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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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Joined Apr 2020
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Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”
The music legend expressed his concerns during a Milken Institute panel with Larry Jackson.
@trinsec I guess? like, I open my garage door and peek at the nest and the bird there immediately flies off. one of them will keep circling and chirping every time it sees me as it circles. I hope I find a way to calm them if I'm causing them distress
it occurs to me that the birds' experience of me may be drastically different from my experience. at least one of them has dived at my head twice
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Humans have been eating clams for a long, long time. Stone tools dating to 125,000 years ago have been found among oyster and giant clam shells bordering the Red Sea, remnants of early migrations from Africa. And before that, Homo erectus is thought to have often hit up the raw bar, based on middens of shells they left behind! 🦪 #clamFacts
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short and sweet episode. I've heard the word "perovskite", but the difference in cost is a real leap
NASACast Audio: Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 107: Perovskite Solar Cells
Episode webpage: http://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/small-steps-giant-leaps-episode-107-perovskite-solar-cells
Media file: http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/audio/episode-107-perovskite-solar-cells.mp3
@lupyuen WGA seems to be demanding something reasonable here. I think the jury is still out on how faithfully LLMs can reproduce any given text sufficiently well to count as plagiarism, but it is pretty clear that the creative turns out phrase, plots, cultural commentary, etc, that LLMs produce wouldn't be there without the creativity of the source material which comprises the collective work of many. as a collective, the union has clear standing to argue for how the work of their members can and cannot be used.
the part about rewriting "first drafts" by a machine, seems even more clear cut. like, of course writers shouldn't be made to take lower pay to revise a machine output. if a writer wants to use an LLM as part of their own process, more power to them, but the *human* writer should be paid for their original creative effort
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@est maybe instead, it's a nature mockumentary that follows the creature and it's own offspring, Meerkat Manor-style, with zero mention of the connection to Voyager for at least half the series. Gradual reveals that we're in the Star Trek universe ... Janeway sits for an interview, and so on
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I appreciate this comment on the article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/disease-detectives-gathered-at-cdc-event-a-covid-outbreak-erupted/?comments=1&post=41841370
it's easy to cast aspersions on the conference attendees and point to the apparent irony, but nothing suggests to me that they were, in the main, reckless in this.
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This morning, a bit less than two hours in the Ramble yielded 33 species. Nothing new--I missed the reported Spotted Sandpiper--but I did see my first Ovenbird and Common Yellowthroat of the year (I had only heard them singing before).
A late-afternoon stroll in Carl Schurz Park had my first Barn Swallows of the year, around their usual nest site at the ferry dock. Only two so far, but that will pick up.
At least 20 Double-crested Cormorants nests on Mill Rock, with 44 birds.
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I was today years old when I learned that there may be a relationship between pollen counts and viral respiratory infections. Pollen impairs the immune response to viruses, and viruses may also be able to hitchhike deep into the airways on pollen grains. High pollen concentrations in March 2020 may have facilitated the spread of COVID during the first pandemic wave 🤧 
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Our #JWST rocky exoplanet team is back with a new result:
Water Vapor in the data of warm rocky planet! 💦
But is it from the planet's atmosphere or cool star spots on the star?? 🌎 🤔 🔴
Read the article here and stay tuned for a thread ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-120
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Happy birthday to #neurologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852 - 1934), here in front of Purkinje and granule cells from a pigeon, based on one of his own drawings! Cajal &Golgi won the Nobel in 1906, "in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system". He was as much of an artist as he was a scientist & his 100s of drawings are still used for teaching purposes.
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#sciart #linocut #printmaking #histstm #PurkinjeCell #neuroscience
@eamon fwiw, a common Markdown variant allows you to put the links on their own lines and just include a link reference inline
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why does everyone seem to have such a defeatist additude about their data being harvested by apps and websites? i always hear people say how "it's probably all out there anyway" or "there's no way to completely prevent it, so i'm not going to bother partially preventing it", the more companies and organizations that spy on you, the more likely you'll be part of a data breach in which some personal information could be released about you. it's good to minimize your online footprint as much as possible.
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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