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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
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𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 
'Windows Subsystem for Linux 2' Will Include a Microsoft-Written Linux Kernel"
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I had a dream I went back in time and saw the founding of EFF.org
People need to realize two things:
1) There is a lot of legitimate racism being provoked by the coronavirus and we should not tolerate that.
2) Identifying china as the source of the virus or criticizing their choices that led about this tragedy is not racism.
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covid-19, gratitude
Heartfelt appreciation from me, an immunocompromised person, to everyone out here on the fediverse doing what they can to manage the spread of coronavirus. So many little hardships & efforts can seem pointless–we never know which gestures might not end up mattering at all, & which will have a huge unseen impact. But at the very least every contribution is a sign of human solidarity & care in the face of frustration & fear that can hopefully spread to others. So thank you all💝
The biggest risk in the coronavirus epidemic in my non-expert opinion is going to be assortment. IF this happens with any of the strains already adapted to infect humans we might really be in trouble...
We already know that Coronaviruses int he wild are capable of recombination...
A good read and somewhat related:
Wong MC, Cregeen SJ, Ajami NJ, Petrosino JF (February 2020). "Evidence of recombination in coronaviruses implicating pangolin origins of nCoV-2019". bioRxiv (preprint). doi:10.1101/2020.02.07.939207.
I'm not particularly scared of the Coronavirus.. yes a lot of people will die and it will be a tragedy and I wish it could be avoided, but its not the end of the world, most of us will make it through.
What scares me though is if this thing starts recombinating with the other coronavirus strains, plus there may already be two strains of the one causing the epidemic too.
If this thing start recombinating the problem is never going to go away and vaccines may never be possible. That is a scary though.
Is #RimWorld any good?
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This meme has been circling around for at least 3 years now, it gets more true everyday...
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While we're all focused on the Corona crisis the US government is quietly pushing an internet #surveillance bill that is aimed at abolishing message encryption:
We should probably pay attention to this and spread awareness even if we are not American: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online
Some really nice eye candy showing various quarantining and social distancing techniques and how it effects the spread of a virus.
Worth checking this out even if its just for the animations:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/
Its so good to know so many of the projects I founded or am project owner on (open-source projects specifically) are used by so many people. Its easy to forget but everytime I release a new version the emails start flying in from people thanking me or asking questions. It really keeps me going.
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@freemo I remember that example from the following:
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias
I wish this blog kept posting more like this!
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>timeline barren
>go to @freemo 's Following page
>go Follow a bunch of the sciency/scholarly/linuxy kind
Let's see if THIS makes it worth checking my timeline more than once every 2-3 days! 
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@freemo I don't know what this means but it sounds easier than memorizing everything from here:
https://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/fallacies/fallacies_alpha.htm
People never seem to realize that a great many of the logical fallacies they engage in every day could be avoiding if they just understood Regression to the Mean!
99% of the coronavirus is just me being pissed off companies are using it as an excuse to SPAM me.
Well my sister was just diagnosed with Coronavirus :(
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Today I learned that many/most color laser printers layer an array of yellow microdots on top of documents 🔬
This Machine Identification Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code encodes a print date and a serial number unique to the machine. It only became public knowledge in 2004, ~20 year after deployment 😑
The Technical University of Dresden released a tool 2 years ago to layer on _even more dots_ to render the MIC unreadable and aid whistleblowers publishing https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda ✊
- 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
