Christian Kothe @christiankothe@qoto.org
CTO at Intheon. Opinions are my own.
Joined Apr 2022
@JamesWidman that video reminded me of the overall vibe of the movie Koyaanisqatsi (Google got me nowhere recalling the name, but ChatGPT saved the day...).
@rygorous This is screaming for interleaved frames and fragments of David Attenborough's movies in there. 👌
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A survey from Nature found that about half of scientists who used to use Twitter have cut back or quit it entirely & half are using other platforms. It's great to see you here instead! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
@aras Hope you have a good recovery - the future of social media needs you!
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i was just locking down the office when in comes this dame. she looks desperate. husband's dead and coroner calls it an accident. his estranged brother was just made successor on his github she says. i take a drag. little did i know my life was about to git reset -- hard
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Fun fact re: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
this is an example. Leagues are one of them directional units. So that denotes distance traveled while under the sea, not depth below the sea that said travel happens at, something that was understood when the book came out, less so now when nobody uses leagues anymore
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So basically the question here is, does Old Navy not know what characters are legal in an e-mail address, or do they very well know and specifically ban the + symbol specifically to prevent me from putting +gap in my given email address to monitor how they use it
@unrealengine @jeancf Time to make a statement and switch! 😀
@paul I guess the race is on to build an open/decentralized form of that platform, too
@256 I think at the time I waited for a 3d game that would have that art style but none ever arrived
@SwiftOnSecurity Wait 2 years until that post is in its training data and it refuses to answer anything you ask 😉
@BartWronski Next some robotic Bard-generated vocal fragments maybe? 🙃 (watched that whole industrial history clip on youtube that you mentioned btw, good stuff 👌)
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Dan is such a fantastic writer and puts into words all the thoughts we all have on the topic and crystalizes them into engaging and smart material: https://youtu.be/EiZhdpLXZ8Q
Great piece on Metaverses (not just decentraland).
The ending is the most striking - for the capital M Metaverse to succeed, it needs to be a pyramid scheme and requires buy-in from literally whole humanity, otherwise it's worthless. It's literally built into the concept.
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Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.
I am joining this action and have also resigned.
Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf
@SwiftOnSecurity was going to say, the last time I saw that clock with the striped background was around '03 on the Sun Ray terminals of my university. Well, then I spotted the dates
@Migueldeicaza Have a hard time grokking how so many otherwise smart people can remain captive to whatever is left of that formerly great platform. It's like sticking around on myspace until the bitter end
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Apparently people don't just like emulated calculators in the browser - they love it, and want more.
So come enjoy the CALCULATOR DRAWER, a dozen plus emulated calculators and (where I could find them) the manuals. Get calculating!
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Random thought: the end game of "creative" ML tools (for design etc) is not just job replacement.
It's algorithmic "everything". An algorithm that can generate 1000 slightly different ads, display to users, and based on clicks optimize itself and promote the most succesul ones.
(Netflix already does that with trailers, but still half manually.)
Real world reinforcement learning, where human attention is the reward function, cheap to evaluate.
CTO at Intheon. Opinions are my own.
Joined Apr 2022
