ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

#Introduction time: I #write and #edit #prose and #comics and have for over 15yrs. I'm a giant #music and #science nerd. I like long #puns on the beach and quiet...look I don't know. I'm tired. That's the takeaway here. I'm tired.

Whenever I see those "robot dogs" they want the cops to use all I can think is:

Gorilla Glue Spray Adhesive exists, is fairly affordable, and hell on mechanical joints.

Inuit children invented their own system for writing numbers which makes arithmetic easier. Now its in Unicode.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-number-system-invented-by-inuit-schoolchildren-will-make-its-silicon-valley-debut/

Know a teacher? Grants available to fund science education lessons.

#SciComm #Science #K12 #Entomology #Education

https://www.entsoc.org/support/chrysalis-fund/apply

There’s no convincing me that these modern emulation based C64s aren’t really cool. I know plenty of people dismiss them as “it’s just a Raspberry Pi running Vice!” and whilst there’s some merit to that comment it doesn’t stop them being cool. #retrocomputing #c64 #retrogaming

"Transcriptomic analysis of skate developing fins revealed a major reorganization of signalling gradients relative to other vertebrates1. The redeployment of developmental transcription factors, such as 3′ hox genes, initiates an anterior signalling centre analogous to the posterior apical ectodermal ridge (AER). These changes arose ~286–221 million years ago (Fig. 1b) after the divergence between sharks and skates. Nevertheless, the genomic and regulatory changes underlying these novel expression domains have remained elusive."
#EvoDevo

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05868-1

@flexghost @ceoln

My message to NPR:

"I read that you are leaving twitter. And going to Instagram instead? To another walled garden owned by a capricious billionaire? Please be a media leader and move to the Fediverse. Set your own instance. Please do not continue to empower the foes of democracy!"

#twittermigration

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-ai-hype-bubble-is-the-new-crypto-hype-bubble-74e53028631e

@GreatDismal quoting an Italian MP's suggestion to replace the acronym "AI" with "SALAMI" (“Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences”) as a way to avoid overly anthropomorphising it. I wasn't taking ChatGPT that seriously anyway, but now I can't stop laughing at it:

“Is this SALAMI intelligent? Can this SALAMI write a novel? Does this SALAMI deserve human rights?”

No, no and no. HAL it ain't. Nor Skynet. It's not even the computer from the USS Enterprise D.

#AI #machinelearning #chatgpt #anthropomorphism

Look carefully, a White-Breasted Nuthatch is looking carefully at me. #Ottawa #DewberryTrail

This is #Nobel material.

Even more troubling is the fact that Eric Topol, one of the corresponding authors on the paper, didn't declare any competing interests for the paper when he's a scientific advisor for a AI based precision medicine company.

#ai #stablediffusion

There are so many reasons to love #wetlands , but #today I am appreciating a joyful chorus of #springpeepers welcoming #spring. In case it hasn’t reached you yet, enjoy this little #video.
#wetlands in urban areas keep us in touch with the seasons and remind us to care for the wildlife in our #environment.
#signsofspring #herps #frogs #anurans #swamps #vernalpool

And the countdown on the next AI winter has officially begun!

I was going to add snark to the fire, but I won't. Instead, I will share a thing I learned from @AliceAvizandum, in that cops are weirdly vulnerable to being scammed.
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RT @stephensemler
According to the user guide for this robot police dog (https://www.generationrobots.com/media/spot-boston-dynamics/spot-user-guide-r2.0-va.pdf), it definitely shouldn’t be submerged in water. Some other behaviors we should avoid in order to not dam…
https://twitter.com/stephensemler/status/1645935831369015297

Yes, Home Derpot is a typographical error, but I like it and I am keeping it. In fact I may call them that from now on. 😀

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
— Havelock Ellis
#Quote #QuoteOfTheDay