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UP8

@UP8@mastodon.social

Software developer at a major research university. I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY.

Experienced in e-commerce, e-publishing, search, A.I. and other data-rich systems. Current side projects involve modelling financial messages in OWL, a smart RSS reader with a transformer-based classifier and workflow engine, and a system of three-sided cards.

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grimalkina, to random
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So many "developers produce more quantities of code with copilot" studies so few "the patterns of interleaving and retrieval change depending on active vs passive consumption of generated solutions and we have like fifty years of research on this in learning science and so maybe we can apply it to make good recommendations about the best usage of generated work output" studies

UP8,
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@grimalkina talk about a paper tiger: when I try to use Copilot it is broken half the time and when it does work it canโ€™t ever get sorting things into a list right.

UP8, to california
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๐ŸŒง๏ธ California's epic rain year boosted groundwater levels, but not enough to recoup losses

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-13/californias-epic-rain-year-helped-boost-groundwater-levels

UP8, to cars
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๐Ÿš— The Honda CR-V e:FCEV is a plug-in fuel-cell hybrid nobody asked for

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011097

#cars #automotive #vehicles #honda #hydrogen #decarbonization

UP8, to Vintage
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Anybody need 40,000 antique telephones?

https://madison.com/news/local/phoneco-wisconsin-telephones-knappen-business/article_90116a8a-734c-11ee-a555-f74104c683cf.html

#telephone #antiques #vintage #technology #retro #electronics

UP8, to random
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Lately I've been building applications based on HTMX, which lets you write web applications the way you did in 1999, avoiding the complexity of React, Vue and all that, but add substantial helpings of Javascript 'magic' by putting special attributes on your HTML tags

https://htmx.org/

UP8, to random
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The fastest maze-solving competition on Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

UP8, to tv
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๐Ÿ“บ Maybe showing off an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writersโ€™ strike is a bad idea

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/maybe-showing-off-an-ai-generated-fake-tv-episode-during-a-writers-strike-is-a-bad-idea/

UP8, to Health
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๐Ÿฆ  Humans can get their pets sick: Reverse zoonoses more common than once thought

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-humans-pets-sick-reverse-zoonoses.html

UP8, to ai
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Metaโ€™s AI System Can Replicate Images in Your Brain in Milliseconds

https://petapixel.com/2023/10/25/metas-ai-system-can-replicate-images-in-your-brain-in-milliseconds/

UP8, to Japan
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๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/09/japan/history/nara-ancient-tomb/

#japan #ancient #archaeology #ruins

UP8, to space
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๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ Japan to launch worldโ€™s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/17/japan-to-launch-worlds-first-wooden-satellite-to-combat-space-pollution

UP8, to television
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๐Ÿ“บ Into the Tubi-Verse

(... it's like as cable died and went to heaven: multiple MTV branded channels really play new and old music videos)

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2024/4/17/24132371/tubi-streaming-service-explained

UP8, to books
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just read: Second-Stage Lensmen by Edward E. โ€œDocโ€ Smith

(โ€ฆ escapist space opera that I find on the shelf and enjoy sometimes)

UP8, to books
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recently read: โ€œThe Star Foxโ€ by Poul Anderson; I read a huge amount of science fiction as a kid but I never got into Poul Anderson. I really appreciated this 1965 book for Poulโ€™s ear for languages and a depiction of war which is still idealized but light years ahead of Smith and Heinlein.

UP8, to Futurology
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๐Ÿ”‹ The Cactus 6502 homebrew computer

https://www.commodorez.com/cactus.html

UP8, to Anthropology
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๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ Study supports theory that humans evolved the ability to run long distances to capture prey

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-theory-humans-evolved-ability-distances.html

UP8, to politics
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๐Ÿง  Democrats Have Been Panicking Over Bidenโ€™s Age for Years

https://jacobin.com/2024/02/democrats-joe-biden-age-trump/

UP8, to Law
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๐Ÿ˜๏ธ Why we canโ€™t build family-sized apartments in North America

https://www.centerforbuilding.org/blog/we-we-cant-build-family-sized-apartments-in-north-america

UP8, to Russia
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๐Ÿชฆ Putin has no successor, no living rivals and no retirement plan โ€“ why his eventual death will set off a vicious power struggle

https://theconversation.com/putin-has-no-successor-no-living-rivals-and-no-retirement-plan-why-his-eventual-death-will-set-off-a-vicious-power-struggle-224485

UP8, to Software
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๐Ÿ’ช How we reduced the cost of building a Mastodon server at Twitter-scale by 100x

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/

UP8, to China
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๐Ÿš— Chinaโ€™s EV price war is killing brands and infuriating consumers

https://restofworld.org/2024/china-ev-industry-slowdown/

UP8, to Games
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๐ŸŽฐ Is Japanโ€™s Pachinko Industry in Decline?

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/japanese-culture/pachinko-in-decline-in-japan/

UP8, to art
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๐ŸŽจ Revealed: the artwork sneaked into a German gallery by an employee - and the story behind it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/revealed-the-artwork-sneaked-into-a-german-gallery-by-an-employee-and-the-story-behind-it

UP8, to Economics
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๐Ÿœ 4 Problems for the Degrowth Movement

https://jacobin.com/2024/02/degrowth-movement-problems-climate-change/

#degrowth #economics #ecology #politics #climatechange #decarbonization

UP8, to tv
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๐Ÿ“บ Almost half of gen Z viewers want less sex on screen, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/25/gen-z-less-sex-tv-movie-trend

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