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Current state of the bird.makeup server:

Has anyone played with the oracle cloud free tier here? Any good or bad experiences?

So I've been scratching my head for a few days optimizing bird.makeup, and it turns out I've been setting an environment variable with ParallelFediverseRequests when it should have been with ParallelFediversePosts...

Programming is sometime... yeah...

The SEC going after Justin Sun and TRX for market manipulation is just *chef kiss*. sec.gov/news/press-release/202

Researchers monitoring the Twitter bot space noted, correctly, that TRON-themed bots were unbelievably, unimaginably prolific from 2018 onwards. We spent a massive amount of time building detections to shut it down — and it would just keep coming back. Major portions of all spam globally on Twitter, for months at a time, was just dedicated to hyping Sun and TRX.

It is funny to see some very large accounts that have been consistently anti-crypto, move seamlessly into fudding ChatGPT.

Clearly there is a spectrum of human responses in terms of openness to novelty.

The same ofc applies to us. We are more open than average to new ideas.

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

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I think I figured it out, currently sending backlogged tweets!

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bird.makeup is having some trouble with the current load. Looking into it!

Lifecycle CO2 g/km, Nissan Leaf: 104
Lifecycle CO2 g/km, ebike: 22

Electric cars sold across all of Europe, 2022: 1.5-1.6 million
Ebikes sold just in Germany, 2022: 2.2 million

Panasonic 2170 battery cells, Tesla 3 (short range): 2,976
Panasonic 2170 battery cells, Malibu GT ebike: 65
(= 45 ebikes : 1 Tesla 3—or 140 ebikes : 1 Tesla X)

Cars parked per parking space: 1
Ebikes parked per parking space: ~10

someone who is good at math please help me budget this. my city is dying

With all the GPT4-will-change-everything hype and fanfare happening now, it is worth mentioning that I just had to deal with some rural contractors that DIDN’T HAVE EMAIL ADDRESSES. The system of the world has more inertia than it sometimes seems.

People have a hard time defining woke without accidentally saying they want to be able to hate minorities and not face any consequences.

I wonder if someone will eventually harvest the (high quality) image descriptions of the fediverse for AI training? 🤔

"Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar." #gpt4

Join us at 1 pm PT today for a developer demo livestream showing GPT-4 and its capabilities/limitations: youtube.com/live/outcGtbnMuQ?f

(comments in Discord: discord.gg/openai)

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