Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

Me in class: “Looks like no one managed to finish the reading, that’s on me, clearly I assigned too much today. Let’s discuss [X] instead.”

Students: 😮🤯🥹

It’s really powerful for students when the role model at the front of the classroom takes responsibility & shows imperfection. The more I #Teach the more I realize showing weakness teaches humaneness & combats impostor syndrome, & is one of the things my students most often say they loved when a course is over. #teaching #academidon #histadon

Is there any #OpenSource #desktop application to manage equipments/parts catalog?

I want to find any equipment/parts fast enough. Please boost so that I can get more suggestions.

Close-up of a wax plant (Hoya carnosa) that shows the fuzzy corolla and fused male and female reproductive parts (gynostegium). Flowers emit a cinnamon/chocolate scent, especially at night, and are pollinated by moths. #botany #Apocynaceae #flowers #pollination

I've often wondered why open-source orgs like @mozilla @nextcloud #Canonical and others don't take a more active role in the fediverse. All of those orgs should not only be actively running #Mastodon accounts, but should also be posting content to #PeerTube and honestly even running their own instances of both. In the case of Mozilla, it would make a ton of sense for them to host both Mastodon and PeerTube instances as an open alternative to Google.

Thoughts on that?

I think that there are some misconceptions about how hashtags, and more specifically searching for or following hashtags, works on Mastodon.

Unlike Twitter (and other centralized services), you cannot “follow” or search for a hash tag and expect to see all posts using this hashtag across all instances. If you want this, you will have to use a “group account” instead of or in addition to the hashtag.

What excites me most about this place right now: I’m tempted to actually start posting and sharing my thoughts again. Engaging in the discourse, as they say. The other socials became intimidating places to actually converse in the last few years. Pleased that our nerdy little community is here, and growing.

Maybe we can actually do this thing.

After all these years, it's still so difficult to figure out "what specific thing is making my computer run slow right now".

#computers #performance #gripes

@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?