Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org

Microsoft just released a demo of BigGPT-Large, which they define as "a domain-specific generative model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature, has achieved human parity, outperformed other general and scientific LLMs, and could empower biologists in various scenarios of scientific discovery."

Here's the response to the first question that I asked: @ct_bergstrom @emilymbender

Are you a student majoring in... anything? Apply now for an internship at http://intern.nasa.gov!

We have several programs, including Pathways, which accept many majors and provide a structured path to potential full-time employment at NASA after graduation. Deadline: Feb. 10.
#NASA

We've discovered 5,243 planets beyond our own solar system – exoplanets – so far.💫 Each week we add to the known worlds.

#MondayMotivation: Search for understanding wherever you can.
http://exoplanets.nasa.gov
#NASAExoplanets

If you need yet-another-reason to give up on Twitter and stop cross-posting your projects/research/blog posts/announcements/etc to Twitter, my announcement of Ronin 2.0.0 being released got 3x more traffic from Reddit (!) than from Twitter according to Google Analytics. Twitter has now sunk below Reddit (!) in terms of exposure and traffic. If you're still thinking cross-posting to Twitter might still be worth it, you might as well cross-post to Digg or Slashdot. Time to de-prioritize Twitter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_suy7gARps

"2001: A Space Odyssey" directed by George Lucas?

This literally had me laugh out loud...

Is there a US attorney who would be willing to donate some time to draft a volunteer moderator agreement for a Mastodon instance?

Also, are any other instance admins willing to share your agreement if you have one? I don’t know if this is standard practice, but seems like a good idea when granting access to user data.

I found something similar from Stack Overflow for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/legal/moderator-agreement

#MastoAdmin #Legal #Lawyers #Law

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

Tag someone who makes you feel like this.

With funds from a grant through @NASAArmstrong, scientists studied how arctic ground squirrels retain muscle and bone mass while hibernating, which could apply to future astronauts on long-duration space missions: https://go.nasa.gov/3HUpHNF
#NASA

It's #WerewolfWednesday, and I have a story I really wanna share:

In 1691 an 80-something Livonian man named Old Thiess was called to court as a witness in a theft case. As he was sworn in, another witness laughed: "How can he swear a holy oath when everyone knows he is a werewolf?"

The judges immediately forgot about the thief and put Old Thiess on trial. He calmly admitted that yes, indeed he was a werewolf.
1/?

#folklore #werewolves

Overheard: “Not all heroes wear capes. Or tops, it seems.”

The Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute will be taking place in St. Andrews from June 25-July 15 this year. I taught as part of the program last year (and may join again this year, to be determined) and found the participants to be an extraordinary group of interdisciplinary researchers and "storytellers" — artists of every stripe interested in exploring notions of intelligence.

Application review begins February 13th.

https://disi.org/

BREAKING: the 5th Circuit finds that the federal prohibition on purchase and possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence protective orders violated the 2nd Amendment. (1/X) https://assets.nationbuilder.com/firearmspolicyfoundation/pages/3970/attachments/original/1675361904/United_States_v_Rahimi_Opinion.pdf
#gunviolence #domesticviolence #disarmdv #Bruenabsurdity

Good morning, the empty bookshelves in Florida schools keep my head busy, since I'm a teacher with a library in my classroom in Berlin myself. That's a history lesson in front of our very eyes and exactly how fascism started in Germany. Books were banned and then burnt and everyone said, well, I can't do anything, I don't want to loose my job, I don't like it, but... Many little steps were made by many little people who didn't stand up against a new little rule. You know how this ends.

The Sun sets on Mars, as seen by the Spirit rover looking down from the Columbia Hills. These hills – Anderson, Brown, Chawla, Clark, Husband, McCool, and Ramon – forever bear the names of the astronauts lost on Feb. 1, 2003. https://go.nasa.gov/3jixSem
#NASARemembers
#NASAMars

#NASARemembers: 20 years ago #OTD, Feb 1, 2003, at 8:59am ET, space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry. The entire crew perished.

Rick Husband
Willie McCool
Michael Anderson
Kalpana Chawla
David Brown
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon

We will never forget. https://go.nasa.gov/3YezowF
#NASAhistory

Boost this if you ever had to manage naming your computer files using only eight characters, plus the three character extension.
#eightdotthree

The Illuminaughty.

This is accurate ;)

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