heyarne @heyarne@vis.social

paper estimates that training Google's 213M Transformer language model produced 626,155(!) pounds of carbon dioxide https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613630/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/

psst, markov chains are the solarpunk GPT-2, pass it on

this talk by @mako last year on how the tools of free software have been co-opted in order to create freedom for companies instead of freedom for humans did a great job of bringing together a bunch of threads I've been following recently as well as pointing out new insights and ways forward.

highly recommended if you care about ways in which software can help people and are concerned about our work being subverted.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/digital-enclosure.html

An important day for our freedom to organize freely without being spied on: @Framasoft has just launched their crowdfunding campaign to develop @mobilizon a decentralized and federated platform for event organization

https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

Spread the word!

#crowdfunding #surveillanceCapitalism #FOSS #mobilizon #fediverse

Image from page 741 of "da bie shan zhi wu zhi" (2006.9)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/20643932808/

If Gregor had wanted to be tortured like this, we can't endure it.

Slowly moving towards a usable MVP.
More exciting updates will come next week!
#akiraux #linuxlovesdesigners #softwarefreedom

Not all of my science and data visualizations are created with code. For the last 10+ years, I've been creating models of varying complexity with kids of all ages in I formal science learning settings. #SciViz