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sundogplanets, 5 days ago to random

The only feeling I have about starship is dread.

They want to use that to launch batches of HUNDREDS of Starlinks at once. And guess where all those Starlinks will end up? The pieces that don't make it to the ground will end up in our upper atmosphere, screwing up the stratosphere, the ozone layer, who knows what else because SpaceX isn't required to do any environmental assessments of this.

Shit. Maybe a good time to post this essay I wrote yet again: https://theconversation.com/an-astronomers-lament-satellite-megaconstellations-are-ruining-space-exploration-215653

djlink, 5 days ago to random

Ah, I wonder why Photoshop wants access to users work? 100% sure it's for training "AI" stuff. Just with more people tried alternative software, Adobe has such a huge monopoly, might be one of the worst cases in software.

christianp, 5 days ago to random

@57isprime welcome! Keep fighting the good fight!
https://aperiodical.com/2016/05/are-you-sure-51-isnt-prime-analysing-the-results-of-the-is-this-prime-game/

XOrgFoundation, 5 days ago to random

Another post from Peter Hutterer, "goodbye xsetwacom, hello gsetwacom" http://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/06/goodbye-xsetwacom-hello-gsetwacom.html 😲

alanferrier, 7 days ago to random

“The Scottish Child Payment has seen the biggest reduction in inequality caused by a single policy change since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It basically means that no child in Scotland should go cold or hungry. It’s a remarkable story and the second remarkable story is how it hasn’t been reported.”
—Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23802729.scottish-child-payment-impact-biggest-since-fall-berlin-wall/

impactology, 7 days ago to random

How I Learned to Teach Like a Scientist by Sally G. Hoskins

"My students were comfortable memorizing facts, but they lacked insight into how those facts were generated and how the conclusions were drawn. The ingenuity of research—what I loved most about being a scientist—was lost on them"

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-i-learned-teach-scientist

| wanted [my students] to think deeply about the research process. Some balked. "I'm not creative," they'd say. But I asked them to give it a try—adding a sense of urgency by announcing that, in a later class, we'd form "grant panels" that would rank their proposed studies and decide where to invest an imaginary pool of research funds. After taking part in the panels, the students changed their tunes. They were amazed by the variety of follow-up studies their classmates had thought up. They argued passionately about which ideas were superior, expressing surprise when other panels made different choices: "Isn't it obvious that No. 6 is best?" It was a thrill to see each student commit to an idea, in the process discovering something about their own powers of invention. Afterward, one whip-smart woman told me that—for the first time—she realized that it was OK to come up with her own scientific ideas.

thetransmitter, 7 days ago to random

The National Medal of Science winner, Eve Marder explains why she built her career around the crustacean and what it was like attending high school in a Hudson River town. Listen now: https://www.thetransmitter.org/synaptic/eve-marder-neural-circuits-and-being-heard/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20240603-Eve-Marder

By Brady Huggett

sohkamyung, 7 days ago to science

"[A] stunning blue ant has been discovered from Yingku village in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. This new species belongs to the rare genus Paraparatrechina and has been named Paraparatrechina neela. The word “neela” signifies the color blue in most Indian languages – a fitting tribute to the ant’s unique coloration."

https://blog.pensoft.net/2024/06/03/captivating-blue-colored-ant-discovered-in-indias-remote-siang-valley/

#Ants #Biology #Nature #Insects #Ants #India #Research

avsm, 7 days ago to random

arXiv preprint up today about our ongoing work in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative on "planetary computing" -- the infrastructure to handle the ingestion, transformation, analysis and publication of global data products for furthering environmental science and enabling better informed policy-making. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04501

(still under review, so comments/feedback most welcome!)

grimalkina, 8 days ago to random

It's kind of amazing how much people disparage work that's really intentionally about helping people. I don't even think people know they're doing it. Even when people emphasize the care aspect it's almost always at the cost of acting like you're less intelligent

jon, 8 days ago to random

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 05 03 Jun 2024 - Vilnius - Warszawa, onto night train

Crossing these borders:
Road border 🇱🇹 🇵🇱
Zebrzydowice 🇵🇱 - Bohumín 🇨🇿

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/54.2528/23.3199

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/54.2528/23.3199

jekely, 8 days ago to random

Heidelberg, today

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pvonhellermannn, 9 days ago to random

#ClimateDiary Yep, this is where we are at.

mamund, 9 days ago to LLMs

Evaluating Large Language Models Using “Counterfactual Tasks”

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/evaluating-large-language-models?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1273940&post_id=144603950&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=4pxfn&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

"In [the counterfactual task] paradigm, models are evaluated on pairs of tasks that require the same types of abstraction and reasoning, but for each pair, the content of the first task is likely to be similar to training data, whereas the content of the second task (a “counterfactual task”) is designed to be unlikely to be similar to training data." -- #MelanieMitchell

#genAI #LLMs

b0rk, 11 days ago to random

so far "How Git Works" has sold more on its first day than any other zine except "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" and it's only been 3 hours https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

appreciate you all, hope the zine helps with your git woes ❤

davidrevoy, 12 days ago to linux

Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide

#linux #x11 #wayland #debian #fedora #krita #plasma #kde

vicgrinberg, 12 days ago to Astro

Did you know that it's actually NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope? Even though it is often referred to as "NASA" only.

European Space Agency #ESA has contributed the NIRSpec instrument, half of the MIRI instrument, and the launch (including the payload adapter & launch site services) and has 15 scientists working at the science and operations center. #CSA, the Canadian Space Agency, has contributed the NIRISS instrument.

Graphic from launch kit: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/James_Webb_Space_Telescope_launch_kit

#JWST #astrodon

christianp, 12 days ago to random

I've seen discussion around several in-person only events lately, where the organisers justify it by saying they can't get the best quality of conversation online.

Well, you can't get any of my conversation at an event I can't get to.

An in-person event that you have to travel to excludes people with caring responsibilities, disabilities, and limited funds.

katvogt, 12 days ago to random

We wrote a "little" review about odor coding across phyla, now out in @nature review neuroscience
Enjoy reading here: https://rdcu.be/dJgF7
With Kara Fulton, David Zimmerman, Aravi Samuel and @Datta_Lab

TatianaIlyina, 12 days ago to climate

Edinburgh banned SUV and airline ads as a step-up in action to tackle #climatechange.
Can this be #Hamburg?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2024/05/30/this-scottish-city-just-banned-suv-and-airline-ads-heres-why/

christianp, 12 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

I'm running the #BigMathOff again, this July.

The Big Internet Math-Off is a just-for-fun tournament that I and a few friends have organised on @aperiodical, ostensibly to find the World’s Most Interesting Mathematician.

Some great people have already signed up but I still need a couple more to complete the list.

I'm particularly keen to represent a range of genders, nationalities and backgrounds.

There's more information about the competition at https://aperiodical.com/please-take-part-in-the-big-internet-math-off/

If that sounds like fun and you'd like to take part, please tell me!

UPDATE: I now have 16 competitors. The Math-Off is go!

cnrs, 12 days ago to random French

#Communiqué 🗞️ Une étude internationale vient confirmer que les injections d’eaux usées industrielles sont à l’origine de la sismicité détectée dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques, dont la cause exacte n'était pas clairement identifiée jusque-là.

👉 https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/lacq-linjection-deaux-usees-industrielles-identifiee-comme-principale-responsable-des

RuthMalan, 12 days ago to random

"I built a web of interesting papers. I identified 50 papers that seemed worth reading and read them all."
— Hillel Wayne as live-tweeted by @mathiasverraes from DDDEU

They’re here: https://hillelwayne.com/talks/ese/ddd/ “

Via @mathiasverraes

Source: https://x.com/mathiasverraes/status/1796126916514062578

gutenberg_org, 12 days ago to books

American writer Randolph Silliman Bourne was born #OTD in 1886.

Bourne's career was marked by his prolific writing and his engagement with contemporary social and political issues. His essays and articles were published in influential magazines like The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Dial. His incisive critique of World War I and his vision of a pluralistic America have left a lasting impact on American thought and cultural studies.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54325

#books #literature

Title page of History of a literary radical, and other essays by Randolph Silliman Bourne

dahukanna, 13 days ago to random

Foundations day at #dddeurope badge unlocked: Keynote presentation glitch because of geo-politico-socio-technical bureaucracy visa issues.
Fascinating to me is observing that we have shared social vocabulary, social behavior using existing technical video conference tools to use as “get out of jail” alternative to enable this interaction.
I enjoyed the thought-provoking presentation by Michael Feathers - https://2024.dddeurope.com/program/design-discovery-in-existing-systems/
Realised so many connections between UX design and Technical design.