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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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.
[Insufferable grocery store customer voice:] So with both of these, that’s 100% off, right?
It is once again the season of highest tension between my somatic preference for order and quietness and my intellectual commitment to disobedience and surprise: yes, it’s late June and people are setting off bottle rockets in the street.
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I've created a basic app for searching an aerial photo using text queries. That's right, you can search for "roundabout" or "school playground" on an image of a city and get pretty good results!
Have a play with it here: https://server1.rtwilson.com/aerial - it's set up with an aerial image of Southampton, UK
Under the hood this uses the SkyCLIP model and the Pinecone vector database.
#geospatial #ai #vector #ml #embedding #gis #remotesensing #aerial #python
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Gonna start calling all “AI” “the photoshop” as a getting old thing. “Is this video real or the photoshop?” “I read a news article today but it might have been written by the photoshop.”
[Looking at a society where decision-making power is strongly inversely correlated with exposure to the consequences of one’s decisions:] Now hang on, why are there so many bad decisions?
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[trying to explain the internet to 10-year-old me] it’s like America’s Funniest Home Videos times that weird conference Dad took us to where the guy showed slides of a structure matching the dimensions of Noah’s Ark that he found in a glacier in Turkey but he couldn’t say it was Noah’s Ark because there were Soviet agents in the room
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when the international package arrives, don't you bow before its worldliness? don't you ask it: how was chiba? how was hong kong? how was dubai? when you met de gaulle, did he resemble a statesman or a complex arrangement of conveyor belts? and were you bothered at all by potholes or the driver's evasive swerves?
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#JUNO #Jupiter orbiter
#JIRAM Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper
Perijove 53 #IO
https://atmos.nmsu.edu/PDS/data/PDS4/juno_jiram_bundle/data_raw/orbit53/
NASA/JPL/SwRI/JIRAM/ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA/j. Roger
Giant malign forces of capital 20 years ago use a weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.
Giant malign forces of capital today use a more or less opposite weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.
Reasonably well-informed commentators with mostly good takes: Ah, clearly the problem is that we don’t have a perfect interpretation of copyright. Consider the following thought experiment – an artist in a state of nature approaches a cave wall and…
I’ve said this before and I fear I’ll have to say it again, but watching the flip of politically connected, ridiculously wealthy, more or less unregulatable companies v. well-meaning knowledge workers on the issue of “copyright is absolute and inviolable” v. “copyright is just an idea, man” has been real unpleasant!
Running $(find ../../.. -type f -mmin -5) to learn where this code put its outputs because it’s easier than figuring it out.
I have written some bad python lately, but I spent the day reading other people’s code that accomplishes similar things and some of it would feel cruel to describe at all.
I relish the opportunities that software offers to remember that not everyone has the same perspective on whether, for example, things identified by their times should be sortable according to their times. What a gift this is; I honor and celebrate and wallow in this wonderful moment.
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”.
Charlie Loyd
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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?'
- 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
