Oliver Sampson

Bass Player. Storyteller. PhD Computer Scientist and Adjunct Professor of #NLProc, #MachineLearning and #AI at #DHBW #Ravensburg. Gilead Immigrant to #Germany. When I say I'm the "OG," that means "Original Geek."

CEO and Co-Founder of Gitterdan.AI

Developer of #SPARQLMojo

#nlp #regtech #sparql #gitterdan #GetDataDone

Location: Southern Germany

Last Notes

2026-08-23 11:45:30 UTC

#workcation #portugal #algarve
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2026-08-12 18:42:02 UTC

#eclipse2026 Taken in the eastern Moravian Hills in the #CzechRepublic
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2026-08-10 17:32:38 UTC

This is truly a beautiful turn of phrase:
"a phenomenon that has turned every TSA agent into the water-bottle-detectingest motherfucker the human race has ever produced, who still misses 95% of the guns that red teams bring through the checkpoint"
@npub1fdr…lvhs

2026-07-24 14:42:13 UTC

#BigTech #AI #TechBro companies crying to mommy to get the bad companies to stop (maybe) using their models' output for training is now a standard play from the #monopolies and wannabe monopolies.
If a (Chinese) company gets too good at doing what American companies do, then force an embargo or force a sell. It was the #Meta/#Facebook with #Tiktok play, and now it's the #LLM play.
If #scraping copyrighted works for training is legal, so is #distillation.
#Capitalists sure do hate #Capitalism.

2026-05-19 19:48:06 UTC

A screenshot of the #Lufthansa app on my #GraphenOS phone complaining about security. I won't play by your rules motherfuckers.
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2025-11-08 17:26:36 UTC

Ready to go with Crazy Diamonds in #Laupheim. #PinkFloyd #tribute
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2025-09-08 07:42:48 UTC

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The article had a provocative title: "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero",
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/
TL;DR: There's some amount of friction in the #marketplace that prevents #fraud **and** prevents a large amount of non-fraud. Somehow understanding and tuning for that is what can make or break a #business.
I just read #wiki to catch up on #Kickstarter, and there's definitely an optimal amount of how much of a #business platform you can move to the #blockchain, and it's exactly zero.
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2025-09-08 07:42:48 UTC

I'm catching up on @npub1fdr…lvhs 's newsletter and there was a line in https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before that reminded me of an article I read recently:
> So #Kickstarter jettisoned the escrow step, handing campaign creators the full payout and then trusting them not to run off with the dough. The platform understood that this would allow a certain amount of #fraud and failure, but deemed it worthwhile, especially after they took countermeasures to minimize backer losses, such as...
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2025-08-07 08:03:48 UTC

Hey @npub17lf…3uhj , I love the app! Thank you!
I do have a question though: How do I access the #podcasts that I've marked as favorites?

2025-06-22 07:53:25 UTC

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"you can't get fooled again."

2025-05-05 14:20:44 UTC

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Let's rename them to "freedom films."

2025-03-20 18:36:01 UTC

I'm a little behind on reading @npub153l…caex and I just bumped into this remarkable prose.
Yes, this is what it's about, the #broligarchy and the #christofacists be damned.
https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/04/the-coveted-interfluidity-endorsement/index.html
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2025-01-23 06:51:52 UTC

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It was done by a group in protest of Tesla.
https://streetartutopia.com/2025/01/23/why-led-by-donkeys-targeted-elon-musk-with-heil-tesla-in-berlin/

2024-12-23 13:54:00 UTC

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Receipts:
https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-consists-of-fossil-fuels

2024-11-18 06:29:28 UTC

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Why does the bot require a GPU?