Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/deepfake-scammer-walks-off-with-25-million-in-first-of-its-kind-ai-heist/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@victorp Respectfully disagree. By this logic, journalism and every other industry which relies on computers (basically everything) is a sub discipline of computer science. It would be far more accurate to class it as a sub of maths, heavily overlapping with other applied-maths disciplines like statistics, operational research (OR) and economics.

Introducing {fastpng} when you need to write PNG files, but you want to do it quicky.

{fastpng} allows for the tradeoff between compression and speed.

Writing PNGs can be 75x faster when compression is turned off.

Supports: arrays, rasters and native rasters.

https://github.com/coolbutuseless/fastpng

#RStats

This is an excellent argument by Jennifer Listgarten about why Large Language Models #LLM like #chatGPT are not a silver bullet for scientific discovery. I am also motivated to study #ExperimentalDesign using #MachineLearning for the reasons Jennifer argues in this paper.

We need better data in #science.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-02103-0

@Daojoan Alternatively, your corporate overlords have embraced M365, so you migrate data between a series of half-baked products and are then requested to extract said data into Excel/PowerPoint/Email because middle and upper management still haven't figured out how to log into any of the other Microsoft applications.

In case anyone was wondering about quarto and pseudocode:
https://github.com/leovan/quarto-pseudocode

Working on some, ahem, *colourful* new printing options for {palettes} 🎨 #RStats

Douglas Allchin, Jonathan Osborne, and I have a new paper out about teaching science in this age of online misinformation.

The idea is simple: we tell people to trust the science, but we rarely teach students about the social processes that make it trustworthy.

https://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2024JCST.pdf

We finally got it! The source of the cake dataset:

https://www.sumsar.net/blog/source-of-the-cake-dataset/

Thank you everyone who engaged @dlakelan @kbroman @bbolker @millerdl @defuneste @JeremyNeedle
@mario_angst_sci + some I forgot 😊

`sshx` lets you share your terminal with anyone by link, on a multiplayer infinite canvas. It has real-time collaboration, with remote cursors and chat.

It's also fast and end-to-end encrypted, with a lightweight server written in Rust (so you know it's cool).

#ssh #terminal #collaboration #rust #rustlang #cli #encryption

🔗 https://sshx.io/

Today I learned about generating parameterized reports with R/Quarto from @RLadiesGlobal 's awesome course: https://jadeyryan.quarto.pub/rladies-dc-quarto-params/ Great slides, tons of helpful examples and exercises 🚀 . Thanks a lot for making the course available! 😍 #TIL #RStats #rladies #quarto

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account?

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/in-major-gaffe-hacked-microsoft-test-account-was-assigned-admin-privileges/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The Fedora Pride team is hosting a @Minetest gaming event tomorrow, Jan 27 at 7pm UTC (2pm EST)!

Minetest is an open source game inspired by Minecraft. If you've never given it a shot and are looking for that 'first time playing Minecraft' experience again, come join us!

Learn more: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/lets-play-minetest/101980

#Fedora #Minetest #Minecraft #OpenSource

Born in 1896, biochemist Gerty Theresa Cori became the 1st woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (and the 3rd to win a Nobel Prize).

Cori faced gender discrimination & was marginalized for years. But she never gave up.

With her husband Carl, she discovered how glycogen is broken down & eventually stored as an energy source (aka the “Cori cycle”). They also identified the Cori ester. http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/women/cori.htm #HistoryRemix #science #history

'Hilariously, Sunak insists anyone failing to get behind all this just wants to take us “back to square one”. Square one? Oh man – who wouldn’t take square one in a heartbeat? We’re somewhere near square minus 39 here, receding backwards through the squares until the place of utter darkness beyond all squares'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/19/tories-squid-game-rwanda-policy

Hello, what is 'synthetic data'? Specifically, how can synthetic data be sufficient for creating models to run on real-world data? Would it not replicate the narrowness of the small real data they had to begin with?

Do I know anyone on here who explored what kind of niches synthetic data helps & where its use is being over-shot beyond the effective boundary?

Tagging to hope to reach to someone who worked on this #machinelearning