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How should regulators think about "AI"?

youtube.com/watch?v=eK0md9tQ1K…

I was watching this video by @emilymbender and she made a lot of great points there, highly recommend watching it if you're curious about #AI and the hype around it. I was a bit surprised when she brought up magic 8 ball because I've been jokingly calling chatGPT magic ball in my friend circles, but it's such a great analogy tho 😄

Also check out her podcast with @alex where they break down the AI hype - buzzsprout.com/2126417

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How should regulators think about "AI"?

On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on "AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstand...
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I just made a git repo for my #AdventOfCode solutions, so if any of you wanna see my spaghetti code you can find it here on #Codeberg - codeberg.org/rokosun/AOC

I'm using the #Nim programming language since I started learning it a while ago, still very much a beginner tho 🙃

P.S. Also check out @amin's private leaderboard for #AOC - alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/s…

#AdventOfNim

AOC

My solutions for Advent of Code.
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2023-11-28 04:32:57


For people doing Advent of Code, I have a Private Leaderboard of Fediverse people you're welcome to join!

Join code is 382566-472d5a9a.


#codeberg #aoc #nim #adventofcode #adventofnim @amin
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@amin yeah, that's exactly how I'm thinking how can I represent the data, and then how can I get closer to what I want, or functions I need to do what I need. My way is just one way to do it, but it's the one I find the easiest to work with :)

Types are a bit daunting in the beginning but when you do they really help you think, and let's the compiler help you not do a quite big group of errors :)

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This Mysterious Globe Perpetually Spins With No Batteries

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This is genius, not gonna lie.

#YoutubeVids #Educational #ActionLab #Science #Engineering

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This Mysterious Globe Perpetually Spins With No Batteries

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#science #engineering #youtubevids #educational #actionlab
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Sidedoor - Cellphones Rock

Listen here: play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_69_…

One fascinating fact I heard on this #podcast episode:

> If everyone in the country use their phone one year longer on average, it'd be the same as taking 636,000 gasoline powered cars off the road.

The episode mainly talks about the precious minerals in our phones and how they're extracted from rocks formed millions of years ago, not only do we have a limited supply of these minerals but it also can't be recycled properly.

Sidedoor | Cellphones Rock

Cellphones put the power of the world at our fingertips. With the touch of a finger, you can instantly connect with your doctor, have food delivered to your office or simply obliterate your niece at Words with Friends.
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#podcast

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Unsung Science: The Man Who Invented QR Codes

In 1994, Masahiro Hara got tired of having to scan six or seven barcodes on every box of Toyota car-parts that zoomed past him on the assembly line. He wondered why the standard barcode from the 70s was still used...Why couldn’t someone invent a barcode that used two dimensions instead of one that could work from any angle or distance, even even if it got smudged or torn?

And so, studying a game of "Go", he dreamed up what we now know as the QR Code — the square barcode you scan with your phone. It shows up on restaurant menus, billboards, magazine ads — even tattoos and gravestones. But even that, says Hara-san, is only the beginning.

Listen here: chrt.fm/track/22GG1/dts.podtra…

Podcast webpage: art19.com/shows/unsung-science

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De Fiets is Niets

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Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands to learn how to create good bike infrastructure.

But none of that was inevitable. It wasn't something that magically emerged from Dutch culture.

In fact, in the 1960s and 70s, it looked like the Netherlands would follow the same path as the United States. The Dutch had fallen in love with cars and they were rebuilding their cities to make room for them. It was only because of a multi-decade pro-cycling movement that cars didn't take over the country entirely.

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Unexplainable: How to decode a thought

Can researchers decipher what people are thinking about just by looking at brain scans? With AI, they're getting closer. How far can they go, and what does it mean for privacy?

Listen here: podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/p…

Podcast webpage: vox.com/unexplainable

Unexplainable

Unexplainable is a science podcast from Vox and Vox Media Podcast Network about everything we don’t know.
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I Volunteered for 25 Projects. Here's What I've Learned

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Another wonderful video by @sober_pirate explaining the things he learned while volunteering for different environmental and humanitarian projects.

Thumbnail of the video from Peertube. It shows a picture of Dima standing outside in nature holding a coffee mug. Text on the left reads "That's what I've learned"

Be Brave To Act

2023-10-26 15:40:14


I Volunteered for 25 Projects. Here's What I've Learned


In this video I am showing 9 things which I've realized by volunteering for 25 projects. Most of them were about nature and wildlife protection and restoration.

Support me on Patreon : patreon.com/BeBraveToAct

Instagram : instagram.com/bebravetoact/
Facebook : facebook.com/bebravetoact
Twiter : twitter.com/BeBraveToAct

Friendica : social.trom.tf/profile/sober_p…


00:00 Intro
00:23 Skills
01:27 Funding
02:27 Compassion
03:16 Other People
04:23 Enthusiasm
06:03 Time Waste
07:14 You Will Lose Money
08:08 Experience
08:54 Never The Same


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The Library of Alexandra

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The story of #SciHub and its founder Alexandra Elbakyan in her fight against the global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research.

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #Podcast #Radiolab

The Library of Alexandra

One woman's quest to make all knowledge free.
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#podcast #openscience #openaccess #scihub #radiolab

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My anti=virus software reported an attempted download form Sci-Hub as infected. Also see
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20…

Guest Post: Think Sci-Hub is Just Downloading PDFs? Think Again - The Scholarly Kitchen

They’re phishing, hacking, and password-cracking to steal personal and research data from the world’s academic institutions. Andrew Pitts takes a hard look at Sci-Hub as, “Corrupt cybercriminals, not Robin Hood.”
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@scsmash3r @EliRabett

PDF files can contain malware in them which is why you should never open them if you get a spam email or something with an attached PDF. However I'd be very surprised if SciHub contains any malware like this person says because it's generally considered as a trusted source of information, without providing a valid source for that claim I can only take it as rumor or propaganda at best.

@Josh Halpern @Eugene
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Why Your Dog Has An Anti-Tick Pill And You Don’t?

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Man I would absolutely love it if I could turn my blood into poison for mosquitoes 😈🦟

#YoutubeVids #Educational #SciShow

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Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-...
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I really enjoyed this podcast episode because I've actually pondered about this question myself before, just like the 11 year old who called in and asked them. Considering the wide range of activities we humans can do just with the energy we get from our daily meals, it really makes you wonder how efficient we are as a species, compared to machines, other animals, etc.

#CrowdScience #Podcast

CrowdScience - Human v machine - BBC Sounds

How efficient are humans?
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#podcast #CrowdScience

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So.... um, yeah I had to code on my mobile 'cause my laptop broke, lol 😅 Not really the cleanest code ever but I'll improve it 🙃 Also just take a look at #Tromjaro and see how much it has grown over the years! I like how @tio pays attention to every little detail of how an average nontechnical person uses Linux, where they get confused, etc and try to improve/fix everything he can - what you end up with is not a perfect distro but one with a much better UX than most.

TROMjaro 12.08.2023 (big update, many changes)

This is a big and important update for TROMjaro, and we made so many little changes that I can only highlight the most noticeable ones. In essence, I want TROMjaro to be very user friendly from the get go.
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Watched it too. Very sad to see the state of the ocean declining rapidly. Like I said to @Dima before what I'd wish to see more is some focus on the why people exploit and do these bad things. I think that woman in the video that's kinda the "main" character, appeared in another of Dima's videos and she did great at explaining how if we do not help the people, these poor people will have to exploit the oceans in order to survive. I think she was saying that they are using dynamite to kill a lot of fish.

But this is something I rarely see in videos/documentaries, the focus on why these things happen. Dima said he will try to emphasize on that more in the future. I understand that you can get repetitive since it all starts from this trade-environment (mostly), but it is definitely worth adding the "why people do these bad things".

Anyway, Dima does a great job with these videos, from editing to highlighting these wonderful people who do wonderful things. Like he was saying, these are the heroes.

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@Rokosun Thank you ! Glad to hear that it inspired you.
@Tio actually i had to cut out few scenes out of the video, when Aylin (that woman) is explaining how everything is rigged by oil and gas industry and military exercises. Because she is protecting sea she is in a conflict with Turkish oil industry, they sued her for some kind of bullshit which his not truth, but anyway she got court right now. And before publishing i showed video to her and she liked a lot that part, but decided to ask her lawyer if it's possible to publish that. Because in that part of the video there were also cuts from Turkish media news outlets how they support basically destruction of an environment for a profit. And lawyer said that it has to be out of video 100%. Because if published she will had huge problems in the court. Imagine that!!! That's a fucked up world where you can't really point on the problem because you can be fined or even jailed. And Turkey is not the most "free speech" country in the world.
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In June 20, 2023, a documentary miniseries called TROM II was published on #Peertube, making it the first feature-length film to ever be released exclusively on the #Fediverse. Question is, were you aware of this documentary before?

Boosts appreciated.

TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (documentary)

We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
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  • No (93%, 56 votes)
60 voters. Poll end: Sunday, July 23, 2023, 4:05 PM

#PeerTube #fediverse

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For some unknown reason my @fosstodon account stopped working on #Fedilab, I tried logging out of the app but now I can't log back in, when I select the fosstodon instance on Fedilab and hit continue it doesn't open up the login page like it should. I even tried reinstalling the app from #Fdroid but the issue persists.

@kev @mike did you guys make any changes to the server these past few days? @apps do you have any idea what might be causing the issue here? 🤔

(I'm now forced to use the webapp)

#fdroid #fedilab @Fosstodon @Mike Stone @Kev Quirk @Fedilab Apps

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I just tested it by turning on the wifi hotspot of another device and connecting to it from my phone, surprisingly the issue still persists. One thing to note here is that both phones use the same ISP, tomorrow I'll try connecting to another phone with a different ISP, to see if it connects better/faster with fosstodon. I'm sure this has something to do with the connectivity between my device and fosstodon servers, but for some reason tusky handles the situation better than fedilab does.
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Tricking an ant into believing that its dead !

Youtube link: youtube.com/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2…
Proxied links 👇
Invidious link: invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=…
Choose your invidious instance: invidio.us/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2c…

#youtubevids #science

Select instance - Invidious

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#science #youtubevids

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@StrepsipZerg
Ah, I hadn't considered that they were eating the gel... I found a nice answer to explain more about that here in case others are also wondering about it:
wildaboutants.com/2012/06/01/r…

Reader Question About Harvester Ants Eating Ant Farm Gel

We have a question for the Consult-Ant today: Hello I wanted to ask you if wild Harvester ants, will learn to eat the gel in a antworks gel farm. I have an empty one and put about 30 wild, I’…
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I don't think it was a good idea for instance admins to agree to talk to Meta under a nondisclosure agreement, but that DOESN'T make it an excuse for people to go and harass those admins. If anything they're the victims of Meta IMO, and a lot of them may still be in favor of blocking Meta regardless of whether they agreed to the meeting or not. I think we have to stick together in situations like this and act accordingly, keep in mind that "divide and conquer" is a proven strategy.

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Some of the other less well-known p2p mesh networks I've heard of:

reticulum.network/ and the GUI app for it github.com/markqvist/sideband. These projects are still in their early stages and the last time I tried it out there were many bugs, tho its still an interesting project to keep an eye on.

yggdrasil-network.github.io/ - this one seemed more technical to me but from what I understand it helps liberate your IP address or something like that 🤷

GitHub - markqvist/Sideband: LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum supports.

LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum s...
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