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Drop by our usual table for stickers and keychains!
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As much as I loathe LLM "AI" built from hoards of stolen data, machine learning "AI" has become terrifically useful.
This past week I had 10 audio recorders set out in the forest and nearby grassland, all recording non-stop from Monday afternoon to Friday morning. That was on our recent university field ecology field trip.
Today I downloaded all the files to a hard drive (156 GB of data) and then I set my little M1 Macbook Air to work, using the offline desktop BirdNet app to identify all of the birds in the recordings.
It took most of the day, and now I have a 42,284 row spreadsheet of birds detected.
It really feels like magic.
Here's a quick sorted lists of all the bird detections with species IDs with a confidence score >0.9.
Together with the students in the course, we'll laterl compare how birds have changed since we started doing this in 2020, and how the birds in the grassland differ from the forest.)
#birds #BirdNet #ecology #nz #MachineLearning
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LLMs (combined with ASR models) are basically this but for text.
LLMs let you turn large and messy corpora of text, audio and images into a neat csv, which you can then analyze in any data science tool of choice. You can't just Excel your way through "how likely are right-wing newspapers to mention the race of a rapist, depending on what that race is." Not without a team of grad students doing the gruntwork at least. LLMs automate away all of that gruntwork, letting you answer research questions much faster.
You can't use pure Chat GPT for this, you need specialized tools.
Sure, LLMs hallucinate, just like human annotators do. This is why you (as a human) need to go through a sample of your corpus and figure out what your hallucination rate is. This is still much faster than annotating the entire corpus.
At some point last evening, most of the lights off, I was coming up the stairs, and was meowing at the cat. The cat meowed back, and we were having "a conversation", as you do.
I became aware that the cat was in front of me, but the meowing was coming from further up the stairs.
That's when I realized the cat wasn't saying anything, but my wife and I were meowing at each other, each of us thinking the other was the cat.
Meanwhile, the cat was sitting between us, wondering what these two idiots were talking about.
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🎥 Streamujeme FOSDEM 2026 live!
Sledujte konferenci přes náš PeerTube:
📺 vhsky.cz
3 paralelní místnosti:
- Janson (hlavní sál) - JIŽ BĚŽĺ ✅
- K1105 (La Fontaine) - od 10:00
- H2215 (Social Web) - od 10:30
Sobota 31.1. + Neděle 1.2.
Program: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/
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#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #PeerTube #LiveStream #OpenSource #FOSS
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News: Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Minneapolis' Hits #1 On iTunes Chart
Bruce Springsteen touched down in Minnesota on Friday and performed his protest song “Streets of Minneapolis,” a response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, hours after it soared to the top of iTunes.
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FOSDEM is waking up, and our fabulous team is already ready at the booth!
Come grab your free matrix t-shirt, stickers, or one of the very few caps left from our one-time edition!
⬇️⬇️⬇️ How to find us
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
Come by, meet XMPP enthusiasts and grab some merch at the XMPP & #Realtime Lounge!
--> ULB, AW Building, Level 1
XMPP - choose & build your own #chat #infrastructure (and much more)!
#jabber #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging
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Changes in version 145.0.7632.26.0:
A full list of changes from the previous release (version 144.0.7559.109.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.
Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...GitHub
dear #lazyweb: I have a metric butt-load of #photos that are entirely unorganized. total is about 166gb and probably close to 60k files? I lack the energy to sort them manually.
most have exif data. what are my options on Linux for sorting them? #shotwell seems to do dates. I considered #ente but I dunno if I want another subscription service. I don't care to share them with anybody.
boosts appreciated 💜
This has been a fun hackathon night, with more hacking, IKEA-guide drawing, and retro gaming!
Now we’re ready to tackle our first day at FOSDEM and set up our booth.
Meet us in building AW today and tomorrow with your questions and suggestions!
I just received this wonderful X20 7-string acoustic guitar made by @emeraldguitars from Ireland.Since I was not able to find too many demos of this instrum...YouTube
Hallo,
mir ist aufgefallen, dass ich ein paar leere Beiträge in meiner TL habe. Scheinen nur Beiträge mit Bildern zu sein und betrifft nicht alle Beiträge mit Bild.
pixel.tchncs.de/p/River/922869… wird so angezeigt:
troet.cafe/@sudelsurium/115988… ebenfalls leer:
Ist das ein bekanntes Problem oder soll ich ein issue anlegen?
@Michael 🇺🇦 Merkwürdig. Der Test von heute ist auch sichtbar.
pixel.tchncs.de/p/River/923161…
Das Bild von Pixelfed oben war zunächst sichtbar und verschwand dann nach etwa 5 Minuten.
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"She glides from the fashion fitting to the table setting, and from the “candlelit dinner” to the “starlight ball”, with a face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal."
A face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal. Brilliant.
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Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemableXan Brooks (The Guardian)
Palantir is just IBM working for the Nazis.
Except 10,000x more effective, and likely totally aware and innovating on ways to punish people.
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Why do people complain about curl|bash so much? Especially that the same people will often happily launch setup.exe when in front of a Windows computer.
curl|bash is not any less safe than E.G. `go install`, and it doesn't get nearly the same level of hate.
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Mario Verbelen
in reply to Arch Linux • • •where is your stand?
I use Arch btw,
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in reply to Arch Linux • • •Noujoum
in reply to Arch Linux • • •Angelino Desmet
in reply to Arch Linux • • •Huh what? Arch was the first I searched for on fosdem.org/2026/stands/, but it's not mentioned?
Edit: Oh, nvm, you're at the restaurant 🙃
FOSDEM 2026 - Stands
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