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maj, 8 days ago to fediverse

Folks posting about the 15th anniversary of the #fediverse made me go dig up my oldest #identica post I could get to -- 16 years ago!

What a little time capsule. The more things change...

evan, 21 days ago to random

I just dropped my Summer 2024 semester class for #OMSCS so I can concentrate on the Summer of Protocols grant for adding E2EE to ActivityPub. I'm pretty bummed; this is my second semester in a row that I've had to drop out. But I just can't hold down a day job, work a full-time role on the grant, and do graduate school classes. It's just too much.

maj, 26 days ago to llm

'Librarian Andrew Gray has made a “very surprising” discovery. He analyzed five million scientific studies published last year and detected a sudden rise in the use of certain words, such as meticulously (up 137%), intricate (117%), commendable (83%) and meticulous (59%). [...] The explanation for this rise: tens of thousands of researchers are using [...] LLMs tools to write their studies or at least “polish” them.'

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-25/excessive-use-of-words-like-commendable-and-meticulous-suggest-chatgpt-has-been-used-in-thousands-of-scientific-studies.html

#LLM #language #linguistics #Science

maj, 29 days ago to random

This is how I consume social media right now.

If nothing else, the fediverse will greatly reduce the screenshot ouroborosity.

maj, 1 month ago to animals

Wow! Successful whale handshake!

(Note I constantly misread the "whup" calls as "whassup" calls and will continue to refer to them as such).

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/in-world-first-scientists-share-what-was-almost-certainly-a-conversation-with-humpback-a-whale/

#Animals #communication #Science #goodnews

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

Who is your favourite out of these four Beatles?

#EvanPoll #poll

maj, 1 month ago to random

First impressions of a new server:

• I can follow (some) folks on Threads: awesome! This is the dream!
• Going from a 5k char limit to 500 takes some thinking (I know there are tools for splitting longer posts)
• Nice to see all my followings are followed [edited: I get it now that -ings came over but -ers did not!]
• A little sad that my posts don't come over but that makes sense...

maj, 1 month ago to random

Just migrated over from https://eldritch.cafe/@micheleann

I've really enjoyed the extremely well-governed and actively moderated experience here at eldritch.cafe but I do want to follow a wider swath of sources which, at least in the short term, are going to be found on some of the "big ones" like Threads.

I absolutely understand the desire to create multiple spaces with different experiences -- and that is one of the great things about the fediverse!