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TEG, 5 months ago to random

Working through so-far my second favourite maths book but man, it's full of typesetting errors, one of which just sent me into a spiral of confusion and mental debugging because of a cup-cap switch ;_; It's all active learning I keep thinking.

mattsevits, 5 months ago to movies

I still think “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” deserved a little more love than it got. #movies #valerian

TEG, 5 months ago to random

The Dwight Schrute Covid Strategy, life imitating art slightly too much.

https://youtu.be/L-NSPhLHIBA?si=_BfWTJH9QXJJTeG8&t=48

#covid #office #immunityDebt

DrBiscuit, 5 months ago to academicchatter French

I truly do not know what to think about this situation and I would love having your thoughts on this @academicchatter
One of my papers was accepted to be published in July (after the 2nd round of reviews, 1st round was minor modifications), announced on the website, I was asked whether I wanted to buy the pinted copy of the journal etc. My co-author and I were asked to do some modifications over a 1 week period. We were off at the time and asked for a delay that was accepted. (1/...)

TEG, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Interesting interview on Open Access with Richard Poynder. Raises the link between LLM and needing at gatekept source of scientific texts.

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/07/where-did-the-open-access-movement-go-wrong-an-interview-with-richard-poynder/

#OA #OpenAccess #AI

TEG, 5 months ago to random

Birthdays card genres, Edit Pritchard: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2023/dec/02/the-genres-of-birthday-cards-edith-pritchett-cartoon

TEG, 5 months ago to random

This could be the turning point. Life is improving. The universe arcs towards good.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/dec/06/scientists-claim-to-have-discovered-secret-to-perfect-espresso

TEG, 5 months ago to random

Pickpockets at work, apparently - supposed to show a lady getting her purse stolen while coincidentally taking a selfi-video. Which seems a bit of an oversight on the part of the criminals :/ but anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlHZb5uoBXI

jasohill, 5 months ago to javascript

Quick question for the Python folks out there. Does Python have something similar to the immutable Array Methods like reduce, map and filter in JavaScript? Just curious. #javascript #methods #python

TEG, 5 months ago to random

Well awesome. I hope I at least get to briefly turn into something like that three-eyed fish from the Simpsons. (Still pro-nuclear energy though.)

"The UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, the Guardian can reveal.

The astonishing disclosure and its potential effects have been consistently covered up by senior staff [...]"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/04/sellafield-nuclear-site-hacked-groups-russia-china

#hack #sellafield

TEG, 5 months ago to random

Oh my goodness, tip for Londeners - Arapina has this cherry preserve that's the best thing ever, got it as a free extra ordering online yesterday. Made my attempt at chicken sandwiches actually nice. It's like, way more cherry than jam.

TEG, 5 months ago to random

The Ruth Perry case - I really hope they turn over every stone. Sounds like the system offers a lot of power to do harm potentially, in principle at least, which is always a problem. Who inspects the inspectors, I wonder what the system is for that?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/nov/29/ruth-perry-told-husband-lead-ofsted-inspector-was-bully-inquest

#RuthPerry #OFSTED

TEG, 5 months ago to random

Sensible and civilized stuff, what's going on?

"Courts urged to consider fewer short jail terms"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67561757

#jail

ProperDave, 5 months ago to email

We live in an age where a sentiment analysis/ai model should quite easily be able to identify if an email is spam, and delete it without question, and it could be implemented from the receiving relay so as to not flood the Internet with junk traffic. Yet I still get consistently predictable 'hot girls in your area', cheap drugs, Nigerian prince scams, and 'hacked camera' bitcoin ransom emails filling my junk mail folder. #email #ai #spam #softwaredevelopment

TEG, 5 months ago to random

I randomly bought this boxing ball thing, just tried it and it's great fun (on the second attempt, with a little help from a more realistic demo of someone using it in the review section - hit downwards rather than trying for horizontal). Definitely heart rate-increasing (and if ever attacked by anything behaving like a ball on an elastic connection to my forehead I'll be well sorted, but not just dying of a heart attack is like self-defense step 0.1).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07V8J48RK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

TEG, 5 months ago to random

On the #Dutch #elections, I wonder whether the online "who to vote for" quizzes might have played a pretty massive role. I never liked them - they act as if you can just go tickboxing down a list of policy points and then sum up agreements. But there are such fundamental issues (core values, trust) that tickboxing doesn't capture, regardless of any kind of, even weighted, point-by-point agreement/disagreement score.

(And I have the sense loads of people use them.)

TEG, 5 months ago to random

For any #vegans https://www.facebook.com/reel/1463402110873970

SrRochardBunson, 5 months ago to Christianity

Today's #Christofascist phrase of the day is...

"Lions not sheep"

IMO, it's the distillation of their perverted view of Christianity and Jesus. So much so that the bimper sticker I saw was probably from the brand of the same name.

#Exvangelical #Christianity #Jesus

TEG, 5 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.

jamesbritt, 5 months ago to random

The use the term "artificial intelligence" for stuff like chatGPT and LLMs is like how people use the name "hoverboards" for things that ride on the ground and do not in fact hover.

fictionable, 5 months ago to blackfriday

… we've checked and it's definitely #Friday

In fact, for those who celebrate, it's #BlackFriday

So let's do it again: tell us three #books you've enjoyed recently and we'll see if we can come up with something else you might like.

Who knows? You might even be able to find it in a #library

#BookRecommendations #reading #writing #bookstodon @bookstodon