Perpetual cynic and hopeless optimist. SRE. Resilience in Software Foundation. Journalism, security and privacy. Equality for all. (he/him)
Austin, TX
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ALT Always has been meme. The first astronaut is looking off into space saying, “Wait, AI is just software?” The other astronaut is pointing a gun at his back responding, “Always has been.”
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The US uses many growth promoting hormones in livestock and pesticides that are banned in Europe. Examples include avoparcin, bacitracin, spiramycin, tylosin, virginiamycin, chlorpyrifos, acephate, bensulide, dimethoate and malathion.
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The Greener Pastures Problem: The hesitance to pursue improvements in a legacy system because of the promise of a successor system. The pace of the migration ensures that the legacy system remains in place far longer than anticipated.
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An AI advice bot but its only training dataset is Twitter replies
Q: What’s the standard deduction for 2022?
A: Bitcoin fixes this
Q: What’s the best way to keep avocados fresh?
A: Bitcoin fixes this
Q: How do I stream the Academy Awards?
A: Bitcoin fixes this
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The threat of AI to humanity is not from an emergent super intelligence like Skynet or replacement of humans. It is the unequal distribution of the technology and who is allowed to benefit from advancements.
📌 Questions in the open letter:
Should we let AI flood social media with propaganda & untruth?
Should we automate all the jobs?
Should we develop AI minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete, and replace us?
Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?
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Trying to read an article blurred behind a paywall modal by deleting overlay div tags in dev tools
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“Responding to incidents is not the same thing as writing code and it’s unfair to expect someone to be good at one because they’re good at the other. “ @ThaiWoodHere dropping some knowledge on scalable incident response at #SREcon
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I asked ChatGPT to hallucinate the episode of House MD that led to the spin-off of the Last of Us franchise
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I fed ChatGPT a table schema and a few example rows. I then gave it natural language instructions for some data to insert and didn’t even need to give the exact column keys and it spit out the syntactically correct INSERT query to run.
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ChatGPT is remarkable and is disruptive but not for the reasons many people are claiming or fearing.
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Breakthroughs in AI are most powerful when they're used to augment humans, not replace them. Anyone advocating that AI can replace humans in any domain or application should be immediately met with suspicion.
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“Robustness matters. It’s what gives shareholder value its value. But resilience, it’s what saves you.” — Todd Conklin
After the dust has settled with SVB and we start doing retrospectives, we will need to discuss the principles of resilience and high availability as core pillars outside of just infrastructure and application architecture.
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