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Bytes Europe<p>Pedersen wins opening Giro d’Italia stage in Albania and claims pink jersey <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1000291/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1000291/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Albania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Albania</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/cyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyc</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ditalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ditalia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/giro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>giro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Sports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sports</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tirana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tirana</span></a></p>
Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:<p>[Stolen from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@sharkmime" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sharkmime</span></a></span>] To help make connections: name things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost/repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.<br><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/InfoSecButOnlyAsAPopcornEatingTourist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSecButOnlyAsAPopcornEatingTourist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Pol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/BESS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BESS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Equality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Equality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/ParkRun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParkRun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/MTB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/eMTB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eMTB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Bafang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bafang</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/CYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CYC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/CYCPhoton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CYCPhoton</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cycling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NotJustBikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotJustBikes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/SolarPV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPV</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/LessIsMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LessIsMore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/TheBugle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBugle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/DanCarlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanCarlin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/DogsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DogsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Raglan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Raglan</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/TheBugle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBugle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Aoteara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aoteara</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/JamesNokise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesNokise</span></a></p>
Pascal<p>“Don’t repeat yourself” can also be pronounced “comingle your concerns”.</p><p><a href="https://moth.social/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>javascript</span></a> <a href="https://moth.social/tags/dry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dry</span></a> <a href="https://moth.social/tags/cyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyc</span></a> <a href="https://moth.social/tags/subtootingmyjob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subtootingmyjob</span></a></p>
Chris J. Karr<p>This was an EXTREMELY interesting paper on what modern LLMs can learn from older older symbolic AI / expert system approaches to improve the validity of what those statistical models generate on their own, using the Cyc system as the contrast to the modern systems.</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/Cyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cyc</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/DougLenat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DougLenat</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/SymbolicAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SymbolicAI</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/ExpertSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExpertSystems</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/Bard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bard</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://omgwars.com/tags/KnowledgeRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeRepresentation</span></a></p>
lispm<p>Doug Lenat died. RIP. <a href="https://moth.social/tags/cyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyc</span></a> <a href="https://moth.social/tags/lispm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lispm</span></a> <a href="https://moth.social/tags/lispmachines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lispmachines</span></a> <a href="https://moth.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://moth.social/tags/commonlisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonlisp</span></a> <a href="https://moth.social/tags/cycorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cycorp</span></a></p><p>He started the Cyc project, using Lisp Machines as a development environment. The project is roughly since 40 years ongoing. Cyc was the dream of a large-scale knowledge base of common sense knowledge. One that has many ways of reasoning and making inferences. It used SubL a variant of Common Lisp.</p><p>Here is an old screen shot...</p>
Woozle Hypertwin<p>With all this talk of <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, I often wonder whatever happened to <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Cyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cyc</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencyc/files/OpenCyc%204.0/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">OpenCyc</a> seems to have been mothballed.</p><p>The full-blown <a href="https://cyc.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cyc</a> project (assuming that's what this is, still) now seems to be selling itself as, like, AIaaS to giant corporations (and nobody else) -- with what degree of success, I know not.</p>