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Wow! From a social media perspective, there's a lot of projects on Geminispace that look really appealing!

1. Station: a Gemini social media platform that supports TLS auth
gemini://station.martinrue.com

2. The Midnight Pub: a social blogging/gathering ground for gemini users
gemini://midnight.pub/

3. Newswaffle: a tool that converts HTTP news pages into gemtext
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waff

This will be fun!

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*shuts down laptop*
I think that's enough internet for today

*picks up phone*
Let's see what the pocket sized internet is doing

(14/50)

Inversion functions, density function theorem, multi dimensional probabilities, mixed functions

Summary:

Lecture: 3

𝗦𝗵𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹.

EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation.

reuters.com/technology/eu-warn

I like the sound of nature at night, but sometimes you get a death metal cricket that just shreds outside your window. If you've ever gone outside to find, and shoe away this raging cricket with a flashlight, eagerly searching through the grass, you would know it seldom ends in success. Later we are often washed with a feeling of ridiculousness. If the cricket is persistent in 'one upping' the sound of a fully spooled jet engine nightly, would we destroy the whole yard? If we did, and it simply moved to the neighbors yard, would we build a giant wall and disown the neighbor? Probably not. As the cricket problem grows, we would eventually need to work together.

How do you think this applies to Mastadon?

Do you have advice on how to silence the renegade crickets of social media?

If you’ve ever wondered what the difference is between a seal and a sea lion then HAVE I GOT THE CHART FOR YOU.

After reading the book "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, I am wondering if intelligence is the main factor to achieve power?

There beyond what other factors are necessary to create the same conditions as on the farm? And easy is to apply the construct to real world situations? Like could one say that any group of individuals, if the conditions were met, have a very likely chance to achieve the farm construct.

(10/50)

...and back to expected values I go...

Summary:

Practice: 1

Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) and life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries. The lines represent averages.

One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher health spending and below-average life expectancy.

Source: oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016

(09/50)

In class we learnt about the grammar of graphs.

Summary:

Class: 1

One of the big mistakes people make, over and over again, is relying on technological determinism.

That is, thinking the architecture of the technology will preserve the topology of the network.

Mastodon is Open Source. It's built with open standards.

This is necessary but not sufficient to keep the network decentralized.

We're going to need social and legal structures, plus cultural norms, that counterbalance Metcalfe's law, which pushes the network towards centralization.

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(08/50)

I will need to reevaluate the schedule for my classes and also choose some other courses. It's already the second in the past week that classes just got cancelled or moved around last minute.

Summary:

Lecture: 6
Class: 1

barefootstache - (07/50)

It is quite convenient that the public transit has WiFi, so that one can comfortably watch the lectures.

Summary:

Lecture: 1

@junosz @EubieDrew @youfoundryan I didn’t have “viral toot flood contingency planning” anywhere on my bingo sheet for 2022

(06/50)

Today I got to use the math behind statistics to build a function for work.

Summary:

Practice: 1

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