Ari Meier @arisphere@qoto.org

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”

-- Henry Ford

marriage is just two people alternately forcing each other to decide what they’re having for dinner

This is encouraging: A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in chronic fatigue syndrome

American scientists have identified a protein that seems to play a part in chronic fatigue by screwing with the mitochondria ("the powerhouse of the cell", if you'll remember highschool biology).

At least on a petri dish level, they managed to de-fatigue human cells.

This might be an important step for #MECFS and #LongCOVID patients.

I feel judged

Cool job: the NAACP is hiring a Digital Justice Fellow to “critically examine and address the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data in the creation, maintenance, and furthering of racial inequality.”

https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/fellowships-internships/digital-justice-fellow/

#AI #Jobs #FediHire #GetFediHired #Antiracism #Racism #CivicTech

Hat-tip to my co-worker for this one. Sitelinks for Search Engine Land have a weird misspelling. According to Urban Dictionary, to "earch" is to break into someone's home or car for the purpose of sleeping or stealing. ... So EEO's are burglars.

While the #AI hype has been raging through the media over the last six months, governments have been slowly ramping up efforts to regulate the development and application of #ArtificialIntelligence :

Where the World is on #AI_Regulation — June 2023

https://wolfhf.medium.com/where-the-world-is-on-ai-regulation-june-2023-d0ca0d31ce80

Video: Intro to Version Control using git and RStudio - presentation by Ryan Johnson, data science advisor at @Posit, at @NHSrCommunity
https://youtu.be/qNMOPWT8jSo

#rstats #git #RStudio @rstats

"The question is, will we let it be a tool for fostering a more enlightened society or a weapon for fanning the flames of division?"

Anthony Mensier reflects on the massive risks large language models pose in the realm of political disinformation. https://towardsdatascience.com/llms-weapons-of-mass-disinformation-4def0dc3dc7

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.

“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”

Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, try and survive a month without it.😐

@jared
I am thinking of doing what others are doing. Posting a problem a day from Newman's "Integral Matrices". To show that some Integer problems are neither too hard nor too simple :) Actually, the book is about "matrices over principal ideal rings" :) but integers form the backdrop.
Although, given the popularity of the subject, I would have to explain the terms associated with the problems (and probably progress through the theorems). I have always been fond of that book and would welcome a reason to refresh myself.

I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚

«Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.»

👇
https://standardebooks.org/donate

#standardebook #ebook #publicdomain #book #reading

When I was in elementary school I got really into alternate number bases (binary, ternary, base six, etc.) as well as other cultures' representation of numbers (Egyptian hieroglyph numbers, Babylonian, Mayan, etc.). So I remember being really excited to learn about the brand new Inupiaq number system (base twenty, with its own symbols), and for a while I would write the date at the top right corner of each paper I turned in using the Inupiaq system. An update, three decades later: Unicode is adding support for these numbers, which are more properly known as Kaktovic Numerals. https://mastodon.me.uk/@tokensane/110190269939949935

🤘Stitchwork by Portland, Oregon embroidery artist Shana Lee Hampton.
🔗: https://www.instagram.com/shanaleehampton/?hl=en

Photo via Dorkvania Photography
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I think Mastodon people should use the "like" button more.

People are told not to like because liking doesn't broadcast posts like boosting does, and the site needs boosts. And replies are preferred because they're deeper engagement or something.

But, on some level, we want people to keep using Mastodon. If someone posts something and followers like it, they know stuff is getting seen here and they'll want to keep using the site. I just don't see what's gained by holding back on the likes