"Timelapse of the best multi-color meteor train I have ever seen, and other dark sky phenomena."
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Elizabeth Villa's lab delivers big time again with in-cell cryo-electron tomography of the nuclear pore complex:
"The molecular architecture of the nuclear basket" by Singh et al. 2024.
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#CellBiology #CryoEM #ProteinStructure #StructuralBiology
Latest comic: Critics to ignore
#uspol #elections #2024election #kamala #KamalaHarris #women #gender #comic #cartoon #media
Amazing jazz singer!
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When worrying about the harms from deploying AI, it’s issues like this that have caused and will cause the most harm. Not the AI suddenly turning into the machines from the Matrix and enslaving humanity.
The system that was meant to analyze income and health information to automatically determine eligibility for benefits simply didn’t work and often failed to load the correct data to analyze. 🤦🏾♂️
gizmodo.com/judge-rules-400-mi…
Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits
Thousands of children and adults were automatically terminated from Medicaid and disability benefits programs by a computer system that was supposed to make applying for and receiving health coverage easier.Todd Feathers (Gizmodo)
techpolicy.press/challenging-t…
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.Eryk Salvaggio (Tech Policy Press)
Playing with light and bokeh. Also, check out the cute little group of ladybugs!
#ladybug #ladybird #insect #bokeh #flower #flowerphotography #insectphotography #garden #gardenphotography #macro #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography #stalbert #edmonton #yeg #t8n #alberta #canada #mastoart #mastophoto #fediart #fediphoto #bloomscrolling
Open Social Web / fediverse folks: with Elon Musk's fight with the Brazilian government likely to result in X being down in Brazil, there's an opportunity to invite more folks to the fediverse.
Is anyone working on plans to recruit and welcome people here, while ensuring their safety & quality of community? It's an obvious opportunity that can be planned for.
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Kitten Man, Kitten Man
Cute ball of fur rests upon his hand
Plays with yarn, chases flies
Makin' biscuits of every size
Meow!
Here comes the Kitten Man!
Is he cute? His paw goes boop
Even though daily his box you'll scoop
Runs 'round the house, in a whirl
Then upon your warm lap he'll curl
Meow!
There goes the Kitten Man!
In the deep of night, when the shadows unfurl
Like a treasured pet, at your side he will curl!
Kitten Man, Kiiten Man
Your friendly neighborhood Kitten Man
Let daily stress be ignored
Companionship is his reward
To him, life is a great big cat toy
To cuddle a ball of warm joy
Just ask the Kitten Man!
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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
Feedback gets rid of overt biases but leaves subtle racism intact.
"As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language models have become ever larger and subjected to more sophisticated training, a lot of that problematic behavior has been ironed out. For example, I asked the current iteration of ChatGPT for five words it associated with African Americans, and it responded with things like "resilience" and "creativity."
"But a lot of research has turned up examples where implicit biases can persist in people long after outward behavior has changed. So some researchers decided to test whether the same might be true of LLMs. And was it ever."
image from paper: arxiv.org/html/2403.00742v1
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Selaco hits 70,000 copies sold with a big update live and sale now on gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/sela…
#FPS #Linux #SteamDeck #Selaco
Selaco hits 70,000 copies sold with a big update live and sale now on
Altered Orbit Studios have done well with Selaco. They just announced some stats, along with a brand new update and a sale live now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"10 Years Milky Way Timelapse Compilation | 8K HDR."
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Are you also excited for the #NextcloudConf2024 agenda? 🤩
Nextcloud Hub 9 launch, 2 keynotes, 2 panel sessions, >20 lightning talks, 4 workshops, networking, coding, and celebrating the community — all under the theme 'Building a safer digital world'!
nextcloud.com/conference-2024/
Nextcloud Community Conference 2024
Join us for the Nextcloud Community Conference 2024, an exciting week of coding, design, discussions, talks, and fun!Nextcloud
"Meteor over North Carolina."
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Tomás Balmaceda: “Creímos que las redes eran un potenciador de la democracia y hoy las vemos como un factor que la debilita”
Polarizaciones en el ámbito digital, la relación entre tecnología y vínculos, los cambios en el mundo del trabajo ...
eldiarioar.com/cultura/tomas-b…
Tomás Balmaceda: “Creímos que las redes eran un potenciador de la democracia y hoy las vemos como un factor que la debilita”
Polarizaciones en el ámbito digital, la relación entre tecnología y vínculos, los cambios en el mundo del trabajo y la forma en que se abordan en la actualidad la muerte y el duelo son algunos de los asuntos que aborda el filósofo argentino en su fla…Agustina Larrea (elDiarioAR.com)
Hoy es el natalicio de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (f.1851).
Fue una escritora, dramaturga, ensayista y biógrafa británica reconocida principalmente por ser la autora de la novela gótica Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo (1818), considerada la primera novela de ciencia ficción moderna y que logra inaugurar el género.
📸: Richard Rothwell, PD-Art, dominio público
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dung…
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated
What do you get when you cross Minesweeper with a sort-of dungeon crawler? Well Dungeon Divers is pretty much the answer to that.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dung…
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated
What do you get when you cross Minesweeper with a sort-of dungeon crawler? Well Dungeon Divers is pretty much the answer to that.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"Meteor caught on camera."
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"Stephan's Quintet taken by James Webb Space Telescope."
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European space agency, Canadian Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"The Milky Way at 50mm."
buddingphotographer, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26 gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/mech…
Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26
Ah, auto battlers, at one point they seemed like they would be all the rage, but most quickly moved on. Mechabellum thankfully, feels a bit different, and quickly became a real favourite and it's set to leave Early Access on September 26.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"Milky Way and tree from Inferno Cone."
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/XSPcMo
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Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer
Mpox clade II has been spreading since 2022. Mpox clade 1 has 2 cases outside the endemic area in central Africa.
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Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer
Nature talks with infectious disease specialists about whether vaccines will curb this outbreak and more.Reardon, Sara
Deadlock surpassed 100,000 concurrent players, Valve adds wall jumping gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dead…
Deadlock surpassed 100,000 concurrent players, Valve adds wall jumping
Valve's latest game Deadlock continues rising up the most-played games ranking on Steam, despite it being invite-only and the developers continue expanding it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Looks nice.
But: I am a little bit sick of kiddy friendly colorful non-sensical games. It's the Fortnite-ism of the gaming industry, imho. Driven by greed.
Best example: Call of Duty.
It's called "Modern Warfare" or "Black Ops" and it sounds serious. But then multiplayer is hysterical as shit and has nothing to do with war scenarios any longer.
I hope Delta Force is not doing this shit ...
UK Universities are likely to extend access to Elsevier collection for another year, despite huge deficits of many Universities (including Cambridge).
See what MIT did:
2019 - MIT cancelled big deal and instead subscribed to 675 journals (of
about 2.5K available?)
2020 - they cancelled all Elsevier subscriptions - relying instead on
back-access and interlibrary loans.
Estimated savings: 80% of original spend - saving 2 million USD/year now...
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