You should never ever use Scihub to access papers.

EVER !

#phdlife #phdchat #xp #AcademicChatter #phdvoice #AcademicTwitter

"W3C invites public feedback on a beta release of the W3C website redesign. The new site features a cleaner and more modern look, a simplified information architecture, improved accessibility, and more integration throughout the site" by @koalie

Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/02/w3c-launches-beta-of-its-new-website/

I wanted to mention #espanso, an open-source cross-platform text expander I use daily. It has a complete feature set, with features not provided by many of its closed-source alternatives. Highly recommended!

https://espanso.org

Here's the stuff I contributed to #KDE this February! Including work on the new Gamepad KCM, kdevelop.org, figuring out API documentation, and of course a slew of Tokodon features and fixes!

https://redstrate.com/blog/2023/02/my-work-in-kde-for-february-2023/

Please, I implore you, it’s “work to live” not “live to work”

Primer AI.

In 2020, Primer AI became a contractor for U.S. Special Operations Command.

Primer AI claims it will develop the first AI platform to automatically identity suspected disinformation agents.

Sean Gourley, the founder, worked for the U.S. military creating AI systems to "track insurgency" in post invasion Iraq.
His focus is now on "domestic disinformation", so citizens of western countries. Sean Gourley asserts they must be a "Manhattan Project for truth". He suggests governments should create centralized, government controled, Wikipedia style databases, which will be updated by intelligence agencies to create baselines of truth.
Gourley claims that 2020 is the year that begins the "weaponization of the truth"

https://primer.ai/business-solutions/to-fight-disinformation-we-need-to-weaponise-the-truth/

@effies here, I think I made it worse somehow 🐊 🙃🐊

The trolley problem: your imagination versus the even sadder reality. (Just got this from a friend who also collects trolley problem variants.)

I think the fediverse really needs to hear this:

Hate the sin.
Love the sinner.

Viruses are known as notorious killers, but to some organisms, they’re a tasty snack. This virus-eating could have a meaningful effect on how nutrients and energy flow through ecosystems. https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-nothing-to-eat-except-viruses-some-microbes-thrive-20230221/

Just build websites.

Climate Signal

Another day, another miracle:

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered an entire new class of synthetic antibiotics - these compounds do not invoke bacterial resistance! If proven, is absolutely some of the most important medical work of our time.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(23)00026-9/fulltext#%20

Drivers and PRIME Profiles are now placed inside GNOME Settings!

This means that you will no longer find them in the Vanilla Control Center.

A recent toot by @L_howes (I am unable to quote-toot) did let me rethink how important it is when using pure ML/AI protocols (particular generative ones) to always remember that they are intriguingly build on correlation only. Causation comes with the builder or user.
Thus generative AI like #ChatBotGPT does not do science, it mimics it. It does not create art, it copies and mimics it. And when we claim a language model makes things up, it really only does what it is trained for

Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.