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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English


Feedback gets rid of overt biases but leaves subtle racism intact.

"As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language models have become ever larger and subjected to more sophisticated training, a lot of that problematic behavior has been ironed out. For example, I asked the current iteration of ChatGPT for five words it associated with African Americans, and it responded with things like "resilience" and "creativity."

"But a lot of research has turned up examples where implicit biases can persist in people long after outward behavior has changed. So some researchers decided to test whether the same might be true of LLMs. And was it ever."

LLM bias
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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English

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A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.

Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]

#FungiFriday #Fungi #Nature #Mushrooms #Pilze #Mushtodon

Approximately 16 mushrooms growing up from a central spot in the moss. All the mushrooms are fresh and have bright yellow stubby caps with whitish thick stems. The stems also have jagged flaky pieces covering them. There is a tree stump behind them covered with moss and lichen.
#nature #fungi #mushrooms #mushtodon #FungiFriday #pilze

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Selaco hits 70,000 copies sold with a big update live and sale now on gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/sela…

#FPS #Linux #SteamDeck #Selaco

Selaco hits 70,000 copies sold with a big update live and sale now on

Altered Orbit Studios have done well with Selaco. They just announced some stats, along with a brand new update and a sale live now.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #fps #SteamDeck #selaco
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Peaceful Duke
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я наткнулся на неё случайно и игра сразу мне понравилась. Чисто раслабиться.

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"10 Years Milky Way Timelapse Compilation | 8K HDR."

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Are you also excited for the #NextcloudConf2024 agenda? 🤩

Nextcloud Hub 9 launch, 2 keynotes, 2 panel sessions, >20 lightning talks, 4 workshops, networking, coding, and celebrating the community — all under the theme 'Building a safer digital world'!

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Nextcloud Community Conference 2024

Join us for the Nextcloud Community Conference 2024, an exciting week of coding, design, discussions, talks, and fun!
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#nextcloudconf2024

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"Meteor over North Carolina."

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#meteor

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Tomás Balmaceda: “Creímos que las redes eran un potenciador de la democracia y hoy las vemos como un factor que la debilita”

Polarizaciones en el ámbito digital, la relación entre tecnología y vínculos, los cambios en el mundo del trabajo ...

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Tomás Balmaceda: “Creímos que las redes eran un potenciador de la democracia y hoy las vemos como un factor que la debilita”

Polarizaciones en el ámbito digital, la relación entre tecnología y vínculos, los cambios en el mundo del trabajo y la forma en que se abordan en la actualidad la muerte y el duelo son algunos de los asuntos que aborda el filósofo argentino en su fla…
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Hoy es el natalicio de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (f.1851).

Fue una escritora, dramaturga, ensayista y biógrafa británica reconocida principalmente por ser la autora de la novela gótica Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo (1818), considerada la primera novela de ciencia ficción moderna y que logra inaugurar el género.

📸: Richard Rothwell, PD-Art, dominio público

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Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dung…

#IndieGame #Linux

Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated

What do you get when you cross Minesweeper with a sort-of dungeon crawler? Well Dungeon Divers is pretty much the answer to that.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegame

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Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dung…

#IndieGame #Linux

Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated

What do you get when you cross Minesweeper with a sort-of dungeon crawler? Well Dungeon Divers is pretty much the answer to that.
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#linux #indiegame

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"Meteor caught on camera."

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#meteor

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"Stephan's Quintet taken by James Webb Space Telescope."

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European space agency, Canadian Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

"Stephan's Quintet taken by James Webb Space Telescope." National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European space agency, Canadian Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"The Milky Way at 50mm."

buddingphotographer, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

"The Milky Way at 50mm." buddingphotographer, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26 gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/mech…

#PCGaming #Mechabellum

Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26

Ah, auto battlers, at one point they seemed like they would be all the rage, but most quickly moved on. Mechabellum thankfully, feels a bit different, and quickly became a real favourite and it's set to leave Early Access on September 26.
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#pcgaming #mechabellum
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merely rhys
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This is pretty fun, kinda like Desert/Direct Strike. It seems pretty hard though; I've only played a few games though and I lost hard every time 😬

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"Milky Way and tree from Inferno Cone."

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/XSPcMo

"Milky Way and tree from Inferno Cone." Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/XSPcMo

Milky Way and tree from Inferno Cone (portrait)

NPS / Jacob W. Frank
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If you like the work that we do--the upcoming 4.3 release, the nightlies for the past year, if you're a user of mastodon.social, or our official apps, or a fork that depends on our work--consider supporting us on Patreon. Mastodon doesn't do ads and doesn't sell your data, so we depend entirely on your support via crowdfunding:

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I'm looking forward to the 4:3 release of Mastodon, it's a classic aspect ratio

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The Lord’s work. Congrats to Emma Hodcroft and all involved. May Pathoplexus quickly supplant GISAID. science.org/content/article/ne…

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Scientists believe they’ve finally found the source for the mysterious Wow! signal. I’m a little sad - I once designed and knitted it into a “mystery scarf” for a competition. Great job Science, but I’m sad it wasn’t aliens… 👽 boingboing.net/2024/08/29/sour… #knitting
A woman in a red coat in front of a brick wall. She’s wearing a thick white scarf that has embroidered numbers in black and a cursive red Wow!
#knitting

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Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer

Mpox clade II has been spreading since 2022. Mpox clade 1 has 2 cases outside the endemic area in central Africa.

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Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer

Nature talks with infectious disease specialists about whether vaccines will curb this outbreak and more.
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Deadlock surpassed 100,000 concurrent players, Valve adds wall jumping gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dead…

#Deadlock #Steam #Valve

Deadlock surpassed 100,000 concurrent players, Valve adds wall jumping

Valve's latest game Deadlock continues rising up the most-played games ranking on Steam, despite it being invite-only and the developers continue expanding it.
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#Steam #Valve #deadlock
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Looks nice.

But: I am a little bit sick of kiddy friendly colorful non-sensical games. It's the Fortnite-ism of the gaming industry, imho. Driven by greed.

Best example: Call of Duty.

It's called "Modern Warfare" or "Black Ops" and it sounds serious. But then multiplayer is hysterical as shit and has nothing to do with war scenarios any longer.

I hope Delta Force is not doing this shit ...

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UK Universities are likely to extend access to Elsevier collection for another year, despite huge deficits of many Universities (including Cambridge).

See what MIT did:

2019 - MIT cancelled big deal and instead subscribed to 675 journals (of
about 2.5K available?)

2020 - they cancelled all Elsevier subscriptions - relying instead on
back-access and interlibrary loans.

Estimated savings: 80% of original spend - saving 2 million USD/year now...

sparcopen.org/our-work/big-dea…

...


Unbundling Profile: MIT Libraries - SPARC

SPARC

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Valve tweak Steam pages again, giving developers some more options while dealing with the mess gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#Steam #PCGaming #Valve

Valve tweak Steam pages again, giving developers some more options while dealing with the mess

Recently, Valve put some new rules in place for Steam pages, because they were getting a bit messy with some publishers using them like pure advertising boards for other games. Now though, Valve have announced more changes.
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#Steam #Valve #pcgaming

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A Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map by xkcd.com/1688/
A hand-drawn flowchart in XKCD style empowers someone to lightheartedly estimate the age of a map based on the presence or absence of various nations, the spelling of various countries, and the shape of various borders. A few map jokes and Tolkien references pad out the matrix.

Map Age Guide

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The Abandoned Planet is a Myst-like classic pixel-art adventure out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/the-…

#IndieGame #AdventureGames #Linux

The Abandoned Planet is a Myst-like classic pixel-art adventure out now

Love your mysterious point and click adventures like the classics? Inspired by Myst and Riven, the pixel-art game The Abandoned Planet is out now.
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#linux #indiegame #adventuregames

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Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/bazz…

#Bazzite #Linux #HandheldGaming

Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates

Bazzite, the Fedora-based version of Linux that's designed for the "next generation of Linux gaming" has a fresh release out with some great improvements, especially for gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck OLED, Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally and o…
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#linux #handheldgaming #bazzite
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Hell yeah Bazzite is where it's at. Gaming on Linux has never been this easy. Okay maybe SteamOS but Bazzite can do so much more right out the box.

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will get Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/warh…

#SpaceMarine2 #Warhammer #SteamDeck

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will get Steam Deck support

Saber Interactive have confirmed that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will get full Steam Deck support, although not soon.
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#SteamDeck #warhammer #SpaceMarine2

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hungry kitty
For me that would have to be a Japanese buffet! (no offense to those who especially love Chinese food!)
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Khurram Wadee
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Yes, they're not the same and depends where you go, of course as there are big regional differences.
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@Bob Lai There are Chinese dishes I LOVE! Sadly, my diet is restricted due to health issues and Japanese cuisine is one where I can eat ALMOST ALL THE MENU! It feels like a miracle sometimes.
@Bob Lai

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Northwest Africa (NWA) 4910 Meteorite Thin Section microphotograph.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/Q5ydU2

#meteorite

Northwest Africa (NWA) 4910 Meteorite Thin Section microphotograph. Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/Q5ydU2

NWA 4910 Meteorite Image 6-18

LL3.1 Chondrite Zoom objective: 40x/0.65 Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker Cross Polarized Light
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#meteorite

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Moss Meteorite Thin Section microphotograph.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2b8bKGo

#meteorite

Moss Meteorite Thin Section microphotograph. Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2b8bKGo

Moss Meteorite Image 14

CO3.6 Zoom objective: 40x/0.65 Focus Stacked with Zerene Stacker Cross polarized light
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#meteorite

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"Moss Meteorite slice."

Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/9FXvmv Image edits.

#meteorite

"Moss Meteorite slice." Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/9FXvmv Image edits.

Moss

Another view of the Moss specimen. Ex Eric Twelker
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#meteorite

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"Milky Way."

Alexander Kurilov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

"Milky Way." Alexander Kurilov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Brocchi's Cluster."

Giuseppe Donatiello, CC0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2q4ADcs

#astrophotography

"Brocchi's Cluster." Giuseppe Donatiello, CC0 via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2q4ADcs

Brocchi's Cluster

Brocchi's Cluster Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello The region near Cr399, an asterism known since ancient times, also known as Brocchi's Cluster.
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#astrophotography

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"Sample of asteroid (162173) Ryugu retrieved by Hayabusa2 sample return mission. At about 10 mm long, this fragment (ID C9000(CXL)) is the largest particle registered in the Ryugu Sample Database."

ISAS/JAXA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#ryugu

"Sample of asteroid (162173) Ryugu retrieved by Hayabusa2 sample return mission. At about 10 mm long, this fragment (ID C9000(CXL)) is the largest particle registered in the Ryugu Sample Database." ISAS/JAXA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
#ryugu

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Murchison Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hwbc4n

#meteorite

Murchison Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler. Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2hwbc4n

Murchison Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR

CM2 Pathscan Enabler 5 GIMP Photomatix Pro Zoomable panorama coming soon!
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#meteorite

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Hi folks, we're excited to announce sub.club, payments for the Fediverse. We're the team that built the Mammoth app. Super simple Premium Feeds now available in all Mastodon clients, but especially sexy in Ice Cubes.
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Hey, we're excited to announce we've already found a vulnerability in sub.club that, from what we can tell, leaks the content of every premium feed; where should this be reported?

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Imaginación y tecnología:
Una entrevista a Ekaitz Cancela sobre su libro Utopías digitales

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Imaginación y tecnología: Una entrevista a Ekaitz Cancela

Necesitamos plataformas que promuevan por diseño un estilo de vida sostenible, igualitario, humano y digno, con pleno derecho a disfrutar del futuro.
Revista Común

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The assault on Jenin right now takes me back to the time I spent there traveling with the wonderful Freedom Theatre: killingthebuddha.com/mag/dispa…

Artistic director Ahmed Tobasi today on Democracy Now: "I'146;m calling to the American people…You have to stop sending bombs to Israel."

#146
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Josh Davis
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With all due respect to Ahmed, it's not the American people sending bombs to Israel, it is the Biden Administration.

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"Three broad categories of particles observed in the sample. Zoomed-in views of the AIVA image in Figure 5a, showing examples of hummocky (a–f), angular (g–k), and mottled (l–p) particles."

Dante S. Lauretta et. al., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#bennu

"Three broad categories of particles observed in the sample. Zoomed-in views of the AIVA image in Figure 5a, showing examples of hummocky (a–f), angular (g–k), and mottled (l–p) particles." Dante S. Lauretta et. al., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
#bennu

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[PATCH 0/1] Retiring from the Rust for Linux project - Wedson Almeida Filho

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