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
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
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.
That sad moment of the year when you're storing your summer clothes deep in the closet replacing them with winter clothes...
At the black sea. The land where I was born but haven't been to ever since I left... Until today.
Our future be like. ..
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How beautiful this cat is that made the roof of my rented house her new home?
I found an amazing code that restores old photos. It's so good, it's creepy.
It doesn't quite work with the edges (for example it merges my ears with my hair sometimes) and works poorly with faces too far away. But other than that it works amaizingly.
Code is here and also has a Google Colab set up:
China bans video games pretty much. Literally a nanny state .
Maksym
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🔬 **Some notable exceptions to that global trend**:
In the 🇺🇸 #USA, the influence of income has vanished, and support depends solely (and strongly!) on education (highly educated ↔ leftist).
In #Scandinavia (epitome: 🇸🇪 #Sweden) it's the opposite: education became irrelevant, and political preference depends only on income (perhaps because they are wealthy, egalitarian countries?).
🇵🇹 #Portugal hasn't changed like the other countries: there the Right is still supported mostly by educated (and rich) voters. (NB: in the 50's and 60's, Portugal was a dictatorship).
🇮🇹 #Italy is the rare case where leftist parties ended up being the parties of the _richest_ segment of the population. I wouldn't read too much into this, though, as the political landscape there during the last decade or two has been a populist mess.
🇪🇸 #Spain is the country where education and income tell you _the least_ about political preferences! There's still the secular correlation “high income ↔ right wing”, but it's very weak today. (NB: in the 50's and 60's, Spain was also a dictatorship).
Very interesting insight of an undercover cop regarding drug policy
Friendly reminder Taliban official representative is active on Twitter but Trumpet got banned.
What an amazing page I found. You can click on a point on a map and listen to a radio station from there, UK is full of Drum and Bass and it makes me jealous xD
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
