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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
@jerry As one of the earliest adopters of QTs, perhaps the first (QOTO had it for many years now) i can agree with all that, it is just a link with somenspecial formatting and behavior, and only marginally different from putting a post in your link.
I disagree about you last point tbat it needs diligant moderation and would say, no more so than people posting a link to a post would need...
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@freemo @mc My Math background did get me involved in undergrad research alongside PhDs and many things that I should have received credit for.
There was a competition that might have been to replace an older system that had been publicly defeated. Perhaps I ended up homeless while working on this and I was treated like trash by faculty. Some areas of research are kept separate from everything else. I still won't talk about what it actually was but consider a part of infrastructure going down and what happens in the chaos. That's the last clue.
A while after that I was more seasoned in Comp Sci. I was doing research with equipment that only I could get. A select few believed in it and I got treated like shit again. My equipment, my money and my hard work were being mocked. I started my own personal research and poured my all into it.
I made sure to send links to the faculty and students who treated me so poorly. The links were to publications where my work was referenced by a legend. They did the impressive part of the work but my contribution was acknowledged.
So there's a killer comeback that only a few know of. The best part is that I was willing to credit the University in some way but I was roasted by faculty and students on my way to try to get them involved.
Perhaps I handled it like a Mathematician. They didn't get undeserved credit nor did I ever mention them by name so their name wouldn't be present in any of the work.
I don't believe I have ever made more than 20k in a year. I continually have problems with employment. I was treated nicely and encouraged by the right person and as a last resort, I showed a department that maybe they had a lapse in judgement. I still get angry about it but I pushed for changes that should have made a positive impact. They likely wouldn't credit me if my proposals were made into policy. Universities love to cover things up.
Just thought I'd share that little gem for those of you who had to deal with academia and its unique values.
@mc Nah the sellingyoursaelf part is easy, No more work than a resume and some expiernce.
No the key is being good in the first place :)
But yea if you cant do a good job at presenting yourself as good (even if you are)then you might have a hard time.
@mc just gotta impress people and get a portfolio to sell yourself thjen your gold.
I mean I make 1.2 mil a year contracting and all my work relies heavily on my math background...
@AmpBenzScientist Dude mathematicians are paid a fortune :)
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If this is a two-dimensional projection of a three-dimensional placement of people within a spaceship that's traveling at 98% of the speed of light, maybe.
@TruthSandwich yea that too... im actually working on a more complex solution of federated block lists.. but thats a long way out.
@TruthSandwich for sure, which is exactly why we leave it up to our users, because they have a right to decide that for themselves.. we can provide suggestions and I think the block list we suggest is fairly good (it only suggests blocks on truly ceasepools of instances :) )
@TruthSandwich thanks. yes silencing is an option too.
@TruthSandwich Not yet but we have discussed exactly that feature and it is in development.
@TruthSandwich They could.. but that would expose their private IP to the server, exclude them from safety tools we have in place for exactly this scenario (subscriptions), add barriers to our own users even the good-actors (for examples those monitoring bad-actors) and tons of other reasons I have discussed in the past.
We do not defederate because doing so exposes our LGBTQ and other at-risk members of our community to harm, and we have discussed this as an instance many times in the past exactly how and why. We have at least 2 historic cases on our server where our federation policy has explicitly saved lives... Our users are adults, and respectful, they can have the power to decide for themselves what they see so long as they dont abuse that privilate.
@alfredo_liberal@universeodon.com I'm pretty sure the CDC director position has the same curse on it that the post of professor of the dark arts had at Hogwarts :)
@TruthSandwich They are a right-wing agenda instance... that comes with all the stupidity of any politically aligned instance, including bigotry and shit posting. I have them blocked, and pretty sure they are on our recommended block list as well (the one in my pinned post).. so yea we generally suggest new users block them.
I wouldnt mind defederating but then if someone wanted to see something from that instance for any reason they wouldnt have a means to do so.
@TruthSandwich Their instance is named as a response to a question...:
Are you guys unbias? No! Agenda, Social!
@AmpBenzScientist Liberal arts maybe :)
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I was missing a bit Twitter Analytics, but I found another free tool to get #metrics on your #Mastodon account! It’s called #Mastotools and it’s pretty easy to use.
Fast and simple and working on Mac too 😉
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I'm deleting my #WashingtonPost app. My prepaid subscription was cancelled months ago--but I've still had access to the paper because of it. Today with the Post comparing Thomas' situation *favorably* to Abe Fortas, who resigned the second it was clear his friend was corrupt WITHOUT ACCEPTING ANY GIFTS, is the last straw. #Thomas was compromised when he cast the deciding vote in #Shelby and Citizens United, giving men like Crow unlimited power in government. Paying #Crow back isn't a solution.
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
