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UP8

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Software developer at a major research university. I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY.

Experienced in e-commerce, e-publishing, search, A.I. and other data-rich systems. Current side projects involve modelling financial messages in OWL, a smart RSS reader with a transformer-based classifier and workflow engine, and a system of three-sided cards.

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grimalkina, to random
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So many "developers produce more quantities of code with copilot" studies so few "the patterns of interleaving and retrieval change depending on active vs passive consumption of generated solutions and we have like fifty years of research on this in learning science and so maybe we can apply it to make good recommendations about the best usage of generated work output" studies

UP8,
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@grimalkina talk about a paper tiger: when I try to use Copilot it is broken half the time and when it does work it can’t ever get sorting things into a list right.

UP8, to Games
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🎈 For The First Time In A Decade, Nobody Is Working On Cyberpunk 2077

https://kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-nobody-working-cdpr-update-2024-orion-1851504802

flockofnazguls, to random
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I still remember back in 1984, when talking about the same-titled Orwell novel, pundits were confidently declaring that such a surveillance state couldn't happen simply due to the sheer manpower required to monitor everyone in real-time.

LOL

UP8,
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@flockofnazguls there's also the overhead of actually doing something with the information

In the Soviet Union surveillance seemed to be a job program. They packed the house next to Andrei Sakharov full of spies

UP8, to politics
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✊🏽 Regents and UAW bureaucracy seek to contain political rebellion of UC academic workers

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/20/fzgt-m20.html

UP8, to Anthropology
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🏃‍♂️ Study supports theory that humans evolved the ability to run long distances to capture prey

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-theory-humans-evolved-ability-distances.html

#anthropology #humans #prehistory #running #biology #evolution

UP8, to science
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Last week there was a meeting of the Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems in the Duffield Hall Atrium

https://web.cvent.com/event/1c0810c7-1820-42de-9a6e-c9b1612f051c/summary

This vendor exhibited a camera that can take 100,000 frames per second, other vendors had demonstrations where you could see individual droplets in a shower.

#cornell #science #conference #camera #photo #photography #engineering

UP8, to goodnews
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📈 Graduate Workers at UPenn Just Won a Union

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/graduate-workers-penn-union-organizing/

#union #students #labor #organizing #goodnews

UP8, to workersrights
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💪 University of California grad students overwhelmingly authorize strike against campus crackdowns

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/16/tqjn-m16.html

#labor #strike #college #gaza #protest #union

UP8, to food
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🧑‍🌾 Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini’s high yields & low costs palatable

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/bangladeshi-farmers-find-zucchinis-high-yields-low-costs-palatable/

UP8, to skateboarding
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🛹Skateboarding’s Latest Trick: Reviving Cities

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/cities-skateboarding-public-spaces/

UP8, to Japan
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🗡️ How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/09/japan/history/nara-ancient-tomb/

#japan #ancient #archaeology #ruins

UP8, to IT
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🫥 Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

#computers #security #vpn #cyber

UP8, to animals
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🐬 We’ll Get You Out of Here—Just Follow the Sound of My Voice

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/well-get-you-out-of-here-just-follow-the-sound-of-my-voice/

UP8, to Japan
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🦋 Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/05/02/harajuku-change/

UP8, to Electronics
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🚧 How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor

#semiconductors #electronics #business #investment #construction #technology

UP8, to NFL
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🏈 NFL draft pool shrinks as NIL money entices more players to stay in school

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/04/25/more-sports/nfl-draft-nil-money/

#nfl #sports #football #americanfootball #nfldraft

UP8, to ocean
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🐟 Alaska has a plan to save its salmon but some Native leaders are wary

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/28/alaska-salmon-conservation-native-indigenous

UP8, to Futurology
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🐀 Scientists regenerate neural pathways in mice with cells from rats

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-regenerate-neural-pathways-mice.html

UP8, to Mexico
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🫐 Mexico’s Floating Gardens Are an Ancient Wonder of Sustainable Farming

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/mexico-chinampas-floating-gardens-sustainable-farming/

#mexico #agriculture #globalsouth #farming #environment #sustainability

UP8, to politics
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🍺 Class Dealignment Is the Defining Political Challenge of Our Time

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/class-dealignment-democrats-trump-biden/

UP8, to Futurology
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🦠 The GMO tooth microbe that is supposed to prevent cavities

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018793

#biotech #biology #gmo #dental #health #teeth

UP8, to Football
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🏈 Japanese NFL hopeful gets dream chance on football field in U.K.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/04/17/more-sports/nfl-academy-ryoma-shimoseki/

#football #nfl #sports #americanfootball #japan

vicgrinberg, to Astro
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I just love this image - it highlights why we need all the different telescopes: each of them looks at the same object in different ways. And only when working together a complete image emerges.

Here, #Euclid's wide field is combined with #Hubble's zoom-in and #JWST sharpest IR image we ever obtained, allowing us to study how radiation interacts with interstellar matter.

More here and in the linked articles: ▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/04/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail

#astrodon #astronomy

UP8,
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@vicgrinberg that last shot is particularly lovely to me in that I can make out so many galaxies in the background

UP8, to linux
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🛸 Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2019282

#linux #automotive #embedded #technology

UP8, to television
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📺 Into the Tubi-Verse

(... it's like as cable died and went to heaven: multiple MTV branded channels really play new and old music videos)

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2024/4/17/24132371/tubi-streaming-service-explained

#television #media #tubi #streaming #tv #movies

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