Mark Mounts @markmounts@qoto.org

There’s going to be a golden window of opportunity for knowledge workers where AI makes you better at your job followed by a through of despair when AI can just do your job and you’re not needed anymore.

📚 What is a Machine Learning Librarian?
🤖 How can a Machine Learning Librarian enhance the field of #machinelearning? #libraries #ai

I've written an article exploring this emerging role. Check it out here: 🔗 https://machinelearninglibrarian.substack.com/p/what-is-a-machine-learning-librarian

#HH211: #Jets from a #FormingStar
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230919.html

#APOD

You know how we've reached the point where half of congress says that it's totally inappropriate for people to be able to file their taxes online directly with the IRS? That the Good and Right thing is to have to pay H&R Block or Intuit?

That's the play that private identity vendors are making. They’re racing for the perception of incumbency before states can catch up with mDLs, before Login.gov can work with those states to ensure that anybody with a DMV record can access government services.

#TIH #OTD 06 Sep 1903: Death of Charles Ammi Cutter (b. 1837), US #librarian best remembered for Cutter Expansive Classification: a system of shelving by standardized class numbers so #books on related topics sit together. He also helped produce the US’ 1st public #CardCatalogue and played a major role in making card cataloguing—versus the old practice of chronologically listing titles in ledgers—the international model. #GLAM #BookHistory #Libraries
@bookhistodons

Meta/Facebook/Threads/Instagram is now using your content for generative AI. There is a form to opt out, although I don't know if it'll make a difference, but here it is: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/1266025207620918

#passkeys are the worst, most user-hostile security design ever imagined in my lifetime. They're endlessly confusing for people, the sync mechanisms make no goddamn sense and their rollout has been a complete shit-show so far.

Let's start with Chrome and passkeys. I'm on a Mac and I want to use a passkey. #Firefox doesn't even support passkeys, so I can use #Safari or #Chrome. IF I USE CHROME, the passkey generated is NOT synced OR usable on the iCloud Keychain. It exists only on the Mac Keychain. So if I lose this laptop OR delete my Chrome user, that login is simply gone forever.

Ok so I'll use safari. Whoa there partner, now the passkey isn't usable on Chrome! Now I'm locked to Safari forever. Let's say I'm sick of Apple and decide to go to Android someday? All those logins are gone forever.

Jesus Christ, I'll use Windows. Nope, those passkeys don't sync ever! So if I ever lose that laptop, I'm locked out of all those accounts regardless of how I use passkeys.

None of these risks have been properly communicated to users and none of them are acceptable. I cannot believe that we are suggesting that anyone use these broken things right now. Shameful.

#security #programming

Need to get all the links from a website into a spreadsheet? Use the developer tools console!
console.table($$('a'),['innerHTML','href']) is the key.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUwVl4Gqvw

Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment “disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election,” argue two Federalist Society prominent legal scholars in a forthcoming law review article. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751

In current GenAI controversies, both sides tend to anthropomorphize the technology: Machines aren't »inspired« by human creativity; they interpolate statistical patterns. But to call this simply »theft« trivializes it: It's automated exploitation and devaluation of human labor

How to prove it with Lean. ~ Daniel J. Velleman. https://djvelleman.github.io/HTPIwL/ #ITP #Lean4 #Logic #Math

"Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry."
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Oswald Veblen died #OTD in 1960. He was a mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Camille Jordan curve theorem in 1905. via @wikipedia

Books by Oswald Veblen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8217

#science #mathematics

In response to everyone who's said, "Gov. Abbott isn't going to care that you didn't go to SciPy," you're right, but my niece and my LGBT friends will. And to those saying, "But the venue was already booked—do you know how much work/how expensive it would be to move/cancel?" Yes: I've organized confs in the past, I know how hard it would be. But a principle is an idea you're willing to make sacrifices for. If you're not willing to make sacrifices, you don't have principles.

Articles on "History of Math" by The American Mathematical Monthly

https://maa.tandfonline.com/journals/uamm20/collections/History-of-Math

Via a Twitter post by Dave Richeson [ https://twitter.com/divbyzero/status/1649421703120842752 ]

@gregeganSF @johncarlosbaez

#Mathematics #Journals #History

Have you ever thought about visiting all of the national parks in the U.S. in one epic road trip?

In 2016, data scientist Randy Olson optimized the route of 14,498 miles (23,333 km) which would take 2+ months. He even designed the journey as a circle so you can begin at any point & direction.

All the details: https://randalolson.com/2016/07/30/the-optimal-u-s-national-parks-centennial-road-trip/ #science #data #nature #travel

tbh I've always felt the Internet Archive's digital lending case was a tough one but I'm absolutely appalled by the judge finding the lending program "commercial" because it allowed AI to "solicit donations" and "bolster its standing."

That would transform everything a non-profit does into "commercial" activity. It's a ridiculous reach by a judge who seemed determined to rule against IA in every way he could find.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.188.0.pdf

Mechanical mathematicians (A new generation of automatic theorem provers eliminate bugs in software and mathematics). ~ Alexander Bentkamp, Jasmin Blanchette, Visa Nummelin, Sophie Tourret, Petar Vukmirović, Uwe Waldmann. https://matryoshka-project.github.io/pubs/mechanical.pdf #ATP #ITP #Math

We think that the past is somewhere different. Somewhere we've left behind. A place we used to be. We think that the future is something far off and away. Someplace way out there, but it isn't.Nothing escapes the gravitational pull of the present and that includes both the future and the past. It's all still right here...

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/the-density-of-the-present

#reading #writing #art #poetry #collage @bookstodon

Interested in learning the basics of webscraping?
Sarah King (https://www.sarahasking.com), PhD researcher
@ucdpolitics and a member of the Connected_Politics Lab, will deliver a free, virtual workshop on Thursday, 23 March (13:00–15:00 Irish time).

Details and free registration at: https://www.ucd.ie/connected_politics/events/anintroductiontowebscrapingusingr/
All welcome!
@politicalscience #rstats #webscraping #coding #polisci #polsci

To meditate with these #metta phrases, just repeat a phrase to yourself then pause to allow your inherent instinct for care & compassion to well up….

may all beings be well-loved.
may all beings be filled with love.

may all beings feel safe and secure.
may all beings be a place of safety and refuge for others.

may all beings be free of envy and emnity.
may all beings delight in the joy of others.

may all beings be free of suffering.
may all beings be at peace.

#buddhism #meditation