tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@gimulnautti
Who said _anyone_ has endless resources? When I look at what's being done to ensure we abandon fossil fuels it "endless European resources" is not a phrase anyone ever uses...
@BorisBarbour
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"By turning off your lights all day every day for a month, you conserved about 1 percent of the energy needed for AI to generate a picture of a duck wearing sunglasses. Isn’t he cute? Aside from the fact that he has the feet of a human man, of course."
"By dropping $7K on better, energy-efficient insulation for your home, Google AI was able to tell someone how to prepare chicken incorrectly, and they got, like, super sick—thanks to you!"
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Pro tips for matplotlib figures to really feel right in LaTeX publications: https://duetosymmetry.com/code/latex-mpl-fig-tips/
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".. we were not able to find a feasible Mars mission scenario using Starship, even when assuming optimal conditions such as 100% recovery rate of crew consumables during flight."
"With the information currently available a Mars mission with Starship is not feasible."
Studie veröffentlicht am 23. Mai 2024.
actual programming advice
@jonny
I am sorry for my deceit! The comment was mainly in jest 😅
I actually do a satisfying amount of computer and have done fairly long time, it's just today I need to make six small repetitive mpl plot functions because the alternative is to be clever about it and I would just like to be done with this and get ✨results✨
@kevinriggle
@kevinriggle
Man, it sounds like you guys are up to some cool stuff, I'm jealous:(
Maybe I should learn a bit about decorators and try to implement all my plots that way instead of boring imperative matplotlib 🤔
@jonny
@erikdelareguera
Sen får vi se vad Le Pen vill ha och har fått för att inte riva upp pensionsreformen...
@kallekn
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Tillbaka från semestern, lagom för att skriva om Macrons högersväng.
I Sverige beskrivs president Emmanuel Macron ofta som en liberal mittenpolitiker. Det är en bild som kan behöva uppdateras efter hans nya allians med Republikanerna. https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-mittenpolitikern-macron-tar-ett-stort-steg-ut-mot-hoger/
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Lately she's posted about joining the After the Fire summit in Sonoma & the comfort that California survivors of megafires offered. The instant recognition & shared experience. My aunt wrote about being gifted a book another survivor wrote about their fire experience: "Today I read the book and just sobbed out all the tears I’ve tried to hold in during the past year; although each of our communities are very unique, the similarities in human experiences, feelings and struggles are uncanny"
@inthehands
For Mastodon in particular, there's also a technical implementation explanation: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113162314742576737
@mainec
Seems a bit of a self aggrandising take by the communication scientist to suppose these divisions didn't always exist.
To me it seems much more coherent with what I know about humans to say that communication allows for the discovery of pre-existing differences, and of course also of similarity.
@inthehands
@mainec
Seems a bit of a self aggrandising take by the communication scientist to suppose these divisions didn't always exist.
To me it seems much more coherent with what I know about humans to say that communication allows for the discovery of pre-existing differences, and of course also of similarity.
@inthehands
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Moderation:
- is absolutely necessary
- cannot be automated
- doesn’t scale if done by humans
- is rife with ridiculous failure modes
- is philosophically intractible
I’m increasingly of the mind that content moderation is •the• central problem of the social Internet right now, and I’m not sure we have anything like a solution in sight.
From @sandofsky: https://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/113181384256449181
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Ofen leave treats in the shopping bag so my kids don't snaffle them and hide the bag in my car. Pop to the same shop midweek grab the bag and realise they're still in the bag. End up paying for them again as I don't want to get caught thieving. Done this more than once.
"Many think the term 'resistance' carries normative value capable of whitewashing war crimes. This is not how [international] law applies it. Armed struggle through prohibited means/methods, [like the ones Hamas committed on Oct 7], constitutes war crimes. Use of the term ['resistance'] does not justify [war crimes].
This is at odds with prevailing popular discourses that still cling to just war ideas; that all our actions in war are justified if they can be styled as 'resistance', 'self-defence', 'humanitarian', etc. This is no longer how [international law] works. But we’ve done a poor job communicating it.
So I can see where the hesitation and controversy comes from, but I think in the end much of it is premised on the incompatible clash between legal and political (politicized?) understandings of war."
Thread starting at: https://x.com/Alonso_GD/status/1837624173415289112
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I got dragged into looking at the AI generated customer review summaries on #Amazon and while doing this, I noticed that some books had safety warnings.
Hobbit: not to be used by children over 36 months.
Silmarillion: do not use near overhead power lines.
You have been warned.
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Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
