases}."
# Using Langchain to build LLM Agents
agent_profile = "You are a person living in NYC. Given some info about you and your surroundings, decide your willingness to work. Give answer as a single number between 0 and 1, only."

The whole thing perfectly straddles the line between bleeding-edge research and junk science for someone who hasn't been near academia in 7 years like myself. Most of the procedure looks like they know what they're doing, but if the entire thing is built on a faulty premise then there's no guaranteeing any of their results.

In any case, none of the authors for the recent study are listed in that article on the previous study, so this isn't necessarily a case of MIT as a whole changing it's tune.

(The recent article also feels like a DOGE-style ploy to curry favor with the current administration and/or AI corporate circuit, but that is a purely vibes-based assessment I have of the tone and language, not a meaningful critique)

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

I was using "non-satire community" descriptively, not prescriptively. As in, it's not the rules but it appears to be the custom from the other posts, which is why I dismissed the possibility as I was reading the article itself. Not to mention I wasn't expecting satire of being against AI in /c/fuckai.

Sorry if it was unclear.

 

Par for the course of my recent comment regarding theprimeagen.

 

It doesn't break the app, but it does make it a bit harder to tap those buttons.

I'm using a Motorola "Moto g 5G plus" in case that affects anything.

The bottom nav bar is fully on-screen when viewing feeds and posts.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1139502

Bravo le syndicat et bravo aux travailleuses et travailleurs!

 

This blogpost is close to 3 weeks old and I haven't seen it anywhere on lemmy yet. Pretty decent writeup of not just why but also how to unionize effectively, catered to tech workers in the US.

 

"Strophes à la gloire du Quart-Monde de tous les temps" de Joseph Wresinski
Traduit en créole haïtien, mis en musique et interprété par Jean-François Gay


Si le terme de "Quart-Monde" ne vous parle pas, c'est Joseph Wresinski qui l'a choisi en vers la fin des années 60 pour désigner les personnes en situation de grande pauvreté, a travers le monde (notamment peu importe qu'elles se trouvent dans un des blocs USA/OTAN ou USSR, ou encore le Tiers-Monde, d’où le nom).

En 1966, avec ces premiers volontaires, sont rédigées les options de base de l'association : « Tout homme porte en lui une valeur inaliénable qui fait sa dignité d'homme ». Pour en finir avec les termes de « cas sociaux », « familles inadaptées », « familles problèmes », Joseph Wresinski propose un nom porteur d'espoir et de dignité, le « quart-monde », se calquant sur celui de « tiers-monde ». L'expression « quart monde » exprime désormais le rassemblement des pauvres et des non-pauvres engagés dans un même refus de la misère.

Son mouvement Aide à Toute Détresse est devenu ATD Quart Monde, et continue encore aujourd'hui le combat sous ce nom (sidenote: en 2009 iels ont decide de changer le sens de l'acronyme ATD, qui signifie désormais Agir Tous pour la Dignité).

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quart-monde
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATD_Quart_monde

La page anglophone de wikipedia sur le "Quart-Monde" renseigne d'autres utilisations du terme : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_World

 

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

When I was just a boy,
and livin' by the track,
Us kids would gather up the coal, in big ol' gunny sacks
Then we heard the mornin' sound as the train pulled into view,
The engineer would smile and wave as she went rolling through

She blew so loud and clear, we had to cover up our ears
And we counted cars just as high as we could go
I can almost hear the steam, those big old drivers scream -
Sounds my little kids will never know.

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

I guess the times have changed, kids are different now -
Cause some don't even seem to know that milk come from a cow!
My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars,
I remember how I memorized the names on railroad cars...

The Wabash and the TP, Lackawanna, the IC,
The Nickel Plate and the good ol' Santa Fe.
Just names out of the past, I guess they're fading fast,
Every time I hear my little boy say -

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

We climbed into the car, drove down into town,
Right up to the depot house, but no one was around.
We searched the yard together, for something I could show,
But I knew there hadn't been a train for a dozen years or so.

All the things I did, when I was just a kid,
How far away those memories appear!
I guess it's plain to see they still mean a lot to me -
Because my ambition was to be an engineer.

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?


Une de mes préférées de son album "all abord!", le dernier qu'il a fait avant de perdre la vie. Tout l'album est dédié a son amour des trains, souvent coloré par une tristesse sur leur disparition du paysage états-unien.

 

Article paru dans La Dépêche du 5 Mai 2025.

Surtout une confirmation du chad Jean Moulin vs le virgin Klaus Barbie, je trouve. C'est quand même époustouflant, si vrai, que Moulin a réussi a se donner la mort en s'ouvrant lui-même son crâne contre les murs de sa cellule.

~~J'éditerai dès que je suis devant un pc avec clavier l'alt-texte de l'image ainsi que je retranscriverai l'article en commentaire sous ce poste.~~ edits faits !

 
 

Je découvre ce titre aujourd'hui 😇

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