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TEG, 8 months ago to random

One thing I feel is a shame about Baldur's Gate 3 is how short sub-plots are. I just met some very interesting-looking mad medical types, threw two dice and that's it. Donezo. And a lot is like that - there's very little extension to sub-quests where you get to "live" in some bit of the world, it's just jumping from peaks to peaks. Maybe an overreaction to filler quests. #baldursgate3

TEG, 6 months ago to random

Slightly old news, but the misinformation/misinterpretation still goes around so maybe worth boosting it a little.

"Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that 'masks don't work', which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation."

https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review

TEG, 3 months ago to python

My hosting provider is discontinuing Passenger on my current plan. Does anyone know of what options are good currently, especially for people like me who don't really know what they're doing and just want Python/Flask apps to go brrrr?

#python #passenger #flask

TEG, 7 months ago to random

Anyone have an idea as to the most appropriate word that's the opposite of "mensch"?

solalnathan, 18 days ago to academia

Isn't it weird that acceptance rate is a thing we look for in a conference/journal?

Publishing a paper should not be competitive like "we take the top 20% paper", it should be "we take all papers that are good enough according to our standards". Sometimes it can be a very low or very high number depending on the quality of the paper submitted.

#academia @academicchatter @phdstudents

TEG, 4 months ago to ai

Fundamentally cool, net-positive stuff I think: Hologram lecturers thrill students at trailblazing UK university

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/21/hologram-lecturers-thrill-students-at-trailblazing-uk-university

"An AI Stephen Hawking would look like him, sound like him and interact like it was him."

"[...]reducing the need to fly in guest speakers[...]"

#AI #education #he

TEG, 6 months ago to random

Ugh, fireworks. Hate. Hate.

TEG, 1 month ago to random

Just saw Dune part 2 - it was good and everything but I'm not sure it was worth the hearing loss...

#DunePart2

kellogh, 5 days ago to random

this is in reference to super-alignment & safety, but my cousin also had her DEI team disbanded and “distributed” in the same way

on the surface, i think safety, DEI, and similar topics should be embedded in the culture and not centralized into a specific team. centralization would cause people to say, “oh that’s not my job”.

then again, any time a centralized team is disbanded, my immediate thought is, “apparently safety/DEI/etc. doesn’t matter to this company”. it’s a paradox, i suppose

TEG, 7 months ago to random

Does anyone know of a nice daily Bible study or maybe analogous not-necessarily-religious sort of thing, that's got a paper version? My mum's favourite one is going full app and that's a no-go.

#BibleStudy #daily

TEG, 10 months ago to random

I honestly don't want this to be mean to people, but - is there something you can hand out as a "reverse pamphlet" to people in (religious, mainly I guess) cults door-knocking? Something small that can help people get out if they want to?

Just had an older lady and a younger person try to get in the building to bother people, as has happened before, and it's sad to see the latter being so obviously exploited.

Used to be in things not 100% dissimilar; never know what can be a nudge.

#cults

TEG, 3 months ago to random

More on Ofsted: "Ofsted inspectors ‘make up evidence’ about a school’s performance when IT fails"

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/03/ofsted-inspectors-make-up-evidence-about-a-schools-performance-when-it-fails

I'm more and more convinced there really is a sickness in English culture around relatively petty power - suspect the reality is way too often that it's "I'm the boss now, obey me losers" not "I have responsibility now".

#ofsted

TEG, 6 months ago to random

Finished (Arkane's) Prey, what a great game, great story. Fully BioShock including getting used to the combat (or the combat having an anooying mid-power level bump?). Still mildly furious it's not better-known, it really deserved better. The name "Prey" is just so bad! Call it NeuroShock, it's right there.

TEG, 2 months ago to random

Live scientific debate, fight fight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS1233skYYo

About "Representations in Neuroscience".

TEG, 4 months ago to random

Been playing Signalis - good psycho-horror with at least one nice meta-screw-with-the-player moment so far, action + puzzles, dystopian aesthetic. The thing I don't like is having too little idea about how available ammunition will be so I'm stockpiling too much and Benny Hill-running around enemies too much - I think only with hindsight I get what the design was going for. Stagnated a bit yesterday and not sure I have the emotional resilience to go back and finish it though...

#Signalis

TEG, 6 months ago to random

Fell down a very nice musical nostalgia rabbit hole. ("Gen-X"-y?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNmO233OztQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohhbrHQ4Y-Y, etc etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMK0prafzw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLsVGwNWOA4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFkP6xzzTeI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RaHTDNude4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89tgpzE4qkY

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9ROv7o_mQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-FxmoVM7X4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GY9DWIfpwc

TEG, 3 months ago to random

A Philosopher’s Case Against Death

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-philosopher-s-case-against-death

"Immortality should be sought in transcendence, in passing the flame of life on through our children, by contributing to the achievements of man, and through the religious and philosophical appreciation of the fundamental oneness of all being."

versus

"We are beginning to allow ourselves to openly admit what our actions already say: namely, that we want youth and life and that we hate aging and death."

#life #death

TEG, 3 months ago to blender

I recently got a question about some nice 3D humanoid stimuli we used in an old study, which came from the university technical department at the time. But they're really easy to make yourself independently if you don't have such a department!

A nice intro-tutoral on posing 3D models in Blender here: https://rhkibria.medium.com/how-to-pose-human-figures-with-blender-without-prior-experience-a421f72047ab.

And there are places shop for pre-made, posable models, e.g., https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/character/man/modular-military

#Blender #stimuli #3D

TEG, 3 months ago to random

Interesting science-related defamation case - "Passion is not misconduct", https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado6275.

"University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann was awarded more than $1 million in a lawsuit against bloggers who accused him of scientific misconduct in inflammatory terms, likening his treatment of data to what a noted child molester did to children. The verdict suggests that there are limits to which scientists working on politically sensitive topics can be falsely attacked."

TEG, 8 months ago to random

Oh. My hosting did an upgrade and my amateur Flask app stopped working and is now giving me some lovely Pythonic-import-issue error it didn't before. See if they have any suggestions...

TEG, 1 year ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Getting old hobby/research scripts online as web apps is nice, versus things being pretty inaccessible even if they're available in principle. Flask is really handy for it, if you have stuff in Python.

Currently got one app running (https://www.tegladwin.com/apps.php) that produces a best-guess at the emotional content per paragraph of a text, and another one that quantifies the relationship between a list of words and sets of attributes.

Can at least have the illusion of things being useful this way :D

TEG, 1 month ago to random

Someone stole a, fortunately not too valuable, package today - either the delivery person themself after taking the "proof of delivery" picture or someone in the short period before I got to the porch. Upside: It reminded me of the existence of Amazon Lockers of which I've got one a few minutes walk away, so that's the new plan going forward.

bespacific, 11 days ago to generativeAI

Fake studies have flooded publishers of top #scientific #journals leading to thousands of #retractions, M of $ in lost revenue. Biggest hit has come to #Wiley 217-year-old #publisher based in Hoboken NJ which announced it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research #fraud. Wiley has reportedly had to retract more than 11,300 papers recently “that appeared compromised” as #generativeAI makes it easier for paper mills to peddle fake research. https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

TEG, 7 days ago to random

Paywalled (and possibly blocked?) but looks very interesting... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/world/europe/new-yorker-story-murder-letby-britain.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb

I don't know whether Letby is innocent or not of course but everything I happened to see about the evidence seemed very iffy and Lucia de B.-reminiscent.

TEG, 9 days ago to random

Oh this was a new one for me - someone on a show did a "Hey Google" joke and it activated my phone.