Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org
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And once again @djnavarro has made data beautiful https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-12-18_crayola-crayon-colours/index.html
@APBBlue @Genesis @standupmaths just did a video about “North” but he left out the “per region” compass thing.
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So here's a random thing that I learnt yesterday. Compasses are region-specific and the needle will "stick" if a normal compass is used in the wrong region! Australia and New Zealand are in magnetic zone 5. If you want a #compass that works anywhere in the world, it needs to have a "global needle", which is built a bit differently to account for the problem of the magnet aiming directly through the earth to magnetic north and dragging the needle down with it.
@macronencer $60!! (For forever license). I will try it for a bit.
@keithfrankish so… if I understood, you think the project will have useful outcomes even though sentience is undefined?
@macronencer I know!! This is maddening
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I'm really going to miss #DarkSky when it goes. No other weather app has a fully adequate user interface, and I've tried a few. As for "use the iOS Weather app, it has all of Dark Sky's features!" - kindly jump in a lake. NO IT DOES NOT. It's horrible.
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It works!!!!!!!! An API Endpoint to post statuses directly into lists so people can make their own #DIYAlgorithms . Now some cleanup and a bit of UX stuff but i can't believe i actually wrote code in #Ruby i am proud of myself. :)
#MastoDev
@dj welcome to qoto!
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The Chronicle of Higher Education released an interesting tool that lets you look at who colleges/unis think their peers are, and which other schools think the same.
It's interesting to look at. Here are a couple of things I've observed...
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?
@marinopagan not sure why they call this "no-report" - the monkeys are performing a behaviour (tracking a fixation marker).
@polavieja yes. I think the lack of binary builds is a serious limitation of Julia. They are working on it :)
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My argument, at its core, is that to do that, we need to teach people why science deserves their trust – and this requires teaching how science works as a social institution. I've written about this in brief in a Science American article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-fight-misinformation-we-need-to-teach-that-science-is-dynamic/
It’s a lot easier to admit to being wrong (and changing your mind) if you have sense of humility all along. When are you are arsehole about being right it is very hard to admit you were wrong. So let’s start with everyone just being a bit more humble?
@NicoleCRust @dbarack @tdverstynen @Neurograce I tend to agree with Grace. We can study behavioral outputs related to consciousness but subjective experience is tough. There is a nice thought experiment recently published that challenges us to consider the connection between subjective experience and neural activity. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001651
@stephenmaren i'm wondering if i should move to neuromatch... i'm pretty happy with qoto.org. but having some neuromatch FOMO
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Honored that my paper
A Rubric for Human-like Agents & NeuroAI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04401
is published in an issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society alongside amazing papers:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/378/1869
Cog, neuro, & computer sciences increasingly reference human-like agents & neuroAI with no consensus on scope/use. Some import progress in 1 discipline to another & assume it automatically translates.
It does not.
I propose a rubric to orient the reader in this space.
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@NicoleCRust fyi. You should not close your account - if you do someone can open an account with the same username and ….
