Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
@fleeky It was a freeform demo going through my code so there's no slides, but I think it was recorded so I'll ping you when I get a copy
@andia I didn't ask *that many* people so maybe there was more but also maybe AI people in Ottawa just aren't into alternative social media 🤷
Went to a tech related meetup today and I think nobody knows what the fediverse is.
Woof I haven't interacted with that many straight people in a row inba while. Low key kinda draining.
Source for my demo code: https://github.com/RangerMauve/mind-goblin
@fleeky I actually used Vosk for my talk today with my wikipedia enabled agent and it's way faster and more accurate than whisper (for the small models)
@fleeky Stuff like searching github, running shell scripts, checking my emails. Generally individual function calls that take in and output text
@fleeky the code they generate is also often subtly or glaringly wrong
@fleeky Not yet! It can generate text based on some initial text. You can tell it to generate somw code. You can also tell it that if it generates some JSON in a specific format that you'll call the function for it and put the result back in for it to generate more text after. It could be possible for it to call a function thar saves some code and another function to invoke it, but it's harder to keep it focused long enough with small models
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Seeing some echos today of the AI trust crisis I wrote about back in December: it's very, very hard to convince people that their private data isn't being used to train AI models once they've decided that it might be happening
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/
@fleeky Unsure what that would entail. :P
Gonna be presenting a demo of teaching local a #llm to search wikipedia with "Function Calling"
What sort of APIs should I connect my functiom calling example model to? So far it's connected to wikipedia so that it can look up the latest facts
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We have been trying to get the council to act on the smell from the chip shop near us for years. The one and only council official who deals with this stuff literally lives an hour away in the country.
He came tonight and first tried to say the smell wasn’t that offensive. Like “it is just chargrilling”. And we were like “no it’s grease”. Then I started reading from this webpage about “statutory nuisance” and arguing how this constituted one, and he was basically shamed into agreeing and promising to take action https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nuisance-smells-how-councils-deal-with-complaints
Incredible to me that in the 21C we still only rely on the subjective judgement of a human nose. There is no objective criteria for dealing with this kind of pollution.
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@mortendk @eleventy I convinced my work to use eleventy for their site. Moved off of Drupal as I knew I could make a better faster site if I didn’t have to wrestle with Drupal templates. It’s a professional hospital site. Uses TinaCMS for editing content. https://fetus.ucsf.edu/
I'm gonna be in #montreal next week from monday to wednesday if anyone wants to do a lil social meet or something for dinner or lunch :)
Gonna be doing our 5 min demo at #Fediforum soon
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This paper is kinda wild:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01593
"We have discovered that hard, electrical conductors (e.g., metals or graphite) can be adhered to soft, aqueous materials (e.g., hydrogels, fruit, or animal tissue) without the use of an adhesive. The adhesion is induced by a low DC electric field."
I can see this being quite useful for possibly attaching imaging equipment or electrodes for neural recordings.
Excited for next month when I can finally get some sleep in
TypeScript linters forcing me to check the nullish case for booleans in if statements is one of the reasons I hate dealing with it. So much shit is there to satisfy the type system instead of getting work done.
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
