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Spugpow 🔰 retweeted
I read @mattyglesias Bloomberg piece. Obviously I disagree, but I think it’s primarily an education issue. Matt ought to ride the Red line up to Shady Grove and take a tour of this 268 unit project MoCo’s housing authority just finished—no subsidy, low construction costs.
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BIG TRANSIT FUNDING UPDATE
Last night, the Senate & Assembly released our budget, including most of the agreement on transit. We vote on Thursday.
The agreement is a strong step to address the transit operations fiscal cliff. More work remains, but this is good progress.🧵⬇️
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“Even if you're not in an urban area, Californians who rely on transit often have no other choice, and we are royally screwing them over if we don't address this issue,” said Sen. Scott Wiener
cal.streetsblog.org/2023/05/…
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The excuse that we can't 'save transit' because of a $30B state deficit is just false.
The legislature can provide billions *without adding to the deficit* by directing already approved transportation funds, including highway funding, to transit ops.
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
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LLaMA was a big escalation in AI proliferation. Alpaca and other derivatives are not possible without a powerful base model which is expensive to train. We can't go back to a pre-LLaMA world. But we can prevent the release of a LLaMA 2! We need government action on this asap
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BIG NEWS - BART staff have figured out how to increase evening/weekend frequencies to 20 min from 30 min, without hiring more staff or spending more money.
No more 30 minute waits!!!🎉🎉🎉
🧵 with details:
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announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images.
stableattribution.com
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Eeeeenteresting. We ran out of raw text on the internet, and now we need live feedback for further training
I predict that many (10+ in US+PRC) builders of LLMs will compete to offer API access in the cloud.
The main data source for model improvement will shift from existing text (no +10x available) to human feedback from AI interactions at scale.
Manifold #29
manifold1.com/episodes/chatg…
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To show your support and get engaged in helping, sign and please share this petition... actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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Now showing: DRONE a biting satire on modern military politics by SEAN BUCKELEW (@SeanBuckelew).
Government agents face a PR-nightmare when a drone named Newton embraces peace and leaves his destructive tendencies behind.
For one week on lecinemaclub.com.
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We are running out of a vital resource: words!
There are “only” 5 to 10 trillion high-quality words (papers, books, code) on the internet. Our AI models will have used all of that for training by 2026. Low-quality data (tweets, fanfic) will last to 2040. arxiv.org/pdf/2211.04325.pdf
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Bay Area! New Year's Eve is approaching and BART is extending train service past 1am to safely move partygoers and revelers.🥳
BART will run standard Saturday service on New Year's Eve (until midnight) and then operate 3-line 🟨🟧🟦 special service.
ALT New Year's Eve 1am service Saturday, December 31, 2022 Special 3-line service will run at 1 am -Orange Line provides Richmond-Berryessa service -Yellow Line provides transbay Millbrae-Antioch service -Blue Line runs Bay Fair-Dublin/Pleasanton only Other notes: -Trains will be waiting at MacArthur, 12th St and Bay Fair for timed transfers. -SFO and OAK airport stations will NOT be served. -Last East Bay bound train running through downtown San Francisco will be at around 1:30am. -Last southbound train heading toward Millbrae will run through downtown San Francisco at 2:10am. -Extra event trains will run during the last hour of service to provide direct service.
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I think people should think more about trying to slow down AI progress, if they believe it's going to destroy the world soon. I know people have like eighteen reasons to dismiss this idea out of hand, but I dispute them: worldspiritsockpuppet.substa…
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4 episodes of "Odeon" short series by Jonathan Djob Nkondo (Cake/FXX, 2020) are also available online.
>> catsuka.com/news/2022-12-08/…
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This is how Ethan Schlussler from Sandpoint, Idaho built his very own human powered elevator as a means to gain access to his recently constructed treehouse
[full video: buff.ly/2MCRlRx]
