Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:Professional software developer
Hobbyist programmer, writer, researcher, archivist, photoshopper, videographer
Improved, (but Still Unworkable) Implementation
[He/him]
Profile Picture: A selfie taken with the phone held up in the air and pointed down. A person's (me) is in the bottom right of the picture. They have brown hair and beard. Behind them is a chair, a window and two cat beds. In the bed on the left is a brown/blacl tabby with a white front, on the other bed is a grey tabby cat
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:PSA, FYI
I will allow anyone to follow me that seems like a real person and relatively decent
I will not follow back unless I have seen a lot of your posts around and we've had a conversation or two
Basically, don't follow me just because you are expecting me to reciprocate and want number to go up
Thank you
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:So I guess an #introduction is the thing to do.
Hello, my name is Kyle and I'm a software developer.
I'm interested in #programming and #computerHistory. I work on my own programming projects as well as working my way through programming textbooks and writing about programming.
Over the past couple of years I've gotten into #retroComputing and learning about the history of operating systems and disk formats.
I do non-computer related things as well, I promise.
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:Hi, I have Ocular albinism
I have hinted at having vision issues on here but haven't been specific. As much as you shouldn't need to explain your disability to anyone, beyond explaining your needs, I think it is good to be open about such things.
Some of the light receptors in my eyes are missing pigment which means that they don't activate properly (Ocular = eye, albinism = albino = lacking pigment)
I have 20/200 vision (corrected and averaged across both eyes, left < right)
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:Hi, I have Ocular albinism
I have hinted at having vision issues on here but haven't been specific. As much as you shouldn't need to explain your disability to anyone, beyond explaining your needs, I think it is good to be open about such things.
Some of the light receptors in my eyes are missing pigment which means that they don't activate properly (Ocular = eye, albinism = albino = lacking pigment)
I have 20/200 vision (corrected and averaged across both eyes, left < right)
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:My focus and colour vision are both pretty good. Mainly where I have problems is visual acuity and low light.
I need more light in order for my eyes to get enough information (which is annoying because I am also light sensitive) about what I am seeing and I have a hard time seeing detail in things that are small or far away
My typical explanation is that normal people have HD/4k eyes and I see in standard def. Things need to be bigger in order to see details.
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:My focus and colour vision are both pretty good. Mainly where I have problems is visual acuity and low light.
I need more light in order for my eyes to get enough information (which is annoying because I am also light sensitive) about what I am seeing and I have a hard time seeing detail in things that are small or far away
My typical explanation is that normal people have HD/4k eyes and I see in standard def. Things need to be bigger in order to see details.
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:My eyes also move in an attempt to get a better view on things (I don't notice this happening). If i'm tired I can end up subconsciously shaking my head.
I have a lazy eye because my right eye is much better than my left. This also means I have poor to no depth perception andcan'tsee 3D movies.
I also have an astigmatism which means that I tend to roatate my head because it's easier to differentiate things vertically than horizontally
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:Where do you get wooden blocks from?
Like the angled ones that you can use to lift things by pushing them under
What would you call a that?
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca it's not personal, non-commercial use though
LLM work by learning what words are associated with what context and then spitting those words out again when prompted with a similar context
They are regurgitation engines. They can only spit out, produce a copy of, the content that went into them.
It would be illegal to sell collages of people's Instagram posts without their permission. LLMs are that but with people's words
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca the argument you would use is actually that it's a transformative work. The process of the content going through the machine makes it unique.
The problem there is that LLMs can't have original ideas. They can't rephrase or paraphrase. All of that transformation comes from combining your words with other people's words
So the defence is that you have stolen from so many people that it's not obvious what was stolen from whom
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:Pets will sniff anything you present them
How many of your friends can you say that about?
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:PSA, FYI
I will allow anyone to follow me that seems like a real person and relatively decent
I will not follow back unless I have seen a lot of your posts around and we've had a conversation or two
Basically, don't follow me just because you are expecting me to reciprocate and want number to go up
Thank you
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:My focus and colour vision are both pretty good. Mainly where I have problems is visual acuity and low light.
I need more light in order for my eyes to get enough information (which is annoying because I am also light sensitive) about what I am seeing and I have a hard time seeing detail in things that are small or far away
My typical explanation is that normal people have HD/4k eyes and I see in standard def. Things need to be bigger in order to see details.
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:My eyes also move in an attempt to get a better view on things (I don't notice this happening). If i'm tired I can end up subconsciously shaking my head.
I have a lazy eye because my right eye is much better than my left. This also means I have poor to no depth perception andcan'tsee 3D movies.
I also have an astigmatism which means that I tend to roatate my head because it's easier to differentiate things vertically than horizontally
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:Hi, I have Ocular albinism
I have hinted at having vision issues on here but haven't been specific. As much as you shouldn't need to explain your disability to anyone, beyond explaining your needs, I think it is good to be open about such things.
Some of the light receptors in my eyes are missing pigment which means that they don't activate properly (Ocular = eye, albinism = albino = lacking pigment)
I have 20/200 vision (corrected and averaged across both eyes, left < right)
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:My focus and colour vision are both pretty good. Mainly where I have problems is visual acuity and low light.
I need more light in order for my eyes to get enough information (which is annoying because I am also light sensitive) about what I am seeing and I have a hard time seeing detail in things that are small or far away
My typical explanation is that normal people have HD/4k eyes and I see in standard def. Things need to be bigger in order to see details.
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:Hi, I have Ocular albinism
I have hinted at having vision issues on here but haven't been specific. As much as you shouldn't need to explain your disability to anyone, beyond explaining your needs, I think it is good to be open about such things.
Some of the light receptors in my eyes are missing pigment which means that they don't activate properly (Ocular = eye, albinism = albino = lacking pigment)
I have 20/200 vision (corrected and averaged across both eyes, left < right)
Kyle Brown :DBFHBear:So I guess an #introduction is the thing to do.
Hello, my name is Kyle and I'm a software developer.
I'm interested in #programming and #computerHistory. I work on my own programming projects as well as working my way through programming textbooks and writing about programming.
Over the past couple of years I've gotten into #retroComputing and learning about the history of operating systems and disk formats.
I do non-computer related things as well, I promise.