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Last weekend I gave a talk at #PyConAU.
It’s about quality, scale, LLMs, science, systems thinking, hype, and what happens when the subjective nature of reality meets the assumption that the human experience can be accurately represented to or by machines.
You should watch it!
Did I mention my second talk from #PyConAU about Free Software's unwillingness to think about consequences and how we might have learned a small amout from labour organising (and how corporates certainly have)?
It's a good one! You should watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw
In March this year I gave a talk at #Monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded.
Here's a repeat I gave at #PyConAU this week. ENJOY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw
Last weekend I gave a talk at #PyConAU.
It’s about quality, scale, LLMs, science, systems thinking, hype, and what happens when the subjective nature of reality meets the assumption that the human experience can be accurately represented to or by machines.
You should watch it!
Did I mention my second talk from #PyConAU about Free Software's unwillingness to think about consequences and how we might have learned a small amout from labour organising (and how corporates certainly have)?
It's a good one! You should watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw
In March this year I gave a talk at #Monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded.
Here's a repeat I gave at #PyConAU this week. ENJOY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw
The purpose of a system is what it does. @span daedalus#PyConAU
The purpose of a system is what it does. @span daedalus#PyConAU
The inimitable @attacus has been in my bookshelf!
Loving her work on abstracting the complexity of reality.
My faves:
James C Scott - Seeing like a State
Bowker and Star - Categories and their Consequences
Lisa Gitelman (Ed) - Raw data is an oxymoron - esp Data Flakes
Really enjoyed @tonybaloney talk at #pyconau around how to make your #LLM models faster in production.
Key takeaways are that smaller models are faster, and you need to make your models smaller through quantisation, distillation or semantic caching.
Really tractable, immediately implementable 👏👏
More of this, pls
At @pyconau #pyconau Dr Arwen Griffioen presents an anti-oppresive framework for #AI and #data ethics - red team your models for #bias, centre the voices of the people who are most likely to be harmed, monitor continuously, for distributional shift, and ask the hard questions during the design process. Use your privilege to push back.
Will you be in Melbs for @pyconau#PyConAU#PyConAU2025 in the next few days?
Don't miss MDC's @KathyReid speaking on Sun 14th in Ballroom 1 at 1410hrs - introducing a better way to provide and source #data for #AI. Sneak peek:
Will you be in Melbs for @pyconau#PyConAU#PyConAU2025 in the next few days?
Don't miss MDC's @KathyReid speaking on Sun 14th in Ballroom 1 at 1410hrs - introducing a better way to provide and source #data for #AI. Sneak peek:
Who's coming to #pyconau this week? I'm looking forward to the in-person experience that covid stole from me last year! 🤞
And if you're thinking of attending #PyConAU you can use this code for a 10% discount code:
https://pretix.eu/pyconau/2025/redeem?voucher=SPKR10-T8ZMRDC3ZLWYW82H
With my #Mozilla Foundation #CommonVoice hat on, I'm delighted to be speaking in just under a fortnight at @pyconau about the #MozillaDataCollective, a new platform initiative that puts you in control of your #datasets.
Better #AI requires better #data - and better data requires collective, collaborative, co-created approaches: the Mozilla Data Collective.
And if you're thinking of attending #PyConAU you can use this code for a 10% discount code:
https://pretix.eu/pyconau/2025/redeem?voucher=SPKR10-T8ZMRDC3ZLWYW82H
With my #Mozilla Foundation #CommonVoice hat on, I'm delighted to be speaking in just under a fortnight at @pyconau about the #MozillaDataCollective, a new platform initiative that puts you in control of your #datasets.
Better #AI requires better #data - and better data requires collective, collaborative, co-created approaches: the Mozilla Data Collective.
🎉 It’s here! The PyCon AU 2025 conference program is now live!
Explore the exciting lineup of talks, workshops, and events waiting for you
👉 https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/list
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