Robert S @rgs@qoto.org
Engineer and dad. Interests include: ASIC design, network protocols, math, drums, California native plants, climate change (against), democracy (for).
Joined Nov 2022
Robert S
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I wrote a piece for the New York Times about how scientists used Twitter during the Covid pandemic and about what comes next.
Robert S
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I logged into mastodon just now & the first post I saw was someone advocating for content warning tags over all self-promotion of books or writing. And just like, hell no.
One, writing is my job, & telling me to hide it feels terribly wrong. 1/
@johnnylogic
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
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Let's take a look. Galactica can generate wikipedia articles, supposedly.
So let's see what they look like. Here's one for Brandolini's law, the principle that bullshit takes another of magnitude less effort create than to clean up.
Left: Galactica's attempt at creating a wikipedia entry
https://galactica.org/?prompt=wiki+article+on+brandolini%27s+law
Right: The actual wikipedia entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
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Coping with climate change: Advice for kids — from kids.
#climate #climatechange
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137156134/kids-youth-coping-climate-change
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In its way, this is the most important election story: All of the election-denying secretaries of state in swing states lost. That means an attempt to repeat Jan 6 and steal the 2024 election will be a lot more difficult https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/politics/jim-marchant-nevada.html
@FlorianTFW @johncarlosbaez Thanks for the reference! Already learned something new…
On this Veteran’s Day, my mind is on some of the newest: the Ukrainian soldiers who have just liberated their city of Kherson. May they stay safe, and free the rest of their country from tyranny.
Robert S
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@hgreer @War_Kittens For me, LaTeX has been rendering with “[Math Processing Error]”, and producing giant malformed images. For instance, your post appears like this. (I’m using Safari on iOS.)
Engineer and dad. Interests include: ASIC design, network protocols, math, drums, California native plants, climate change (against), democracy (for).
Joined Nov 2022
