admm @admm@qoto.org

I thought, for a moment, that the RAF worked to ridiculous levels of accuracy, but Jen Sparks quickly clarified that 'nm' actually stood for 'nautical miles'.

#BigMathsJam

How your #research looks like …

#academia
@academiamemes @linguisticsmemes @academicchatter @phdstudents @phdlife

@freemo @alex

In many senses, I find #qoto sets high standards for communication in #fediverse. You have enabled connected services, allowed 65K characters, you have robust policy, we can use markdown in posts, and you are also very welcoming, responsive, and open community!

I've figured out what pisses me off so much about Facebook's Galactica demo.

It's not because people can use to to write bad essays for their homework. There are plenty of large language models that can do that. It's because Facebook is presenting it as something that it most definitely is not.

Facebook is selling it as a knowledge engine, a "new interface to access and manipulate what we know about the universe."

Actually it's just a random bullshit generator.

http://galactica.org

When #SoftwareEngineering authors write things along the lines of “the datasets […] are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request” or “due to non-disclosure agreements, we cannot disclose the data”, they either do not understand the possibilities and practices in #OpenScience or they simply do not care… or both.

🥳🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT! 🚨 🥳

Have you ever wondered why humans play? How play relates to learning? Why play feels so fun?

In this paper, we propose a cognitive theory of play utilising recent ideas of the brain as a predictive organ.

Open Access: https://doi.apa.org/fulltext/2022-72028-001.html

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Video lectures for a #RealAnalysis class that I've taught at #UCLA:

Feel free to e-mail me if you are interested in the problem sets and other study materials.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54Pt_mZzBqjcodJ_GqXxqG1WCCmq433k

https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-demands-twitter-servers-explain-what-all-thes-1849786227

BRB, telling all the COVID truthers I know that for the same reason that they think it's good to catch COVID they should also stop using hypoallergenic products and start buying my maximally hyper-allergenic alternatives. I'm telling you the supplements are 100% cat dander

MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. Find your nearest and join in at http://mathsjam.com

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