And there was much rejoicing.
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Food inflation (7.3) isn't overall inflation (2.3), & store bought food inflation (4.8) isn't food inflation. Rising food costs are a serious problem, but misleading statements aren't helpful to identify real issues and find solutions. Canada averall inflation is lower than US, UK, and OECD average.
Oh, very good. Thank you for supporting designers, and for sending a message to the industry and hobby that supports those values.
Then you need to have a conversation with your COO, who clearly does not share your philosophy or values. I can't trust any AEG product to properly showcase or reward the designers' and artists' vision while that division among leadership remains. My game $ will go elsewhere.
AI cannot be the future, because it can only regurgitate the past. Enjoy your soulless mediocre slop with a side of kool aid.
Iago from Aladdin: "Oh THERE'S a big surprise! That's an incredib-- I think I'm gonna have a HEART ATTACK and DIE, from that surprise."
Le puissance des moins puissants // The powerful have their power. OH SHIT DID YOU HAVE PARALLEL BILINGUAL BOOKEND POLYPTOTONS ON YOUR DAVOS BINGO CARD? Sorry, cancelling tomorrow's bioinorganic chemistry lesson plan, instead we're doing a line by line rhetorical analysis of that speech.
Villagers burn brassieres in giant bonfire as feminist protest. Warlock of the Patriarchy(TM) uses the bonfire to summon a fire elemental to frame the feminists as witches. PCs must fight the elemental, lay bare the plot (and their chests, Marianne style), and Smash the (Warlock of the) Patriarchy.
No, I said *brazier* of commanding fire elementals, not *brassiere* of commanding fire elementals. Stop setting your underwear on fire, your character just bought that.
I assume she means the Steve/Dustin relationship.
Hi, nat'l award winning post-sec educator / educ researcher of 25 years, and no I literally do not know any such fucking thing. Sit your ableist ass down and try forming beliefs based on data and evidence. And also: so? Write my exam for 2h or 4, you ain't passing if you don't know the material.
This has been another episode of “Fascists are bad at an awful lot of things, including statistics”. Thanks for watching. (9/9)
What proportion of the folks ICE is screening with this pseudoscience horseshit are undoc’d migrants? I dunno, but unless it’s much higher than the false positive rate (and it’s not) then much more than half the folks they arrest will be false arrests. (8/9)
How many of the 3M people walking by a TSA agent today are undoc’d migrants? I dunno, but even if a system generates only a 5% false positive (again, absurd), it would have to be 150k undoc’d migrants every day for even half the folks you match to actually be who you’re looking for. (7/9)
To hope that facial recognition software used for any task is as good as 99.9% is an absurdly laughable overestimate. Especially given that facial recognition software trained on images of white people is notoriously bad at PoC faces, and you’re trying to use it to find brown people. (6/9)
The real accuracy of that test is 10/3010, the number of terrorists you correctly identified vs the number of people you claimed were terrorists, and that’s just 0.3%. You bury yourself in false positives and devote 99.7% of your resources to chasing ghosts. (5/9)
How many of the 10 terrorists does it catch? 10(0.999) = 10. All of them! Hooray!
How many innocent people are accused of terrorism? 3M(0.001) = 3000. 3000 false accusations every single day!
Hooray! (4/9)
Image the facial recognition system is 99.9% “accurate”. That is, for 1 out of 1000 terrorists it gives you a false negative and doesn’t catch them, and for 1 out of 1000 not-terrorists it gives you a false positive and incorrectly says they are a terrorist. (3/9)
Imagine 3M people get on a plane in the US today. (This is ballpark the correct number.) Imagine 10 of them are terrorists that the current system does not catch. (This is not the correct number. The correct number is, of course, zero, because no planes blew up today.) (2/9)
Hey kids, it’s time for a refresher on the False Positive Paradox, which explains why facial recognition can never be used to catch terrorists (or *anyone* that makes up only a small proportion of the screened population)! (Shout out to Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother”.) (🧵, 1/9)
Eeeeeeenteresting. Canvas is working fine at this Canadian university, so we don't use AWS. I wonder if that's a just-my-university thing, or perhaps a wider outcome of provincial / national privacy legislation that forbids Canadian unis to store student information on non-Canadian servers.
To complete a Canadian Great Lakes maritime distaster song trifecta, Due South fans pour one out for the 32 lives lost on the Robert MacKenzie. What if Paul Gross rewrote Edumund Fitzgerald as an up-tempo multi-guitar rock song with bagpipes and a I think a piccolo?
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Why, I hear tell that the ship was the pride of the American side!
@nicolemjames.bsky.social has offered a distinction I find very useful, focussed on outcomes rather than methodology: SoTL seeks to improve teaching practice and student learning experiences, while DBER, like any research, seeks to generate new knowledge.
Ok yes but if I have to choose between Canvas and Workday....
Define "cheat". Our course is active- and peer-learning, promoting collaboration among students to learn & apply concepts. Quizzes are formative, not summative, designed as tools for students to develop and gauge their understanding. If they want to work together to do that, that's a *good* thing.
I started this skeet thinking we were talking about John Carpenter's THE THING and reader, I very quickly became VERY confused.
"I" when you're describing the factors that emerge from your leadership and vision, "we" or "my team" when describing the work and its dissemination, to emphasize student contributions and mentorship / training?
