Masthash

#bigdata

BigDataLove.com #AI »Microsoft is testing a DALL-E-powered text-to-image creator in Paint for Windows 11 « https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892900/microsoft-dall-e-windows-11-paint-cocreator #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

BigDataLove.com #AI » From physics to generative AI: An AI model for advanced pattern generation« https://news.mit.edu/2023/physics-generative-ai-ai-model-advanced-pattern-generation-0927 #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

IT News
15 hours ago

Indian Cyber Force Targeting Canadian Sites, and Other Cybercrimes - Hackers from India, who call themselves the Indian Cyber Force, have threatened to... - https://readwrite.com/indian-cyber-force-targeting-canadian-sites-and-other-cybercrimes/ #dataandsecurity #cyberattacks #cybercrimes #automation #bigdata

heise Developer
16 hours ago

data2day 2023: Keynotes zu Data Mesh und Open Data

Die data2day bietet praxisnahes Wissen vom Einsteigerprojekt bis zum Data Mesh für die Data-driven Company – sowie Workshops zum data build tool und Polars.

https://www.heise.de/news/data2day-2023-Keynotes-zu-Data-Mesh-und-Open-Data-9317461.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#BigData #ChatGPT #MachineLearning #news

Craig Brown, PhD
16 hours ago

Huawei Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Primary Storage for 8th Straight Year http://www.huawei.com/en/news/2023/9/huaweinamed-leader-gartner?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HuaweiUSA #5GGearUp #HWMBBF #Huawei #Gaming #AI #BigData #Blockchain

BigDataLove.com #AI »Jony Ive is reportedly developing an AI gadget with OpenAI’s Sam Altman« https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892135/jony-ive-sam-altman-ai-device-openai-ceo-apple-designer #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

Anartist.org
21 hours ago

Nueva herramienta: :vivero: Vivero

🔗 https://vivero.anartist.org

El Vivero de Anartist es un directorio de las artistas de la comunidad que cuelgan su arte en el fediverso y que reciben apoyo económico voluntario a través de #OpenCollective, #LiberaPay u otras plataformas libres de micromecenazgo.

Es una propuesta de financiación de las artistas que buscamos una forma de financiar nuestro contenido sin pasar por la #publicidad o el #bigdata. Y manteniendo el libre acceso a este.

#FreeAnAnartist

Captura de pantalla de vivero.anartist.org

BigDataLove.com #AI »Eufy’s latest security package can track one person across multiple cameras« https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890980/eufy-security-cross-camera-tracking-ai-solocam-floodlight-doorbell #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

Oakland Privacy
1 day ago

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundamentally-a-surveillance-technology/?guccounter=1

Whittaker explained her perspective that AI is largely inseparable from the big data and targeting industry... as well as less consumer-focused but equally prominent enterprise and defense companies

AI is a way, I think, to entrench and expand the surveillance business model,” she said. “The Venn diagram is a circle.”...

#Signal #AI #surveillance #Whittaker #BigData

David Megginson
1 day ago

@ConnectedByData @JeniT I'd like to toss in a 2018 article by my friend and humanitarian-aid colleague Simon Johnson:

Minimum viable data — When less data is more valuable

Simon was writing about efficient use of (scarce) humanitarian resources and protection of vulnerable people, but collecting less data is also a greener choice.

#OpenData #BigData #DataProtection

BigDataLove.com #AI »The Creator retreads familiar AI panic territory to stunningly inert effect« https://www.theverge.com/23889089/the-creator-movie-review-gareth-edwards #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

Food studies scholars can no longer ignore the rise of big data

Kelly Bronson
Irena Knezevic

#BigData #Crowdsourcing #Agricultural #Apps #NewTechnologies

#OpenScholarship from Canadian Food Studies (CFS)!

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/138/153

Chris Gioran
2 days ago

You may have read my post about big data not really being a thing:

https://radiki.dev/posts/a-small-dbms/#commodity-hardware-is-all-you-need

but you may have remained skeptical. In that case, here's someone else saying the exact same thing:

https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/

Marketing angle aside, the conclusions are the same. Big data is not real and even if it was, it's not useful.

#bigdata #asmalldbms #databases

Christian Himpe
2 days ago
Ellen Timmer
2 days ago

Big data policing: The use of big data and algorithms by the Netherlands Police | Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice | Oxford Academic #AI #bigdata #profiling
https://academic.oup.com/policing/article/doi/10.1093/police/paad061/7281562

“At SIB, we know that expertise in life science data is critical to solving the world's most pressing challenges.”

You can also read more on the history of our organization and the work of our members in the #SIBProfile 2023: https://issuu.com/sibswissinstituteofbioinformatics/docs/sib_profile_2023

#bioinformatics #computationalbiology #datascience #biodiversity #opendata #datascience #genomics #proteomics #programming #python #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #biocuration #biology #ecology #bigdata #cancer #scicomm

BigDataLove.com #AI »The AI assistant revolution is more than 50 years in the making« https://www.theverge.com/23888985/ai-assistant-you-chatgpt-bard-siri-alexa-vergecast-podcast #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

BigDataLove.com #AI »Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images« https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23884679/getty-ai-generative-image-platform-launch #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

BigDataLove.com #AI »Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages« https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23888009/spotify-podcast-translation-voice-replication-open-ai #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

IT News
3 days ago

Ransomware Negotiation and Ethics: Navigating the Moral Dilemma - Ransomware attacks have developed in recent years from mere data breaches to sophi... - https://readwrite.com/ransomware-negotiation-and-ethics-navigating-the-moral-dilemma/ #ransomwarenegotiation #dataandsecurity #ransomware #readwrite #bigdata

SamirMaktabi
3 days ago

Fik du ikke læst Shoshana Zuboffs bog “Overvågningskapitalismens tidsalder”, så få et referat her.
I Shoshana Zuboffs magnum opus "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" undersøger hun et dybtgående og ta
https://minmening.samirmaktabi.dk/2023/09/24/fik-du-ikke-laest-shoshana-zuboffs-bog-overvaagningskapitalismens-tidsalder-saa-faa-et-referat-her/
#BeskytMitPrivatliv #BigData #Causerier #Overvgning #BigBrother #GDPR #Google #Meta #Overvgning #Persondataforordningen #Privacy #Schrems

BigDataLove.com #AI »Meta’s AI chatbot plan includes a ‘sassy robot’ for younger users« https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/24/23887773/meta-ai-chatbots-gen-ai-personas-young #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

TracingCOVID by A.J. Fish
3 days ago

I AM SEGMENT. YOU ARE SEGMENT. We're all parts of advertising "audience sesgments". These wealthy campaign donors funding the antivaccine movement, over the last two years, CARVED OUT an advertising audience segment of antivaccine believers using online targeted ads. #BigData #Politics #Advertising #COVID #COVID19. This is going to be an interesting year in politics.

TracingCOVID by A.J. Fish
3 days ago

While some antivaccine proponents are true believers, others are cynical and well-funded. One reason could be extreme antivaccine sentiment is a *wedge issue* for upcoming campaigns. Certain politicians, if behind in the polls, gain a short-term competitive edge by amplifying their stance on wedge issues. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/anti-vaxxers-political-power-00116527 #politics #bigdata #targetedAdvertising #COVID #COVID19

KubikPixel™
4 days ago

Wenn die Polizei sich nach ihren Vorurteilen Menschen "weg haben" möchte und dies per KI entscheiden zu lassen, damit sie Unschuldig dastehen können. Künstliche-Intelligenz wird immer an Eingaben von Anbietern aufgebaut und sind deswegen nie neutral & ehrlich. Abgesehen davon, weshalb werden Daten gesammelt?

Ȇberwachung:
Interpol baut Big-Data-System Insight für "vorhersagende Analysen"«

🙄 https://www.heise.de/news/Ueberwachung-Interpol-baut-Big-Data-System-Insight-fuer-vorhersagende-Analysen-9314830.html


#rassismus #polizei #ki #uberwachung #interpol #fluchtlinge #eupol #bigdata

heise online
4 days ago

Überwachung: Interpol baut Big-Data-System Insight für "vorhersagende Analysen"

Interpol entwickelt eine Plattform, um riesige Datenmengen aus mehreren Quellen wie Social Media in unterschiedlichen Formaten effizient verarbeiten zu können.

https://www.heise.de/news/Ueberwachung-Interpol-baut-Big-Data-System-Insight-fuer-vorhersagende-Analysen-9314830.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#BigData #Polizei #news

Wilfred Rubens
5 days ago

MBO Digitaal: vakmanschap is noaberschap (en omgekeerd)
Gisteren (en donderdag) vond weer een editie plaats van MBO Digitaal. Dit keer georganiseerd door het Graafschap College en ROC van Twente, in de DRU te Ulft (een prachtige locatie). Hieronder vind je mijn impressie van de sessies die ik heb bijgewoond.
https://www.te-learning.nl/blog/mbo-digitaal-vakmanschap-is-noaberschap-en-omgekeerd/
#edutoot #onderwijs #mbodigitaal #mbo #digitalisering #bigdata #conferentie

The Big Data Cluster
6 days ago

Just added to our newsroom.

A March 2023 paper describes how an evolutionary #algorithm helped make #BigData sources more accessible.

#EnvironmentalScience #hydrology #CriticalZone #SciComm

https://bit.ly/23092201

IT News
6 days ago

Unleashing Smart Contracts for Business Breakthroughs - In recent discussions, James Tromans, the Head of Web3 at Google Cloud, emphasized... - https://readwrite.com/unleashing-smart-contracts-for-business-breakthroughs/ #smartcontracts #blockchain #bigdata #web3

IT News
6 days ago

Unlocking the Power of Financial Data: How Data Annotation Enhance Decision-Making - The need for accurate and actionable information is becoming more and more importa... - https://readwrite.com/unlocking-the-power-of-financial-data-how-data-annotation-enhance-decision-making/ ##ai#machinelearning#airisks #dataannotation #financialdata #application #bigdata #cogito #iot #ai

CERN big data: Petabyte-scale storage; moving from InfluxDB to VictoriaMetrics
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/lhc_infrastructure_monitoring/
#timeseries #database #influxdb #bigdata #cern #rrd #+

Innovative Health Initiative
1 week ago

This #WorldAlzheimersDay, visit our health spotlight on #dementia. Our research helps to:
🧬 unravel the genes behind #Alzheimers
👩‍🔬 reduce failure rates of dementia #ClinicalTrials
💻Leverage #BigData & #AI to deliver personalised treatment
➡️https://europa.eu/!nCcgmb

Digital brain. Image by jijomathaidesigners via Shutterstock.
Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡
1 week ago

🙌 DataHub, a popular open-source project, revolutionized metadata with push-based ingestion. From using the wrong tech stack to struggling with scalability, there's a lot to learn from the good, the bad, and the ugly of DataHub's engineering choices. 💡🔍 Metaphor Data is enhancing DataHub's capabilities and building the best version yet! 💪🏽💻 #opensource #dataengineering #ETL #metadata #datagovernance #datadiscovery #bigdata
🔗 https://medium.com/metaphor-data/the-grand-rewrite-of-datahub-78cf989c7af8

heise Autos
1 week ago

Jobs in der Autoindustrie: Der Data Specialist

Bei einer Chassis-Entwicklung fallen reichlich Daten an. Ein Data Specialist wertet diese aus, damit sie in wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen einfließen können.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Jobs-in-der-Autoindustrie-Data-Specialist-9214718.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#BigData #Karriere #news

Jack of all trades
1 week ago

"""
Renewable energy has also had a significant impact in the hardware manufacturing sector, where semiconductor factories, for example, have shifted to renewable energy. But the meta-analysis reveals that even under optimistic projections, hardware manufacturing will still account for a large portion of hardware life cycle carbon footprints.
"""

https://tech.facebook.com/engineering/2021/3/sustainable-computing/

#renewables #CarbonFootprint #ClimateChange #BigData

IT News
1 week ago

A deep dive into caching in Presto - Presto is a popular, open source, distributed SQL engine that enables organizations to... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3706950/a-deep-dive-into-caching-in-presto.html#tk.rss_all #analytics #database #bigdata #hadoop #sql

QGIS
1 week ago

#Geospatial data in #Parquet:

#GeoParquet specification v1.0.0 just dropped:

https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2023/09/geoparquet-1.0.0-released/

Congratulations to the team! 👏

Also: give GeoParquet in #QGIS, #GeoPandas, et al. a spin

#GISChat #SpatialDataScience #BigData

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Statistics Globe
2 weeks ago

Hey, I've created a tutorial on how to group and summarize daily data to monthly and yearly intervals using the R programming language. The tutorial contains two examples that compare Base R and the tidyverse packages: https://statisticsglobe.com/aggregate-daily-data-to-month-year-intervals-in-r

#statistics #bigdata #tidyverse #package

Jim Parsons
2 weeks ago

@1br0wn

And where do analysts suppose the #dataset to power #Tesla's #AI origniated? 🧐

“The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard” https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-autopilot-data-scope

On deck: +17 yrs of #PersonalData (every keystroke, thought, pic, vid, link etc) harvested from every soul who ever set foot on #Twitter / X platform (as fuel to power private #AI services offered by #Elmo + MBS 🇸🇦)

$44B =🥜’s

#Privacy
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#ElonMusk
#AI #ML #BigData
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#AIBlitzkreig

Jim Parsons
3 weeks ago

@erictopol

1) #ArtificialIntelligence isn’t a
“wave” –  it's an “injection” – by #TechnoFascist #SiliconValley Billionaires [a few funded by a sovereign immune Trillionaire 🇸🇦]

2) if you're a #data harvesting corp or institution *not* doing #AI as picured below? – you're doing it wrong

#AI #ML #BigData
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Health #HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#MedMastodon
#Surveillance
#BioSurveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#USpoli
#Privacy
#Democracy

@mitechs "#AI" or just #BigData #MachineLearning - is only as good as it's datasets!

And those will be biased because people are biased!

@jensclasen #KI ist eh fast immer nur #BigData #MachineLearning...

Das Problem ist dass wir fast nur #TechIlliteracy haben, weil #IT kein #Pflichtfach ist!

Und nein, die #Microsoft-Werbeveranstaltung namens #ECDL zählt nicht!

Jim Parsons
1 month ago

@EyalL @Free_Press they regularly do pursue investigations, espechally if the claims just happen very recently after signup or very often or at suspiciously high amounts.

There's an entire #FraudDetection & #FraudPrevention imdustriy in #finance that automates that with pattern detections and #BigData before everyone claimed a #ChatBot that is stupider than #CleverBot should be accepted as "#AI"...

Steve Thompson
1 month ago

"Twelve nations urge social media giants to tackle illegal data scraping"

https://www.zdnet.com/article/twelve-nations-urge-social-media-giants-to-tackle-illegal-data-scraping/ #privacy #identity #bigdata

"A band of nations including Australia, the UK, and Canada say social media platforms and websites that hold personal data are required to protect their users against illegal data scraping."

Jim Parsons
1 month ago

@baldur @briankrebs

Having followed #OpenAI #ChatGPT since launch my sense remains:

#AI (in current iteration) just a 1/2 dozen #SiliconValley #TechnoFascist billionaires throwing 💩 at wall to see what sticks (standard valley #VC model). Asymmetric leveraging of #Microsoft, #Salesforce, other #BigTech incumbents as “injection distributors" smart.
👇
@pluralistic:
“Open” “AI” isn’t (18-Aug-2023)
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

#AI #ML #BigData
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#AIBlitzkreieg
#Privacy
#Democracy

The Big Data Cluster
1 month ago

#Wildfire disturbances in the #CriticalZone have widespread impacts on soil and water #chemistry. Which are things members of the #BigData Cluster are very interested in.

We are among many, many researchers around the world studying these #ComplexSystems and how they function as part of a healthy critical zone.

The #USGS highlights some of this work happening in #California: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-adaptation-science-centers/news/igniting-change-evidence-based-review-california

Wildfire smoke rolls over a highway. Sepia.
gyptazy
1 month ago

This is real but not - and this could be your face!

Well, let's have a look at #AI and training models.

Public social media profiles offer a big possibility in scraping data. That’s nothing new so far but let’s have a look what everyone can do with these kind of data nowadays. In the past (and still ongoing) it was more regarding data theft in a kind of text like names, addresses, birthday, etc. Today, this also applies easily to photos. Guess, where you can find tons of public available pictures of people and especially of the same person - social media! What could possibly go wrong when posting hundreds or thousands of pictures of you, your wife or even your kids? Just by scraping the public available pictures from a social media platform you are able to train and create models for #AI (of anyone).

What might happen is shown right now. This random girl on social media platform posted around 1k pictures which were used for training a model. Afterwards I generated some pictures of her in France and sent her those. She replied that this is awesome but she has never been in France before and how this could be possible. We had some talks and afterwards she granted me to show this generated picture as an example. She also set her profile to private, now.

While this is just an example, this could be generated in every constellation in a kind of location, clothing (or even not!), other people, fore- & backgrounds.

Please, be aware of the data you post in public and keep your personal data safe!

#ai #ml #dl #ArtificialInteligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #stablediffusion #diffusionbee #model #generating #security #safedata #socialmedia #bigdata #data #DataScience

Doctors in Unite
1 month ago

Dr Martin Blanchard gives a vital and chilling explanation here of exactly what private healthcare wants to do (and is, in some cases, already doing) with NHS patients’ data:

https://doctorsinunite.com/2023/08/20/nhs-crisis-who-profits-and-what-are-they-doing-with-our-healthcare-data/

#NHS #BigData #PrivateHealthcare #DataPrivacy

Jim Parsons
1 month ago

@bflipp

Keep an eye out for a release date on this documentary. Gibney and his posse are likely to leave no #Elmo stone unturned…

#ElonMusk Documentary ‘Musk’ from Alex Gibney Lands at HBO – The Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hbo-elon-musk-doc-alex-gibney-1235485299/#!

I have loads of empathy & compassion for #autism / #autistic community.

#SiliconValley #TechnoFascist #Narcissist Hows-of-Saud cabin boys – not so much.

#AI #ML #BigData
#PhonyStark
#AIBlitzkrieg
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#NatSec #USpoli
#Privacy
#Democracy

Jim Parsons
1 month ago

@arstechnica @Npars01 @benjedwards

#Microsoft is now essentially (metaphorically) a ‘subsidiary’ of #OpenAI (asymmetric, highly leveraged distribution model)

There’ll be TONS more sh*t like this to come... until it’s normalized and ignored – paving the way for “Dawn of the #AI Misinformation / Disinformation Age” 🤦🏻‍♂️

#BigTech
#AI #ML #BigData
#Enshitification
#SiliconValley
#AIBlitzkrieg
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#Ottawa
#Canada
#Democracy

Evan Engel 🎱
1 month ago

"But what has me worried right now is not just the possibility that the whole generative AI economy—still based more on promise than actual commercial use—could see a massive, gut-wrenching correction, but that we are building our entire global and national policy on the premise that generative AI will be world-changing in ways that may in hindsight turn out to have been unrealistic."

Wouldn't be the first time! #selfdrivingcars #metaverse #BigData #AI

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-if-generative-ai-turned-out

Jim Parsons
1 month ago

@asymco
Given what #ElonMusk has done with #Twitter (“X” now = open pit #PersonalData mine to fuel his + Hows-of-Saud private #AI services)
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/1619242/saudi-arabia-and-uae-race-to-buy-nvidia-chips-to-power-ai-ambitions
… is it fair to apply a metaphor that every #Tesla is akin to rolling 5,000 lbs #Android #smartphone, bristling with sensors, persistently harvesting #data that will ultimately power future Musk/Tesla/X #AI services?
👇
“The Radical Scope of #Tesla’s Data Hoard” https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-autopilot-data-scope

#AI #ML #BigData
#BigTech #Privacy

Jim Parsons
1 month ago

• #ElonMusk+#MBS privately own the raw fuel source (every #Twitter keystroke ever)

• Saudi's now building their private #AI refineries

Who's an idiot for paying $44B to purchase private (unregulated) #Twitter open pit #PersonalData mine now? 🧐 This was 🥜's for an autistic billionaire + a sovereign immune trillionaire

“Saudi Arabia & UAE Race To Buy #Nvidia Chips To Power #AI Ambitions”
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/1619242/saudi-arabia-and-uae-race-to-buy-nvidia-chips-to-power-ai-ambitions

#BigTech
#Surveillance
#BigData
#Privacy
#AIBlitzkrieg
#NatSec
#USpoli
#Democracy

forschungsdaten.info
1 month ago

📢Neuer Themenkomplex: Große Datenmengen in der Forschung.

Vielen Dank an unsere fleißigen Redakteur*innen @geschr von @OSUniBe und Brigitte Wellenkamp von @unihohenheim

https://forschungsdaten.info/themen/informieren-und-planen/big-data-in-der-forschung/

#Forschungsdaten #Forschungsdatenmanagement #OpenScience #BigData

Raymond Scott Pert
2 months ago

As cars hoover up more and more drivers’ data, is it time to regulate the industry?

>“The industry is moving faster than the privacy regulators are.”

>Citing #Tesla, Rogers said cameras and wireless telemetry record drivers’ actions and stream data back to headquarters, in part for safety reasons. But Tesla’s data harvesting practices are far from unique and have increasingly become industry standard, Rogers said.
https://therecord.media/connected-cars-hoover-up-data #privacy #bigdata #bigtech #ev

LM Little
2 months ago

"Decades of #neoliberalism have melted our collective imagination. We can build a digital infrastructure that doesn’t sacrifice the public good—not to mention our civic stability and mental health—for private profit." https://breachmedia.ca/public-alternative-to-meta-facebook-instagram-is-possible/

#JournalismMatters #BigTech #BigData #Facebook #Canada

arkhi
2 months ago

“ShareWithCare”: Deutsche Telekom raises awareness for responsible use of children’s photos on the Internet

https://www.telekom.com/en/company/details/share-with-care-telekom-raises-awareness-1041810

Do your government or Internet Service Provider do something similar?

#parenting #digital #children #bigdata #privacy #shareWithCare #education

(thanks @inseo)

Chris J. Karr
2 months ago

* Registered a new company with the State of Illinois for the purposes of publishing new weird fiction from the city of Chicago, home of the original Weird Tales.

* Published a new edition of the inaugural edition of Weird Fiction Quarterly on Amazon.

* A new horizontal scaling solution deployed for a customer whose data gathering is officially Big Data (i.e. we can't do all that we need to from one server any more).

(Continued...)

#BigData #WeirdFiction #GuessImAPublisherNow

Starbeamrainbowlabs
2 months ago

Hey there!

I'm a Computer Science #PhD Student Researcher at the University of Hull.

Project: "Using #BigData and #AI to Dynamically Predict flood risk"

Research Interests: #ai, #nlp, #computervision and multidisciplinary research to save the planet

Interests:
#computerscience
#opensource
• Playing #piano @ ~grade 4/5 ish
#parkour
• Video game + music / art
• Anything #SliceOfLife
#cats
• More I can't remember right now

she/her | #ActuallyAutistic

#introductions

Solarpunk Now!
3 months ago

We can't wait for the singularity - the resistance starts now! Author + activist @danmcquillan of Goldsmiths joins me to discuss the political resonances of models like ChatGPT, the immediate danger AI already poses, and the why & how of an anti-fascist response.

EP14 is out now on the algorithmic recommendation + data mining platform of your choice!

#AI #technology #chatgpt #antifascism #Podcast #BigData

Banner image for episode 14 of the Solarpunk Now Podcast. Title reads "AI is already existential: the case for an anti-fascist resistance, featuring Dan Mcquillan." On a background picture of a data center, with a retro color filter.
Major Hayden 🤠
3 months ago

My days lately:

"Darn, I wish pandas could do that."
"Oh, pandas does do that."

#python #pandas #bigdata

ellix
3 months ago

Hello! I'm Ellix, a husky from #boston. I work for one of the big tech companies in #games, doing mostly #bigdata data processing. In my free time, I try to do #art, #commission fun pieces of my fursona, and have been struggling to make the same game for the last 7 years-- very unsuccessfully. I have also written classical music in a past life.

#introduction

Nick Byrd
3 months ago

John Anderson presented “The Environmental Basis of Memory”, at #SPP2023’s #preconference on #memory.



Dr. Anderson applied “rational analysis” of human cognition (based on only goals, the environment, and constraints of the cognitive system) to explain memory (with Milson in 1989) and find evidence for this (with Schooler in 1991).

More recent #bigData from #Reddit and #Twitter fit the model.



Dr. Anderson’s career on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PGcc-RIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#cogSci #computationalModeling

some history
motivation for new bigger datasets
some results
conclusions

Another weird effect of AI- an AI feedback loop.

"as an AI training model is exposed to more AI-generated data, it performs worse over time, producing more errors in the responses and content it generates, and producing far less non-erroneous variety in its responses.

'Just as we’ve strewn the oceans with plastic trash and filled the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, so we’re about to fill the Internet with blah. This will make it harder to train newer models by scraping the web, giving an advantage to firms which already did that, or which control access to human interfaces at scale'."

https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content

#AI #tech #future #AIFeedbackLoops #Internet #data #BigData #corporatocracy #LLM #LLMs

bblfish
4 months ago

Yesterday afternoon I presented the @ietf's upcoming HTTPSig protocol to the @w3c Solid Community Group.
I illustrated it by running my #scala crawler on #BigData published as Linked Data Event Streams (#LDES) protected with #SolidProject access control rules. (financed with the help of @NGIZero).
Note an early version of the IETF HttpSig protocol is used by #mastodon)

This is about as efficient as one can get, though Tim Berners-Lee did think of an extra optimisation, which I mention in the video recording below.
https://twitter.com/bblfish/status/1666547828506742788

(I am still waiting for the Google video upload to finish... Perhaps it is too long. The Twitter video works well though.)

Patty A. Gray
4 months ago

In an earlier post, I extolled the virtues of the #SearchEngine #Neeva, which was one of the first to use #AI to deliver a search result summary. *I take it all back.* Neeva suddenly announced it will be shutting down on June 1, and even before that date, it already sold itself to #BigData company #Snowflake. It is an almost comical example of sellout and betrayal. I should never have trusted a guy who used to be a #Google insider.

Jim Parsons
4 months ago

@blakereid
As long as it has #AI #ML and #BigData – each iteration will taste better 😉

Code & Supply
4 months ago

@itamarst started off tonight's #PyData meetup on #pandas, #numpy, and #small #bigdata with a great question:

"Should this software be written at all?"

Lots to think about on top of how to make data processing in #Python go a lot faster.

A slide says 

"Prelude: the most important question

"Should this software be written at all? 

"If your code harms people or the environment, the more effective you aré at your job, the more damage you cause 

"Make sure you've thought it through before starting!"
Jim Parsons
4 months ago

@gruber @siracusa @atpfm @caseylisscom @marcoarment

a) same reason #Twitter worth $44B to #Elmo + Hows of S’aud – archive #data trove as fuel for #AI’s (birdsite dataset priceless to MBS)

b) you recently mentioned insurance in context of GM. Persistent, real-time, harvested data flows likely to do boffo box office there

c) you're not supposed to know ;) obfuscation is core to all #surveillance based biz models

Post below (re: JPMorgan👀) is why there's no meaningful #privacy law.

#BigData

Jim Parsons
4 months ago

@Jdreben
🙏
My #HealthTech founder lens is squarely focused on individuals, families and patients specific to #MentalHealth #OSI #PTSD and most of all – #privacy & #data agency that accrues to humans FIRST

For 7 years I've watched #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC's fuck up every opportunity to employ #AI #ML #BigData in service of “doing the right thing” to produce positive #health outcomes. At *every* opportunity they've exploited vulnerable populations in service of greed.

#EthicalAI
#MedMastodon

Justin at Ecoscore
4 months ago

@juddlegum I like seeing #democratic processes weeding out bad governance around the world.
I really dislike #bigdata putting their grubby fingers into the pie

Jim Parsons
5 months ago

Humans experimenting with AI?
–or–
#AI experimenting with Humans?

Given #Musk & #Thiel are principally responsible for the injection of #OpenAI #ChatGPT into the world and human brains? – what do you think?

“ChatGPT Plugins And Web Browsing Beta Rollout For Plus Users”
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/chatgpt-plugins-web-browsing-beta/486785/

#AI #ML #BigData
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#BigTech #VC
#SiliconValley
#ElonMusk
#PeterThiel
#MentalHealth
#MedMastodon
#TechnoFascism
#SiliconValley
#Democracy

Jim Parsons
5 months ago

@docjohng

Obfuscation now core to #BigTech vendors and the #Healthcare & Gov’t institutions they’ve captured (as customers and via Tech funding of #MentalHealth research)

So what does Health Information Exchange mean for 🇺🇸 individuals, families, patients, clients and the psychologist who serve them?

It means they’re ALL chickens-to-be-plucked of intimate #PersonalData and #Health #data (for fuel to feed commercial #AI’s and associated corporate profit engines)

#Health #BigData
#MedMastodon

Patty A. Gray
5 months ago

@tchambers @upstreamism @activitypubblueskybridge

So WHY is #BlueSky building its #AT protocol around #bigdata collection? I see big data as antithetical to #fediverse. I’m here on #Mastodon expressly to be out of the firing range of the big data obsession. My entire Internet device ecology at home is designed to foil data tracking. Why would I stay on the fediverse if I knew it was feeding into some megalomaniac’s big data obsession?

Jan Penfrat
5 months ago

OK @beuc's #ConsumerDebates event on #EHDS is over.

tl;dr:

🤩 @TheProgressives MEP #PetarVitanov seems to have patients' right to #privacy front and centre. Kudos!

😖 The @EU_Commission seems to neither understand #bigdata nor their own #dataprotection law #GDPR. Sad!

💸 The #insurance #industry wants to milk us for more profits. Surprise!

🤔 And #BEUC defends #patients' rights but for some reason less so when it comes to the secondary use of #medical records by 3rd parties.

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