Shared on work Slack today:

[petekirkham@mastodon.scot]

@tankgrrl Still so far behind HAL 9000

[paniczgodek@functional.cafe]

@tankgrrl reminds me of

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@tankgrrl incredible graph

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@tankgrrl

Really nasty graph abuse. Probably AI generated ‍️

[jeroenvanbergen@mstdn.social]

@tankgrrl Ah, the old MS Word for Windows trick: after 2 you get 6.

See also: This one goes to eleven.

[jawarajabbi@mastodon.online]

@tankgrrl

My new AI product is version 12. Do I win?

[scottmiller42@mstdn.social]

@simonzerafa @tankgrrl Sir, you are being most churlish. You must concede that number go up.

[tehstu@hachyderm.io]

@tankgrrl Is this satire? Please, someone, tell me this is satire. I just can't with these people, it's all so ridiculous.

[michaelgemar@cosocial.ca]

@tankgrrl @evan O.M.G.

[tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org]

@tankgrrl

May they keep up the good work!

[drawnto@woof.group]

@tankgrrl
> According to the measurement we optimize our product for ours is better than yours.

[skrlet13@chilemasto.casa]

@tankgrrl

Technically correct?

I'm going to launch genAI-bot 9999999999 then. /joke

[ae_odner@sueden.social]

@tankgrrl
I'm not sure but I heard of next Grok version will be 7.4!

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@PaniczGodek @tankgrrl @drahardja

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@tankgrrl BRB, just installing Windows 2000.

[erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social]

@tankgrrl @tantramar 🤪

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@scottmiller42 @simonzerafa @tankgrrl

John Burn-Murdoch on the subject...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/24/why-you-should-never-trust-a-data-visualisation
https://archive.is/dT0za

https://petewarden.com/2013/07/18/why-you-should-never-trust-a-data-scientist/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_graph

Darrell Huff's book "How to Lie with Statistcs"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Maps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics

[gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk]

@tankgrrl Opus 98, HAL 2001…

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tankgrrl Then someone can use semantic versioning to 26.10 and outperform them all?

[fraggle@social.coop]

@PaniczGodek @tankgrrl and to be fair it's still the best Windows ever made