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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D.
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Ph.D in American Studies (Consumer Culture and Working Class Studies). Lecturer at Clemson (Previously at Penn State Harrisburg and born a Michigander). Lover of pop culture. My book Media Representations of Retail Work in America: bit.ly/3YIBAgT
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One of my favourite things. I think about this a lot.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
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OZoregonzoo.bsky.social

HAPPY WOODNESDAY

Black bear cub in a tree
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I’ve been to so many movies where people just won’t stop talking: While watching Love & Mercy my now husband almost got into a fight w/ a drunk Boomer couple who wouldn’t stop loudly talking. Seeing The Bikeriders, two old ladies just chatting about stuff unrelated to the movie the whole time.

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What’s everyone’s WORST movie experience? Mine is the time a guy came into a half-full theater late, sat down right in front of another guy, swore at him for “kicking his seat,” wouldn’t move to one of the many seats not in front of anyone, and finally pulled a gun on him and screamed “I’M A COP!”

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DDwolvendamien.bsky.social

More simply put: The larger and more trainable the language model, the more bullshit it produces. Because, and i guess I'll keep saying it until it sinks in, making up statistically plausible bullshit is literally what LLM/GPT systems *inherently* do. Nice to have another paper to cite for it, tho.

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Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows key indicators for several models in GPT (OpenAI), LLaMA (Meta) and BLOOM (BigScience) families.
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According to the BLS inflation calculator $5,000 in 1936 is $114,056.52 today. #HATM#TheBoysInTheBoat

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Anyone interested in costumes getting reused in movies and tv shows should check out recycledmoviecostumes.com#HATM

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Part of what the movie sort-of skims over is that the guys who were ultimately chosen for the team were had the stamina and strength because they were so used to doing manual labor as working-class boys during the Depression. #HATM#TheBoysintheBoat

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1. Paper Lion by George Plimpton. Not a history but literary journalism (I did a lot of work on lit. journalism w/ my MA). It chronicles how an "average" man would fare with a pro team (Detroit Lions) in the 1960s. The answer: not well, but very entertaining. #HATM#TheBoysintheBoat

JHherberthistory.bsky.social

That brings us to tonight's #HATM questions: 1) What are your favorite sports histories? (Bonus points for links) 2) And what's on the menu at your home tonight?

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Pre-watch homework for anyone interested in the real story behind the movie. Great PBS American Experience doc from 2017. #HATM#TheBoysintheBoatwww.youtube.com/watch?v=kwSo...

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In all the talk of AI risks, "bland PR corpspeak becoming the dominant mode of communication" seems not to get as much attention as it deserves

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D.
@brittrclark.bsky.social
Ph.D in American Studies (Consumer Culture and Working Class Studies). Lecturer at Clemson (Previously at Penn State Harrisburg and born a Michigander). Lover of pop culture. My book Media Representations of Retail Work in America: bit.ly/3YIBAgT
169 followers125 following127 posts
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