Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Hi, I work with generative machines. Everything from Markov chain generators to GPT-3. I’ve trained and tuned many models with GPT2 and 3, all with the intent of simulating human interaction.

I know a fair bit about generative machines, both how they work, and how to tune and interact with them to get particular results.

I need you to hear this: they do not know or understand anything. They are complex probability tables.

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It's a really frustrating battle between making multiplayer games that are responsive and fun to play and games that are secure. There's kind of no way to do both really well, because responsive games have to let the client do more, which opens the door for cheating.

An obvious "solution" is to validate what the client does on the server, and of course most of the time game servers are doing just that. But there's only so much validation you can do before you start slowing down the server.

lmao betterhelp the therapy app startup is having an ftc action against it because it’s been sharing customer data with facebook to target ads

remember the days when you could put something in quotes and search it and get only results that contained that exact phrase? i miss those days

Android 14 introduces financed devices, where the financing entity has the capability to lock(!) the device in case of a missed payment 🧐 https://commonsware.com/blog/2023/02/11/random-musings-android-14-dp1.html

a lot of policy discussions are hung up on first-order shit like "should we do recycling" and "what things should we recycle" rather than second-order shit like "the guys who say theyre doing the recycling for us are just taking the garbage 5,000 miles away and throwing it in a river"

Here is a new scam happening. Somebody want to rent my upwork (!!) account (that I do not have) and have access to my computer so that they can work as me for a 10% fee.

Don't do this.

Hi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone :-) #electronic music :-)

tech companies: lay off employees en masse in an obviously coordinated action to depress the salaries of the people who actually do all the work

the government: what’s a “cartel”. I don’t know what that word means

This past few months at the other site has me convinced organizations should 100% do whatever they need to do to build outreach capacity independently from social media sites.

Make a newsletter, a zine, a big Signal group, whatever you want. But it should be yours, so it can't just be bought or taken away.