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paul, 2 days ago to random

I'm so sorry for my loss.

erictopol, 2 days ago to random

The highly pro-inflammatory and pervasive microplastics and nanoplastics: previously found in arteries and associated with increased in heart attacks and strokes, now in all human testes that were assessed.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/theres-plastic-in-my-plaque

https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/toxsci/kfae060/7673133?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false#no-access-

tiago, 2 days ago to random

New blog post:

“Untangling the hairball using statistical inference”

https://skewed.de/tiago/posts/hairball/

TL;DR — Network visualization is often done in the wrong way: first a network layout is produced using a heuristic, and then follow-up analyses are performed and evaluated according to the layout. This is an inversion of priorities that subjugates algorithmic analyses to unreliable and often misleading visualization heuristics. Here we show how this inversion can be fixed: by performing the more meaningful algorithmic analysis first—like clustering or ordering—and then subjugating the visualization heuristics to it.

s_palm, 4 days ago to random

pvonhellermannn, 5 days ago to random

Sums up everything #Gaza #AI #ChatGPT #Racism

netbsd, 7 days ago to random

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

Gegenwind, 10 days ago to climate German

#climatechange #climatecrisis

haskman, 11 days ago to stackoverflow

Ah yes totally normal #Stackoverflow

seatek, 12 days ago to random

🙇‍♂️

#aurora

cory, 12 days ago to random

This is pretty brutal https://how-i-experience-web-today.com

dangillmor, 14 days ago to random

Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

davidho, 19 days ago to random

I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

natematias, 21 days ago to random

I really did have the best PhD advisor. @ethanz just sued Meta today

“On May 1, 2024, the @knightcolumbia filed a lawsuit on behalf of Ethan Zuckerman—a professor of public policy, communication, and information at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—asking the court to recognize that Section 230 protects the development of tools that empower social media users to control what they see online”

https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/zuckerman-v-meta-platforms-inc

vitaut, 21 days ago to random

BREAKING: Smart pointers in C++26 will be even smarter thanks to integrated AI

saxnot, 24 days ago to Meme

Full transcript in image description.

#meme

astrid, 24 days ago to random

i hope this email finds you in a well

mcc, 25 days ago to random

Unpopular opinion: A lot of y'all are describing your (neurotype / algorithm / chord / biohazardous rocks) as "spicy" when what you really mean is some other taste qualia such as "tangy"

vascorsd, 27 days ago to haskell

Bluefin is a Haskell effect system with a new style of API.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bluefin-0.0.4.3/docs/Bluefin.html

#haskell #fp #functionalprogramming #programming #effectSystems

Quinnypig, 28 days ago to random

All the cloud vendors say they’ve been “working on AI for decades,” but Intel was shipping Pentiums that were bad at math in 1994.

dgar, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#LifeHack

scottfgray, 1 month ago to random

“This machine kills AI.”

mascottus, 1 month ago to random

Germany : Lidl Announces Huge Increase In Plant-Based Food Sales.

"It said that sales had risen since it created price parity between meat and plant-based alternatives in October 2023. "

"it also began placing vegan products next to animal-based versions in stores."

"Meat eating has hit a record low in Germany, with around 10 percent of people living there now thought to follow a vegetarian diet."

https://plantbasednews.org/news/lidl-increase-plant-based-food-sales/

carnage4life, 1 month ago to random

Every new AI product launch and discussion summarized.

CrimethInc, 1 month ago to random

This afternoon, Columbia University brought in New York police arrest over a hundred students who were occupying the campus in solidarity with Palestinians. In response, a much bigger wave of student demonstrators has occupied the university. Tonight, the occupation continues, stronger than ever.

Students—you can do this, too, wherever you are.

The governments of the United States and Israel are not going to stop the genocide in Gaza unless we compel them to.

henrikjernevad, 1 month ago to programming

I think that testable code is reusable code. When you test a function, you run the code in another context than it was built for (the production code). If your code is not reusable you will feel that pain in your tests.

This blog post gives an example of how getting side effects out of functions make them both easier to test and reuse.

https://henko.net/blog/testable-code-is-reusable-code/

#programming #testing #reuseability