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jszym

@jszym@cosocial.ca

PhD student @ #McGill University studying deep learning models for biological networks.

Born & raised in #montreal

I wrote RAPPPID, which you should totally check out (https://github.com/jszym/rapppid)

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jszym, to academia
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Anyone have access to this paper? Can't find it anywhere...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2665991321000102

@academicchatter

robin, to random
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As closing arguments of the Google Search trial proceed, there are two things I would like to flag.

First, the way in which search works on the web is stuck in the 90s. We need not stay there and can imagine alternatives (that aren't crappy AI): https://berjon.com/fixing-search/.

jszym,
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@robin Just wanted to say I really enjoyed the article, and think your outlining of how the dynamic has shifted between content production and search providers was succinct and super insightful!

I'm not entirely sure if I agree that engines providing APIs are big part of the solution. Brave, Bing, Mojeek, etc.. all have search APIs and I don't think integrating them in the browser would greatly change the dynamic you describe (and if it did, I suspect APIs would suddenly be turned off).

jszym,
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@robin Again, thanks for the super insightful article, it's made me think about this problem in a new light!

timbray, (edited ) to random
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When you have to enter a chunk of text on your mobile…

[boosts appreciated]

jszym,
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@timbray I used to mostly swipe on iOS but I'm back to tapping on GrapheneOS

mpjgregoire, to random
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It's easy to dismiss an article in the critical of a budget. But it's worth paying attention to what has to say...

Grading the federal budget: The government earns another ‘D’
https://financialpost.com/opinion/grading-federal-budget-government-earns-another-d

jszym,
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@mpjgregoire I'm not going to stick my neck out for this budget, but it's worth noting that Don Drummond is still the "small-c" conservative type you'd expect to write a NaPo OpEd, being a fellow of the C.D. Howe institute.

With criteria like "Spending restraint should do the heavy lifting", it's hard to read the 10-point criteria as being some kind of "middle-of-the-road" consensus.

I'm personally more inclined to agree with the analysis by Broadbent's PressProgress

https://pressprogress.ca/the-federal-government-says-budget-2024-makes-the-wealthy-pay-their-fair-share-economists-say-the-rich-could-be-paying-more/

jszym,
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@mpjgregoire (Not to suggest that PressProgress is by any measure a "middle-of-the-road" consensus, I'm just a lefty haha)

jszym, (edited )
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@mpjgregoire It's all a matter of perspective, and no one entity is always consistent in their view point, but the C.D. Howe institute has certainly been described as conservative[0], if not sometimes right-wing[1] depending on the source.

The Fraser institute itself has been described as a right-wing[0] or libertarian[2] think tank. It also has a streak of climate-denialism[3].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210624153138/https://www.sfu.ca/cmns/research/newswatch/monitor/issue1.html
[1] https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/whose-canada-infrastructure-bank/
[2] https://archive.is/EboK4#20%
[3] https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/federal-climate-report-uses-natural-weather-events-to-spark-scary-headlines

jszym,
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@mpjgregoire There is an alternative to lower spending, and that is raising taxes as you mentioned. One of the ten points in the scheme rebuffs "populist" taxation, which seems to make their stance pretty clear: the reasonable way to raise funds to is shrink government and lower taxes. I'm not making a value judgement, just stating that it sounds pretty conservative.

jszym, to random
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The #French word for "frenemy" is way better than its English counterpart.

https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/publications/media-soc-eng.html

#francais

timbray, to random
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Watching Miku Hatsune on - last time I saw her on TV it was in Japan and the presentation was shockingly 3D and holographic. Obviously a much more controlled environment, but this is disappointing, she’s just projected on a screen.

jszym,
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@timbray I can't hear "Hatsune Miku" w/o thinking of this Dominos ad https://youtu.be/yPuI4l0jK7s

jszym, to academia
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Who else is preparing their abstracts for 👀

jszym, to Montreal
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What the Victoria Bridge in looked like in 1859 vs. 2009. Turns out the bridge was once a tubular bridge made of prefabbed iron sections built in the UK.

Victoria Bridge as viewed from upstream, from Montreal Technoparc in 2009. A truss bridge is depicted.

jszym, to random
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Elections Quebec is scrapping it's pilot programme for online municipal elections.

I haven't a clue the number of times experts like @mattblaze need to outline the dangers and risks of internet-based elections before policy makers get the message.

I'm happy they came to the right conclusion, but it beggars belief how they ever thought it was viable.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/elections-quebec-abandons-plan-for-online-voting-pilot-project

jszym, to random
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@paige I'm sure you've seen this, but I couldn't help but think of your (incredible) video on Canada's population growth.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

evan, (edited ) to random
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Of these time zones, which is the best?

jszym,
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@evan bEST Timezone

timbray, (edited ) to photography
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Light industry. Even in the shiniest cosmopolitan cities, there are thousands of quotidian workplaces down back streets where necessary shit happens even though the shiny people never see them.

jszym,
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@timbray my grandfather has used a Juki sewing machine that looks just like this one for longer than I've been alive. It's still running to this day, albeit thanks to a few repairs through the years.

evan, to random
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Friends, I need your help. What songs should I add to my eclipse-watching playlist?

jszym,
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@evan a Canadian classic

jszym,
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@evan Don't think I saw Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves or Sunshine of Your Love by Cream in the replies.

cowboycatranch, to science
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Planning a study that would involve collecting and transferring large amounts of data (100-500 GB). I know, for some this is peanuts! (:

Does anyone have any suggestions better/cheaper than WeTransfer to transfer data?

jszym,
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@cowboycatranch you can always create a torrent to transfer it for free https://academictorrents.com/

evan, (edited ) to random
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How do you capitalize the name of this network?

jszym, (edited )
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@evan The Fediverse or The Fedi. I'm a habitual over-capitalizer. Trying to embrace the minimal-capital life. I'll never do the Financial Times thing and do the e.g. Nato vs NATO thing, though

timbray, to random
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Apparently, in Canada there is no way to watch Scavengers Reign without subscribing to some trashy lo-rent service I never heard of. Time to explore piracy options.

jszym,
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@timbray I sometimes turn to eBay or Kijiji for physical media in these cases. Added boon of it not disappearing from your library whenever licensing elapses (although that's also true of less-than-legal approaches :P)

jszym, to Blog
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This month's blog post comes courtesy of @boris 's suggesion.

I share some thoughts on using Mastodon as a blog comment section.

(Commenting on this post will leave a comment on the page!)

https://jszym.com/blog/mastodon_blog_comments/

evan, (edited ) to random
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How do you feel about boycott bans?

jszym,
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@evan As a biochemistry student in Montreal, this was a personal favourite.

micheleann, to Etymology
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How am I supposed to get anything done when there are tempting rabbit holes like this everywhere?!?

"Chalant"

Etymology

A notional opposite and coincidentally accurate back-formation from nonchalant, itself from Old French non- + chalant (“concerning, bothering”), but interpreting non- as later English "non".

jszym,
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@micheleann Oh gosh you've pulled me down this one as well. If I'm reading this correctly, it means that "Chalant" is the Old French for "concerning/bothering"?
This is making me think of one of my favourite french phrases heard not infrequently in Montreal:
"T'es ben chialant"
Which is ostensibly "You're a pain the ass".
It's not precisely the same meaning as what "Chalant" has come to mean in English, but certainly the same vibe :P

evan, (edited ) to random
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"Fediverse of Things"

#EvanPoll #poll

jszym,
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@evan I don't think I want to interact "socially" with any "thing". The best I can think of is something that belongs to the commons. Like I can see an "Eagle Cam" from a national park on Fedi, or like hitchBOT. Somehow, neither of those really fit what I think of when I think IoT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT

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