Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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@b0rk ... which explains the word "float" and (mostly) the even stranger term "double".
I'm told that, when storing amounts of money (e.g., in banking), you're supposed to use fixed-point numbers (integer numbers of pennies) to avoid surprising rounding errors.
@Pat The vax isn't "useless". Death rates are nearly eight times as high in unvaccinated people.
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Arboretum's beautiful cards make you think it will be a cozy, genteel way to pass the time, but it's actually a brutal knife fight the whole time. I am not normally prone to analysis paralysis, but it gets me in this one.
@peterdrake thought he had enough tulip poplars to block me scoring them, but it was a tie. The 8 points they gave me pushed me over in a 20 vs.15 win.
Was it impolite to the trees to have logs blazing in the fireplace nearby while we played?
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We pulled Ameritocracy off our Shelf of Shame and played it twice, once yesterday and once today. That's probably enough for me. It felt like a game that non-gamers buy for the theme. The run-of-the-mill play might be novel and fun for them, but less so for regular gamers.
It's not a fair comparison, because the scale is quite different, but Votes for Women also asks you to make decisions about how and when to play cards, only with better tension and agonizing.
@TheSpaceshipper ... and yet, inexplicably, still no LEGO ornithopter kit.
@Azure List comprehensions.
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Since a couple of people have suggested putting the comics on a website or printing collections of them -- those things actually exist already! :)
There's a searchable (by title) list here: https://wizardzines.com/comics
And you can buy print copies at https://wizardzines.com
@PhilippBayer @ct_bergstrom I think it's being used in some sections of our first-year quantitative seminar.
@PhilippBayer Hmm, it's at the edge. It's been a while since I read it, but I think it's more about critical thinking (specifically responding to data visualization and statistics) than about AI and machine learning.
Fun fact: one of the authors, @ct_bergstrom, is on Mastodon.
@linuxgal Boring, Oregon has sister city relationships with Dull, Ireland and Bland, Australia.
Here's the second best highway sign in Oregon:
@futurebird The second one, because the numbers are larger and more complicated. Might be different if that was $1000 for 12 years.
@linebyline @futurebird @Are0h @MandyMay Or vice versa! I know a lot about how software and algorithms work, but that doesn't mean I can guess how to use something with a terrible UI.
@futurebird @freemo, this is your wheelhouse.
In my AI & Machine Learning course, I have each student choose and read a book about the social context of AI. Here's the current list of options:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IfAQx8gbiDUQaQFDGcW0o353BKtizoR3N4Jp7zy1MkQ/edit?usp=sharing
I'd be interested in your suggestions, with the following constraints:
1) It has to be nonfiction.
2) It must be no more than ten years old.*
Thanks!
#ai #ml #MachineLearning #ethics #TechEthics #bias #privacy #justice #equality #AlignmentProblem
*Every time I open this to suggestions, someone comes out of the woodwork to suggest that students read some Really Important book that was written in 1974. That may very well be, but they should do it in a course in philosophy or the history of technology, not this one. The world has changed too much.
Raspoutine is the name of my Québécois Boney M. cover band.
@JoshuaACNewman I don't believe in the users.
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Undenisble sibling resemblance.
#DogsOfMastodon #dogs #dog #Mastodog #floof #doggo #pets #pet #CatsOfMastodon #cats #MastoCats #catstodon #CatContent #WednesdayMood
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- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
