Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
This wasn’t a million years ago. /1

Are there any studies about the statistics of cross validation search based hyperparameter tuning in #MachineLearning? ML folks seem very comfortable trying many different models on the same dataset and picking the one with the best metrics, but statisticians avoid this because it yields overfit models and biased estimates. So, I'm wondering if this is really a good practice in ML or if it systematically yields models that underperform on new data.

"We don't sell your #data " Of course big tech companies don't sell your data. That's like selling raw iron. It's not much use to many people. What they do sell are inferences from your data. Such as your age, gender, geographical location, interests etc.

#privacy #bigdata #surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #dataprivacy

One of my favourite display cases in the new #Insectarium of #Montréal . The #beetles are so beautiful!
It took countless hours by the #entomology technicians to pin the specimens and to create this masterpiece. The other display cases are just as impressive :)
#biodiversity
(I work with a fantastic team)

New preprint from Sirajuddin lab shows that FAP20 binds microtubules and asks for a side order of tubulin! https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.25.517946 #cellBiology #cryoEM

The accelerated and convergent evolution of the Omicron family of variants
https://virological.org/t/sars-cov-2-evolution-post-omicron/911#post_1

THERAPIST: How did you feel when you first realized you had a Gloria Gaynor obsession?

ME: First I was afraid. I was petrified.

Hello #fediverse! I am in the process of #TwitterEscape and grateful for colleagues to introduce me to #Mastodon! I am a digital & social #geographer based at University of #Innsbruck, Austria, research group leader of @transient_spacessocieties & will be tooting mostly on #digitalgeographies #inclusion #young people #mobilities & #migration in and through #cities in #Europe and #Southeast Asia.

Looking forward to engaging with Mastodon and the communities!

#introduction #newhere #geography

The way I swoon over #Jupiter 😍

#space #nasa

#xp it is out! (10 years after the Smurf phenotype) https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.22.517330
Thanks to the Smurf-based two-phase ageing model, we show - in D. melanogaster - that the so-called transcriptional signature of ageing is mostly carried by the Smurf phase, the last phase of life, while the non-Smurf phase is associated with an increasing transcriptional noise.
We demonstrate here the importance of including the two-phase model in ageing studies.
Enjoy the read, feedbacks welcome!

#Meningitis
61 casos de meningitis
10 personas fallecidas
0 personas detenidas
#Durango 🇲🇽
Las primeras hipótesis indican posible contaminación de anestésico Bupivacaína
https://www.animalpolitico.com/2022/11/casos-muertes-meningitis-durango-traramiento/

#EarthquakeReport #EarthquakeToot for M6.1 #Deprem #Earthquake in northern #Turkey

probably a right-lateral strike-slip earthquake along the North Anatolia fault system

strong shaking in the Düzce region, close to the 1999 M7.2 temblor

read more in the report here
https://earthjay.com/?p=10569

Enorme la crisis sanitaria que enfrenta México ante la #InfluenzaAviar #AH5N1 que ya se extiende por 10 estados del país.

Ante la irresponsabilidad del gobierno federal, Francisco Javier Trujillo renuncia al #SENASICA después de 25 años de impecable trayectoria.

Lamentable.

#nowlistening #ClassicalMusic #music #AmericanComposers

Edward #MacDowell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_MacDowell

*Piano Sonatas 1 and 2, Woodland Sketches*
https://open.spotify.com/album/3wJXPmayHmIdc9dLW8uBsn?si=yVq2s2UwSqW5p0uqLSX86A

#EdwardMacDowell

Some thoughts on the genesis of our recent paper on why biology uses both sulfate and phosphate in different yet overlapping functions https://ferniglab.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/sulfate-or-phosphate/

Today I'm thankful to Elon Musk for maliciously destroying the centralized public square that is Twitter, giving everyone a shining example why we should cap personal wealth to prevent abusive billionaires from undermining the public good, and an impetus to move to decentralized social media services like Mastodon (or whatever better thing comes along next).