Is anyone else here going to #DCCWest?
https://www.dataconnectconf.com/dccwest/conference
#DataScience #portland #pdx #ai #MachineLearning #WomenInStem
As our kitchen renovation has finally begun, #Violet and I are spending our days on campus.
Within the first hour, she has:
- Found an egg muffin sandwich in the garbage.
- Approached a student she doesn't know with a tail wag and agree to be petted. Who is she and what has she done with my dog?
Turtle in pink T-shirt, hopped up on lettuce and Terry Pratchett novels:
🎵 Anywhere else, I'd be A'Tuin. 🎵
Hey @futurebird, the Annals of Improbable Research has you covered!
https://improbable.com/annals-of-improbable-research-march-april-2024-vol-30-number-2/
@puppygirlhornypost @DJDarren perhaps I should mention that the hard problem with recycling electronics is testing to see if the part still works to spec. It can cost more to test a part than to replace it with a new one. This trend has also been driven by Moore. But it’s also driven by what consumers are willing to pay. You lose money if it costs more to refurbish than you can sell it for. So a lot of devices are destroyed because of this.
"Oregon Offshore Wind Energy"
@HamonWry On fire!
This is not a metaphor.
#PortofPortland ending container shipping operations, impacting jobs, businesses
#PDX #Oregon #PortlandOr
https://katu.com/news/local/port-of-portland-ending-container-shipping-operations-impacting-jobs-businesses
Balaji Srinivasan is the spearhead of the new fascist movement establishing itself in Silicon Valley.
It's easy to dismiss him as a clown given how bad, inconsistent and dumb his ideas are but he's a clown with a lot of followers in tech who listen to his visions of "ethnic cleansing".
https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat
If image generation gets good enough to make me Twitch banners, or blog featured images, or make small video edits for me, or write me CSS that actually looks good, you bet your glutal hemispheres I'm going to make use of it. Purely a matter of efficiency. We haven't had a decent video editor that's #accessible as long as I've been alive, I think i've waited long enough for hoomans to step up. If AI can do it, AI can do it. Screen readers can't tell me if CSS is doing what I want, so if AI can do it that just means I can be more productive as a developer. Again, I've waited for this situation to improve in #screenreaders for my entire professional career, so if what is for all intents and purposes a new tool can enable me to do this, I will happily make use of it. Summarizing articles in between all the newsletter popups, ads, images without alt text and silent videos? Absolutely. Just another #accessibility tool at this point. So yeah. Bad, but not all bad.
@neuralreckoning I'll just leave this here.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense
@hellomiakoda If both players pass, doesn't the game immediately end?
The BikePortland podcast interviews City Council (District 4) candidate Chad Lykins.
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