Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

RT @qikipedia
In 1842, Joseph Geefs made a sculpture of Lucifer (left) for St. Paul’s Cathedral in Liège. It was removed because it was ‘too sublime’ and people thought it would distract girls from the sermons. It was replaced by the sculpture on the right. (📷: Georges Jansoone / Luc Viatour)

Pitch: a furry samurai game called Bright Eyed & Bushido.

RT @Abebab
imagine if the AI researchers throwing "state-of-art" tools to detect, analyses, and "solve" crime worked on white collar crime https://twitter.com/Abebab/status/1333497599928782848

RT @canadianprguy
I have worked in PR for many years: Have written many media releases. Have issued many media releases.

This is one of the best media releases ever.

RT @tsukkiskys
i’m pleased to introduce y’all to my newest obsession
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accidental renaissance photos: a thread

RT @eplerjc
Remember everyone, legally, you don't have to count 2020 towards your age.

RT @MattNegrin
Just curious — are any reporters or news anchors planning to do stories on a “decline in civility” because top Republicans are calling for and celebrating executions of public officials, or do those stories only apply when Sarah Sanders is asked to leave a restaurant?

High school English does for miserable literary fiction what the Senate does for racism.
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RT @kellybarnhill
It's funny how panicked some people get at the thought of changing up the reading lists for high schoolers. As if the so-called "classics" will somehow disappear if they are no longer assigned by long-suffering English teachers and followed by torturous five paragraph essays.
https://twitter.com/kellybarnhill/status/1333621223323033613

Story pitch:

Kyle MacDonald vs a paperclip maximizing AI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip

Miss the @lewisandclark Department of Mathematical Sciences? Zoom into our colloquium to see some impressive student presentations that will almost certainly include Greek letters! https://college.lclark.edu/live/events/324908-math-colloquium

Congratulations to my colleague Iva Stavrov on her new book which "introduces advanced undergraduates to Riemannian geometry and mathematical general relativity"! https://bookstore.ams.org/stml-93

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RT @shouldhaveaduck
Backyard pool party

On a related note, AlphaGo did not "solve" Go -- and no system ever will. (Checkers is solved, but Chess and Go are simply too large.)
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RT @pfau
And I generally dislike claims that a field is "solved". Vision is far from "solved" despite great results on ImageNet. Similarly, protein folding is not yet "solved", and probably never will be - but it is now "solved enough" that really exciting things become possible.
https://twitter.com/pfau/status/1333469467846844417

RT @BrothersMurph
This may have been a mistake

RT @qikipedia
The London-based Design Museum has nominated a kit that allows you to grow your own steaks from your own cells as a "design of the year".

The designers have clarified that "technically" this is not cannibalism.

Perhaps this is the karmic payoff for enduring the Twilight movies?
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RT @mpshanahan
Historic progress on the protein folding problem by @DeepMind. A fantastic achievement that shows the potential of #AI techniques for contributing to fundamental science https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology
https://twitter.com/mpshanahan/status/1333436745854152712

Health experts: You'll need to stay two meters apart.
Wedge: That's impossible!
Luke: Well.

RT @5tevieM
when you need to confirm you're not a robot

Thoughts on Happiest Season:

1. Mackenzie Davis gives off something of a Jennifer Garner vibe, what with the hair and the having-her-father-played-by-Victor-Garber.

2. Dan Levy gets the best lines.

3. How much absolutely needless suffering comes from religious conservatism?