Marcelo Magallon @mem@qoto.org
Physicist who moved to computer science. I've worked on interactive visualization techniques of large datasets using distributed computing resources. Using and developing on and for Linux since the mid 90's. Currently specialized in monitoring systems and the Go programming languages.
@apolitosb I know this is not the "mainstream fuss", but for me the problem is not being able to easily generate a bunch of seemingly correct text. The problem is being able to generate a bunch of seemingly correct text ridden with factual errors and no references. For most people it's easy to spot the flaws in images (wait... three eyes?). That's why I don't understand why they think gpt-generated text is flawless.
Hello #Mastodon friends,
I have reported this fake account, where someone is impersonating me in many comments using my photos & bio to promote their writing. If this indieauthors.social account replied to you, don’t be duped.
Aside from reporting, there’s little I can do, but welcome any #tips. This happened on #Twitter & it’s disappointing to see it again here. But on social media, so it goes.
@freemo do you have any clues as to why https://www.movetodon.org/ doesn't work with qoto.org?
I vaguely remember reading that qoto runs a forked version of mastodon... might that be it?
Image manipulation in science is suddenly in the news. But these cases are hardly rare
Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky report at Statnews.
For #SilentSunday, I offer the realization that the ground we walk on is alive. This is from the Rincón de La Vieja, my favorite #volcano is in #CostaRica.
No matter how old I get, libraries continue to be the most magical places.
Who else is frustrated when trying to perform a method in a paper, and the authors state "As described previously-citation ". You look up the citation to read "as described previously-citation ". At times like this I feel like I am falling down the rabbit hole.
In Europe, October 2022 was by far the warmest ever recorded, beating the previous record by over 0.5⁰C!
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-october-2022
I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
Mathics is a free, open-source alternative to Mathematica:
I can't wait to play with it! I've been running Mathematica on a RPi (because there's a free as in beer Mathematica license available on Raspbian), but hopefully this is also super good and useful!
Physicist who moved to computer science. I've worked on interactive visualization techniques of large datasets using distributed computing resources. Using and developing on and for Linux since the mid 90's. Currently specialized in monitoring systems and the Go programming languages.
