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Being on a computer makes it way easier
What's My JND? 0.0024
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
I'm good with dark colors and terrible with bright ones
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This is mostly due to how people split data between training and test, which allows information to leak within sites. You can prevent that by stratifying by site, but then performance craters. 3/
Key observation: If you compare prediction performance to a naive model that simply predicts the mean (known) fitness value at each site, pLMs barely win out, and on viral data they do worse! In other words, taking the mean value at each site does better than using the 650 million parameter pLM. 2/
I block new followers if they have no bio, no pic, or no posts. It's not personal, it's just that there's no "remove follower" function and a good hygiene in your followers list goes a long way in decreasing antagonistic/grating interactions (reply guys etc)
It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.
Wow! Already the season! I'll keep my eyes open!
Hey everyone, we’re looking for someone who can help with user support for @eurosky.social.
It’s probably an hour or so a day once we get through the backlog. Most issues fall into a set of 4-5 known ones with solutions but there are some edge cases and a frankly baffling issue with PLC codes.
A graph showing diminishing waves of infection until 2025
This is the data for Japan, apparently (a blogger traced it from this website: www.stopcovid19.jp)
This data is from reporting at hospitals, not wastewater monitoring, so take with a grain of salt.
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A graph showing the number of daily infections over time
Covid infections are more numerous in the US in the "after covid" era, because in reality the pandemic never ended. Masking is not hard, do it.
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This is cool. 🧪🔭
The bull ants know a heck of a lot more about the appearances of the moon (how fast it moves, etc) than many humans.
LLMs seem to have a corrupting influence so great mixed with capitalism that the second you touch one you can't help but jump directly to cartoon villain crap
Do they require ID verification? If not, it's a good opportunity to impersonate every single person on there, since grammarly thinks impersonation is so great
“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”
#ALife
Following a single cell within a cluster - as it transition from high adhesion and migratory to down-regulating adhesion and dividing - thus forming a propagule. The cell then divides and the two offspring adhere to each other and migrate as a small offspring cluster.
Mechanistically, propagule formation is driven by a regulatory switch: cells stick strongly while migrating, but once fed they reduce adhesion and switch into division. Dividing cells then peel off as propagules (follow the white border cell).
Curious about the origin of development during the transition to multicellularity?
A very belated preprint alert: bit.ly/4rr2mHU
Reproduction emerges from ecological interactions at the onset of multicellularity.
A short 🧵 with lots of videos...
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
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We are organising the 4th edition of our special session on CA, distributed dynamical systems, and their applications to intelligence. Submit your works and join us at ALIFE 2026 in Waterloo (Canada).
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a chart showing that. There's almost no impact on productivity for firms, the vast majority showing either no impact or a very, very small impact, less than 5%,
The impact of "AI" on productivity over for large firms over the past 3 years (US, UK, DE, Aus) according to NBERS
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And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
BREAKING: For the first time in 35 years the Ig Nobel ceremony will move to Europe. "There are no immediate plans to return the ceremony to the US."
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Food for thought for conference steering committees.
At 2pm Paris time today I'll be testifying in the French Parliament about digital sovereignty.
Watch it live at videos.assemblee-nationale.fr/direct.php!
Maybe they're trying to brace themselves for the future that many kids who describe themselves as "half" have to face...
i am glad to hear that bluesky is listening to me and i look forward to my seat on the board
I became religious to the point of neurosis in my teens, then suddenly went "wtf am I doing", and suddenly I was atheist lol
When you start doubting it's impossible to go back, you realize not a single thing you were taught makes any sense and contradictions are everywhere
“We call for a rich and diverse world of platforms as varied as European life. We need thousands of spaces for every scale. A platform for your neighbourhood. Your profession. Your parliament. “
