Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
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You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
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Persistently shocked by how much of adult life is dealing with the consequences of other adults determinedly (and obviously!) playing pretend, with terrible consequences.
https://lattice.com/blog/leading-the-way-in-responsible-ai-employment
Charlie Loyd
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If you've ever wondered how math fonts are made, the Noto project commissioned this amazing article from @khaled to explain all: https://github.com/notofonts/math/blob/main/documentation/building-math-fonts/index.md
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Okay, folks. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends who aren’t following the AI discourse to sort of clarify what the main camps are arguing, how they approach the issues, etc. As a trusted observer, I’m happy to provide this orienting service. No questions or comments, please. Hope it helps!
@jes5199 The empty comment is still a comment, buddy.
@riastrad If it’s threaded on the original post, definitely. You might try doing it as a separate thread without mentioning the meme? That seems safer.
@kingrat This seems like a comment, but I’ll allow it.
Okay, folks. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends who aren’t following the AI discourse to sort of clarify what the main camps are arguing, how they approach the issues, etc. As a trusted observer, I’m happy to provide this orienting service. No questions or comments, please. Hope it helps!
Charlie Loyd
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https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2024.3378121 the preprint has been out for a couple months but my first peer reviewed journal article is out today in its finished polished form and I am still pretty happy with it
Me, politely but firmly taking the jar of kimchi out of the shooping cart and putting it back on the shelf: Darling, remember we talked about how this isn’t authentically Korean because it contains an ingredient introduced in the sixteenth century? And how that means it’s not tasty?
When people get hung up on cultural authenticity, I’m reminded of the Korean botanists who publish papers stridently arguing the idea that Korean chilis are actually native to Korea and have nothing at all to do with the Columbian exchange. But they’re the only ones who care.
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Numeronyms are fun, but they have one major problem: namespace collision.
What is a11y? Is it accessibility? Associatively? Axiomatically? Autobiography?
This is obviously a problem that needs solving.
My solution? SHAsum hashing. We can avoid the ambiguity of "a11y" with this unique, cryptographically sound alternative:
Accessibility? a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y
Axiomatically? a20c4bcee8f977a3f5a3b6b499d52d7dd32584771y
SImple, easy to visually distinguish, everyone wins.
@futurebird To this I would only add: European agrarian life was already in a kind of crisis (intimately linked to colonization) – the Inclosure Acts, the Holznot, etc. This was not just a thing out of place but a broken thing out of place.
I’m not a religious man, but I do believe there’s insight and value in scripture.
Some days I think a lot of people on social media are deliberately doing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_theory_(psychology) in reverse because they think that’s what empathy means.
It’s like 23 layers of indirection before you find an actual string that will actually appear on the actual user’s actual screen, and I’m sure this is the right choice, and is based on a lot of hard-won lessons about internationalization and ease of contribution and stuff, but … the string I’m looking for doesn’t even show up when I search?
Seeing a typo in an open-source project, going to submit a patch, being unable to find where the typo actually lives in the codebase because contemporary frontend code makes me feel like I’m looking at Solaris from Stanisław Lem’s book “Solaris” (1961).
@allafarce “Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy”, “Trees in paradise”, “How infrastructure works”.
@allafarce “When we cease to understand the world”, “Gideon the ninth”, “The future eaters”.
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I feel like there are very few good long-term guidelines for social media behavior but “try to work through your grief and fear without yelling at people who are working through their own grief and fear in their own way” feels like a solid candidate.
@hannah I was today years old,
- charlie@planet.parts
- work
- geographical pixels
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- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
- who
- him
You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
