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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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Joined Apr 2020
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Carving #trilobites and am cursing myself. Blanks I cut about a year ago, and must have been trying to use up odd pieces… cut the one in front with the grain running sideways instead of lengthwise… oops! It’s making carving… interesting…
@est@emily.news thanks for sharing. I hope symptoms lessen for you.
HSAs are an overly complicated financial instrument for the purpose of paying for health care expenses.
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Took my kids to MicroCenter today to get parts for their very first built-completely-to-spec PCs. Gave them a budget and just kept them from making any actually-bad purchases.
Highlights: the sales person that helped with the keyboard and mouse selection was a younger gamer enby, and did a great job engaging with helping the kids make good choices like "prioritize stats over aesthetic, but still honor your aesthetic".
Kid1 saying "I want my tower to be pink; but not if I have to pay a Pink Tax", and the sales person helping her finding a case that was pink, met requirements, and wasn't more expensive than a black one.
Kid2 saying, to my surprise, "I'll spend the extra $30 on the AMD GPU because the Linux drivers are better and I want to run Manjaro" (clearly she took my advice to do some research! Holy crap!)
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🤕 #PublicLab is shutting down due to lack of funding.
One of the most meaningful citizen science initiatives in a long time, empowering people to understand the changes to the climate and environment around them.
What a loss.
Support the #OpenSource & #FreeSoftware projects that matter to you.
https://publiclab.org/notes/jmacha/04-14-2023/update-from-the-board-of-directors
@est@emily.news an LLM is just a clever statistical model... and presumably, the folks who created the source texts already got their due. if they hadn't, that's a problem for the context in which that text was initially produced, not for LLM training context, unless you're alleging some kind of contract violation for some subset of the text
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excited about this ep.
https://changelog.com/podcast/535
Examining capitalism's chokepoints
w/ Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
@est@emily.news I'm sorry you find the phenomenon distressing; however, I'm fascinated: do the voices have a certain pitch or do they span the frequency range? also, for the sounds you recognize as caused by tinnitus rather than as voices, are they in the same or a different range? is the perception of voices transient or does it persist as long as you are hearing the sound?
@best @pluralistic Ty and Eden is subtitled "A Red Team Wedding"
@jackbrewster the things you're saying are pink look yellow. is it just me?
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Quick update on ordering Bea Wolf in Europe: We still don't know what the issue is, BUT if you ordered through Amazon, please cancel your order, then go back to the order page and see if any other sellers can get you a copy. Amazon is apparently not importing copies. Sorry!
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Both Peter Capaldi and Sylvester McCoy have been out on the picket lines supporting junior doctors. Doctors for doctors.
Via Dr Gordon Fletcher
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a fellow mudlark found this section of fossilised crinoid stem ossicles on the Thames foreshore and generously gave to me when she saw how excited I was about it. the ossicles show a star-shaped interior cross-section and extensions (cirri) around the stem. Pentacrinites?
@fell ah. if you mean why Python is in the position it's in, I think it's mostly not technical and more cultural, and to some extent historical accident. like, a few motivated ML folks also liked Python, built libraries that were easy to play around with which others in the community picked up on and built on.
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Goblintown NFT images all changed to an illustrated middle finger in protest about royalties
April 11, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=goblintown-nft-images-all-changed-to-an-illustrated-middle-finger-in-protest-about-royalties
@fell IDK how familiar you are with Python or ML libraries in Python, but for "real" applications (not learning the basics) all of the actual computation of the model is pushed down to native code. Python remains useful as the glue language, as it always has done
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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