Caustic-caffeine - 「 ✦ Casey’s Mystery Grab Bag ✦ 」

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Hello. It’s Mahmoud Khalaf from Gaza. Unfortunately, donations to my family evacuation and reunification in Ireland campaign have slowed down significantly. I was wondering if you could please reblog my donations post and help me boost my campaign and achieve my final goal.

Be our lifeline of hope after we were deprived of it! Be the light for a better life for my family at the end of this dark, gloomy, gory long tunnel of death, pain and torture. I live in Ireland now far away from my family in Gaza, and I say it to myself every day: My family deserves better. As explained in my post, vetted buy el shab Hussein and nabulsi #151 on the Vetted Gaza Fundraisers List. Recent Post title: Help Me Evacuate My Family from Gaza and Reunite with them in Ireland. Link to my post: https://www.tumblr.com/supportgaza/762249046198009856?source=share

I hope that you and your family will be able to be reunited, as whole and happy as possible. Best of luck!

Read their full post here!

Crikey

AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds

A test of AI for Australia's corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less.

Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way at summarising documents and might actually create additional work for people, a government trial of the technology has found. Amazon conducted the test earlier this year for Australia’s corporate regulator the Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) using submissions made to an inquiry. The outcome of the trial was revealed in an answer to a questions on notice at the Senate select committee on adopting artificial intelligence. The test involved testing generative AI models before selecting one to ingest five submissions from a parliamentary inquiry into audit and consultancy firms. The most promising model, Meta’s open source model Llama2-70B, was prompted to summarise the submissions with a focus on ASIC mentions, recommendations, references to more regulation, and to include the page references and context. Ten ASIC staff, of varying levels of seniority, were also given the same task with similar prompts. Then, a group of reviewers blindly assessed the summaries produced by both humans and AI for coherency, length, ASIC references, regulation references and for identifying recommendations. They were unaware that this exercise involved AI at all. These reviewers overwhelmingly found that the human summaries beat out their AI competitors on every criteria and on every submission, scoring an 81% on an internal rubric compared with the machine’s 47%.  Human summaries ran up the score by significantly outperforming on identifying references to ASIC documents in the long document, a type of task that the report notes is a “notoriously hard task” for this type of AI. But humans still beat the technology across the board. Reviewers told the report’s authors that AI summaries often missed emphasis, nuance and context; included incorrect information or missed relevant information; and sometimes focused on auxiliary points or introduced irrelevant information. Three of the five reviewers said they guessed that they were reviewing AI content. The reviewers’ overall feedback was that they felt AI summaries may be counterproductive and create further work because of the need to fact-check and refer to original submissions which communicated the message better and more concisely. 

3 September 2024

It's time for some festive fall prompts with Art Fright!

Want an on-site achievement for participating in Art Fright? Create artwork that incorporates either a prompt or a palette (or both!) and submit it to the Google form. The form closes on November 1st at 12 AM MST and you should receive your achievement sometime afterward.

Feel free to upload your artwork onto social media under the #ArtFright2024 tag! You can also opt-in to have your artwork featured in a video showcase.

Click here for the prompts list transcript.

Graphics made by Scribedhearts.

Happy October!

there’s gonna be a lot of these LMAO

badly formatted bucket list or something idk this stuff sounds neat and i wanna try:

learn the drums or relearn electric violin and perhaps find a local rock or metal band to vibe with

streaming??? art streams would be nice for body doubling reasons & pngtubing/vtubing seems intriguing

finish that one tween mv for that one song. maybe do more of those too

i. could work with my local regional center to provide free art resources, etc for other folks getting services from that org. might actually even be a decent job??? combines art and supporting other neurodivergent folks in the community

figure out long term commissions/non emergency commissions

maybe ask my brother to help me learn coding

flesh out various character and world building shit in my world building passion project (maybe even research how languages work and develop one for my own purposes

relearn russian, learn welsh, and/or learn polish

scout out that one area that i’m thinking i’d move to in the long term

maybe learn to be a tattoo artist?? also gettin tattoos and more piercings, 10/10 gender euphoria

hone my kayaking skills, maybe learn to become a whitewater kayaking instructor?

participate in the protests for palestine happening in my area

so many possibilities… idk it’s nice to set goals for the future as a wee young person who’s passionate about things

final update, now with the unlisted yt vid with the full timelapse and my thoughts

since instagram decided to be hot and sexy and make this image crunchy on their site:

[francis, ayelet (ayelet’s @boxxed-upkr ‘s)]

this is seriously stunning, everyone should go check out @szkicel ‘s art!! tysm for participating <33

Here’s my entry to @caustic-caffeine ’s DTIYS on instagram :D

I had a blast drawing this beautiful character~

this october i’m playing the game of “casey didn’t want to choose just one prompts list so instead he picks from several that they found that intrigued them”. here are some of the lists i’ve found or was told about, just for funsies!

as yall can see i am partial to goretober prompts, but throw any at me :)

How’s school

complicated. the situation is complicated. i’ll reblog with an explanation later

My name is Tarneem Sami, and I live in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City 🇵🇸🇵🇸🍉with my three children. My husband, Ahmed, was killed while trying to get supplies for us. We have fled from place to place, living in constant fear amid severe shortages of food and medicine, hoping only to survive this brutal war.

‎‏Please help me. Please help me to save my children from hunger and diseases. We are suffering a lot 😭🙏🏻🍉😭

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-cry-from-gaza-a-mothers-plea-for-her-childrens-survival?attribution_id=sl:6a5086ee-18c7-4464-b69b-fab802b1e9b9&lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

i really wish for the best for you and your children! i’m not yet in a place to donate directly, but i hope others who may see this will. good luck out there!

if you can, donate to those links! if not, please reblog this post; thank you!