Éamonn

A reminder for anyone working on a tech platform Make sure you consider this privacy threat model: Your server data could be subpoenaed by forced-birth zealots in the red states so they can prosecute those who arrange travel for women to a state where abortion is legal

AP News

Alabama's attorney general says the state can prosecute those who help women travel for abortions

Alabama’s attorney general argued in a court filing that the state has the authority to bring conspiracy charges against groups who help women tr...

Some really interesting insights in this paper looking at "hallucination" in LLMs: Creativity and hallucination are really the same kind of emergent behavior, differently named only based on whether they are desirable or not https://medium.com/@sayandev.mukherjee/hallucinations-and-emergence-in-large-language-models-b54952a17972 Both creativity and hallucination are caused by training with such vast amounts of data that there are long-distance connections in the underlying "consent space" which make all concepts be directly linked to all other concepts They can be avoided by limiting such long distance connections during the LLM training, so that each concept is only linked to concepts to which it has a reasonable close semantic connection

Maybe we can get people to care about the climate crisis of they hear that it will effect their sex life Article in French about how most sex in France historically happens in summer (with a note on "summer penis") but maybe not any more given the heat waves

Science et vie

La hausse des températures a-t-elle une incidence sur notre vie sexuelle ?

Le soleil et la chaleur ont-ils un impact sur notre vie sexuelle ? Selon la science, c'est oui, dans une certaine mesure !