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paezha

@paezha@mastodon.online

Carbon-based Turing Test-compliant life-form DBA Professor of #Transportation #Geography at #McMaster University, where I teach and do research on #accessibility, #TravelBehavior, #SpatialAnalysis, #ActiveTravel, #TransportPolicy.

I am an #Rstats enthusiast and big believer in #Reproducible #Open #Science.

I have several hobbies, including #CreativeWriting, #CreativeCoding and #Rtistry.

#geogdon #mapstodon #Rspatial #HamOnt

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njtierney, to random
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We are stoked to release the #rstats pkg {geotargets} version 0.1.0 on github (not CRAN yet)

https://www.njtierney.com/post/2024/05/27/geotargets-0-1-0/

The {geotargets} extends the {targets} package to work with geospatial data formats. This release provides support for {terra} formats.

It simple would not have been possible to have this package without Eric Scott @LeafyEricScott and Andrew Brown @humus_rocks - it's been a really fun project to work on together, looking forward to future iterations!

rayckeith, to random
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Chocolate made with fewer calories, less waste | Ars Technica

"Chocolate is traditionally made by mixing dried, roasted, and ground fermented cocoa beans to make cocoa mass. The cocoa mass is then mixed with refined sugar, usually from sugar beets. Instead of sugar, this new Swiss whole fruit chocolate uses the pulp surrounding the cocoa beans along with the inner rind of the cocoa pod husk to make a cocoa gel. When mixed with cocoa mass, this produces chocolate that is higher in fiber and lower in saturated fat than conventional chocolate."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/a-new-recipe-for-healthier-more-sustainable-chocolate/

dangillmor, to random
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It boggles my mind that the Washington Post knew about the insurrectionist flag at the residence of a Supreme Court "Justice" at the time it was flown -- but didn't tell the public what it knew until years later, the NY Times did report it.

Journalistic malpractice is putting it mildly.

https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

JoshuaHolland, to journalism
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I’ve heard somewhere that democracy dies in darkness.

“In a series of paragraphs that are up there as being among the most shocking I have read in my journalistic career, the Post acknowledged on Saturday — dropped in the middle of the holiday weekend, more than a week after the Times’s report — that they had known about the flag since at least January 20, 2021, and had not revealed knowledge of it until May 25, 2024.”

https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

weirdwriter, to firefox

Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-extension

ylegall, to random
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gyrated hex tiles

video/mp4

josemurilo, to LLMs
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"the worst part is that when they [] can’t complete a task confidently, they don’t give you an error or tell you they’re unable to finish. They make something up and serve you incorrect information.
…companies like are pretending this isn’t a problem and pushing these systems toward taking over as our phones’ virtual assistants and the brains behind our online searches."

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

corbin, to random
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Google Search has told people to use gasoline in spaghetti, drink urine, and eat rocks. It said President James Madison graduated from college 21 times, and that there's no country in Africa that starts with the letter K.

This is one week after Google executives and engineers spent almost two hours on stage evangelizing about the power of AI at Google I/O. I really don't know if I've seen another product failure this bad in recent history.

https://www.howtogeek.com/google-search-ai-overview-responses/

theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

Alice, to random

Love these colored windows and panes for #FensterFreitag.

yuya_maekado, to random Japanese
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paezha, to random
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I read this article this week. The writing is brilliant; flashy, even. In the end, I was underwhelmed.

https://www.noemamag.com/gpts-very-inhuman-mind/

aphex_twin,
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@paezha it still matters to deflate the hype around the technology, and to avoid humanizing it (it's just a stochastic parrot at this point, useful for some (limited) things)...

cstross, to random
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If you're attending the Cymera SF festival in Edinburgh next weekend (May 31st to 2nd June), among other things there's a charity auction to raise funds for the Scottish Book Trust's New Writers Award, along other things.

I've just donated a signed first edition hardback run of the entire Merchant Princes/Empire Games series, published from 2003-2022 and occupying roughly 30cm of shelf space! Hopefully someone will bid on it and help fund the writers award ...

https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera2024-events/2024/4/5/auction?rq=auction

GossiTheDog, to random
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Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

csilverman, to art
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GeePawHill, to random
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One of my favorite joy projects: learning to tile the plane with polyominos of arbitrary order, using a backtracking algorithm, WHICH DOES NOT USE AN INTERNAL GRID AS PART OF ITS DATA STRUCTURE.

https://gfredericks.com/blog/99

Mama raised me pretty, a fact I should hope would be obvious, and not so much with the smart, a fact which is all too fucking obvious.

This algorithm blew my mind.

The code is here: https://github.com/GeePawHill/gerrymander

GeePawHill,
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What drove this? Our belief that teaching young people to become geeks requires us to teach them, not just syntax & semantics, and not just collaboration, tho those are urgent, but actual problem-solving.

We wanted to hear this guy who was not copy-pasting from the internet, but was actually solving the problem in front of him, not by first principles, but by experimentation and hypothesis.

Teaching people how to approach problems is much harder than teaching them where to put semi-colons.

GeePawHill,
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Here's the thing: they don't pay us to solve problems they've already solved.

(They do sometimes pay us to solve problems other people have solved.)

The best geeks know syntax and semantics. The best geeks know collaboration.

And the best geeks know how to find solutions to problems other people have solved, and how to develop solutions that no one they can find have solved.

And here's the secret sauce: they don't just know how to do that. They revel in doing that.

Geek joy.

GeePawHill,
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Realistically, most problems confronting a professional developer are not math problems, per se.

Honestly, syntax & semantics disappear after a year or two of coding.

Collaboration, mmmm, slower to develop, but we have plans in place for that.

But beyond those two hurdles lies another target: solving problems by experimentation, hypotheses, pattern-recognition, and sheer fucking stubbornness.

GeePawHill,
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The whole "geeks are just fancy-typists", a trend that's been at work for 2 decades, "and now we can use an LLM to replace them" thing is heading this trade towards a massive collapse.

The young and coming geeks we want to teach are the ones who will come out the other side of that collapse.

They will do so, if they have syntax and semantics, collaboration, and problem-solving under their belts.

freakazoid, to random
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iFixit's had enough with Samsung. That secret contract was only part of the problem.

Anyway, I've been saying Samsung sucks for years. Not sure why it wasn't obvious to anyone who's used one of their crapware-laden devices.

iFixit divorces Samsung over lack of real commitment to self-repair program
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ifixit_samsung_repair/

csilverman, to random

Claydisarray, to art
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It's Thursday so here's a throwback to my interpretation of Klimt's 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I' along with some process pics.

I loved how this one turned out - one of my favourite Clay Disarray pieces for sure! ✨

#ThrowbackThursday #Art #MastoArt #Painting #PolymerClay

A process pic showing Adele's head on a gold/bronze background with some details added around her. I've still to add her dress here along with a load of tiny details
A close-up of Adele's head surrounded by tiny gold, yellow, bronze, red and silver details
A close-up of the details on her dress - mainly yellow, bronze, white and blue geometric shapes and abstract eyes

evacide, to random
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"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

adr, to random
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You'd think I'd be someone who might do it, but I actually never use LLMs for work purposes beyond the research that I do on small models. Like I don't use them to write code that I'd use anywhere, or to write emails, or do any of that except occasionally I'll bounce an idea off of one as a sort of rubber duck thing. It's all still just me.

mobileharv, to random
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A vote for the LinkUS initiative in November is a vote for a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future in Central Ohio.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2024/05/22/cota-columbus-area-voters-new-sales-tax-ohio-rapid-transit-bus-transportation-central/73786557007/

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