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jonny, 1 month ago to random

Taking the infrastructuring approach of worming my way into a bunch of things that already exist and making them talk to each other is a lot less exciting than launching a ton of new platforms, but the cool thing is its feeling like it might work

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

Hello fedi. i am trying to solve the "fetch all replies" problem once and for all that makes the fedi feel a lot more desolate and with a lot more reply guys in it than it should be. this is take two, where before i had it triggered by a button, but now i think it should happen on the server-side whenever you expand a post. can anyone help me out figure out how to make this more efficient by only fetching posts that the server doesn't already have? i am not sure what the best strategy would be, and if anyone with experience doing efficient rails and SQL stuff could give me some pointers that would be gr8. the patch is actually extremely simple it just needs a few nice things to make it not DDoS everyone.

https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/44

Issue that describes approach: https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/issues/43
Wiki page: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Fetch_All_Replies

#MastoDev #FediDev #FetchAllReplies

jonny, 1 month ago to random

#monsterdon mirror of the archive.org version if you dont wanna see no ads but the archive.org player don't work for ya https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/hnpVWL7vuEry82BXAnNctd

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Top tier mythical creature
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary

jonny, 1 month ago to random

all jonny knows is charge they phone, mythic humanoids wiki category, eat hot chip & lie

jonny, 1 month ago to random

There are lots of pop science type "neuromyths" like the Mozart effect, and there are lots of stories about how what we would call "consciousness" works that arent based in contemporary western neuroscience, but I want to find more mythology about the brain the organ - like how its a big antenna or where a bunch of little ant monsters have dug tunnels and whatnot. Bodily mythology that tries to explain what the heck we are made of

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Wikipedia is already an LLM except you chat into the search bar and Ctrl+f box and instead of it being a organized by nothing its organized by "topic"

jonny, 1 month ago to random

academics not being able to imagine another system aside from the traditional prepub journal peer review system is the worst reason given every time by Very Smart People for why things can't possibly be better than they are now. academics play Pangloss for an extractive system that prevents them from creating a healthy information ecosystem and pretend that's what makes them exceptional

jonny, 1 month ago to random

how come networking tools don't ever make the network look like anything

jonny, 1 month ago to random

i want to see a timelapse of people hugging each other at an airport departure lane because i usually try and stop and watch because it's one of the most heartwarming places on the planet. the place where we concentrate our goodbyes

jonny, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Neuroscience

the last thing i would do is blame neuroscientists for the disfunctional US federal budgeting process that funds basic research at pennies on the dollar compared to war and subsidizing the rich. at the same time I also think we would probably have an easier time communicating to the public at large and building a political case for funding neuroscience if we focused less on publishing discrete papers and more on making our work into larger, cumulative projects that we could point to as a direct consequence of our funding. We should be able to say "here are all the things the BRAIN initiative funds and how they relate to one another" instead of having NIH Reporter and a handful of summary PDFs as the best resource at hand.

What do pieces like https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/278-million-cut-in-brain-initiative-funding-leaves-neuroscientists-in-limbo/ point to?

the Brain Initiative Cell Atlas Network, which is pioneering single-cell atlases for the human brain and the mouse brain, and the FlyWire Connectome project, which mapped every neuron in the fruit fly brain and spinal cord.

BICAN, which has a ton of work that you can point to, is great, eg the "knowledge explorer" but even then it suffers from public intelligibility even though i know there's a lot more there - eg. the "tools" link from the homepage - https://www.portal.brain-bican.org/ - goes to some unintelligible RRID page. FlyWire is great ( https://codex.flywire.ai/ ) but the dependence on google infra and identity is just a pointless footgun.

point being, scientific infrastructure isn't just a matter of 'nice to have,' but is probably increasingly important to the survival of the discipline. If we can't point to what we've done as a coherent picture, it's very easy to cut funding and have it fly under the radar.

#neuroscience

jonny, 1 month ago to random

why do we dream of protocols as alien entities and not of human beings using networks.

re: @ricci https://discuss.systems/@ricci/112283287983994992

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Every time I see any story about how fucked scholarly communication is my first reaction is a) yall know you can just make your own websites right, b) yall know you can just review each others work without a journal giving you permission right, and only then do I arrive at c) ok there are systemic problems but seriously have you considered (a) and (b) and how this is all entirely optional

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Back in the mythic humanoid wikipedia category and takin a look at these guys
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abarimon

jonny, 1 month ago to random

A DOI is literally a URL.
As in a DOI === a URL.
As in {DOI} === https://doi.org/{DOI}.
A DOI is literally a path beneath a single domain that you have to pay a dollar and your soul for.

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Hang on, the NY state budget is being held up by a cyberattack that is preventing them from literally printing the bills on paper? Government cyberinfra never ceases to amaze
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-cyberattack-legislature-bill-drafting-4f680cbcb88254642666ff8976ae13e9

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Got a gel manicure bc I am on vacation and if I talk with my hands normally, we now have like second and third subvoice bc I just love seeing my lil sparklies fly around

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Do any infosec people ever feel like they have their shit "secure," like I understand this system well enough that for all practical purposes this shit wont be pwned, or is the whole thing that you can only bracket off security as like "if these conditions are true, I wont be pwned in these ways"

jonny, 1 month ago to random

wikipedia no

jonny, 1 month ago to random

trying to be a formats person like rosa menkman and not a formats person like NISO

jonny, 1 month ago to random

See this is the best kind of website that everyone should go to https://tabitarezaire.com/

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Can you believe those big honkin goose guys that hang out in the park sometimes just fly across the whole earth

jonny, 1 month ago to random

So yes its ridiculous that the IRS makes us tell it how much money we have when it already knows, but how come the default for every employer ive ever had is to OVERPAY your taxes throughout the year and get that money back later. What kind of interest free loan is that

jonny, 1 month ago to random

One of the funniest sagas in #OpenAccess discourse is Kent Anderson's unhinged "insurrection" series where he calls some usually unnamed cabal of OA advocates every kind of political movement he thinks is bad, no matter how diametrically opposed they are to one another. The "information wants to be expensive" part at the bottom is especially funny - "the market solves for truth" is like not on any political compass im aware of

https://www.the-geyser.com/summarizing-the-folly/

H/t @dan_rudmann for the link

jonny, 1 month ago to random

Here I am again... forgot to do my taxes and now I have to fake them while on vacation lmao