ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees.”
On Blake's birthday, his most beautiful letter – a classic defense of the creative spirit https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/14/william-blake-john-trusler-letter/
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Hey there @hendrikerz @perspektivbrocken! Thanks for putting together the list of instances, would you mind including https://esq.social under "Law?"
Thanks much!
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Cheeky New Book Identifies 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World https://bit.ly/3VAeFlU
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@GrowingFamily @ashwink @bookstodon I started with The Lathe of Heaven, her standalone novel that's like a #PhilipKDick soft SF story, and I loved it. Then I read some Earthsea books, which reminded me of Lord Dunsany, and then the more hard SF Hainish books. #LeGuin is so versatile, these different genres felt like they could have been by different authors!
All that is my roundabout way of saying to pick your path based on the genre you prefer. I don't recall ever reading a bad one by her.
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I made a quick tool for finding people to follow on Mastodon based on your interests:
This builds on the various lists floating around and is hopefully easier to use. It was an excuse for me to learn how the remote-follow mechanism works in Mastodon.
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@CardboardRobot yeah, it's really freaking wild frankly! You feed a billion images with descriptions to this neural network in training mode, then you take the images away so that only the network is left, put it into generation mode, feed words in, and images come out! Sometimes really amazingly surprising images. And sometimes more or less just what you asked for. It's all magic! :) I think everyone involved was surprised by how well it's worked. Interesting times!
@jetton a classic 😆
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A randomized control trial to determine whether parachutes prevent death when jumping from aircraft.
Don't understand clinical trials and all that other statistical/epidemiological stuff? This will help.
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I don't really understand the question. When you talk to something like stable diffusion, you aren't doing a search at all!
And it doesn't have a sample set that it keeps around and uses. What it has is a big neural network that was trained with a lot of pictures of dogs and things, but the training set isn't kept around.
What happens is that from the training set the neural network has learned what a dog looks like in general, so when you say " dog " it will produce a picture that it thinks is a picture of a dog, with some other random stuff that it thinks sort of belong in the dog pictures.
Hope that helps!
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The best things you can do for an #independent #author:
1 - Buy and read their #book.
2 - Review it! This is a huge help in beating the #algorithms and getting seen. At least give it a star #review.
3 - Buy more copies of their book for #gifts at #birthdays and #holidays.
4 - Tell people about it when you are discussing #reading. Mass #market #books get plenty of #publicity. #Indie #writers depend largely on #self-promotion (which many of us cringe at) and word of mouth.
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Cars don’t spend money, people do.
“…curbside patios produced 49 times more revenue than what would have been earned from parking fees.
“This is an example of how productive a place can be when we don’t fixate on parking,”
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@jeffjarvis @JamesGleick @davidisen
So can we post links for Black-centric / owned instances that we can financially support without actually participating? I would be more than willing to financially support servers for #BlackTwitter to have a place to land.
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Been putting off my #7books for the #bookstodon folks to know me, but I'm stuck in bed miserable so why not.
-Abhorsen saga by Garth Nix, this series made me need to write
-Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
-The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
-Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
-The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
-Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
-Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
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I submitted a feature request to the #Mastodon project Github. It suggests future versions of Mastodon should support a boolean search for hashtags.
So you could search for #China and #proteests and get only those posts with both tags.
Or #China OR #ChinaProtests and get posts with either.
Or #China AND #ChinaProtests -#Beijing
And with this search it would show posts with both of the first two tags, but omit those that also had the third one.
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If you're joining Post, keep in mind that it's against their Terms of Service to criticise billionaires.
At the same time they don't care about disabled people.
via @parismarx
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Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample for the results to be predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boots but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)
How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?
On a phone, or other touch screen device?
OR
On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?
(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)
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After the Great Darkness of 1999, the Funeral King monuments were found all around the world. No one knows who creates them, but they are often found in places where mass death occurred and are thought to be a guardian of the dead.
#horror #AudioDrama #podcasts #darkart #midjourney #rqnetwork #maeltopia #AudioFiction #fictionpodcasts #darkfantasy #fantasy #scifi #writing #writer #voiceactor #VoiceActing #Comics #fiction #FictionAudio
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@bookstodon thank you all for the treasure trove of rec's. My cup overfloweth and I am made exceedingly glad.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
