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gaurav

@gaurav@hachyderm.io

He's just this guy, you know? Semantic web technologist at the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Edits Wikipedia occasionally, loves The Beatles, cats and names.

"local UNC guy I'm too drunk and lazy to look up now" -- https://mstdn.io/@tarheel

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GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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💥🔥

TO REPEAT,

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

gaurav,
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@GottaLaff You're going to get this on a lot of posts, but THANK YOU SO MUCH for your diligent reporting and re-tooting through all of this.

skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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Let's try a new format for photography / storytelling.

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Lately, I've been thinking about what it means to have come from the equator. Imagine growing up with no seasons, except 'rain' and 'monsoon' and 'hot' and 'hotter'. Everything around you is green, all year round, never brown. Lush is not just the word they use in magazines about tropical travel, but it's the only world you know.

#BelieveInFilm #ThisThreadCouldHaveBeenAZine #Photography #FilmPhotography #TootSea

gaurav,
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@skinnylatte [Bush 43 voice] You forgot "shopping".

danderson, to random
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I was reading some datasheets, and, well.

gaurav,
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@danderson Your post made me put in the 2 mins of effort needed to find @tmnt, so thank you for that.

jonny, to random
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Top tier mythical creature
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary

gaurav,
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@jonny Ol’ von Linne was also known for debunking a “hydra” someone was trying to sell in Hamburg, so I guess his cryptid debunking goes deep: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2022/01/redacting-the-hamburg-hydra/

skinnylatte, to random
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Starting a thread about my life with Cookie, while she’s in intensive care right now in San Francisco. She’s still conscious, but it’s not looking great. Even if she gets to come home I think it’s time to prepare to say goodbye to her.

  1. This was the very first time I saw her.

I was 24 years old. I’d just moved to Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. With the first serious girlfriend I had. We thought it’d be a great idea to get a dog.

I took a pic of the moment I saw Cookie in Damansara Uptown

gaurav,
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@skinnylatte This dog is more eyes than face ❤️

skinnylatte, to animals
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At the vet again :/ very old dogs, very frequent vet visits

gaurav,
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@skinnylatte This thread is breaking my heart; I can’t imagine what living through it is like. I’ll be thinking of you and your family and hoping for the best. Please take care of yourself and dear Cookie, and please let us know if we can help in any way.

jonny, to random
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wikipedia no

gaurav,
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@jonny Here’s the Wikimedia status page: https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ — looks like they’re working on the outage!

mcc, to random
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Do you ever think about how somewhere there is a Marxist-Leninist writing Machine Learning code in OCaml or another language in its family tree? ML doing ML in ML. I think about this constantly and honestly the chances of it occurring only go up every year

gaurav,
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@anotherwalther @mcc If they attempted this 1049 times before succeeding, the successful attempt would be MLMLMLM ML.

gaurav, to random
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Omigosh -- my old residence hall at the has had a smooth-coated otter family move in! This would have thrilled me 22 years ago. https://www.ourwildneighbours.sg/post/fostering-coexistence-nurturing-wildlife-harmony-at-nus

gaurav,
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@jonny There are so many great Singaporean otter photos and videos now! They are a world-famous ecology success story, and rightly so:
https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/09/14/hornbills-otters-and-even-a-tapir-singapore-is-rewilding

joelanman, to random
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Never sure what the eyes emoji 👀means as a reaction, if you use it, what do you mean by it?

gaurav,
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@joelanman On our work slack, that emoji is labeled something like “Looking into this”, so I think it’s intended to mean something like “this looks interesting/useful, I’m going to add it to my pile of things to look at”.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, who should play the Beatles in the Biopics?

gaurav,
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@RickiTarr Everybody's a muppet except Ringo.

jonny, (edited ) to random
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Is there a term (English or not) for when people make something work for them in a way that is busted as hell but charmingly effective and doesnt need to be improved? Im thinking of dragging windows around in a screen recording frame as a way of editing videos rn, but also stuff like idk using a keychain ring on a pants zipper to loop around a button and keep it up, etc. The emphasis is more on the unexpectedness or laterality of approaches than them being "bad."

"Hack" or "kludge" implies too much jankiness and is usually negative, "macgyvering" or "Jerry rigging" is too specific to using only what is on hand to do something, there is a Brazilian word "gambiarra" that I think is quite close but I don't have the cultural context to tell.

Edit: I think gambiarra is what im looking for here, thanks @catzilla !

gaurav,
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@jonny There’s an Indian subcontinental term called “jugaad”. I’m not familiar enough with it to tell if it’s exactly what you’re looking for, but I think it’s in the ballpark. But it might have more of a sense of a long term hack, a “this is not ideal but it’s clever and will work for years” kind of thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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🤦🏻‍♀️Guess this is how he plans to scrape up enough to pay his legal bills and fines? 1/...

Via Ron Filipkowski:

is Selling “Trump Sneakers at Sneaker Con Today for $399.
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-is-selling-399-shoes-today-at-sneaker-con

And Via Kyle Griffin:

Biden-Harris 2024 Comms Director Michael Tyler on Trump's appearance at Sneaker Con:

"Donald Trump showing up to hawk bootleg Off-Whites is the closest he'll get to any Air Force Ones ever again for the rest of his life."

gaurav,
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@GottaLaff Not the sort of sneaking we expect from the former guy.

mcc, to random
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I've got bone problems

gaurav,
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@mcc 🎶 I’ve got 206 problems and they’re all bones 🎵

hosford42, to machinelearning
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The entire and team, including me, just got laid off. :( :( :( :( :(

Anybody out there looking for an ML or software engineer with >30 years total experience and ~20 years in the industry?

I have extensive experience with and frameworks, particularly , and I've worked on and both in the workplace and in personal open source projects. My resume is available here:

https://hosford42.github.io/

I'd love to work for a or non-profit, if that's a possibility, but I'm open to other options.

If you work in this industry or know someone who does, please boost for reach.


gaurav,
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@hosford42 Ugh, that sucks. We’re hiring a team lead for knowledge graphs and language models if that would interest you? https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/273213

futurebird, to random
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So.

None of you thought it might be important to tell me that ferns have sperm that swim??? I just had to find all this out on my own?

And, (apparently, & no one thought to bring this up either🙄) fern plants are only one form... they have this 'other form' (tiny, ephemeral, difficult to find in the wild) alternates generations-- Fern spores don't grow into ferns! (WHAT) they grow into 'gemetophytes' (WHAT) THEN you get a fern.

Feel like I've uncovered a massive scandal.

gaurav,
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@futurebird Yup! It’s called alternation of generations and was one of the most fun biology things we learned in high school in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternation_of_generations — I don’t think it’s correct to say that fern gametophytes are difficult to find in the wild, as my plant-obsessed wife finds them all the time! They look like this: https://flic.kr/p/TkJoMH

hrefna, to random
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Me: <minding my own business, winding down for bed>

Me: <exhausted from lack of sleep>

My brain, unprompted:

"Okay, but what if we actually model RDF graphs in datalog? Can we do that? What does it look like? If we do that, what kind of properties fall out?"

gaurav,
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@hrefna I believe the answer is yes! https://github.com/balhoff/owlrl-datalog/blob/master/src/datalog/owl_from_rdf.dl /cc @balhoff

sarahf, to bookstodon
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This is a good book.

@bookstodon

gaurav,
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@sarahf @bookstodon

sophie, to random
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Is there a good free-or-cheap solution for an email inbox that’s monitored/accessed by multiple people?

We have a choir email address and a gmail account that’s fetching messages from it via POP (that’s all gmail offer) which multiple people log into with a shared login. We use gmail because it’s a familiar interface for non-technical folks - webmail less so. It’s not ideal.

We’ve tried delegating access via gmail but that’s a mixed bag and often people don’t understand how it works.

gaurav,
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@sophie If you’re okay with staying in the Google ecosystem, a Google Group can be set up as a “Collaborative Inbox” where members of the group with the right permissions can reply to emails on behalf of the entire group: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/167430?hl=en

futurebird, to random
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I had the most lovely dream. All of the emoji for every kind of ant were implemented, and for some reason this was a future were lots of people had free time to just observe nature. Everyone had fanned out to try to document each and every little creature.

There was this feed the emoji of ants people had seen-- and suddenly the emoji for the female forms of Aenictogiton showed up! And this makes no sense since how could there be an emoji of an ant no one has ever seen?! 1/

gaurav,
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@mcc @futurebird Oh, yes, plenty. There are an estimated 22,000 species of ants according to Wikipedia, so we could tuck them all into a single unused Unicode plane. 1-2 planes would give you every male, female and queen forms of all these species too. Fitting in all 150k described hymenopterans (ants, bees and wasps) will be trickier, and all 400k described beetles is probably where the system falls apart somewhat.

textfiles, to random
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Before: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TinyTIM&oldid=1187354917&useskin=vector

After: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TinyTIM&diff=1188814917&oldid=1187354917&useskin=vector

Wikipedia, never change. And by never change, I mean randomly delete articles because question mark

gaurav,
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@textfiles It's called a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_by_redirection -- not good, but not actually frowned upon since the previous content is still available in the history, ready to be restored. Do you know of any news articles that reference TinyTIM since 1999? If we can point some of them out on the Talk page, I think we should be able to get consensus on reverting the redirect pretty quickly.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Mary Trump: 1/...

Even if Rudy is forced to pay just a fraction of the judgment, it will be financially ruinous for the former mayor.

Former US Attorney Barb McQuade appeared on MSNBC and explained what happens next:

“His wages could be garnished and his profits disorged,” she told MSNBC, “but he can’t avoid paying Ms Freeman and Ms Moss – even if he declares bankruptcy – unless he can get the verdict thrown out on appeal.”

There’s more bad news for Rudy...

gaurav,
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@GottaLaff When has Trump ever saken anybody?!

skinnylatte, to random
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My favorite cuisines in the world are the ones where there’s coconut and chillies in everything

gaurav,
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@skinnylatte Please tag your porn! /s 😋

zombierustpunk, to random
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Apple’s “AI”: “Hey, tomorrow is a holiday, so we assume you want to turn off your alarm for tomorrow morning…”

Ah, yes, of course, I don’t need to take my morning medication on bank holidays. Nice work, Apple. 🙄

gaurav,
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@zombierustpunk Okay, that's a bit better than just turning off your alarm for you -- but way too easy to do accidentally! My iPhone recently changed its alarm volume down to the lowest setting for some reason, which might have caused me to miss an important appointment if I hadn't noticed >.<

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