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Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at https://fediscience.org/@IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with https://masto.ai/@pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.

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rivoluzioneurbanamobilita, (edited ) to energia Italian
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Più di 1/3 degli italiani non guida. Perché allora le #auto sono al centro di tutto?

Il 36% delle persone non ha la patente (tra i maggiorenni il 24%, ma il 35% delle donne!). Il numero di patentati giovane è sempre più basso.

Quanti poi, pur avendo la #patente, non guidano?

Ostacoliamo la #mobilità di una gran parte della popolazione, così che gli altri possano muoversi con grosse e inefficienti scatole di metallo, occupando tutto lo spazio, anche dove è più prezioso.

Ha senso?

@energia

mapto,
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@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita @energia ieri si è parlato tantissimo di questo. Ho ripreso un paio di schermate nelle risposte: https://feddit.it/post/7706667

La risposta dell'assessora è stata che la gente (e anche dai tuoi dati si vede che gli autisti sono una maggioranza) non vuole cambiare. Secondo lei, l'unico strumento che ha il comune e di cambiare offrendo mezzi pubblici in scambio. L'esempio che ha dato è Argonne. Non sono riusciti a togliere i posti parcheggio finché non hanno costruito la metro. Questo ha messo in questione un gran cambiamento che include anche riduzione della dipendenza dai automobili.

mapto,
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@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita @energia è una lotta che deve essere vinta. E sicuramente gli elezioni sono un fronte.

RossGayler, to mathematics
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Maths/CogSci/MathPsych lazyweb: Are there any algebras in which you have subtraction but don't have negative values? Pointers appreciated. I am hoping that the abstract maths might shed some light on a problem in cognitive modelling.

The context is that I am interested in formal models of cognitive representations and I want to represent things (e.g. cats), don't believe that we should be able to represent negated things (i.e. I don't think it should be able to represent anti-cats), but it makes sense to subtract representations (e.g. remove the representation of a cat from the representation of a cat and a dog, leaving only the representation of the dog).

This might also be related to non-negative factorisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_matrix_factorization

#mathematics #algebra #AbstractAlgebra #CogSci @cogsci #CognitiveScience #MathPsych #MathematicalPsychology

mapto,
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@RossGayler @Heterokromia @cogsci to me it seems you need to be more clear on your requirements. Are your non-negative and multidimensional requirements independent, as far as you can tell?

If so, a multidimensional (do you know how many dimensions/animals you have?) modulo space sounds a viable solution. That'd be something denoted as https://www.HostMath.com/Show.aspx?Code=%5Cmathbb%7BZ%7D_k%5En , with k being the cardinality of one dimension (would they need to have different cardinalities?), and n being the number of dimensions.

KathyReid, to stackoverflow
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Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their code wasn't working, or assist with a bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train models, like , without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's .

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of , it's also a salient lesson for folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

mapto,
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@j3j5 @blogdiva @KathyReid this appears to be only an opinion, which 1) doesn't appear very informed to me, and 2) only mentions code-related issues, and does not address them.

More precisely, clearly when talking of code, this is not part of the process used:
"Diffusion models like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney take these inputs, add “noise” to them, corrupting them, and then train neural networks to remove the corruption."
Neither is this:
"This is because using the digitized books as part of the database provided information about the books and did not use them for their creative content"

Also, regarding the court's inverse question, it seems to me that this is an extremely valid concern:
"On this point, the court wrote that the better question to answer was not how much of the works [company] copied, but instead how much was available to users". Due to the granularity of SO, this could easily be 100%, even though this would need to be illustrated (=proven) as in the NYT case.

Could anyone identify "substantial, non infringing uses" of the SO data? Here using CC might make it difficult to establish what was the original interest of the contributor.

Final note, to me it remains a bit unclear what is the relevance of the Oracle Vs Google case according to the author.

mapto,
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@mastodonmigration @KathyReid to the ignorant that I am, this sounds legally feasible, but economically challenging. That's a lot of content and maintaining it on a live platform is associated with notable costs. Not a reason to stop someone from trying, rather an argument to plan ahead.

Here's a starting point: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/stackoverflow/stackoverflow

mapto,
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@j3j5 @blogdiva @KathyReid excuse me, actually at a second thought BERT and GPT are exactly doing corrupt-and-train on the dataset. This certainly weakens my interpretation. Apologies for the confusion.

glennf, to random
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I don't admire Mike Johnson: he has terrible, regressive views, and given the power, he would make our country tremendously worse for most people who don't look like him and believe what he believes.

But, given his awful approach to the world, I am impressed that he has pursued necessary bipartisan action that approaches statespersonlike behavior in preventing government shutdown, deters Russian expansionism, and counters dysfunction.

mapto,
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@glennf @franktaber that's the key: low expectations can get you excited even about mediocre performance

mapto, to globalpolitics
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Fear, cynicism, nihilism, and apathy... is what modern autocrats sell

"Fear, cynicism, nihilism, and apathy, coupled with disgust and disdain for democracy: This is what modern autocrats sell to their citizens and to foreigners, all with the aim of destroying what they call “American hegemony.”"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/

@globalpolitics

mapto, to random
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Against Europe’s largest gas project and a major threat to the fragile Black Sea ecosystem

Whereas this particular event has passed, there is still hope and the campaign continues.

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/66063/breaking-activists-protest-europes-largest-gas-project-outside-omv-petrom-headquarters-in-romania/

@blacksea

fedifaschifo, to fediverso Italian
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Mastodon si è finalmente tuffato nel mare della techmafia americana: "Mastodon costituisce una nuova organizzazione no-profit usa"

Mastodon ha creato un'entità senza scopo di lucro 501(c)(3) negli Stati Uniti con l'obiettivo di facilitare i nostri sforzi, inclusa la possibilità di ricevere servizi statunitensi deducibili dalle tasse.

@fediverso

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

mapto,
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@fedifaschifo @mapto alle entità senza scopo di lucro in Italia. Leggi di questo genere esistono in qualsiasi paese del mondo, ma in generale vengono considerati meno lucrativi. Quindi meno interessanti per la criminalità organizzata a noi (a me come bulgaro e a te come - suppongo - italiano) ben conosciuta in diverse forme. Gli Stati uniti sono un paese che genera tante donazioni. Quindi ci sta che qualcuno vorrebbe fare comodo ai donatori (che spesso e lo scopo principale di una registrazione del genere)

mapto, to fuck_cars
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A former manager described Musk as a “pigeon CEO”: “He comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves.”

https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-tesla-manager/

@fuck_cars

aral, to random
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“I don’t understand why everything is so fucked up and we seem incapable of fixing any of it!”

This is because you believe you live in a democracy when you actually live under capitalism.

(And it is functioning exactly as designed.)

PS. Not your fault; you’ve been taught your whole life that the two are complementary when they’re diametrically-opposed.

mapto,
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@aral I'd be very curious to hear how democracy without capitalism could be structured (putting aside for now the more interesting question of how the corresponding transition from the current state would happen).

The closest to a response I can think of is the ideas of Cornelius Castoriadis, but as many other things in life, it shows that the problem is that it's us not doing enough for a change:
https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase_mobile?openform&fp=epoche&id=epoche_2010_0015_0001_0001_0012

mapto, to libri
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"Aggiustare il mondo", un libro su Aaron Swartz di Giovanni Ziccardi pubblicato da @milanoup sotto una licenza CC e disponibile anche in

@libri
QT: https://mastodon.uno/@milanoup/112296775301554257

rivoluzioneurbanamobilita, to milano Italian
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#Milano, un altro lago d'asfalto verrà restituito alle persone!

Spero che tutti gli orribili parcheggi a livello di Milano, che oggi sono regno di poche auto parcheggiate al bellemeglio (e parliamo di 10-12 macchine) vengano smantellatie trasformati in aree vivibili.

Come sottolinea l'articolo, bisognerebbe partire da quello proprio di fronte, dove anche lo stallo di #bikeMI è regolarmente occupato da una i due auto di prepotenti incivili

#cittaDellePersone

https://blog.urbanfile.org/2024/04/17/milano-isola-il-parcheggio-di-via-borsieri-sara-trasformato-in-spazio-verde/

mapto,
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@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita dall'articolo: parcheggio da furbetto
https://blog.urbanfile.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-04-17-Urbanfile-milano-isola-area-parcheggio-pepe-borsieri_6.jpg

freemo, to random
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Reality...

mapto,
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@freemo @avlcharlie well, unless people attempt to develop some level of sophistication, efficiency turns into greed, because thoughtless accumulation is the easiest thing to do. This is reinforced by a social environment where chronic accumulators are considered successful by chronically accumulating media.

mapto,
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@freemo @avlcharlie maximisers would invest for profitability and not for sustainability. Clearly this conversation is way too abstract and way too generalising, but rich people investing in cheap resources is a real problem in times of pressing change.

Optimising is by definition deprived of vision, ask effective altruists ;)

mapto,
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@freemo @avlcharlie the problem is that environmental cost are not part of the final price. Instead they are internalised by those with weaker negotiation power.

Examples:

  • miners from poor countries pay with their lives to extract resources that unaccountable mine owners then can sell at competitive prices
  • wildlife gets pushed away from investment-grade land

I can go on with Amazonian rainforest, Russian taiga, Australian Coral reefs, African rhinos, l Mediterranean fish, orangutans, polar bears,...

mapto,
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@volkris @freemo @avlcharlie I agree with your other comment.

My diagreement is not with the current calculation of the costs. I claim that any explicit calculation by default (due to the complexity of the real world) excludes some implicit aspect that optimisers then readily ignore.

Also, utility is not only contextual, but subjective. To someone a million dollars might be enough to secure a lifetime, to someone else it could be enough to buy a house, to a third person, it might mean buying some nice nice stuff to show off.

TheConversationUS, to news
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If you have guns at home, you need to do all you can to keep them out of the hands of children – for everybody’s safety. Here’s some straight-foward tips from experts including stop assuming you can hide your guns (your children probably know where they are):
https://theconversation.com/what-families-need-to-know-about-how-to-safely-store-firearms-at-home-223161

mapto,
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@Yoshi @TheConversationUS yes, Stalin's solution has been tested for centuries

mapto, to random
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Hey @freemo , is it that an RSS-to-mastodon service at https://feedsin.space/ is blocked on ? I've been using this a lot from my Bulgarian-language account, and I just noticed I don't have access from here.

I find such services very useful. If there is an intentional block in place, could you share the reasons and if you could suggest alternative ways to follow RSS feeds from here? Just trying to understand if there's a solution that would work for everyone. Thanks!

mapto,
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@freemo Nono, I use it from a different server. If no blocklist , I guess it might be some issue with the feedsin.space service itself. Have come across other issues with them in the past. Thanks for the quick response.

mapto,
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@freemo no need to waste time rushing it, no worries

freemo, to random
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Just a reminder folks, unless you agree with them, no matter how polite you are, you will always get blocked... I get 10 examples a day why I cant stand the left, even as a person who is on the left (slightly)

https://mastodon.social/

mapto,
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@freemo I like to think this is not about political ideology, but about short-sightedness. It doesn't matter what you believe in, if you are unable to tolerate criticism or alternate opinions.

mapto,
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@freemo I like to think this is not about political ideology, but about short-sightedness. It doesn't matter what you believe in, if you are unable to tolerate criticism or alternative opinions.

freemo, to random
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Interesting fact of the day: When adjusting for today's dollars, the most recent president that wasn't a millionaire was Harry S. Truman in the early 1950s.

mapto,
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@freemo with current real estate prices, just inheriting a property in a good urban area makes you (at least half) a millionaire.

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