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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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"The payload computer aboard the Hubble Space Telescope ... has stopped working"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/world/hubble-space-telescope-problem-nasa-scn/index.html
Honestly, I cant express how nice it is having a 500W equivalent LED light bulb as a desk lamp. It feels like I have the sun in my office now.
Do people not realize the huge amount of natural resources it would take for just one person to go on this "vacation".. Considering global warming and all the concerns around fossil fuel consumption in general maybe not introducing a form of vacation that requires a rocket full of fuel is the way to go...
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Victory! A federal appellate court ruled that Baltimore's warrantless aerial surveillance program, which monitored the daytime movements of nearly all Baltimore residents, violates the Fourth Amendment. https://www.eff.org/document/fourth-circuit-ruling-leaders-beautiful-struggle-v-baltimore-police-department
apparently a collegue of mine and co-developer on the aparapi project is submiting a paper to a journal this month and is citing me as a co-author. Thing is, I mostly am just a atop-dev on aparapi (project "owner" and developer) and didnt do much for the paper itself. But since the paper is about aparapi and we have worked together on every problem that has come up I guess he felt I deserved it.
Either way, always excited to get my name in another journal article! Doubly so when its about an open-source project I've worked hard on.
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Columbus didn't think the earth was round, he thought it was pear shaped like a titty with a nipple and all...
> I found it (the world) was not round . . . but pear shaped, round where it has a nipple, for there it is taller, or as if one had a round ball and, on one side, it should be like a woman’s breast, and this nipple part is the highest and closest to Heaven.
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> –Christopher Columbus, Log of his third voyage (1498)
Bear in mind by this point the dude had been at sea for sometime, so I'd imagine he was seeing tity shaped things everywhere he looked.
Body shots are fucking disgusting, there I said it. I'f im going to risk getting a yeast infection around my mouth I better at least be getting laid for the effort...
Yea no thanks, pour it in a shot glass for me.
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@freemo @khird This all sounds like a contextual “web of trust” scheme, there’s quite a bit of prior art in web of trust, not sure about contextualizing it like this, but it seems like a minor enhancement (one separate web of trust per context, rules for cross-context trust would be the only complicated part).
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@freemo I think you're right in that it should be a trust network, but not in that it should be an automated system applying rules to determine who's trusted.
I see it working something like your browser's certificate store - you add "editor certificates" to your profile on the qoto-journal webapp in the same way you add "root certificates" to your browser. Each editor forwards submissions to his pool of reviewers and signs the articles they recommend for publication. If an article is accompanied by the signature of an editor you trust, the article shows up in your view of the journal. If an editor includes malicious or incompetent reviewers in his pool, and consequently becomes known for publishing bad papers, people will stop trusting his certificate.
I think an automated system would be prone to people gaming the rules, and the reader wouldn't have the fallback of just revoking an editor's certificate in case things got out of hand. For instance, if I were to try and exploit the rules in your example:
- I might review papers totally outside my competence, because although my experience in fluid dynamics is totally irrelevant to, say, political science, the rules award my review of one equal credit to the other
- I might find another author and set up a tit-for-tat scheme to give each other five free points every iteration, no matter the quality of our papers
What worries me is that if the system initially develops a reputation for being easy to game and accepting of low-quality content, it will be very hard to shed that reputation later on, even if improvements are made. So it needs to be done right the first time.
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The Right to Repair Fight Comes to Congress
https://www.ifixit.com/News/50808/the-right-to-repair-fight-comes-to-congress
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The state thinks people are apathetic dumb sheep. They are right...
I have been thinking about writing a webapp that would enable QOTO to become the first "open, distributed, scientific journal".. I am still thinking about how I am going to go about it but the idea would be a scientific journal that anyone, regardless of credentials or pre-approval, can submit articles and peer-review and ultimately the acceptance or rejection of an article will happen without a centralized authority.
In all liklihood acceptance will be "fuzzy" in that it will be up to the reader to decide if the groups which approved of the article through peer review have sufficient credentials that you trust them. So the key will be in designing a way to make that work.
Ideas are welcome of course.
Just some info for aspiring scientists.. If you have papers you've written of a scientific nature but are either not suited for a scientific journal or you simply dont want to go through the rigour, you can still get a DOI for your publication and associate it with your ORCID. which is good if your trying to build up your reputation and improve the catalog associated with your ORCID.
Check out https://zenodo.org/, anyone can get an account in a few minutes and then your all set to upload your documents which will immediately be assigned a DOI. Though of course the submissions are reviewed and if they arent of a scientific nature may be taken down.
I just tried it out by uploaded an old paper I wrote that was basically a one page how-to on doing rotations in an arbitrary number of dimensions. You can check it out here at my shiny new DOI:
Part of me wants to reconstruct all of math up to calculus from scratch and document it all and then create a knowledge map so someone can see how any advanced idea is derrived from the most elementary ideas.
Partly I want to do this for myself just because I have a hard time remembering some derrivations, particularly in calculus where you have to go back to limits to show it.
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- 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
