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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Aug 7

I have one of these on backorder

Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Jul 23

Partly that. But I think most engagement is driven by normal people hoping that every action will lead to a better business/work opportunity (not their fault at all). The end result is an incredibly shallow and hollow social feed. Gives me the creeps.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Jul 23

Why is linkedin just so very very bad.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Jul 16

Holy crap this belongs in a museum.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 16

My god these guys are such spectacular morons

gizmodo.com/billionaires...

Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · Jul 15

Always good to remember.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Jul 14

There's a couple of mute lists around that can help. I haven't had an issue since.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Jul 7

Found a scammer on FB creating ads, linking to a site that impersonates a local tabloid. Quite an elaborate scam, I guess LLM's make this easy. www.facebook.com/ads/library/...

Ad Library

www.facebook.com

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Jun 16

New unit of measurement just dropped.

A power bank's weight is being compared to the weight of 1 bottle of mountain dew.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · May 5

Seen this comparison several times in different forms. Comparing a specific grant which is an increase on TOP of total EU science funding, to US total funding. Sure the EU could be investing more but let's compare apples to apples. Also, is the EU expected to just instantly double it's budget? How?

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · May 5

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget.

When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · May 5

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.

As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.

We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · Apr 3

Vector Sets are finally part of Redis! The full story here in my blog: antirez.com/news/149

Vector Sets are part of Redis - <antirez>

antirez.com

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Mar 22

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself" - Bob Dylan

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Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · Mar 19

#timeseries #clustering #fails arxiv.org/abs/2503.14393 a great paper

On the clustering behavior of sliding windows

Things can go spectacularly wrong when clustering timeseries data that has been preprocessed with a sliding window. We highlight three surprising failures that emerge depending on how the window size ...

arxiv.org

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Mar 14

Forget the 60k rows part. His "hard drive overheated" ?!

Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · Mar 14

there's a certain kind of grifter whose whole bit is stringing together 500-word versions of "hacking the mainframe... I'm in". people who pay for twitter like to then fawn over how brilliant these people are. mostly harmless, except when they have the ear of someone dismantling our government

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Mar 14

It's a perfect encapsulation of where the right is at intellectually these days that Elon's favorite data person is like 'I'm sorry, I tried to process 60k rows of data and my computer exploded'

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Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Mar 5

Why does almost every electric car look like a tesla inside. Give me a normal car with knobs and cranks instead of a flats creen.

KJL @kerryjeanlister.bsky.social · Mar 5

Another car that looks like a balloon animal.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Mar 5

Volkswagen’s cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Mar 5

Now they're policing the speech of foreign universities. The party of free speech my ass. yle.fi/a/74-20147027

Petition calls on Finnish universities to oppose US attempts to censor use of terms such as equality, climate change

The chancellor of the University of Helsinki told a newspaper last month that US authorities had pressured the university to remove certain terms from its press release about Fulbright scholarships.

yle.fi

Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Feb 21

It's tempting to short Tesla given the current situation, but remember that it's a meme stock fueled by greed. Laws of logic don't apply here.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Feb 21

Tesla stock price since Inauguration Day. Absolutely incredible Elon is awarding himself government contracts and investors are still 😵‍💫

A graph showing Tesla stock has dropped 20% in the last 30 days.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Feb 16

They'll keep asking this question as doge pulls the copper piping from their walls.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Feb 15

The article should clarify that he left the Bluesky board in 2024

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Feb 14

From now on I'm going to start calling all server rooms "AI brain rooms".

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Feb 11

1. If he's referring to the Bantu people, he's off by a factor of 20.
2. Even if it were true, what the hell is the point he's trying to make here.

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Feb 10

I just mistyped hyperlink as hyperkink🤔

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Ravyn @pgov.bsky.social · Feb 9

My guess is that with each "disaster" their core following will slowly shrink as their faith is shaken by being personally affected. Hopefully it shrinks enough to tip the scales before it gets too bad.

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