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@freemo@qoto.org

Jeffrey Phillips Freeman

Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.

Pronouns: Sir / Mister

(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )

A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.

My stance on various issues:

Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed

GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE

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freemo, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Please reboost!

Trying something new, everyone is guaranteed an interview! Open interviews! For a limited time no one will be skipped (except for clear cases of abuse).

So we still have about 10 more 100% remote positions to hire for full-time market-fair positions here at QOTO/CleverThis.

100% remote, work from anywhere, even the beach, market-fair offers. Ethics first, we treat our people like family.

We have an urgent need for Machine learning experts with a background in NLP and Deep Learning (Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks). There is a focus on Knowledge Graphs, Mathematics, Java, C, looking for Polyglots.

We are an open-source first company, we give back heavily to the OSS community.

We need everything from jr to sr, data scientist to programmer. If your IT and your good, you might be a fit.

I will personally be both your direct boss, and hiring manager. I am also the founder and inventor.

The NLP position can be found at this link, other positions can be found on the menu bar on the left:

https://docs.cleverthis.com/en/human_resources/organizational_structure/sr_data_scientist_(nlp)

If you would like to submit yourself for an interview, which for a limited time I am guaranteeing you will get a first stage interview, then you can submit your application here, and even schedule your interview as you apply, instantly!

https://cal.com/team/cleverthis/interview-stage-1

For those of you who cant schedule during core hours you can schedule in my free time if you’d like a chance (the company doesnt have fixed hours):

https://cal.com/team/cleverthis/interview-stage-1-extended

mc,
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@freemo
"100% remote, work from anywhere, even the beach"
That really tempted me. 😉

freemo, to random
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Regression to the mean... :)

mzan,
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@freemo he clearly studied a dating manual, but he confused self-confidence with confidence intervals 🙂

icedquinn, to random
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@freemo FGC-9s are free you can take them home at your nearest 3d printing enthusiast :neocat_floof_mug:

RE: https://qoto.org/users/freemo/statuses/106177725016376248

freemo, to random
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On a post tbat is notjing more than a single link to a wikipedia page was enough for facebook tomperminately flag me as a child porn offender. Even upon review they upheld it!

sergeant,
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@freemo Come on man! You ought to know better than to remain on Failbook!
Why are you even there? 🤷‍♂️

olives,
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@freemo I'm guessing the moderator has a document in-front of them telling them to look for pubic hair and they're interpreting it very literally.

Meanwhile at FBI HQ:

"We just received a tip about a child porn ring on Faceboo- Damn it, it's a Wikipedia link again!"

MikeImBack, to politics
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"Israeli Minister Reportedly Asks IDF To Kill Palestinians Instead Of Arresting Them

“Why are there so many arrests?” Ben-Gvir allegedly asked. “Can’t you kill some? Do you want to tell me they all surrender? What are we to do with so many arrested? It’s dangerous for the soldiers.”"

#Politics #Biden #Gaza #Genocide

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israeli-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-kill-palestinian-captives_n_66313a76e4b0c9bc87592bf5

QasimRashid, to random
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LA Times reports that last night, hundreds of anti-Palestine protestors violently attacked pro-Palestine peaceful protestors.

Amazing how there was immediate law enforcement to stop peaceful protestors but nowhere near that speed to stop these violent extremists.🤔
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-30/ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful

falken, to ai
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I open sourced a thing !

A super simple web GUI for @mozilla 's

Should pass the SO test.

https://codeberg.org/falken/simple-gpt

BruceMirken, to Israel
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"To sustain this level of blind support for , the U.S. must erode its own . And that is what we see happening on U.S. campuses now." https://www.commondreams.org/news/emory-protests-arrests?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=460a87f4f5-Week+in+Review%3A+Sat.+4%2F27%2F24+w%2F+fundraiser&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-32ccf17a11-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

freemo, to asd
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If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.

I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.

The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.

dside,
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@freemo it mostly comes down to the circumstances they live in. What they do, what their local communities expect.

Consider something more clear-cut and outside of mental health: myopia, near-sightedness. A condition with which one's eyes have a much closer focal range, meaning they see things worse from afar, but also better up close. Not just as close as people without it — even closer. Meaning that with a comparable retina a myopic can clearly discern much finer details. Kind of a superpower, right? If they do lots of work on a tiny scale it would seem like it.

And yet, street signs, menu posters in restaurants, numbers on the public transport and tons of other things are a lot harder to see, to the point of them being entirely nonfunctional, which reflects on the user – forcing unto them alternatives or aids (glasses, smartphones and their cameras, other people) through difficulties integrating into society.

Different lifestyles have different compositions of these components.

mlanger,
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@freemo

FWIW, I agree with this 100%.

bonifartius,
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@freemo didn't want to play down the usefulness! :) i only think all people have special traits or talents which help them to perform especially well on some tasks or in some environments. imho that's why humans were so successful settling in wildly different places :)

freemo, (edited ) to random
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Which form of pronouns will you use when asked?

micchiato, to nyc
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“HAPPENING NOW: are arresting hundreds of American Jews with [Jewish Voice for Peace and other Jewish advocacy groups] as they hold an emergency seder at [Senator Schumer’s] doorstep demanding the US stop arming and funding the Israeli government as it carries out a .”

https://x.com/jvplive/status/1782932433962144049?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

freemo, to random
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Am I the only one who refers to mangosteen as "jewish Mango"?

niclas,
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@freemo

Possibly!

I haven't seen any westerner refer to mangosteen at all. And considering its origin in Malaysia/Indonesia (+PH and I guess TH) with their largely Muslim populations and fondness of the fruit (my 2nd most favorite, after mango) the term is guaranteed not present there.

Quick search on the net leads to a joke; "What do you call a Jewish mango? Mangostein"

randahl, to random
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I really hate whataboutery.

If I post something about Ukraine, someone will ask, "But what about Gaza?"

If I post something about Gaza, someone will ask, "But what about Ukraine?"

It is okay to have an interest, but it is really not okay to waste everyone's time by popping up in every thread on Mastodon to ask, "Is my preferred topic not more important than this?"

It is not helpful. You are not not changing anything. You are just spamming, and that is not cool.

medigoth, to science
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I see a lot of people talking about #science as a #religion, or the closely related idea of “#scientism,” the purported ideology that says science is the only way to know things. Oh, I’m not talking about you, they’ll solemnly assure anyone who objects. Naturally you know better. Just … you know … them. Those people, out there. The great unwashed. On the #internet, nobody knows how long it’s been since you took a shower.

You know what I hardly ever see? The phenomenon in question.

There are people who think that way. Yes. Ideologues of science—hardly if ever #scientists themselves—who invoke The #Scientific Method™ (that’s a whole ‘nother rant) as the be-all and end-all justification for whatever nonsense they spew. Such posts and comments have crossed my feed a time or two. But they are vastly outnumbered by those who complain about them, at least where I can see both groups. I have no reason to believe my experience is atypical in this regard.

As a scientist myself, I think science is a very good way to understand certain things. In my field, it’s the best way to know what makes you sick, and hopefully what will make you better. There are other ways to learn these things, sure, and many of them can be useful places to start. If you don’t end up with a #clinical #trial sooner or later, you’re as likely to kill as cure.

To know what we’re seeing when we look up at the lights in the sky. How the natural world around us, of which we’re a part whether we like it or not, changes and how we both affect and are affected by that change. What came before us, and what might come after. The fundamental building blocks of reality. All these require science for real understanding. If you try to puzzle them out any other way, you may learn something, but you’ll also fill your head with a lot of nonsense. Sorting the wheat from the chaff later is a lot harder than doing it right the first time.

Other questions are at least amenable to scientific inquiry, although that process itself may not be enough. What my fiancee does as a #historian looks, to me, a lot like what I do as a #biomedical #researcher. Make observations, construct #hypotheses, gather evidence, test and revise. (And revise, and revise, and …) But #history vanishes every minute. What’s left is always fragmentary, and shaped by the interactions of modern minds with those long since gone to dust. There will never be an objective truth, only the truest story that can be told.

And then there are things beyond any kind of quantitative analysis, or even rigorous qualitative description. We may be able to agree on what makes a true story, more or less, but what makes a good one? That’s inherently personal. A happy marriage, a tasty meal, a satisfying job—only we can define what these goals mean for ourselves. Science may at best, occasionally, provide vague guidelines. Even then, my advice will not determine your experience.

My perspective is unusual in one key way, sure: not too many people do science for a living, at least not compared to other jobs. With regards to the way people talk about science, I think it’s not unusual at all, except maybe that I pay particular attention.

The division above—things that clearly belong in science’s domain, things that clearly don’t, and a whole bunch in the middle—is a whole lot more common than the idea of science as the One True. It’s at least somewhat more common than blanket rejection of science too, but not as much as it should be. That’s also a rant for another time.

Which all makes me wonder what people who never miss a chance to bring up “scientism” and science-as-religion get out of it.

freemo, to random
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Just a reminder, third-parties are the only parties do not support Israel's genocide on Palestine and their war of aggression throughout the middle east. Both Trump and Biden have been the biggest supporters of Israel.. Anything other than a third-party vote this year is a vote in favor of genocide.

freemo,
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@hornblower

I’ve said it a few times now but you seem to refuse to listen to what I say and just repeat your talking points..

I expect stein to get 0 electorial votes and 1% to 3% of the vote.

My point is so what? How is voting for someone who gets 2% of the vote and loosing any different than voting for an evil person who gets 48% of the vote and looses, or even voting for another equally evil person who gets 51% of the vote and wins? How is you voting for someone you dont want to win, who wins somehow better than voting for someone you do want to win who looses? Thats the part you have failed to answer and just completely ignore in the discussion. The outcome is exactly the same with regards to who wins no matter who i vote for, so what even is your argument for me to vote for someone I dont want.. you have none.

realcaseyrollins,
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@hornblower @freemo LOL what?

If anything, this is what gets reelected, because the left wingers have nowhere else to go and is actually a stronger supporter of than is

fabio, to random
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    fabio,
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    @freemo I guess it depends on the company and the person in charge, but my experience is with CIOs without CTOs. In such scenarios, my experience is that the CIO is spread very thin across multiple areas of competency. It’s not really a lesser position, but one that, without a good separation of areas of concern, risks diluting the impact by putting too much on the plate.

    KarunaX, to Palestine
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    In regard to the claim I have recently seen claims here that Palestine rejected the Oslo Accords. Not true. Palestine adhered to its part of the Agreement to recognise the existence of an Israeli State. Israel still does not recognise a Palestinian State
    The agreement set a time guideline of 5 years, during which time Israel would withdraw from the 1967 occupied Palestinian territories in accordance with UNSC Resolutions 242 & 338. It did not.
    https://johnmenadue.com/australias-recognition-of-the-state-of-palestine-an-overdue-move-in-support-of-peace/

    randahl, to random
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    If you are in Ukraine, know that you are not forgotten.

    Goodnight Mastodon. ♥️

    freemo, to random
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    Never attribute to malaice that which can be attributed to stupidity.

    Best lesson you can ever learn, especially if you take things personally.

    LouisIngenthron,
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    @freemo I prefer "ignorance" in that maxim, rather than "stupidity", as it implies a problem that can be fixed.

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