Managed to generate a really creepy version of Steamboat Willie:
The closer you look the worse it gets. I’m pretty sure this particular steamboat runs on the heat from burning souls. Now that I think about it, I’m reminded of the films by the Quay brothers.
SBIRS
Rolling more changes in on the War Elephants paper
SimAccel meeting
Working on the MORS abstract. Got a second draft that is 2,978 out of a 3,000 character max. More with Aaron later. Done, now it’s 2,988 characters and off for approval.
Back to seasonable weather, but now there is less wind, which is nice. We’ll be in the 50’s later
SBIRs
9:00 Standup
2:00 Review review
2:30 MORS abstract. Put together a crappy first pass yesterday and put it in the queue as a placeholder. Will also need to do the Schedule A forms before the 9th!
Start digging into War Elephants. Next steps, more or less in order:
A network of over a thousand spammy X accounts with blue checkmarks is flooding selected posts with waves of extremely similar replies
SBIRs
10:00 Schema meeting
Schedule MORS/War Elephants discussion. I think the part to write is “The Mechanical Mahout,” Where human-written heuristic code monitors ensembles of models to choose the best (or “go-home mode”) in comms-denied environments, based on well-defined rules of engagement, such as the amount of time w/o communication and geographic limits.
Reading through the reviews and highlighting
Enhanced Simulation as abstract
2:00 MDA – done. We may recalc the trajectories if it can be done in a couple of days
It’s helpful to understand that this is not something that Trump started. It’s been a long term effort on the part of the right wing to create and exploit “culture war” issues:
Also this, which seems legit but might not be. The account is now suspended so I can’t check, and I can run my tools on LLM error messages any more:
Sure seems to be a thing though:
SBIRs
The LM meeting yesterday makes me think that “Simulation Acceleration” per se isn’t really what people want. There is a high level of confidence with Monte Carlo techniques, not the least of which is that they can be validated statically, not statistically, like a NN would have to be. But there is a lot of interest in using NNs to store and integrate the results of simulation across thousands of runs, so that new questions and answers can come from an existing “corpus” of training data. This kind of “simulation enhancement” or “simulation extending” I think is the key to effectively “accelerating” simulation.
Travel expenses! Done!
GPT Agents
Work on the RAG paper. Due tomorrow.
Finished incorporating all the changes. Now anonymize and get ready to submit? Done! For now, one more pass tomorrow
Trust in science is polarized along political lines—but why? We show across a series of highly controlled studies (total N = 2,859) and a large-scale Twitter analysis (N = 3,977,868) that people across the political spectrum hold stereotypes about scientists’ political orientation (e.g., “scientists are liberal”) and that these stereotypes decisively affect the link between their own political orientation and their trust in scientists. Critically, this effect shaped participants’ perceptions of the value of science, protective behavior intentions during a pandemic, policy support, and information-seeking behavior. Therefore, these insights have important implications for effective science communication.
Nevertheless, people are forming deep platonic and romantic relationships with AI companions – some of which are so strong that app updates or shutdowns can feel akin to grief – and some of them want to tell their parents, pals, or even IRL partners about it. On dedicated subreddits, this has become a frequent topic of conversation, with many users sharing accounts of what went down when they did break the news (Spoiler: it doesn’t always go well). “I admitted to my friends that I found happiness with an AI girlfriend and now they think I’m nuts,” reads one post. “The people in my life don’t like me using Replika,” reads another (Replika is one of the most popular companion apps, with around 10 million registered users). There are even posts from concerned family members: “My depressed brother is dating an AI and is finally happy, but our family doesn’t know how to process this.”
SBIRs
Up to NJ for meetings today
GPT Agents
Rework results section of RAG paper
Tweak Rhianna’s blog post to introduce belief stampedes a bit – done
This is really interesting from Microsoft: “As we said late last year when we announced Secure Future Initiative (SFI), given the reality of threat actors that are resourced and funded by nation states, we are shifting the balance we need to strike between security and business risk – the traditional sort of calculus is simply no longer sufficient. For Microsoft, this incident has highlighted the urgent need to move even faster. We will act immediately to apply our current security standards to Microsoft-owned legacy systems and internal business processes, even when these changes might cause disruption to existing business processes. “
2:30 AI Ethics? Yes! And now people are only worried about LLM hallucinations, not things like data bias for things like resumes and facial recognition
A big storm rolled through the Mid Atlantic yesterday. Maybe 3″ of rain. The entire world looks like its been put through a wash cycle. I can’t stop thinking about how 10-20 years ago (370 ppm) we would be digging out from a thick blanket of white and I’d be looking for my snowshoes
SBIRs
1:30 Meeting with David S. That went well! To be continued
Working on Killer Apps paper. Finished the second pass and sent off to Aaron
Spent the morning yesterday getting scanned. I have the lower back of an older upright primate, which is not surprising. Now what do we do about the cramping?
Need to respond to Rhianna C’s email
Dave – Tobias: ProWashers 410 271 8795 daveprowash.com
SBIRs
Cleaned up the abstract and started the rework of the introduction on the Killer Apps paper yesterday. Want to finish the intro and then start of the background
This looks genuinely awesome, though I’m not sure if it’s that much better than incorporating illustrator images:
TikZiT is a super simple GUI editor for graphs and string diagrams. Its native file format is a subset of PGF/TikZ, which means TikZiT files can be included directly in papers typeset using LaTeX. Pre-built versions are available for systems running Windows, Linux, or macOS. Packages are available for some Linux distributions, or you can build from source.
It also works with ChatGPT:
SBIRs
Working a bit on the Killer Apps conclusions to put the DEPICT framework results in.
And I got my first example of a RAG hallucination!
It should be: Discrediting, Emotion, Polarization, Impersonation, Conspiracy, and Trolling
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