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bornach

@bornach@masto.ai

I'm an ex-postdoc researcher who was bullied out of academia over a decade ago

I now pursue my interests in
#science #technology #education #art #mathematics

via online content creation that explores ideas in #computer #programming, science #communication, #visualization, #electronics #circuit design, #cardboard #crafts, kinetic sculpture, #synthesizer music, and machine learning

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helenczerski, to climate
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Just found a new (to me) psychology phrase: "pluralistic ignorance". It refers to people holding one view but mistakenly assuming that the majority of others hold a different view, so they keep quiet. Very relevant for climate change action, where lots want action but think they're in the minority.

bornach,
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@acb @helenczerski
That's a type of paradox of Mutual Knowledge as explained by Steven Pinker (at 7:40 in this video)
https://youtu.be/3-son3EJTrU?t=7m40s

bornach,
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@MorpheusB @simon_brooke @helenczerski
The people are willing to make such changes but only if everyone has to make the same sacrifice, and they are well aware this ain't gonna happen.

bornach,
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@raphael_fl @helenczerski
5 Ayn Rand fans on a train?
https://xkcd.com/610/

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@gertjan @helenczerski
Inaction on the climate is like the bystander effect.
https://youtu.be/OSsPfbup0ac

Everyone sees there's an issue, and can see that everyone else has seen the issue, but are paralyzed while they search for the reason why no one else seems to be doing anything about it

kisonecat, to random

<a,b> for open interval
≤a,b≥ for closed interval

bornach,
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@stecks @christianp @kisonecat
Python programmers are screaming
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/chaining-comparison-operators-python/

cindyweinstein, to random

Existential document from North Carolina. Thanks to a post by @usluck.

bornach,
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@TaoBear @cindyweinstein
They were victims of this hack?
https://youtu.be/9FdHq3WfJgs

thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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Without looking it up, what do think the distance of the Earth from the Moon is? Use a “O” and a “o” character to show it to scale, e.g.

O o

(this is not the correct answer!)

[update: added reply with answer]

bornach,
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@thomasfuchs
Bit unfair as the Earth/Moon size ratio is not the same as O/o size ratio
https://youtu.be/Bz9D6xba9Og

janellecshane, to random
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I asked chatgpt4 to have dalle3 generate "a cross section of a gourmet chocolate with each layer labeled."

https://www.aiweirdness.com/chocolates-labeled/

bornach,
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@solarisfire @janellecshane
At least it's not what was in the layer between the Nouks and Frufist

Or the layer next to the Gacanel

bornach,
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@janellecshane
Next ask a text-to-video AI to generate a 5-minutes-craft short showing how to create this confectionary monstrosity in your kitchen using toothpaste, instant coffee and a microwave oven.

ScienceDesk, to space
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An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. But no need to worry!

AP reports: https://flip.it/YpxM7O

bornach,
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@ScienceDesk
How big is that in giraffes?

bruces, to random
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image/jpeg

bornach,
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@bruces

https://imgur.com/gallery/SRzKpwa

molly0xfff, to random
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need to start keeping a list of all the times some big supposed display of bleeding edge technology turns out to just be A Guy

bornach,
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@JTS @molly0xfff @thomasfuchs
It can fold a shirt now
https://newatlas.com/robotics/tesla-optimus-folds-shirt/
provided there's a Tesla employee standing right next to it puppetting its every motion via remote control

mcnees, to random
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Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was born #OTD in 1870.

He established results in number theory, including one that relates the Riemann hypothesis to the asymptotic distribution of prime numbers. But he is probably best known for what we call the "Koch Curve" – one of the first examples of a fractal.

The animated gif has a white background. It begins with a horizontal light blue line. Then a light blue equilateral triangle appears above the middle third. In the next step. Each of the four remaining segments sprouts its own equilateral triangle, and so on until the result is a complicated curve that resembles part of a snowflake.

bornach,
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@mcnees
Valuable info to know how to calculate should you be locked in a school bus without technology and slowly invaded by huge Australian spiders
https://youtu.be/TLOKpJcIp98

#Tibees #fractals #FractalDimension #Mandelbrot

elizabethtasker, to random
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Here's today's press release for JAXA's SLIM lunar landing!

TL;DR:

Pinpoint site identification was crazily successful.

We were lowering into position, detecting boulders like a champ.

THEN ONE OF THE ENGINES DROPPED OFF.

(I kid you not)

(we don't know why yet)

(maybe space pirates)

But we still soft-landed on 1 engine.

(TAKE THAT SPACE PIRATES!)

but on our head.

Strangely, might not be a big deal once the Sun moves round to the other side of the spacecraft.

https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2024/01/20240125-1_e.html

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@oloturia @elizabethtasker
And yet Scott Manley described the position as "upside-down"
https://youtu.be/muK6gFtv7_o

bornach,
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@tobychev @elizabethtasker @oloturia

Would have earned 40 points if Japan did that with a second lunar lander

eliocamp, to random
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Who wants to guess how many of these papers actually evaluate CMIP models using midex-effects models....

bornach,
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@eliocamp
How many of those papers actually exist?

bornach,
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@eliocamp
Doesn't surprise me that it doesn't follow the links. I asked it to summarise a tutorial video cited by a YouTube link hoping it would read the transcript but it instead just made up some rubbish about it being a famous TED talk.

bornach, to llm
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[AI Coffee Break with Letitia] explains the architecture behind
https://youtu.be/ec9IQMiJBhs

Paperposts, to random
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I feel like this should be plastered across every laptop and computer. Maybe in the form of a void if removed label.

bornach,
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@BeAware @Paperposts

Much like that reminder "The Cloud is just someone else's computer"
More often than not "AI is just someone else's brain"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-all-deceptive-teleoperation-demos-peter-corke-asmyc

noondlyt, to ai
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This is why the current form of AI is Bad

bornach,
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@noondlyt @stpaultim
Still thought provoking artwork

"Authorisism" is depicted as a dark impersonal cityscape dominating the skyline, intent on keeping the people and nature outside.

Democracy is a small sliver of colour totally surrounded and dominated by a hellish landscape of conformity.

rstevens, to random
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what will be the big hot shit after AI dies out?

I hope it's naps

bornach,
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@kingkaufman @spzb @rstevens

Did OpenAI ever get to the bottom of why their GPT LLMs were in effect taking after-Thanksgiving naps?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12864319/chatgpt-seasonal-depression-fix-ai.html

aka_pugs, to random
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Everyone talks about how the first 'computers' were people (usually women), but how about the first packet switches?

bornach,
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@jpm @LovesTha
Still useful for fast food
https://youtu.be/YTHZLKFblKo

And radioactive samples
https://youtu.be/eMTZvA8iFgI

But not through the same tube, mind you

bornach, (edited ) to ai
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Yannic Kilcher tears into Google and their Large Multimodal Model technical report
https://youtu.be/zut38E-BHH0

bornach, to twitter
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Patrick Boyle on how great everything is going at X

https://youtu.be/B1_aOQ3RbHg

acegikmo, to random
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google photos generated a collage called "dog diary" containing nothing but pictures of salad (the cat)

bornach,
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@acegikmo
Your cat is a natural adversarial example for the neural net

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