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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 16h

Actual hail swaths per MRMS MESH >= .75", colored by measured hail size. I'm not sure when the world will be ready for this kind of data but it sure is sweet

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 6h

If this enrages you…join us on Friday 10/17 @3pm at HHS HQ to yell about it.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 10h

The CDC's union estimates that a quarter of the agency been gutted under the Trump administration. Here's our story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 11h

I refuse to use any generative AI shite and cannot stand the idea of the likes of Alexa, Google Home, or even a ring doorbell.

In more positive ludditisms, I recently bought a whetstone to learn to properly sharpen my own knives and axes #apocalypseskills

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 18h

i have never, not once, listened to a song on spotify unless it was playing at somebody else's place

what are you a luddite about

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 7h

The same landscape, many mapping options. Just a small selection of our options for your dedicated map:

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 15h

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Kristen Hauntley CarDEATHzo @khandozo.bsky.social · 7h

omg, I found this recipe that showed a chicken with really crispy skin but the recipe called for it to be doused in broth while it was cooking and I was like "that won't work??" and then I saw this

Image of a generated fake white woman with a winning tradwife smile wearing puff sleeves and an apron. Text below reads "Lina is a virtual chef with a mission: to make cooking accessible, enjoyable, and time-efficient. Driven by a deep understanding of flavors and techniques, Lina combines innovative approaches with tried-and-true methods to create recipes that are both simple and delicious.Recipes is Lina’s way of bridging the gap between busy lifestyles and the joy of home-cooked meals. Here, you’ll find Lina’s unique take on classic dishes, quick twists on international cuisines, and creative hacks that make cooking a breeze.

Learn more"

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 12h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 7h

Feels like a stain that you can’t wash off. Nasty.

We should be able to differentiate between statistical models and LLMs.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 7h

Grrr at having to add shit about AI to teaching statements now...

Double Grrr at not being able to be relentless negative about it.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 12h

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The Naming of Stats
June 19, 2023 • Obiter Dicta • R
The Naming of Stats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a stat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all are the names where usage is informal, Such as Median, Estimate, Average, or Range, Such as Variance, Quartile, or else Standard Normal All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names that may be better-tasting, Some for the frequentists, some for the Bayes:
Such as Skew, or Kurtosis, Metropolis-Hastings-But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a stat needs a name that's obscurer, A name that's misleading, and hard to construe,
Else how can it keep on confusing the reader, Or frustrate professors, or pass peer review?
Of names of this kind, there are many examples, Like Hierarchical, Robust, or Omega-hat,
Such as Marginal, Confidence, or just Weighted Sample, Names that always belong to more than one stat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess;
The thing that no human research can discover-
But THE STAT MIGHT JUST KNOW, and be made to confess.
When you notice a stat getting quite widely cited, The reason, you see, is whatever its flaws, Its user's engaged, or enraged, or excited
At the prospect of pinning the root of all laws:
That inviolable, friable
Unidentifiable
Deep and inscrutable singular Cause.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 9h

Being a woman on the internet, exhibit 739628949:

TLDR: “Consider letting someone more adult be the voice of your movement, you sound like a ditsy socialist liberal”

A man telling me to consider having someone else as the voice of my movement.

A man telling me my voice sounds like a ditsy socialist liberal (“and I honestly don’t mean to insult you”) and I should let someone who is a real adult step in.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 10h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 14h

Congress critters and their enablers seem giddy about the prospect of a protracted shutdown. We won’t forget.

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 16h

Day 14 of President’s shutdown. Literally millions of people aren’t getting paid, won’t get paid. It’s barely in the news. What is happening?

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 14h

The casual ableism is so gross.

There is not a single person on this planet without "mental health" problems. Like all disabilities, it's just a part of human existence. Sometimes we have more or less.

To restrict interactions based on a perceived mental health "issue" is gonna go bad quickly.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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Dr. Nicole Gasparini (she) @nicolegasparini.bsky.social · 16h

Hearing someone say that families with autistic members deserve support literally makes me cry.

That’s how bad it has gotten for some of us

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 18h

We all live under the same sky.
We all belong to the same Earth.

We built the borders
and forgot
that we still live under the same sky,
that we still belong to the same Earth.

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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 18h

I think about this a lot. Is it time to fork https and the web browser paradigm? As far as I can tell, everyone hates using browsers and the internet of shit.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

A new search engine is actually needed that works and combs out ai nonsense by default

　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 1d

love how much of the stuff on the internet is essentially jsut. gone forever. unsearchable means unfindable means, in essence, gone

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coolbutuseless @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#rstats Dev Diary - Glitched 3D rendering of a signed distance field

This should be a stack of spheres. But it isn't. And I love it!!!!

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

Why do all these monsters look like they're wearing homemade "uniforms" like literally anybody could cosplay this shitty. Maybe Americans should all dress up like this en masse and fuck with them. Not a serious suggestion but like this is so weird they are a hair's breadth away from jeggings

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19h

Interviewing Senators/Representatives about the shutdown has zero information utility

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rubot @rubot.ie · 1d

the world's most evil people all in a room congratulating how evil they are.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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