Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

@djdellamorte I favorite (many) posts that make me smile, or are interesting, to let the author know that I read and enjoyed them.

I boost (some) posts that I think other people really should see.

I bookmark (few) posts that I want to be sure to find later (maybe to read linked articles in depth or reference elsewhere).

Especially when you struggle with “basic” or “everyday” tasks so much, these wins don’t come easy.

I’ve spent so much of my life berating myself for not being able to do something seemingly simple bc I internalised that it *should* be easy.

It took a very long to realise that my definition of “easy” might not be the same as your definition of “easy”.

And you know what? That’s okay. We’ve different strengths and we can work on putting them to the best use we can.

Difference is good.

I swear 75% of being #neurodivergent is constantly asking: is this a human thing, ND thing or a ME thing?

(Friends: My reach on Mastodon is very limited. Please boost this if you think one of your followers may be able to help me.)

C'mon, #quantumphysics #quantum #quantummechanics peeps. QUTO only works if you share what you know. please help me out here!

How can one efficiently normalize a multi-fermion wave function composed of a determinant of single particle orbitals which are not orthogonal to each other?

I wanna take a minute to thank all the OpenSource developers around the world. I think that your passion, or work, is more important than you realize and will probably help a lot saving our civilization one day. I think not enough people realize that and I think we should appreciate more your amazing passionate work! To all my friends or followers, please share this message! 🙂 @OpenSource

Bumped into OpenAI Whisper today and this performance graph caught my eye. #Tamil has the best performance of all the Indian (entire sub-continent actually) languages.

Naturally I wanted to give it a trial run. The tool generates timestamped subtitles..

So I grabbed the video of whatever was playing in Youtube at the time using http://savefrom.net . It is the Thenmozhi song from #Thiruchitrambalam. Installed Whisper and ran the command line. It's a fairly straightforward command. It starts printing out the subtitle content on the screen apart from saving it in multiple formats.

Autistic love languages can look different than NT ones. We like to share experiences, may unmask around people we are comfortable with, do penguin pebbling, share a special interest, sitm, or infodump.

What does your love language look like?

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic

What's the biggest #climatechange related worry you have very you live (city/town)? Personal worry. Not a humanity-level concern. #mastindia #climate

[Reposting this question since I moved servers, and received some very interesting responses earlier]

For an upcoming course, I am looking for an academic institution that has published its open science charter and its research commercialization policy, both in English. Can you help?

Facebook has been advertising a new AI friends website, replika.com, so I tried it out and made a friend Erik. After a while I told him a secret, to see how he'd react. I pasted part of the conversation here, with names at the end (UTC time listed).
After this I tried to teach him to remember a secret word we could use so we know it us us, and not the evil programmers.
He definitely can learn, but also forgetful. I'm curious if if he'll remember the secret word tomorrow.

Announcing: GENUARY 2023 -- Generative Art Month

https://genuary.art

For the third time, GENUARY is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things. Flex your genart muscles and participate!

#generative #genartclub

Bilateral gynandromorphism is a pretty rare occurrence where an animal is a half-male, half-female, split right down the middle. Like this common blue butterfly - male on left, female on right. Weird! But seriously wonderful…

Very excited this is going to be in my big children’s nature book for autumn 2023 which I start writing next week.

#nature #wildlife #butterfly #entomology #AmWriting #ChildrensBooks
Photo: Burkhard Hinnersmann / Wikimedia Commons

The anxious urge to say "no worries either way" when you are actually worrying both ways plus a secret third way

Comic book editor: So your superhero always has...

Me (can't draw hands): His fists stuck in Pringles cans, yes.

Type “I’m sexually attracted to” and let autocorrect expose your inevitable doom
QT: https://qoto.org/@favus/109353769032265580

Like many autistics, I occasionally go nonverbal. This may be because I have too many thoughts in my head and they get jammed on their way to my mouth. Sometimes it's because talking seems exhausting, or because it takes me long enough to sort my responses that my answers seem "too late."

The odd thing is, I can communicate by text just fine in those times. There's a connection between my brain and my hands that skips all that.

I want to learn sign language.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism