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davidbraze

@davidbraze@mstdn.social

I know things about data. Working in Data Analysis & Visualization. Interests in Cognitive Science, Education, Reading, Language & Social Determinants of a good life. Data doodles are my jam. #Connecticut #Emacs #Linux #DataScience #RStats #SAS #SQL #Python.

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futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful & visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... & The Other One.

Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now, dotes on mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/

davidbraze,
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@futurebird when I began my studies in CS back in the late 80s, the CS department had just recently calved off from the department of mathematics and it still resided in the school of arts and sciences. all of the CS faculty were former mathematics faculty. by the time I graduated the department was about to leave arts and sciences and join the school of engineering....

luckytran, to random
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It appears that some universities are banning masks of any kind at sites where they are holding their graduation ceremony. This is ableist, exclusionary, and completely unacceptable.

(Photo: Dr. Mary Donegan)

Sign at UCONN listing prohibited items which includes masks of any kind

davidbraze,
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@xgranade @luckytran

mostly alpha but with some totally random out of order insertions. go figure

davidbraze,
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@xgranade @luckytran

bikes are on the list. halfway down the second column

davidbraze,
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@xgranade @luckytran

I'd guess the ban is not for the campus as a whole but for Gampel pavilion, in the background of the photo. it is the venue for the larger graduation ceremonies at uconn

davidbraze, to random
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"Americans are forced to live with a risk of car crash death roughly three times higher than Canadians and Australians, five times higher than Brits and Germans, and nine times higher than Norwegians. It’s also worth pointing out that globally, car crashes are a major cause of death, killing more people than homicides and suicides combined"

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/8/25/23844717/america-safe-air-travel-car-safety-accidents

davidbraze, to internet
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" drops controversial contractor"


https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/uconn-drops-social-media-surveillance-app-18172716.php?src=nhrhppromostrip

davidbraze, (edited ) to random
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So, how many people were laid off by @posit_pbc in its most recent cuts?

What proportion of their total workforce?

What team(s)?

davidbraze, (edited ) to emacs
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Hi folks,

I'm wanting to show/see svg graphics in eww

(image-type-available-p 'svg) returns t

eww, works, but svg images are not shown, though eww does not complain about them and other image types are shown as expected

to be a bit more specific, I want to show svg graphics created and served by the httpgd package

I am able to connect to the server and view graphics using firefox, so the httpgd service itself works

I'm running emacs 28.2 on linux mint

What am I missing?

davidbraze, to connecticut
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The state of needs to set up it's own server

https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2023/07/07/twitter-gives-state-websites-the-silent-treatment/

davidbraze, to random
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Gilead rising

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/27/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-ideas-qa-00123882

davidbraze, to random
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is just a reboot of equipped with space ships, AI, and gene editing

davidbraze, (edited ) to linux
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dusted off a 2015 vintage Dell optiplex mini tower that had been sitting idle for about 4 years, plugged in a wifi card and installed (originally ran Windows 10)

it works like a champ

dunno yet what I'm going to do with it though

davidbraze, (edited ) to bluesky
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" was cofounded by founder , so it’s about as legitimate as you can get"

Rather, being a for-profit enterprise, bluesky is doomed to the same cycle of enshittification that's taken down & so many other social sites

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-bluesky-how-to-get-invite/

davidbraze, to random
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" credits for ‘much stronger’ than expected growth"

it'd be interesting to see an analysis of MS's political contributions, from both corporate coffers and the C-suite

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/bidenomics-spurred-stronger-gdp-growth-morgan-stanley.html

davidbraze, (edited ) to random
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There are some things I don't care for about business model, but I do appreciate the absence of loyalty cards and data harvesting

davidbraze, (edited ) to OpenAI
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Sam Altman, CEO of / , pictures a future where people who can't afford medical care will have AI medical advisors

THAT, instead of a world where everyone can actually afford medical care from real doctors and nurses

Just another tech "visionary" who has no vision

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/42542/20230222/ai-medical-advisor-those-who-cant-afford-see-doctor-openai.htm

mattcowgill, to random
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I’m kind of worried about Posit — and by extension,

From: @zkamvar
https://hachyderm.io/@zkamvar/111699279163834211

davidbraze,
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@mattcowgill @zkamvar

was fine before @Posit and it would be fine in the event of a posit implosion, sad though that would be

davidbraze, to random
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I guess it had been a while since I'd emptied the Recycle Bin on my Windows laptop

Just cleared out more than 2gb and 36000 files

davidbraze, to random
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"There's plenty of things the Biden administration is getting very, very badly wrong, but we shouldn't lose sight of how its progressive wing is making real, lasting change for the better. Competent Administrations are the true peoples' champions."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/23/everorangeing/#taste-the-rainbow

davidbraze, to connecticut
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hello ,

the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the right decision in this case

https://ctmirror.org/2023/08/07/ct-religious-exemption-vaccines-schools-federal-appeals-court-decision-wnpr/

davidbraze, to connecticut
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hello ,

this is embarrassing and infuriating

this is how the rich get richer

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/27/connecticut-hurricane-sandy-recovery-00074134

davidbraze, to random
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It isn't Roberts' lack of courage that's the problem

It's his lack of integrity or a moral compass

"Chief Justice Roberts has the power to change that, but so far he hasn't shown the courage. If he fails to do his job, Congress must do theirs"

https://www.rawstory.com/amy-coney-barrett-ethics/

davidbraze, to random
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lack of access to information has never been the main problem

the ability to filter it from the sea of irrelevance, and occasional blobs of floating sewage, is what's in short supply

davidbraze, to random
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"... freedom to make bad arguments without consequences creates what economists call a “moral hazard,” by which there’s an incentive to spew out low-quality arguments as a way to “flood the zone” and overwhelm the system"

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/09/24/stupid-legal-arguments-and-moral-hazards/

davidbraze, to random
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Do you really think MS takes better care of your company's data than they do of their own?

"a (Microsoft) server ... exposed passwords, keys, and credentials of Microsoft employees to the open internet, as the company faces mounting pressure to bolster its software security. "

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/10/24126057/microsoft-azure-server-internal-passwords-exposed-cybersecurity

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