🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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There is now a Mastodon instance for publishing scientists: FediScience.
Everyone is welcome from PhD student to professor, as well as researchers from outside of academia. You are welcome to stay afterwards, but it is also easy to change to another server.
There will be a lot of science talk on this server, but there is no need to only talk science
https://fediscience.org/invite/j6X8z7qF
Boosts are appreciated to let others know about this new instance.
Why does Tracy have to be such a dum-dum? Like, she freaks out when she sees her doppelganger in Westworld: you just saw it not an hour ago... #oldmovies #movies #futureworld
Wow, Chuck is annooooying. #futureworld #movies #oldmovies
Am I lazy? Zero-gravity sex just sounds exhausting. 😓
#futureworld #oldmovies #movies
@Iambharani have a way that doesn't involve staring at the sun?
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Updated Debian 9: 9.13 released https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200718
@wolf480pl @izaya so, alternate head pats and butt pats
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Bonjour Mastodon !
Après plusieurs années d'études en mathématiques, je me sens inconfortable. Je suis donc en train d'évaluer les possibilités de reconversion notamment en administration système.
J'en appelle donc à vous pour répondre à deux questions :
- Auriez-vous des liens-références vers n'importe quel type de support pour m'aider ?
- (Plus particulièrement aux admin sys qui pourraient lire ce toot) Selon, que faut-il maîtriser pour devenir un *bon* admin-sys ?
Retoots appréciés ! :)
@izaya yes: vampires
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accessibility, ableism
Inaccessibility isn't just a matter of discrimination, though discrimination underlies and defines these choices. Inaccessibility in itself disables people, more seriously and in more situations with more detriment than dictated by their medical conditions. People who can get around fine on their own on wheelchairs are disabled by the lack of ramps and elevators where they are affordable and feasible. People who'd be perfectly functional with dimmer lighting and less noise are made to suffer in spaces made artificially bright and noisy. People who can navigate websites with screen readers are excluded when websites are made opaque to screen readers. The inconveniences and exclusions are imposed by choice, not dictated by immutable physical reality.
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Last year's AI Dungeon was a sensation, for good reason: Nick Walton's deployment of GPT and GPT2 to automatically generate D&D-style text adventures that were simultaneously sophisticated and just super-weird.
Well, GPT has a new version, GPT3, and it's the most powerful machine learning prose-generation tool in wide use, and when Walton applied it to AI Dungeon, the results were jaw-dropping.
https://medium.com/@aidungeon/ai-dungeon-dragon-model-upgrade-7e8ea579abfe
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UK phone chat service advertisements ... who ever thought this was a good idea?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aY_nDPePwU
(there are several more)
#nineties #video #uk #retro
I had never heard about the 5-day domain registration grace period
I wonder why it took until 2008 for ICANN to take real action on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
@freemo @admin @aetios that's kinda what I was getting at, that we don't have to understand color. I admit it's not a great analogy in the context of my OP: I have a hard time extending it. My main theme though is that natural evolution could make weird creatures that don't calculate like we do because they don't need to. limitations in my knowledge of mathematics, evolution, and physics prevent me from taking that thought much further
@ilovecomputers yeah. I think back in my middle school days. I like his energy
@admin I think you assume that the hypothetical aliens have the same senses that we do, but better. I would not make that assumption. Evolution could take a course that favors very rich perception of organic molecules over vision in some other world
@admin @freemo @aetios I guess color is another example. After thinking about it more, being more intelligent than a human isn't necessary. probably even orthogonal. the interface that we have with the world biases the things we think are basic and natural. an alien may be capable of understanding, but their perceptions may make our presentation of mathematics deeply unintuitive
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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