Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Yet again why sampling matters in determining what questions we answer for which group of people and not just "do we have a minimum N for the model to run" you are baking in much of what you can even learn in your initial decisions about WHO you collect data from, this is a critical part of research. Diverse & representative samples are not a nice thing to do or a "oh wow we're great look at us" thing to do they literally let us study the reality of the world

https://weatherishappening.network/@wordshaper/111850767039149750

And people are like "excuse me this is a very robust amount to be able to predict" and you're like "that's not it, the problem is that we're looking for gold" and people are like "nonsense, my garbage is extremely revelatory about my data (also garbage), and we're all trying to predict how to get more gold and that's what I've done" and you're like "but what if it doesn't matter because gold is nothing like garbage!" And people are like "Cat absolutely nobody wants to hear about methods"

Oliver Sacks’s “Musicophilia” is a glorious and disturbing cavalcade of case studies, endless permutations in the way music interacts with the mind. Maybe the most moving is an amnesiac, stranded in an endless present of a few seconds, expanding his temporal horizons with music.

I wrote down this idea and then I literally spent two hours helping a grad student who is trying to make a case for the importance of psychological affordances in how we design safer car interfaces because his advisor can't be bothered to know the research about people...I AM THE HOTLINE how did this happen

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/111846688586021236

I just don't even know what else needs to be said about a bunch of people who are presumably pretty good at what they do -- the glibc maintainers -- still managing to introduce a *new* buffer overflow bug (new circa 2022) into one of the most important codebases anywhere, which in turn leads to multiple CVEs.

Like, if you're still writing C of any kind in the 21st century, you have to ask yourself "am I better at manual memory safety than the glibc team?" And if the answer is no, then you're probably also writing these kinds of bugs.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/BleepingComputer/statuses/111847408179020212

I'm finally reading the DevEx in Action queue piece and HOW are these ITEMS "cognitive load"

They link to sources that have not defined these items as survey items either

Like these seem like items that provide a signal of something but I am really not seeing why these belong to a single construct. Constructs aren't just decisions we get to make about what we want to group

These could proxy a generalized "friction" construct I guess? There already are friction at work scales out there

A Delaware judge rules in favor of Tesla shareholders who sued to block the pay package that helped make Elon Musk, the carmaker’s chief executive, a billionaire many times over and the world’s wealthiest human being. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/business/elon-musk-tesla-pay-package.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Here I don't talk much about my students and the work at the university; much of it is not secret but the students deserve to learn and grow outside a lot of very public scrutiny.
But to give you an idea: over this two-week period, I will listen to about ninety student presentations:

“This is the #AI Grey Goo scenario: an internet choked with low-quality content, which never improves, where it's almost impossible to locate public reliable sources for information because the tools we have been able to rely on in the past – Google, social media – can never keep up with the scale of new content being created. Where the volume of content created overwhelms human or algorithmic abilities to sift through it quickly & find high-quality stuff.”

https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/01/24/the-information-grey-goo/

#PKMastery

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/best-2

#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics

I have ✨ a new preprint ✨ to share!!

This is a scientific review paper which seeks to provide a map, an entry point, and a call to action for improving the lives of the people who create software:

"Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail"

You can download it free and open access here:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43x

Ars reader reports ChatGPT is sending him conversations from unrelated AI users

Names of unpublished research papers, presentations, and PHP scripts also leaked.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-chatgpt-is-sending-him-conversations-from-unrelated-ai-users/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

So this is how you get them to care about CO₂.

Study of codebases over a 4 year period show Github Copilot lowers the quality of code over time by increasing the likelihood of bugs being introduced and copy & pasted code.

This is a healthy counterpoint to studies that show improved productivity.

Fast. Cheap. Good. Pick Two.

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

Seeing the colossal dome of ESO's Extremely Large #Telescope moving for the first time is mind-blowing! 🤯

In this first test engineers used special hydraulic devices to rotate the dome 10 m back and forth at 1 cm/s. Once it's operational it'll move at about 5 km/h with motorised bogies.

Quite impressive, as the skeleton currently weighs ~2500 tons and it'll weigh ~6100 tons when finished!

📹 ESO/Cimolai/E. Tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tvYABBMo0

#astrodon #astronomy #space #engineering #technology

Daily Telescope: Seeing interstellar dust by the light of our galaxy’s stars

"I think of the civilizations in those galaxies looking back at the Milky Way."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/daily-telescope-seeing-interstellar-dust-by-the-light-of-our-galaxys-stars/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This should be the default in #git

[branch]
sort = -committerdate

Adding it to your git config will make the command `git branch` sort by last used branches instead of alphabetical. No more trying to remember what I called that last branch!

#programming #tips

SLIM'S ALIVE!! The team reestablished communication with the spacecraft after the Sun inched round in the sky and hit the solar panels. Wild science'ing instantly began!

I don't think #SLIM has a long lunar surface program. It is primarily a technology demonstration to test the image matching navigation (100% success) and 2-step landing (busted due to the loss of one of the two main engines). So I think the multi-band camera will snap hundreds of images while the Sun is up, and then be done.

#introduction

Hello, I'm Raymond :)

I started as a spy from a physics PhD program, but ended developing real feelings for neuroscience 😔. Would love to learn about the intersections between biophysics and neuroscience!

Outside of work, skiing is my favorite thing to do. I've also been playing tennis and guitar since 13 but am somehow still terrible at both still.

I also love melatonin 💊.

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