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bmp, to emacs
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This package https://github.com/positron-solutions/dslide for making presentations with an document. You can also check the video demon https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=AE82bIKNVjk (don't worry this is just Invidious front-end for Youtube and not a nefarious link).

bmp, to random
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I'd like to send this to folks whenever they mention → https://wondermark.com/c/1548/

bmp,
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@cenbe Malki is really something. I'm happy that Wondermark is back. If you like some of the pieces on wondermark, you might enjoy McSweeney’s too https://www.mcsweeneys.net

bmp, to martialartsmemes
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Do head over and read ‘The Reinhardt Style Guide, or Why You’re Wrong About Everything’ and the little rant about the loss of ‘whom’ at https://www.thepublicprofessor.com/the-reinhardt-style-guide-or-why-youre-wrong-about-everything/ for a bit of a laugh.

bmp, to random
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Lovely little read on dealing with uncertainty in science and the implications for by @hildabast: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/05/05/scientific-uncertainty-isnt-a-justification-for-getting-things-seriously-wrong/.

birv2, to emacs
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Hey people. I’ve heard that some people use just one orgmode file for all their writing. Can someone point me to a resource on doing this and maybe weigh in on advisability?

bmp,
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@birv2 Karl Voit @publicvoit has a nice set that might help https://karl-voit.at/2020/01/20/start-using-orgmode/ & https://karl-voit.at/2019/09/25/using-orgmode/.

CatherineFlick, to random
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A couple of appearances in New Scientist recently! Yesterday about Trekkie AI: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2419531-ais-get-better-at-maths-if-you-tell-them-to-pretend-to-be-in-star-trek/

And today about Musk trying to get a court to decide whether GPT-4 is AGI: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2420111-elon-musk-asks-court-to-decide-if-gpt-4-has-human-level-intelligence/

Archive links:
https://archive.is/XeU72

https://archive.is/bOibn

Both the hard work of @stokel

bmp,
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@CatherineFlick @stokel Hello, is there a non-paywalled version of the Trekkie Ai article? Would love to read it.

bmp, to random
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Completely forgot I had made this database a while ago when I was bored: https://codeberg.org/bmp/flock, it is written in Go, and was generated with if I remember correctly. Maybe I'll pick it up again, given that newer models seem to be better.

clive, to random
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ChatGPT’s gibberish — when it went off the rails the other day — was so hilariously poetic I prefer it to its usual confident bloviations …

… where the answers are often dull, and/or pimento-studded with howlers and bullshit

Maybe OpenAI should just leave the model in full Finnegan’s-Wake mode

temperature cranked to 3,000 degrees

stop pretending this is gonna be useful or AGI

lean into the surrealist poetry

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-chatgpt-answered-queries-in-gibberis

bmp,
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@jhhl @clive This is hilarious and amazing at the same time!

sabrinaschalz, to conservative
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I have a paper on crow behaviour under review that uses agent-based modelling in R to predict survival outcomes. One review is complete, but the editor emailed to ask for more reviewer recommendations because she is struggling to find willing reviewers.

Anyone fancing reviewing a lovely modelling paper about crows?

@academicchatter

bmp,
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@sabrinaschalz @academicchatter That sounds very interesting, I’ve done agent-based modelling in a wide variety of areas and would love to read the paper (not review), please do let me know if I can read a pre-print version.

AAMfP, to emacs
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Wondering if there is a (possibly automagic) way in to export/publish links in different colours (or have them with a different CSS class) distinguishing between site-external (https-somewhere) and internal (other org files, images and everything belonging to local files)

I'm reading this right now, but I'm a super Emacs/OrgMofe newbie and I'm not even sure I'm understanding it, but I could try it as soon I properly understand.

bmp,
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@AAMfP Have you tried defining a face using defface and then using org-link-set-parameters? This has much more sophisticated examples: https://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/11/04/New-link-features-in-org-9/#orgc074278. I've just done some replacement for plaintext (org, markdown, etc.), images (some regular formats I use), and PDFs, and protocol links (http, mailto, etc.).

bmp,
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@AAMfP Please do share when you have your code snippet ready! Would love to learn more.

bmp, to random
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What folk do on a Sunday morning!

Photo credits: Krishna

bmp, to RabbitHole
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Fascinating piece on the World's First Rooftop Solar Panel by @Bellingcat at https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/08/16/untangling-the-mystery-of-the-worlds-first-rooftop-solar-panel/, please do take a look at the links in the article. One nice session!

codingconduct, to random
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Controversial opinion of the day: Young games researchers should not (have to) make games as part of their postgraduate training or research — unless they aim to teach game-making in the future, or fit the super-rare exception of already-skilled practitioners who can genuinely do research through design with benefit.

bmp,
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@codingconduct @ludopolitics @jazz interesting thread! As someone who has been making games as research tools for a while now, I’ve been advocating that game makers will benefit from knowing/learning from game studies :-). I don’t mean purely from the perspective of “playability”, but more so because as research tools they need to meet the research objectives.

bmp, to random
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I’ve been asked about and where to get them. @libreture has this wonderful list they’ve compiled and keep updated: https://libreture.com/bookshops/.

bmp,
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@libreture Thank you for making this list, we need more DRM free sources. :-)

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bmp,
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@arunmani @mastodonindians Congratulations on the book :-)! Collaborating with people who don't necessarily use open-source toolchains is hard and has always been the bane of such tools. I've heard good things about using https://logseq.com as collaborators unfamiliar with Emacs & org-mode can easily use Logseq as a text editor/WYSIWIG tool. Loqseq can save natively in org, so reduces overhead and prevents issues such as adding extra metadata like other WYSIWIGs do.

bmp, to random
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Things I find! I'm surprised to have found https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/ by @ujh and seems to be really cool. Hopefully, this ends my search for & catalogueing troubles.

timelordiroh, to random
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Hey gang, what do you do with your empty ink bottles? Do you just recycle them or do you find fun reuses for them?

bmp,
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@timelordiroh Depends on if I can ever finish a bottle, if the bottle is unique, I re-use it for homebrewn inks/pigments and storing nibs and other small parapharnelia. As they are mostly glass bottles, in case I don't use them, I sell them to a local recycler.

bmp, to random
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A wonderful read on the ongoings in and , specifically Andreessen Horowitz and their practices by @molly0xfff at https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto. She is also the person behind the wonderful site https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

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