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Armin Ronacher

The state of maturin/pyo3 is absolutely brilliant. The fact that writing Rust bindings for Python is so easy now really makes me much more optimistic about the utility of Python going forward. The experimental MiniJinja Python bindings are tiny and use zero unsafe code. github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja

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After , a new scandal for one of the most important scientific journals:

"The Lancet has become a laughing stock"

wherearethenumbers.substack.co

By Prof. Norman Fenton and Prof. Martin Neil

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

The artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT can write fake abstracts that scientists have trouble distinguishing from those written by humans. Increasing sophistication of chatbots could undermine research integrity and accuracy, researchers fear.

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

#chatbots #ChatGPT #research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

via @Nature

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Anarchist Quotes

The concept of the "majority" is particularly troubling. By always accepting the will of the majority, democracy allows for majorities to have an absolute tyranny over everyone else.
-- Moxie Marlinspike

#anarchism #quote #bot

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MathTechCoach

I believe teachers don't explore reflections in circles because they don't understand the geometry behind it, which is based upon an altitude to the hypotenuse in a right triangle, tangents to circles, geometric means OB*OC=Radius^2. Simple and beautiful
geogebra.org/m/pymwrvyj

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Terence Tao

Over the last few years, I have served on a committee of the National Academy of Sciences to produce some posters and other related media to showcase twenty-first century mathematics and its applications in the real world, suitable for display in classrooms or math departments. Our posters (together with some associated commentary, and some webinars on related topics) are now available for download at nap.nationalacademies.org/reso .

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Study: Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior

From the abstract:
[...] Finally, we find no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.

⚠ "NO evidence".

nature.com/articles/s41467-022

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This post is intended to document a social problem i.e. the delegitimization of other people's ideas and refusal to argue.

🟢 I replied to a controvertial opinion with my own opposite controvertial opinion and provided a scientific publication to support it and for further insights.
🟡 No reply but legitimately unfollows me.
🔴 A third person replies that my post was "stupid" and immediately blocks me.

qoto.org/@post/109687129186805

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Garrett LeSage

@cassidy I think it'd be nice to have e2e messages in Mastodon, just because I have people here I don't want to give my phone number out to just to have a truly private chat in Signal.

This points to at least two problems with Signal:

1. Signal is wrong to use phone numbers (even still).
2. It should be easier to hop over to e2e chats with people regardless of the tool. (Like one time links to hop on to an e2e chat.)

Having e2e in Mastodon would alleviate it a bit.

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Mallory

Just found out ChatGPT is three Wikipedias in a trench coat.

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Let's add to the list "reporting users on Mastodon for misinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories" @freemo

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Study: "Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics"

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The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental health authorities, some supporters of this orthodoxy have moved to censor those who promote dissenting views. The aim of the present study is to explore the experiences and responses of highly accomplished doctors and research scientists from different countries who have been targets of suppression and/or censorship following their publications and statements in relation to COVID-19 that challenge official views. Our findings point to the central role played by media organizations, and especially by information technology companies, in attempting to stifle debate over COVID-19 policy and measures. In the effort to silence alternative voices, widespread use was made not only of censorship, but of tactics of suppression that damaged the reputations and careers of dissenting doctors and scientists, regardless of their academic or medical status and regardless of their stature prior to expressing a contrary position. In place of open and fair discussion, censorship and suppression of scientific dissent has deleterious and far-reaching implications for medicine, science, and public health.

link.springer.com/article/10.1

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Why keeps changing its data? Here there is a link to my post from 4 days ago and it's not the first time they change the whole 2022 records:

qoto.org/@post/109655852322001

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US Politics 

From: twitter.com/Snowden/status/161

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Tobias Bernard

I was playing with image dithering both as an aestetic and a way to make images smaller recently, inspired by solar.lowtechmagazine.com and others.

I made these four as title images for the collapse blog post series using the following Imagemagick script:

convert image.jpg -resize 840x840 -strip -colors 4 -ordered-dither o8x8 image-dithered.png

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Ami Angelwings

If enough people learn how to do something, it protects those that don't know how to, this is known as nerd immunity

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Aral Balkan

#Medium, the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter now has a fediverse server.

Now might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the people who bequeathed you Twitter.

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Quanta Magazine

Will Sawin and Melanie Matchett Wood set out to redefine quantities thought to be universal throughout mathematics. In the process, they uncovered a way to apply one of probability theory’s most powerful tools in a handful of other areas. Leila Sloman reports: quantamagazine.org/in-a-moment

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Andrew Tropin

Thanks to @daviwil's stream I finally allocated time to start migration to more complete REPL-driven workflow for #guix and #rde development.

youtu.be/KNXOZtbfslY

It still requires a lot of work to make it really pleasant, but I already build store items for different parts of rde from repl rather than makefiles, which is a way more faster (in terms of build time) the required amount of code is not that small yet.

guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/h

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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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Hey. So I originally got the attention of this thread as a moderator. After reviewing I can say that I dont think this quite crosses the line into something I would take any action on as a moderator. We have in the past moderated against blatant COVID misinformation, but it isnt based simply on what I personally deem incorrect, as there is a lot of room for discussion. The language is certainly hyperbolic and I wouldnt agree with the idea that masks are "incredibly harmful". Nor would I agree with the conclusion that they do nothing. That said he is arguing his case politely, and doing his best to provide evidence (even if he may be wrong or providing insufficient evidence). He also isnt crossing the line into implausable conspiracy theory nonsense.

Truth be told the issue of CO2 and effectiveness against COVID are open issues. It is true we do not have really good evidence to concretely conclude how effective it is against covid, though I think the evidence is clear enough that it does have **some** benefit. But it is a hard thing to test and show concretely and as such it is an open question for scientific consideration. It is also true that CO2 levels when wearing masks exceeds the healthy recommended **long-term** exposure levels. This is a weak argument when we talk about short-term mask usage, but the point is this is well within the bounds for an open conversation on these points.

Furthermore there are some legitimate concerns with masks for children. The issue of the effect of masks on deaf children who rely on lip reading for example is significant.

So for the record I want to make clear I do strongly disagree with his language and conclusions here regarding masks, but it is well within the realm of things that are open to healthy, mature, respectful discussion on and has not crossed over into conspiracy theory land yet, lets keep it that way, thanks.

@augieray @ariaflame @Aquila_Audax @familydoctor

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