Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
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- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
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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
Plant ID, anyone? I picked up a handful of these from a free box in someone’s yard on my morning walk. The label just said “free succulents”.
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Cameron, Mendocino County, CA
🗺39.2718, -123.5535 🧭232° ⛰1512 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1874
I do not 100% agree with everything Alison Gopnik ever says but the way I was grumpily muttering, a year ago, that people were critiquing LLMs wrong, and should be thinking more about children, and cultural transmission, and feedback loops, and then Gopnik popped up and did all of that far more clearly than I was even imagining, and with way more intellectual grounding – it’s been very satisfying, thank you.
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Gopnikists assemble!
'Alison, you’ve argued that the currently popular AI systems, LLMs, are neither intelligent nor dumb—that those are the wrong categories by which to understand them. Rather, we should think of them as cultural technologies, like the printing press or the internet. Why is a “cultural technology” a better framework for understanding LLMs?'
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@literalgrill Vox Media Union isn't happy about this news
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imagine what a creature called the "mountain chicken" might look like.
then google it.
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Girard Ridge 1, Shasta County, CA
🗺41.1268, -122.2917 🧭11° ⛰4032 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1654
A little free advice from crusty old Uncle Charlie: When an “AI” company (like any other company) says they have to stop doing something because the way they were doing it was dangerously good, our first reaction should be “wow, a PR strategy” and not “wow, it was TOO GOOD, imagine!”
Blunt discussion of suicidality in the news
Good-intention–adjacent online shitbirds saying that Boeing whistleblower didn’t die the way he did because he didn’t act exactly like they think someone in that situation must act is just extremely callous and ignorant and bad and will lead to a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world.
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Reflecting once again on how much more pleasant and illuminating online discourse would be if people simply put aside their self-regard and took the time – before commenting on anything – to sit down and learn to see everything exactly as I do.
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@brennen Everyone to one side of me is a permanently aggrieved bundle of ideological purity tests and grudges who runs Alpine Linux on a hand-loom and refuses to touch any artificial polymer, listen to recordings, or use acronyms; everyone to the other side is a superficial media Twitter schmoozer with a personal brand so big they have to walk through doors sideways, the political discernment of a Pekingese on MDMA, and a habit of telling stories hook-first. This is a documented fact.
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Every page of this oozes with total crankitude, which I adore, and if that wasn't good enough, the author's real name is Ralph Thomas but he chose to publish under the bizarre anagrammatic pseudonym of Olphar Hamst
Amusing myself by injecting false reflectances into pansharpening inputs. (CC BY-NC data from Maxar.)
It’s Monday and once again time to remind the world that “nation state” has a very specific meaning, different from “country”, and it’s easy to say something on the spectrum from technically wrong to actively ethnonationalist by throwing it around at random.
When other people take a long time to reply to e-mail: lazy, unfriendly, irresolute, displaying a kind of disorganization characteristic of an unconscious and wasted life. When I take a long time: busy, thoughtful, rich inner world, applying the effort to do a good job, generous and sincere, an admirable and worthy friend.
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been wanting to make some plotter drawings to raise money for all the gaza gofundmes in my timelines so I started trying out the DEM-to-SVG approach with sentinel-1 data estimates of destroyed areas. Gaza's pretty flat so as terrain it doesn't quite have the same effect but the gaps are still a lot. This is a screenshot from a corner of Khan Younis.
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Mt Tamalpais East, Marin County, CA
🗺37.9277, -122.5784 🧭163° ⛰2398 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2192
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At @letterformarchive I’m always wishing to share the many bits of object info our staff knows (or wonders about), but the public never gets to see.
Then comes @thisisaaronland of SFO Museum, who just posted a talk on using “tools in conjunction with ideas like an on-going curatorial file meant for public consumption, as a way demonstrate proof of life in our collections and to allow the public to engage with them on playing fields they recognize and understand.” https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
- charlie@planet.parts
- work
- geographical pixels
- where
- 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
