April | 2024 | mathbabe
1 post published by Cathy O'Neil, mathbabe during April 2024| mathbabe
Yesterday I came across this article in the Atlantic, written by Matteo Wong, entitled The AI Industry is Radicalizing. It makes a strong case that, while the hype men are over-hyping the new technology, the critics are too dismissive. Wong quotes Emily Bender and Alex Hanna’s new book The AI Con as describing it as […]| mathbabe
I’ve been waiting to see how people are employing chatbots and LLM’s before worrying too much about it. Because so far it’s mostly been a weird and wasteful (and hugely overhyped) product from Silicon Valley that hasn’t been picked up too much in reality, because it makes tons of mistakes. That’s not to say there’s […]| mathbabe
On a recent airplane trip I had the pleasure of seeing a South Park special episode called The End of Obesity, which brilliantly satirizes the culture around weight loss, fat shaming, and weight loss drugs. It manages to do all of these things simultaneously: I recommend it! In particular, I’ve ready tons of coverage about […]| mathbabe
There is growing evidence that we are experiencing a huge bubble when it comes to AI. But what’s also weird, bordering on cultish, is how bought in the researchers are in the world of AI. There’s something called the AI Futures Project. It’s a series of blog posts about trying to predict various aspects of […]| mathbabe
I’m into Bernie Sanders’ and AOC’s Fighting Oligarchy Tour. It is the one thing that genuinely gets me excited in a good way about modern politics. Because, and I know I’m not alone in saying this, enough is enough. It’s time for the next version of Occupy. Things have gotten way WAY worse, and not […]| mathbabe
Guest post by Sander O’Neil https://sanderoneilclock.tiiny.site/ This is a follow up to this post https://mathbabe.org/2015/03/12/earths-aphelion-and-perihelion/ from 2015 also try other experiments on my website: https://mroneilportfolio.weebly.com/analemma.html This JavaScript program is a clock/map/single star-star chart in the style of Geochron. lets look at the elements of the site The info here is your location and the time, […]| mathbabe
This is a guest post by Victor Zhenyi Wang. Victor worked as a data scientist in global health and development at IDinsight India. He is currently a Masters student at the Blum Center for Developin…| mathbabe
Yesterday I read a paper that’s seemingly being taken very seriously by some folks in the LLM/LRM developer community (maybe because it was put out by Apple). It’s called The Illusion o…| mathbabe
Just in one morning I read three articles about AI. First, that big companies are excited about the idea that we can allow AI agents to shop for us, buy us airplane tickets, arrange things for us, …| mathbabe
I recently traveled to Oakland California to see my buddy Becky Jaffe, who just opened a photographic exhibit at Preston Castle in Ione, CA, at a former reformatory for boys. It’s called Refo…| mathbabe
