sageanastasi

sageanastasi, 24 days ago to datascience

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for consulting work in data science/data analysis. I'm based in Christchurch, New Zealand, but I'm happy to work remote.

I have a background in media & communication, so I'm happy working with clients of any technical ability ^_^ I've worked on projects ranging from surveys of social workers to network analysis, so I'm happy to try anything!

https://sageconsulting.co.nz/

#getFediHired #fediHire #jobsearch #datascience #datasciencejobs

pezmico, 8 months ago to random

If you ask me, I'd say what we most urgently need to do is less.

Less of almost everything.

Less work, less consumerism, less travel, less buying, less waste, less stress, less pollution.

'Slowing down is the Revolution.'

It wouldn't be a solution for everything but it would be a good start.

And then #degrowth and #ecosocialism or something, I don't know. There's a lot of smarter people than me thinking about that.

Perhaps that's why no one is asking me. 🤷

Cat_LeFey, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to paganism

Hail Freya on Her day! #FridayPaganPoll

When performing prayers, rituals, or spells, where do you get your words from?
(Multiple choices!)

#Pagan #Witch #Druid #Heathen

grrrr_shark, 9 months ago to random

Thread:

Subconscious shit is weird as Hell.

My kid had huge struggles during the first three years of the pandemic, eventually declining to attend school because it wasn't safe, and then being more-or-less tortured by the state for that and being autistic (I'm really not understating that, though I don't want to get into it).

sageanastasi, 9 months ago to random

So the cookware that New World is giving out? Coles in Australia did the same promotion and the reviews are DIRE https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/coles-masterchef-cookware-range

(hat tip: https://twitter.com/tzemingdynasty/status/1698804052057076056)

hacks4pancakes, 9 months ago to random

We need to have a talk, and I’m having a really hard time having it with my awesome hacker friends, because everyone is super duper emotionally invested and is deeply hurt by it.

I hope you all aren’t - because it involves all of us and it’s important. It’s not about any of y’all individually or your hard community work.

The talk is about how to make all of our cybersecurity conferences and events and meetups more accessible and conformable for young hackers because I’mreallysosorry, we’ve somehow become Old, and the stuff that we are ingrained with as “hacker culture” like movies, music, and memes all were created before they were born - and they may or may not have any emotional attachment or enjoyment of them at all.

That’s the conversation we need to have and that we are all responsible for and I swear it’s not aimed at any conference or person because we are all in this filter bubble of watching the Matrix and listening to Prodigy and remembering the hamster dance and all of that stuff while awesome was like a quarter century ago.

Part of building a community is thinking about including everyone and their culture under a mantle of good ethics and goals. So we really, really need to start having a chat about when we lean on the 90s hacker aesthetic and memories to the exclusion of people under 30. I had a wake up call hearing some students complaining about it.

TPushic, 9 months ago to random

13 daughter is getting into heavy/rock/punk music. I’d like to find some female led bands/groups for inspiration. I’ve played some Evanessance, Veruca Salt, Avril, No Doubt, Garbage etc.. but looking for recommendations on more modern. Help!

andy, 9 months ago to random

You may remember a while ago, we asked people to visit a little web app that grabbed their viewport sizes.

We had an idea in mind for a visualisation and article that today, we've just pushed live.

The ideal viewport doesn't exist https://viewports.fyi/

esther, 10 months ago to random

Here's a very simple rule for all you clueless cis guys out there:

If you don't have an established basis with someone about sexual comments, don't make any. There's a name for this and it's sexual harassment.

This should be obvious but apparently it still isn't.

And no, knowing that the other person is for example kinky, polyamorous, sexually very active, or whatever else does not give you permission either.

foone, 10 months ago to random

So I was thinking of a scifi setting where life evolves on a planet orbiting a star that periodically (every couple decades) hits the planet with a hemisphere-sterilizing CME.

lewdum, 10 months ago to random

I've long believed that the crucial advantage of the term "queer" over the acronyms is that is acknowledges that diversity is not something you can exhaustively enumerate. we must be always prepared to embrace diversity that we hadn't considered before. this is the most consistent inclusivity

inherentlee, 10 months ago to random

I really hate the "girls are becoming trans men/transmascs to escape misogyny" narrative because genuinely believing it would require that you dismantle misogyny to address the problem - but no one who spouts that narrative seems to much care about dismantling misogyny.

mekkaokereke, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

This graph is making the rounds again on other social media sites. It begs the question "Why do men pay off their student loans, but women can't/won't?"

It's not Black history month, but you already know the answer!

Black women are forced to borrow more for their education. Then Black women are paid less when they graduate, even for the same degree.

A disproportionate amount of the $1.7 Trillion of loan debt (not a typo. Trillion. With a "T.") is held by Black women that did everything right)

mcc, 11 months ago to random

Today I learned that "peanuts" aren't just called that? They're actually related to peas?!

sageanastasi, 11 months ago to random

First ever study on how T changes trans men's voices! They found it does a good job of changing the main pitch but doesn't get all of the secondary resonances that contribute to gender. This suggests that adding voice therapy to treatment could be beneficial

They also found that prior to starting T, voice was the physical aspect trans men are most unhappy about, whereas after being on T for a while there was a high level of satisfaction with the changes.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/how-testosterone-changes-the-voices-of-trans-men/

deilann, 11 months ago to random

Baby shark

baldur, 11 months ago to random

I just published "The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con"

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

I've been working on this essay on and off for a few months now. I kept convincing myself that I had to be wrong, this is too dumb to be true, but then the research I did changed my mind again.

solderandchaos, 11 months ago to random

I mentioned to my PhD chat group buddies that it’d be lovely to see them on Mastodon, and some have agreed to give it a go.

So I’m asking for help. In advance of them arriving, I’d love to be able to point them at this post and replies to find their connections. Are you doing a #phd too? What’s it about? Have you just finished one and have some advice?

[edit: mine's about getting kids interested in data science at school]

Could you help me find as many PhD researchers as possible?

sageanastasi, 11 months ago to random

This is totally worth 15 minutes of your time: https://aeon.co/videos/the-body-politics-a-philosophical-stroll-with-judith-butler-and-sunaura-taylor

sageanastasi, 11 months ago to random

Since I was linking it elsewhere: I'm haunted by this 2014 article from Deadspin which correctly predicted that the political & harassment strategies from Gamergate would form the core of the current "culture wars". Recommend it for helping people who "just don't get the culture wars thing" understand how we got here.
https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844