Maksym @biomedmax@qoto.org
Portuguese by nationality. Genetically I'm aprox 50% Ukrainian, 25% Russian and 25% Greek. Living in Spain (Catalonia).
I don't identify myself with any "-ism", but the closest thing would be libertarianism.
I work in the field of Life Sciences. My activity usually revolves around genetics and bioinformatics. I also like programming and data science / machine learning.
I started migrating to more ethical digital spaces and services after I had first-hand experience working for one of the most abominable enterprises. There is so much I want to say about it but can't due to legal reasons.
Joined Jan 2021
@freemo nope. I don't have enough crypto to justify having a hardware wallet that's why I'm not too upset. When I went to forums investigating I saw hundreds of stories of people loosing tens of thousands. If I had these amounts I would have been much more serious sbout security. I lost 30 euros It's just lesson about how vulnerable our data is lol
Sooo part of my crypto funds were stolen and I have no idea how. But obviously the hackers have the credentials to my wallet (exodus). I really don't recommend using wallets (or any other important app) without 2FA (Exodus doesn't have an option for 2FA which is super weird). The hackers knew it as they also tried to steal my funds from Coinbase where 2FA is optional but luckily was activated. I know they tried because I received a log in confirmation code from Coinbase on the day of the hack. But they didn't even try Binance (where 2FA is mandatory). In summary, no 2FA, not your coins.
Festival of Light in BCN. Not nearly as good as the last pre-covid edition...
It is insane how advanced the natural language processing is in AI. I work in a lab focusing on development of treatment for Huntington's disease. Once my boss fed the following prompts to to the GPT-2 (GPT-3 is not yet open source, or at least it wasn't when he did it): "Huntington's disease is" or "We can cure Huntington's disease by". The results were spectacularly coherent but most things were factually wrong. He then compared it to something that happened to AlphaGo: AlphaGo is an AI trained to play Go, a board game very popular in Asia and much more complex in terms of available combinations than chess. During one of the games, it made a move that everyone thought was erroneous "rookie mistake" but it ended up being crucial for the victory in retrospect. My boss told me: "What if just like in a game of Go, GPT model will one day output us an idea so silly that we just discard it as nonsensical, but that in reality would lead to a cure?".
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
@itnewsbot Such scumbags... Their customer service is essentially non-existent, and instead of creating it, they come up with a new product that will have one. Essentially, what it means is that you will need to pay if you want to have access to customer support
Friendly reminder that every major superpower on the planet is becoming increasingly authoritarian and the most authoritarian of them all has supersonic nuclear missiles that renders every antimisile system on earth obsolete.
@11112011 you made this conclusion based on these two graphs? How about ever-increasing worldwide energy consumption, the fact Asia and Africa are propelling themselves into digital age, the fact that we are switching to less efficient green energy sources, demonization and phasing-out of nuclear energy etc...
@doug What a fucking dystopian future we live in where PRIVATE company gets in trouble with the government for NOT wanting to collect user's digital data...
@coolboymew as a person living in a country with shitty socialized medicine, I did walk away like that a couple of times lol
@smithy cringiest fanbase award is going to crypto fanatics 5th year in a row
@ern@mstdn.social exactly what I thought the first time In joines! A bunch of people with loli porn account pictures were sharing nazi propaganda. Lol... unfortunately free speech (when it's trully free) comes with a price...
That sad moment of the year when you're storing your summer clothes deep in the closet replacing them with winter clothes...
@sopa Bro. A pipula falha, o preservativo tambem. A probabilidade de falhar os dois ao mesmo tempo é estupidamente baixa. Mas Ok. Tens a pilula do dia seguinte. Tambem falhou? Uma probabilidade astronomicamente pequena. Mas espera... ainda tens a pilula abortiva.... Mas NAO. É preciso esperar que o feto esteja desenvolvido para ir abortar...
At the black sea. The land where I was born but haven't been to ever since I left... Until today.
@freemo oh I get it. But O don't expect to affect *specially* ada, right?
@freemo what is happening with ada exactly over there?
Our future be like. ..
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Portuguese by nationality. Genetically I'm aprox 50% Ukrainian, 25% Russian and 25% Greek. Living in Spain (Catalonia).
I don't identify myself with any "-ism", but the closest thing would be libertarianism.
I work in the field of Life Sciences. My activity usually revolves around genetics and bioinformatics. I also like programming and data science / machine learning.
I started migrating to more ethical digital spaces and services after I had first-hand experience working for one of the most abominable enterprises. There is so much I want to say about it but can't due to legal reasons.
Joined Jan 2021
