If you've got 5 minutes to spare, could I interest you in a short survey about titles? Everyone of any age, gender or location is invited, and it's open until at least Monday 14th August 2023.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyFT9lt5FwRH78NZmQIwbs7W952ZaGtH1srEi_6UApXzTgvA/viewform
Thank you!
@hollie Is this by following a link sent to the email address?
@octopus @picklish Interesting. I don't think "software development" is the right place to draw the line. If I'm just making a game that's not even going to access the network, being licensed and held to a code of ethics doesn't make much sense to me. If I'm working on a website that handles other people's personal information, then yes I do want that and I want others to be held to it.
@octopus @picklish Interesting. I don't think "software development" is the right place to draw the line. If I'm just making a game that's not even going to access the network, being licensed and held to a code of ethics doesn't make much sense to me. If I'm working on a website that handles other people's personal information, then yes I do want that and I want others to be held to it.
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd More Runner, but I've scrapped the spaced repetition system entirely and made it simultaneously simpler and less predictable. It now accounts for the notion of better and worse scores/outcomes. Will be fun to see how that goes.
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work
Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.
A Texas jury has found that feeding the homeless is not a crime.
"At first we believed that programmers were latently sexist/transphobic, and due to their demographics had never thought about the fact that minoritized communities might need to change their name or gender marker. However with further research, we discovered the problem was larger: Programmers had never thought about anything, at all"
@Sophie Readable JavaScript is so cool though. Someone might see it and learn something. 🥺
OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”
Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.
@wuest There used to be projects for embedding Gecko, but as I understand it none are maintained anymore as upstream Firefox doesn't make this easy to keep working.
‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/stop-calling-it-twitter-says-guy-who-deadnames-his-own-child/
Google’s “Web Integrity API” sounds like DRM for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.