Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard P. Feynman

🌟 Exciting news! Just a week to go until #SciPy2024! 🎉 Stay tuned over the next few days as we reveal some of the amazing things our speakers will be presenting at the conference 👀

"But whilst it will have its benefits, the process of datafication also raises important methodological and ethical questions. Who has access to the data that is collected and why? How do the new data flows change everyday research practice? Are scientists being subjected to “dataveillance”, and if so, what does this mean for their privacy? To ensure that the scientific community embarks on a critically informed journey towards a datafied research ecosystem, these questions need to be addressed."

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-024-00153-2

“On AI and the commoditisation of design – Scott Riley”

https://www.scott.is/writing/about/ai-and-design

> That’s because I know the value good design can bring to a project, and it’s not the output. Design is about humans, about sense-making, systems thinking, and craft

« In this Comment, we emphasize the complexity of scientific software as a multifaceted socio-technical (and historically grown) system. We describe facets of software that we define as vantage points from which the different dimensions of software can be understood. The multifaceted nature of software implies that the work done by software has technical, legal, sociological and epistemic consequences. »

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00651-2

#ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience

appreciated this essay about “technical” skills by Sasha Laundy (“If you've ever said "soft skills" and felt weird about it, this essay is for you”) https://sashalaundy.com/writing/technical-skills/

Aujourd'hui, j'ai peur. Un parti fasciste et raciste est aux portes du pouvoir en France. On peut déjà voir ses sympathisants s'exciter sur les réseaux sociaux, promettre "qu'il y en a qui vont devoir partir", ou "qu'ils vont casser du PD".

Voilà le sens du vote RN (1/10)

Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.

How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster.

#UKPol no CW because #HigherEd

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jul/02/how-the-tories-pushed-universities-to-the-brink-of-disaster

You can now watch the talk on "The Perfect Python Project" that I gave on Saturday at North Bay Python on YouTube. Please share and enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfERM6fcgU

#python #NBPy

All over the world, voters should know, that whenever politicians talk about immigrants, it is because they have no solutions to the problems that matter most.

Healthcare crisis in the UK? Talk about immigrants.

Children getting shot because of idiotic gun laws in the US? Talk about immigrants.

"Look over there! Someone is coming too eat you cake!", is the oldest trick in the book, and politicians use it for the sole purpose of moving attention away from their own political incompetence.

Andrej Karpathy announced his upcoming LLM course - LLM101n, a few days ago. The course is not available yet, but the course syllabus is available on the course repo:

https://github.com/karpathy/LLM101n

There is no timeline for the release of this new course.

#llm #DataScience #AI #deeplearning #MachineLearning

Ok kids, here we go:

#Bandwagon, the open #Fediverse alternative to #Bandcamp is ready for its first steps into the light.

I have a waitlist online at
https://bandwagon.fm if you'd like to try it out.

I'm planning to build the first (dozen? I don't know) profiles in the waitlist personally, with an email questionnaire and FaceTime follow-ups if necessary.

Once I'm confident in the UX, we'll open up self-serve signups for everyone.

How many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?

Give me your best guess.

(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)