The #Tenkile, or Scott’s Tree #Kangaroo Dendrolagus scottae, is one of the most endangered #marsupials in the world, found only in the Torricelli Mountains and Bewani Range of #PapuaNewGuinea. Thes…
PSA: just say no to null hypothesis significance testing
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someone asked me "what's the problem with NHST exactly?", thereby activating the neurons of my standard rant against NHST:
Null hypothesis significance testing was never intended to be a way to "prove" a scientific hypothesis against a zero hypothesis (or, as Gelman calls it, a "strawman hypothesis"). Its adoption as such by the social and medical sciences was a disaster—statisticians including the guy who invented p-numbers (Fisher) have complained about it the entire time but we didn't give them enough heed, because everyone wants a black box formula where you input your data and the computers tells you that your hypothesis is "true" (there isn't and cannot be such a tool). NHST is single-handedly one of the biggest causes of the replication crisis.
If you're in the social/bio/etc. field and you're ever in the position of proposing some research, the best advice I can give is to do your best to lobby the grant agency to have a statistician model the statistics. The most reliable statistics IMO is done when a specialist who has lots of field-specific knowledge (e.g. a biologist) cooperates with a statistician who has lots of knowledge about which methods work best for their case. In the absence of that, abstain from "uncertainty laundering", that is, from using magical algorithms to pretend we know more than the world than we actually do; even if it makes harder to publish stuff because the field has settled on a posture of definitive statements in catchy press releases, it's our duty as scientists to make the uncertainty as clear as possible.
Palm oil is linked to death, ecocide, deforestation and destruction. So this Easter, make sure you look out for palm oil free brands and actively avoid dirty palm oil.
Genuine question, is there such a thing as sustainable palm oil? Was having a discussion with family about this at the weekend as a packet of oatcakes mentioned it used sustainable palm oil. I know how often people use claims like this that are paper thin in its honestly, but maybe I'm being unfair in this instance.
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Just rewatched Dreamworks' Sinbad, which I have only seen once as a kid. It's such a good movie! Beautifully animated. It should be up there with Titan A.E. and Treasure Planet.
interesting company, given that Titan A.E. was absolutely not well received at its time, especially in comparison to treasure planet. I must admit I haven't watched Sindbad, will have to add that to my list.
it's a good feel, and oquonie is really not that dense, if you open it as a bitmap, you'll see big sections of the rom are blank, I just spread out the assets so they'd be easy to move into memory.
American Citizens Are Being Detained at U.S. Airports. Some Vanish Inside the System. Read This Before You Fly. If a Loved One Disappears at the Airport: What Families Must Do to Make Authorities Respond W. A. Lawrence
I realized that I need no notebooks, todos, calendars, nor #wiki. Thus my surprise at people making elaborate #Obsidian systems, using smart topic-based indexing, or maintaining a digital garden.
Because my workflows are artifact-based, uni-dimensional, and queued. I either produce an artifact (be it blog post, piece of software, or an art piece) right now. Or I don’t. And if I need to do something, then there’s an (often physical) artifact reminding me of that. It’s not a structured #TODO, it’s an unread instant message awaiting an action. Or a scrap of paper with LAUNDRY in huge letters lying on my table. Or a call someone will make me in the future.
I peddle in evocative images and scraps, not in bullet lists and weekly charts.
Am I misunderstanding life or am I too privileged to not need a calendar?
no, I think your only misunderstanding is that there is only two ways, the overly complicated journal or needlessly simplistic postit, whereas there are many different sort of people with many different ways to navigate stuff in-between.
@Gargron Yes, I think it looks better. I do think some of the criticisms (the article has some great quotes about it having less "character" or becoming more same-y) are totally valid, but I think aesthetically it works for me. Reads more like video game than AI slop to me, and the examples in the demo are mostly improvements.
That being said, I know these *are* demos, and represent what Nvidia chose to show; maybe DLSS 5's output is mostly obvious AI slop. But judging by these example my problem with the tech is not "makes it look worse."
In my view it's turning unique character designs into averaged out Instagram influencers. I also do not share in the pursuit of realism in media. The more realistic, the harder to suspend disbelief.
I think realism has its place. Two of my favorite games of the last decade are Fortnite (super cartoony) and Immortality (every frame of every person involved is a live actor being recorded). Immortality wouldn't have worked if it hadn't looked (in a certain sense, hadn't BEEN) real.
But to your point, I don't know that I would have enjoyed Immortality as much if it had been generated to look like that rather than the developers literally filming three movies' worth of material to make it. Like I said, I think DLSS 5 LOOKS better; where I agree with the critics is that I don't know that I want it.
@Gargron I also think part of my reaction to it is it does feel like something closer to up-sampling. Obviously more is going on than what we would usually mean by that, but this isn't like someone's whole-cloth AI slop "photo" or video generated from a prompt. This is still someone's artistic vision and direction, just with details filled in procedurally at a crazy scale.
We might still not want that (I'm saying I like it and *I'm* not even sure I want it), but I don't feel the same knee jerk "Eww, that's worse!" reaction that it seems some folks do.
The thing is that upsampling is also "making stuff up". It can work to some degree, and to an unfamiliar observer it might look good, but it's weaving its own statistical interpretation into the output. There's that famous example of an upscale of a pixelated picture of Obama turning him into a white man. Those color restorated videos? The past wasn't beige, it just has no idea what any of the buildings or clothes' colors actually were.
@Gargron I have, as well, but I have an alt account on another server that has more reliable search, and sometimes I see something there and pass a URL back here to boost or reply. I think I'm going to block it there, too.
I have no idea how this happened but a game crash seems to have not only destroyed its wine prefix but lutris whole ABILITY to create wine prefixes. Not even reinstalling lutris or the game worked.
I've voted (text 😀 ) because that's what I'd do for this example, but for e.g. ^^ or 😁 I'd not add a space. I feel that (text ^^) adds at least half the side of the face and is actually an enhancement, and (text 😁) is just unambiguous and the parenthesis next to it is neutral. For me 😀) has an intensified meaning and so it needs a separator
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in pokopia, you play as a ditto, a pokémon with the ability to take on the appearance of other pokémon, but with a distinct tell that it's not really that other pokémon.
you can name your character anything you want. i went with "lynne", obviously.
the other pokémon refer to you as "ditto" until you max out their friendship level. then they'll call you your actual name.
now, i know this would never happen, because nobody would name their kid this... and because this is the internet, i want to be exceptionally clear that i am joking and do not consider this to be a legitimate concern, but consider: what if your deadname was ditto and the only way to get pokémon to accept your identity was to befriend them by plying them with gifts and berries and only then would they say "oh you know what, you're so nice i'm gonna call you that other name you keep insisting on"??? 😭
*i am distinctly aware of the possibility that there is at least one pokémon spinoff that isn't called "pokémon something". please do not reply with counterexamples unless your post contains a delightfully naïvely optimistic poster-worthy art piece from BYTE magazine (example). that way you get to pedantically correct me, and i get a potential wallpaper for my laptop/phone. win-win!
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It will be a long time before AI can do real interpretation because so much is context dependent, and requires a knowledge of the culture/ethnicity . Certainly in person interpretation services.
As for secretaries, automation has already affected them, by moving many tasks to their bosses! Soon the bosses will have no secretaries and will be spending al their time making their AI try to perform secretarial tasks. Believe me, I have worked in IT and know that 99% of the bosses (and programmers) don't know what their secretaries do. And I have seen how things like automated calendars moved the work to the managers.
But I never thought management or programmers particularly savvy, and sometimes they aren't even smart.
durational project / combined media installation Tanja Ostojić: Looking for a Husband with EU Passport (2000–05), project/combined media installation. Installation view, detail (including the Cross…
...For a country that imports every drop of its petrol, diesel and jet fuel, this is not only a problem, it’s a hard reminder New Zealand has failed to mitigate such strategic vulnerability.
Since Marsden Point stopped refining oil in 2022, New Zealand has imported all its refined fuel, mostly from South Korea and Singapore. Those refineries rely on crude oil shipped through the waters now blocked by Iranian drones.
The latest official fuel stocks update suggests roughly 52 days of total cover, with less than 33 days of petrol in the country. This buffer was only designed to smooth over short disruptions, not substitute for a prolonged supply crisis.
Motorists are already starting to hoard supplies, with petrol stations in Auckland already selling out of fuel cans. Some drivers may well be regretting not having bought an electric vehicle earlier...
Denmark Just Switched to Red Streetlights By shifting the wavelength of the light, the city sought to maintain essential road safety for drivers while protecting the natural behaviors of local wildlife. dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/denmar…
...In addition to the amicus brief we co-authored challenging ICE’s grab for Medicaid data, EFF has successfully sued over DOGE agents grabbing personal data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, filed an amicus brief in a suit challenging ICE’s grab for taxpayer data, and sued the departments of State and Homeland Security to halt a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S.
But litigation isn’t enough. People need to keep raising concerns via public discourse and Congress should act immediately to put brakes on this runaway train that threatens to crush the privacy and security of each and every person in America.
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
In case you missed it, new particle just dropped. The LHC has confirmed (and in ridiculous accuracy) the existence of a heavier version of the proton. A proton is made of 3 quarks, up/up/down. This new particle is made of charm/charm/down, where the charm quark is basically the same as the up, just heavier. So not groundbreaking like finding supersymmetric particles, but still cool. Further confirmation that the standard model of particle physics is reasonable. home.cern/news/news/physics/lh…
The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark, a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two heavy charm quarks replacing the two up quarks of the …
Hi there, some of you might have seen strange comments from this profile about circles\groups and that they do not work, or do not work as expected, up to the claim that the idea and system itself is "broken".
Right now the best guess is that this is a specific problem of this profile because it changed at some moment to become a forum page profile already existing for quite a while and having some contacts as a standard profile. As the idea of a forum page profile was dismissed, it was changed back to become a standard profile. It is unclear if or how many new contacts were created in the time being a forum profile.
Is there some experience or recomendation about what could be done to reset all contacts and the profile itself to behave as a common standard profile? (as mentioned, circles do not work as they should for example, and as always other unknown problems are unknown).
#TIL (not really, I knew about it for some time) about Kaktovik numerals <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik…>, and I like their graphicality and ease of arithmetics.
@neauoire it reminds me of the intersection-based multiplication example on your wiki article about paper computing. Any chance you'd be interested in Kaktovik numerals?
Onion in recipes should be by weight not number, as they vary by size considerably. Tonight's dish requires "6 onions" which is anything from 300g to nearly 2.5kg. Based on what we had in our fridge, that is.
name a musical album you listen to, more or less, once every day. Strict ruleset. You REALLY listen to it every day, unless life intervenes, as it is wont to do
The closest I can give you is Casualties of Cool, which since last year I've started putting on before bed to calm me down, although it is by no means meant to be used that way as it is a very good album in its own right.
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