ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
@amsomniac@witches.town The paper only came out last year and has now been cited a few times, which is pretty reasonable, it takes a while for other people to spin up new research efforts that use the latest stuff that comes out. There's a long, long road from "here's a new physical phenomenon that, in principle, could be useful" to something that is actually practical. .
@amsomniac@witches.town I suspect that what happened is that someone was overenthusiastic about putting things in wikipedia.
I don't know the science behind this paper specifically, but I've written my share of paper that have phrases like "and in principle, this could be used to cure intractable diseases" and "in principle, this could allow better materials against biofouling" and stuff like that. It's a long-term justification for why this research is interesting, not an engineering spec.
I've given into the mastodon fad! Using duolingo to brush up on my French before my trip to Paris in september.
I'm not sure whether I should be amazed at how much I can remember of French from school, or amazed at how little that actually is. Anyway, it's fun. I have a streak going.
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Saw a shipping company called "Midas" yesterday.
I'm disappointed that it wasn't a refrigerated one, and that it didn't say "Everything we touch turns to cold" on the side.
@smays@mastodon.technology my thoughts are probably more boring than my boosts, not sure if I want to dilute my boosts of all the wonderful people out here with my lame posts
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federated servers dispatching plain-text toots across a variety of languages and softwares is *literally the very exact thing* unicode was invented for, i don't see why following the spec is that contentious of a discussion point to be honest
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twitter's losing millions of users but the ones that are are more engaged, which they take as a form of brand strength and a sign that they're still worth investing in
translation: twitter all but admits they make money off harassment
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Basically what I'm saying is reroute our entire defense budget to new seasons of battlebots, but in space.
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Surely I'm not the only one who accidentally pronounces CoreOS like "Oreos" with a C
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Can I just say, that i have NEVER been scared of AIs or computers in general. Never. It's always the humans that are the worst part and the weakest link in any system. Computers just do what they're told and trained to do. Humans, on the other hand, can go through all kinds of socialization and training and schooling and still say "no, i think you aren't a person worthy of respect and dignity" Seriously. Was getting taught in kindergarten how to fucking share something new after 1984?
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A VC-backed company is taking over open-source projects to insert their own adware or worse:
https://theoutline.com/post/1953/how-a-vc-funded-company-is-undermining-the-open-source-community
> The new version of autocomplete-python demoted the open source engine it had been using, called Jedi, and enabled Kite’s engine by default.
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> Kite’s engine required code be processed on Kite’s cloud server[;] previous version did this [locally].
Don’t hand over projects to someone you don’t know.
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I didn’t know this: the Civilian Conservation Corps, despised by Republicans as a socialist boondoggle, got the USA ready to fight World War II.
Lumberman’s Memorial, Huron National Forest, Michigan
https://mastodon.social/media/Q6EOXMQsHPfH7e6fRyM
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Hey.
Psst.
Yeah, you. Reading this toot.
You deserve to exist.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/opinion/hbo-confederate-slavery-civil-war.html?smid=tw-share
"Each time I see a reimagining of the Civil War that largely replicates what actually happened, I wonder why people are expending the energy to imagine that slavery continues to thrive when we are still dealing with the vestiges of slavery in very tangible ways. Those vestiges are visible in incarceration rates for black people, a wildly segregated country, disparities in pay and mortality rates..."
Making progress on my new forehand technique in #tennis. Had some matches today, forehand was ok in rallies. Need to be a little smarter about where to place it, and of course could use more power, but overall it's playable.
@hellojed@mastodon.social every word of that sentence sounds awesome
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I'm trying to write a trademark policy: https://gist.github.com/Gargron/8287a6d961397ad3b877d6c0cfa8352e But I am not a lawyer and haven't done this before. Feel free to give me some feedback. I hope the spirit of the policy is clear - tl;dr use Mastodon trademarks for Mastodon stuff, don't pretend like you're official endorsed though, don't sell faux-official merch without permission, don't name your company stuff like "the Mastodon company"
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Just asking because I need help ensuring licenses/copyright is in order and I need do trademark stuff properly too.
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
