There's so much going on that I can't post disapproving posts for every single thing. So here's just one blanket one.
It's all wrong. You know, everything. All of it. Not just in the US, but it's happening, or starting to, everywhere. The rule of law is abandoned and people are shipped off to uncontrolled foreign prisons. People's right to be who they are is removed. Institutions to help and better other people are disbanded.
We need to get back to caring about other people. Care about the next generation's ability to get educated. No matter the skin colour, no matter the social class, care about whether people can buy food. Care about people getting a fair trial. Care about people whether they are your gender or not, or have the gender you think they have, or even have a gender.
Care about other people, no matter what kind of 'other' they are.
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Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.
I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.
A super interesting video where Mithuna Yoganathan explains what would be involved in AI doing biological scientific discoveries and why the claim that it will cure cancer is unlikely at best. Mithuna is a super smart person (PHD in quantum physics) who doesn't have a simple knee jerk reaction against AI, like I do. She really gave it a go, as you can see on her channel. So, if she says this... And I really trust her opinion anyway.
#AI #MithunaYoganathan #Science
Amy-Leigh Hickman is going to be in the new series (7) of Line of Duty! On the BBC.
When to automate a repetitive task:
NO-BRAINER: "This is obviously going to be faster to automate than to do it by hand _even once_. Let's automate it right now, and not do it by hand at all."
FORESIGHTED: "Doing it once by hand is faster than automating it, but I'm going to have to do it a lot of times, so it still saves time to automate it first."
NEED A RUN-UP: "I don't yet understand this task well enough to automate it, so I'll do it a few times by hand first to get the idea."
RAN OFF THE RUNWAY: "Great, now I've done this by hand a few times, I think I can automate it reliably! Oh, oops, turned out I only had one more case of it left to do."
TERRIFIED OF RUNNING OFF THE RUNWAY: "This is a one-off, so it would be a waste of time to automate it, I'll just do it manually."
[next day] "Oh, oops, I made a mistake and have to do it again. But it should be fine this time."
[a month later] "Even though I've had to redo it 25 times already, surely _this_ is the last time? So it would still be a waste of time to automate it."
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Trying to automate a task is actually a good way to verify that you understand it, and are capable of describing it in sufficient detail. If you can teach it to a computer, you can probably teach it to a person (and vice versa). If it can be taught—through instruction—is it not de facto automatable?
OTOH, if a task cannot be taught, then it almost certainly cannot be automated, either. It suggests that the "task" is, in fact, something categorically different, like maintenance or caretaking, which requires understanding the system, its dynamic environment, and their interactions.
@8r3n7 I think that equivalence only works in a restricted domain. There are plenty of things it's easy to teach a human but hard to teach a computer, because you're relying on some skill the human already had which is the hard part. Like a task involving vision, or language.
(At least, that's true as long as you mean traditional computer software which is efficient, predictable, and easy to maintain and modify. LLMs complicate this picture.)
Going the other way, it's probably true that any task you can program a computer to do you can teach a human to _understand_. But doing it is another matter, because computers are immune to boredom and humans aren't!
Crystal explains what your favourite social media says about you: youtu.be/GspQt10qrgs?is=_NCo16… . Unfortunately she only does commercial social media. And even though she helpfully mentions that people should just start their own blog if that's a certain itch they should scratch, it is then tied to the sponsor of the video, Squarespace.
Me: I used to hate Tumblr for years, but then I stopped using it. I felt seen in that segment...
Fragments of Eindhoven
Canon EOS R10, with the Laowa 65mm 2.8 manual focus macro lens.
#Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #Laowa #Photography
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Photographed the full Moon tonight, this time actually using a tripod. Cropped, Canon EOS R10, Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 with 1.4x extender. F11, 1/200s, iso 200.
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Post production sound in wildlife documentaries, by Roxy Furman, taking her own beautiful film of a pangolin to be released as an example.
youtu.be/bOdxK4WfSEM?si=eeWasg…
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Here's Celina Bhandari explaining her creative workflow for her cinematic travel documentaries: youtu.be/4Ub365sf13g?si=qji-pQ…
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Humans domesticated dogs before they invented written language... and now they never will.
(via tumblr)
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Episode 1 of season 4 of Bridgerton introduces us to great new characters. I love Yerin Ha as Sophie Baek, Katie Leung as Lady Araminta Gun and Michelle Mao as Rosamund Li. I suspect the tension this season is going to be in that household...
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The product photos on the shopping platform were misleading. I thought it would be small, but it turned out to be even bigger than my face. – Download this photo by Quan Jing on Unsplashunsplash.com
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I follow Korean foodie Doobydobap on YouTube and noticed that despite having visited many Asian countries, she had never done a video about food in India before. That is fixed now and resulted in over two hours of video.
Part 1 is Delhi:
youtu.be/PjNLVgwLOJs?si=cjB6_1…
Part 2 is Mumbai:
youtu.be/7tataOP0ME8?si=ppG2Gp…
She's planning to go back to visit more cities.
#Doobydobap #FoodBlog #India
Went to Eindhoven today to photograph some of the famous statues as a very small photography project. The intent was to make the photos somewhat different from the norm, using just one lens. Canon RF 35 F1.8 on Canon EOS R10.
First Anton Philips in front of the train station.
#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #Statue #AntonPhilips
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Next Frits Philips on the Market Square.
#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #FritsPhilips
Finally the statue by Rodin in front of the Van Abbe Museum (not in the frame).
To me the statue always seems to be twisted, distorted, against the norm, and I tried to do that justice in the photo.
#Photography #Eindhoven #CanonEOSR10 #CanonR10 #statue #Rodin
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So Greenland was named that way really as propaganda...
Here's an episode of a history podcast, from a year ago, about the history of Greenland and its current status.
Fun quiz by Crystal to check whether your job is right for you. (Just keep the results to yourself...)
I'm home this New Year's Eve, so these are my homemade, mutant, 'oliebollen'.
Happy New Year!
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10 years ago: Apps are going to revolutionize health care and research. Apps are going to collect all your data. Get used to apps because they're the future of everything and you can't fight it
5 years ago: Blockchain is going to revolutionize health care and research. Blockchain will contain all your data. Get used to blockchain because it's the future of everything and you can't fight it
Now: Generative AI is going to revolutionize health care and research. Generative AI will—
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Aparupa Dey catching bird catching fish.
I love how she's immersed in the water herself with her camera.
#Photography #wildlife #India #AparupaDey
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I felt bad about not using redundancy features in what I'm running online. Well, only a little bit bad, I'm only a single person doing unimportant stuff. But apparently major corporations are also not running redundancy either, so I feel a bit better.
What is worrying about the AWS outage in New York however, is that it seems to have affected critical things in EU and UK as well. And wordle.
#AWSOutage
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#Photography
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#EindhovenMarathon
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I love the photos from this shoot. The styling is out of this world.
A portrait of Lian from our 2021 shoot.
#portrait #photography #portretfotografie #fotograaf #fotograafgezocht #portretfotograaf #baarn #utrecht #fotografie #captureone
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#JoséphineJobert #SaintPierre
She brings such a strong physicality to her roles that goes beyond the beauty actresses are often selected for.
#JoséphineJobert
IMDb: Joséphine Jobert
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • • •The simpler answer: no, but it will cause cancer by making climate change worse.
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Climate Change’s Impact on Cancer Care, Risk
National Cancer Institute (.gov)