Opera is going to use #ChatGPT to shorten articles — so that people have to read less and think even less —, Microsoft is building ChatGPT into their Office tools — again, less thinking —, we already have ChatGPT in search engines ..

So this is how the world ends — everybody growing stupider because we are too lazy to think for ourselves, and not with a bang?

I guess SkyNet did arrive but not in the way we thought … 😛

#TheAIRevolution #MisinformationEngine
Engadget article — Opera is add…

#silentsunday

So many columnar and prismatic minerals.

#TucsonGemAndMineralShow2023

My rosemary is blooming beautifully! #gardening

axo.dev is finally hiring rust devs again -- one or two people to help me with cargo-dist (and other tools we're spinning up related to it I GUESS): https://www.axo.dev/jobs/rust-engineer

For those of us outside the Dole/Chiquita hegemony, bananas can have a variety of tastes — sweet, sour, bland and all the other stuff in between 😛 So when you say “water bugs taste like banana”, which banana are we talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana
Chefs who cook with insects rep…

I just migrated to a new instance, which is a good occasion for a formal #introduction.

So, hi! I'm wrapping up my PhD in #sociology; I use digital and #computationalsocialscience methods to study experiences of community for #LGBTQ / #queer people and places.

I've done lots of work with #Rstats / #tidyverse, and I'm getting better with #Python, especially for #nlproc and text-as-data methods as they relate to applied social science questions.

Can't promise to be super active on here while I'm dissertating and interviewing for jobs, but I might share some snippets of my in-progress stuff.

Any young data scientists with R skills based in Africa available for hire?

Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Moz, Namibia, Angola, SA etc

Hit me up!

#rstats community pls retoot as I have more or less zero followers

Code with swearing is better code.

Jan Strehmel: We find that open source code containing swearwords exhibit significantly better code quality than those not containing swearwords under several statistical tests. We hypothesise that the use of...
https://jwz.org/b/yj95

@jefframes I’m in the same boat in that I have progressives too. Yes, reading glasses would be better but I can’t be bothered to switch between two pairs of glasses 😛

Now that I’m mostly in one place (home) and don’t actually go out (ever, if I can help it) I probably should think about getting reading glasses. Thanks for reminding me/making me realize it 🙂

@jefframes I’ve wondered about this too. As I get older, it’s really hard for me to balance seeing enough of the screen (by having a higher resolution) vs. being able to actually read what’s on screen …

I’ve wondered at why this isn’t being addressed more and from personal experience, it seems to be because most people don’t see this as an issue since they themselves don’t experience it …

I work for the Center for Integrated Cognition at IQMRI. We're a nonprofit that performs basic academic AI research. We also maintain and develop the #FOSS cognitive architecture, Soar, that we use in our research.

We have a remote work part time software engineer #job available. If you are interested, the listing is here:
https://integratedcognition.ai/news/software-engineering-opportunity/

Restriction: you have to be a US citizen residing in the US.

I enjoy working here and I like the people I work with, or I wouldn't have bothered posting this.

#FediHire #jobs #GetFediHired #fossjobs

Do you periodically burn out?

I've just learned something while researching that could benefit you...

I was reading the work of autistic researcher Dora Raymaker.

She explained that the functioning of an autistic person running up to burnout can look like a "seneca cliff".

A seneca cliff is a model of a system which shows that growth or functioning is pretty good (even seeming to increase) and then, when decline comes, functioning falls off the cliff...at a rate much faster than growth.

It occurred to me that lots of people say to me "I was fine until I wasn't" or "I felt like I was actually ramping up or doing much more until I burnt out".

With this in mind, if it's hard for you to know when a burnout is coming (we can't always tell when we're in it), then you could reflect on whether or not you've been ramping up or putting in extra effort...this might indicate that a crash could be coming.

If this is helpful, pass the information on to your #autistic, #ADHD or #AuDHD friends and family.

Firstly, I'd just like to say thank you to all the people who have liked, boosted and commented on my images, and to all the new followers I have. It's rather humbling. 😊

Today's shot comes from a magical day in the Scottish #Highlands, a few years ago, when I was photographing red squirrels.

These charming characters are incredibly agile and can jump great distances between trees.

Here I managed to capture one as it appears to be flying down my lens.

#redsquirrel #scotland #wildlife #fun

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange #HistoryRemix

If you've noticed Mastodon.social being offline a few evenings this week, it was actually under DDOS those nights. When I asked, I was told the best way to help with Mastosoc's scaling and resiliency-under-pressure issues would be to help them fill this open job posting for a devops position with Mastodon gGMBH:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/290fd40f-125e-41fc-942d-f4ce59e6bda2

If you know anyone who might be qualified for this position, pass it on!

@davemark I’m using a customized version of Tusker. It’s an iOS app and had some very good features that worked for me but the macOS support was via Catalyst and there were a few things I didn’t really like — it wouldn’t remember the window positions for starters.

Since it’s open source, I took the source, modified it to fix all the issues that annoyed me and now I have something I really like. Plus, since I’m using it as a Catalyst app on macOS, I can give builds to my wife to run on her iPad. So we’re both happy. Of course, that doesn’t help you 😛

@yonomitt They research all the info I believe 🙂 I don’t know if you’ve seen “QI: Quite Interesting” (it’s a British show) and they do a lot of research for the show and what you get on Twitter is kind of repeats/overflow/discards etc. would be my guess …

@qikipedia

Forest Bears

2023-01-30 day 228 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is a Tatyworks tutorial. I did a few things a bit different than her instructions indicated. I like it!

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
A mamma bear and a baby bear wa…

Boat on a Beach series

2023-01-28/29 day 226/227 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I started with a reference photo, and after I painted the first one, I decided to experiment with various styles and methods. I was curious, and what better way to learn?

I’m curious which one you like most? I mean, I know which one I prefer, and Fahim gave me his vote as well, but what about you?

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
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