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Icelandic Vision Lab

Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes.

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Tim Harford :verified:

Talks about the Truth Detective

I'm giving some talks about my imminent book, The Truth Detective. Come along!

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford - 2pm on 1st April at the Oxford Literary Festival

Oxford Maths Festival - 14th May. Details to come

Hay Festival - 26th May. Details to come.

timharford.com/2023/03/talks-a

#Marginalia #Speeches

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Paris Marx

Not only does Elon Musk not have a clue what he’s talking about, but this is *exactly* what he tried to do at PayPal, claiming it needed a full “V2” rewrite of the code when it didn’t.

Instead, it shifted resources away from key areas, caused PayPal to lose much more money to fraud, and eventually got him ousted as CEO.

Last month, I wrote about Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and how he’s repeating his mistakes from that period: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa

#tech #elonmusk #twitter #paypal

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Dave T-W

I'm sure one of you has posted previously, but is there a website like hootsuite or tweetdeck for mastodon, which means I don't have to keep jumping backwards and forwards each time I flick through someone's timeline?
Currently to like an older post, I need to post the link to that in my search bar.

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Jo Brodie

Here's what I found for March and April - techy talks for non-techy people teachinglondoncomputing.org/20

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ChrisO_wiki

1/ The mobilised Russians of the 1439th regiment are reported to have been virtually wiped out in their latest attack on fortified Ukrainian positions at Avdiivka. Their wives said in a previous video appeal that the men were encircled and under fire. ⬇️
mastodon.social/@ChrisO_wiki/1

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John Leonard

Apparently AI can now read our brainwaves

"Here, we propose a new method based on a diffusion model (DM) to reconstruct images from human brain activity obtained via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)"

"We show that our proposed method can reconstruct high-resolution images with high fidelity in straightforward fashion, without the need for any additional training and fine-tuning of complex deep-learning models."

sites.google.com/view/stabledi

#ai #StableDiffusion #technews #technology

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Sent myself down a rabbit hole now, but how many of you maths geeks have seen this?
youtu.be/h-opOi5MjM0

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I know someone who runs a regular weekend. There's an even wider set of traditional local styles being enjoyed in every town, saved in the 20th century by historians and enthusiasts, revived for the 21st by those looking to rediscover and celebrate English culture. Northumberland Rapper is one of the most spectacular forms, shown here by the Sheffield Steel team and London based Thrales Rapper.

theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

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IAintShootinMis

I'm in tears. This is hilarious. Poignant. And timely.

Please, take the profanity for what it is, a way to make you laugh, and remember, don't you dare use a spreadsheet.

#Engineering #Automation #Security #InfoSec #Spreadsheet #Excel

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will

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Dave T-W

Aww crap. Met him once in Brum just before they went sky high, lovely chap, great musician and was key in helping Jarv reinvent Pulp for the 90s.
theguardian.com/music/2023/mar

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Bonus from appointment muck up: wandering round town and found the Faraday Museum at Royal Institution.
Funky glassware for @sellathechemist

Irony: can't send these til I'm outside, the basement is a literal and figurative Faraday Cage.

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Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

@futurebird There's a reason Google Search sucks that most people don't know about. (Actually I think there's several, but one that is not remotely on the radar of people like the sort on Mastodon is...)

There is a profound class divide in internet users. Originally this was framed "digital haves and have nots". While that is still there, it has been eclipsed by another dichotomy it's morphed into: People of the Desktop and People of the Phone.

People of the Desktop are people who learned to use the internet on an "actual computer". This population winds up understanding the internet very differently than the other. The socioeconomic factors of who gets access to desktop/laptop computers mean that this is also a filter for other things like likelihood to have a college education and being comfortable with abstractions.

People of the Desktop tend to retain access to desktops, because they find phones wanting, and know what they're missing.

People of the Phone don't.

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Dr Marco Langbroek

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Our conference paper (co-authors @cgbassa and Ted Molczan) from the 2nd NEO and Debris Conference has appeared:
"Tracking the Dark Side on a shoestring budget"
conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/pr
(open access)

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Jon Worth

Damn this is prize quality rubbish from Sunak

*The whole of the UK had that before Brexit*

This deal for NI is giving back to NI what it had, and what England, Wales and Scotland were denied

Source 👇
theguardian.com/politics/2023/

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Cold War Steve
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planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)

RT @maggiekb1
Finally, a headline to beat "Foote Heads Arms Body" twitter.com/dessadarling/statu

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Paul Convery

RT @TheGunnersPub
The bar manager in the Gunners is heading home to Turkey soon. A very simple thing will happen in his absence is we will leave a space on the bar for small change if everyone has any especially during hard lean times. There is no obligation whatsoever however kindness appreciated

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Dave T-W

Any fans out there? Venerable is about to start a new season and there's 2 spare slots in my league. Warning: tough start but it's complex and interesting enough to to have kept going over many years. Not bad given they first launched in 1997!

hattrick.org/?inviteRef=9SEE45

Or join and get an easier season (14 weeks) against bot teams or other noobs.

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Good lord. Elmo just can't stop himself, can he?

The Guardian  
Elon Musk backs Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams following racist tirade https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-backs-dilbert-...
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