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dimillian, 2 days ago to random

It's funny how I often feel incredibly uncomfortable here because I can’t really talk about generative AI, OpenAI stuff, innovation etc… because some of the crowd is just toxic about it.
Even on X, you don’t get that kind of people flaming in your mentions because they think they’re on such a high horse.
I can have whatever opinion I want and you need to calm down.
Get over it. Generative AI is here to stay and so many workflow and tools will get improved because of it.

elduvelle, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to random

#Zotero still asking $60 for 1 year of 6Gb… 😭 @zotero I love you all but it’s 2024 now, maybe you could either reduce the price or increase what we get for it?
#ReferenceManager

Edit: not even 60… just SIX

lf_araujo, 12 days ago to random

O custo de visitar a família no Brasil está chegando num limite. Sem falar dos cancelamentos. São três idas subsequentes com atrasos ou cancelamentos. MAS desta vez não passaremos nem por são Paulo nem pelo Rio, o que melhora imensamente a experiência.

Neblib, 15 days ago to emacs

#emacs is such a rabbit hole. I spent too much time playing with my Android setup with the #fdroid version and Unexpected Keyboard and it works surprisingly well. I'm going to need to either build myself or use the sourceforge release since fdroid doesn't have gnutls, and likely the termux compatible build as I'll likely need more packages. Eventually I'll try syncing up with my desktop config. I still don't fully understand why the f-droid version is stuck at the Feb build...

caiocgo, 1 month ago to mastodon

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lf_araujo, 1 month ago to emacs

Hey #emacs people, is #eglot superior to #lspmode? Not too familiar with eglot, I use lspmode in Doom and I find it relativelly slow compared to vim lsp implementations. Is eglot faster?

denzilferreira, 1 month ago to eink

Now with things in place, closer to OOTB experience with LineageOS installed 🚀 #lineageOS #eink #hisense

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augustocc, 1 month ago to random Portuguese

Ontem à noite li esse livro e ainda nem me recuperei de tantos insights e novas percepções sobre a minha própria condição.

Autismo no Adulto. José Alberto Del Porto e Francisco B. Assumpção Jr. (orgs.). Artmed, 2023.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, 1 month ago to random

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lf_araujo, 2 months ago to random

Hey #rstats gang, in my attempt to make the violin plots useful I am trying to overlay the true values of the simulation on the violins. Preferably tiny horizontal lines, but points are ok. This is as far as I got, since the true values have different names (b1,b3) as the simulation values (mrdoc2_b1_hat ...) I cannot overlay one on the other, how to go about it?

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NicoleCRust, 2 months ago to random

Fascinating first person account by a psychologist who faked data

The scientist: Diederik Stapel. A Dutch social psychologist. He wrote a book explaining the context and how one thing led to another until he was caught. Nick Brown translated it into English. Freely available here:

http://nick.brown.free.fr/stapel

Page 101:

I also became increasingly skilled in the use of techniques that could put a healthy-
looking shine on otherwise mediocre results. If I didn’t get the effect I wanted across all the
different measures I’d used or the questions I’d asked, I would use the ones that did show
that effect. If an effect was present in an experiment, but not strongly enough to be tapped
by all of the types of measurements I’d used, I would make it stronger by combining the measures where the effect seemed to be only partly working. ...

Page 102:

After years of balancing on the outer limits, the gray became darker and darker until
it was black, and I fell off the edge into the abyss. I’d been having trouble with my
experiments for some time. Even with my various “gray” methods for “improving” the data,
I wasn’t able to get the results the way I wanted them. I couldn’t resist the temptation to go wanted it so badly. I wanted to belong, to be part of the action, to score. I really, really wanted to be really, really good. I wanted to be published in the best journals
and speak in the largest room at conferences. I wanted people to hang on my every word
as I headed for coffee or lunch after delivering a lecture. I felt very alone.

p103

I was alone in my tastefully furnished office at the University of Groningen. I’d taken
extra care when closing the door, and made my desk extra tidy. Everything had to be neat
and orderly. No mess. I opened the computer file with the data that I had entered and
changed an unexpected 2 into a 4; then, a little further along, I changed a 3 into a 5. It
didn’t feel right. I looked around me, nervously. The data danced in front of my eyes.
When the results are just not quite what you’d so badly hoped for; when you know that that
hope is based on a thorough analysis of the literature; when this is your third experiment
on this topic and the first two worked great; when you know that there are other people
doing similar research elsewhere who are getting good results; then, surely, you’re entitled
to adjust the results just a little?

mms, 2 months ago to emacs

How do you quick edit file in #emacs from terminal? I have this habit it quick „vim” command - it’s quick. But my neovim config is unmanaged for a few months so it’s broken. So you simply open emacs in terminal (slow boot) or have some nice shortcut to throw the file into an existing client?

lf_araujo, 3 months ago to mastodon

Deleted X yesterday, only #mastodon for me now.

dimillian, 4 months ago to random

Nintendo Switch 2 soon? Can’t wait.

ZachWeinersmith, 4 months ago to random

I'm not super exposed to algorithmic social media, but I post stuff to threads and ohmygod it's literally wall to wall sexy people selling stuff or people being inflammatory dipshits.

lf_araujo, 5 months ago to random

Is there a dashboard where I can follow download statistics (with visualizations) for certain CRAN packages? #rstats

dimillian, 5 months ago to random

Do you remember peak Twitter? This was the greatest. It feels like we’re in this Era for Mastodon. I hope it's true.

UlrikeHahn, 5 months ago to random

I’m finding myself more and more bothered by the value incongruence of accounts associated with scientific integrity and science reform movements (personal or organisational) remaining active on the platform holding a vote to bring back Alex Jones.

if it’s important to maintain an account as a matter of historic record, occasionally ‘liking’ some tweet about the weather should be enough.

lisabortolotti, 5 months ago to philosophy

As proud local partners of The Royal Institute of Philosophy we are organising a series of public lectures. New addition is Professor Dominic Murphy on Mental Health and Culture on 5th February 2024. Check the poster for details! @philosophy

dimillian, 5 months ago to random

Lego Fortnite have insane graphics!