Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 5

Filed to “Images that hurt”.

♲ @kinetix@mycrowd.ca: Does whatever that is pair with these?

This is stellar reporting and asks a relevant question about how many similar Venture Capital-funded scams are going under the radar because their founder isn't running their mouth off on social media.

via @myrmepropagandist

♲ @sandofsky@mastodon.social: It took five years to write, but here's the full story behind Lambda School, Silicon Valley's disastrous foray into for-profit education.

I explain how they burned through $120 million in funding, why Income Share Agreements failed, the crimes committed along the way, and how one developer turned journalist put an end to the fraud.

sandofsky.com/lambda-school/

To give you an idea about how colossal Generative AI is a waste of time and ressources for everybody involved except the one skimming at the top, my company in the entertainment industry has been vetting or is in the process of vetting 60 different AI-powered tools for internal use. Most are requiring approval, only 4 have been unconditionally approved so far, and 42 need a "strong use case".

#AI #GenerativeAI

Filing to “pictures that hurt”. 😰

♲ @kingu@mstdn.social:

It’s currently 92 degrees Farhenheit (33 degrees Celsius) but feeling more like 100 (37). I’m short of breath walking just a couple blocks. 🥵

Last summer was comparatively mild, but this year we’re off to a hot start.

Today I Learned that openstreemap.org, which I've been increasingly using to avoid Google Maps with varying degrees of success, it just is a tech demo of what can be done with the underlying open data. 🤯

It still is an impressive achievement for a demo.

♲ @djh@chaos.social: But wait! Why don't we first get the OpenStreetMap database through quality control and then re-render the map?

And here is where user expectations and reality are clashing.

openstreetmap.org

is not meant as a user-friendly map or app or anything regular users are supposed to use.

It's simply a demo of what the OpenStreetMap data could produce but not meant for end users.

Turns out that's not what most users expect.

4/n

A cool thread about interurban electric street cars in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.

♲ @straphanger@urbanists.social: They were never all that profitable. (Then, neither are highways and roads.) But what a public service they provided! And, because they were powered by electricity...

DHL's continued insistence to get me to opt in signature-less delivery surely doesn't have anything to do with the fine print that says that I would "release DHL and my shipper from all liability for any loss or damage following delivery of the shipment according to my request.". Of course, "according to my request" is very relative when the additional information field is limited to 80 characters.

I didn't chance it.

@vic This mindset is independent of specific opinions and invoking it to peddle your personal grievances is exactly what I've been trying to warn about in my post.

In particular, branding anything as "evil" directly falls in the "One True Way" pitfall by preemptively forbidding any understanding of any kind. Again, you don't have to agree to understand.