I just grabbed my Twitter archive using the process described by @benjedwards in https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/how-to-download-a-backup-copy-of-your-twitter-data-or-deactivate-your-account/
29.2K Tweets and 41.5K Likes over 15 years. Twitter has certainly be a great tool for me to learn and share.
#introduction ok let's see if I can actually do this.
I started hormone therapy exactly 6 months ago, so in a way I'm like a teenage girl adapting to a whole new set of emotions and a rapidly changing body.
Being newly #trans is not an excuse for the cringiness of my posts, however... I've always been like this because of my #autism .
I've volunteered for #exercism since 2018 and currently maintain the #Clojure track.
I make programming tutorials and do livestreams on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BobbiCodes These often involve #music production and #mathematics, the former because I've done it all my life, and the latter because I wish I had!
My greatest passion is music education, and develop applications for this purpose. So far my best work is inspired by the Mario Paint music maker: https://github.com/btowerscoding/mecca
I have a strong personal interest in #accessibility, having several unique physical and mental issues. I have permanent facial paralysis on one side and am deaf in that ear, and I lost one of my hands in a 2014 accident. They are on opposite sides, so it is particularly comical to watch me try to use a phone.
I created a 3D printed keyboard to address my condition, and have been considering marketing it to offer a low-cost solution for folks in similar compromised situations, or whoever might want to type with one hand for whatever reason: https://github.com/btowerscoding/trochee
Actually I think that's all I have to say right now! If you'd like to sponsor my work you can do that here: https://www.patreon.com/BobbiCodes
Enjoy!
Going on now @ UN Plaza in San Francisco, rally in support of women’s rights in Iran.
https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=200023619236404
The greatest thing about Mastodon, so far, in my short time here, is a great, calm energy of the ideas. I don't sense a lot of hatred or heat. The exchange of ideas is the point. It feels like the early days of the internet -- I've been here since 1994 -- when you found a place to make new friends and create meaningful connections. I know that early lift doesn't always last long with magnitude of distribution, but it's still good to know these moments still exist somewhere. #Mastodon #Internet
Hey!
Lately I'm a Machine Learning Engineer/Researcher interested in crossing modalities, especially text and images.
I've been doing #aiart on Twitter/Mastodon for years. I recently left mastodon.art because I thought my interests fit better here, and requiring a CW for AI art is a bit much lol
I'll mostly be posting art, links to longform thoughts, and announcements. Excited to join you all!
Title: "Identifying a Training-Set Attack's Target Using Renormalized Influence Estimation"
Key ideas:
💡 Training attacks are *highly influential* to their targets
💡 Targets have *anomalous influence distributions*
💡 Attacks are the targets’ *top influences*
In other words: Stopping training set attacks is an influence estimation problem!
* I post mostly about #ML #DataScience and #Embedded systems.
* I was born in Pittsburgh, worked in Boston and now live in Hawaii.
* I was the CTO of one of the early ML-based web companies: Lycos.com
* Now I do volunteer work and support the tech community on the Big Island.
* I'm a dad. I'm married to Wen Spencer the author. I walk 5 miles a day. I have a cat.
* I code mostly in #python, #c, #cpp and #swift.
* I like #retrocomputers: PDP-11, CP/M, TRS-80, Osborne 1
Conner Ruhl at Stability #AI has announced their new developer site.
Quote: "It's only focused on basic documentation for now, but it will hopefully grow to become the best developer experience for generative AI available anywhere..."
The rules for vis.social have changed to not allow any AI-generated images... but I'm literally writing an academic paper right now about AI applications to VIS (including ethical implications), and a rule like this prevents even sharing this kind of research. This seems like a pretty... abrupt and sweeping decision? @kristinHenry @darth_mall is there a place for public conversation on the server to discuss rule changes like this? #dataVis #visSocial #dataViz
Mastodon Feature Wish
The little thing that comes up just after you send a post on the #birdsite, where you can click to be taken directly to the thing you just posted, to check and/or admire it.
The way things used to be?
#midjourney #AIArt https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/497136216670029644
After lab, this week #MonksHillLab performed last in-situ validation of our low-cost #Minion #CO2 and #ET data-logger at #patchCROP. #Minion are allready being used in projects in THE philippines, Ghana and Benin. Looking forward to firts annual flux data.
@PLOSBiology Important counterpoint: #entomology needs funding, like a lot, and by yesterday. see:
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.