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Written by Robotistry on 2024-11-27 at 21:06

"In a shipyard."

Terry Pratchett, "Witches Abroad"

US Harper paperback version.

[#]Page42 #HashTagGames

Rules of the game:

• Grab the nearest book

• Turn to page 42. - Find the 2nd sentence

• Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it

• Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

(Context:

"He didn't look as if he could possibly have been born, but as if he must have been constructed. In a shipyard.")

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-11-11 at 00:07

[#]SilentSunday

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-11-09 at 13:27

This is one of the few lists of things that helped someone with #LongCovid that largely mirrors my own experience. It contains a number of things I haven't been able to try, but the things I have been able to try have had the impacts described here.

From: @janet

https://weirder.earth/@janet/113452997104424381

@longcovid

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-11-09 at 13:24

@longcovid

From: @patientled

https://bird.makeup/users/patientled/statuses/1855006601922724125

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-11-04 at 16:53

Fault Management Fail.

How you set the thresholds that determine whether a failure mode triggers or not is critical.

How you handle when a behavior starts in a failure mode is critical.

How you define the limits of manual control is critical.

How you handle transitions between control modes is critical.

Failing to comprehensively test the system that enables your users to interact with their systems is ... #Tesla.

[#]Robotics @robotics

https://electrek.co/2024/11/04/tesla-updated-its-summon-feature-now-this-owner-cant-get-to-his-car/

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-30 at 10:22

If anyone has any papers on #LongCovid subtypes they'd like to contribute without going to X, please put them in this thread and I'll add them to Hannah's collection!

@longcovid

From: @ahandvanish

https://bird.makeup/users/ahandvanish/statuses/1851334309761933637

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-29 at 02:11

PLRC article in Cell is now open access!

[#]LongCovid @longcovid

From: @patientled

https://mastodon.social/@patientled/113386026362437234

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-21 at 19:16

@academicchatter Celebrating! The draft book manuscript has been submitted to the publisher!

After years of waiting on various lawyers to figure out whether certain authors' employer / government (for civilian employers) would allow them to sign off on contributor's agreements (1 no/N-1 eventually yes), we finally have all the i's dotted and all the t's crossed.

Next stop before proofs will obviously be "Wait, missing piece!" but it's out of my hands for now.

Woot!

[#]AcademicChatter

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-17 at 19:23

Watching something stupid on Amazon, and the number of "use AI to eliminate busywork" ads are disturbing.

Doesn't it ever occur to any of these people that maybe the solution isn't "outsource the busywork" but "reevaluate whether the busywork is actually needed and lighten the load on your employees by eliminating unnecessary paperwork"?

[#]AI #Busywork

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-16 at 11:24

Deeply frustrating opinion piece in @SciAm today.

The key to Occam's razor is not that the simplest explanation is most likely to be true, but that the explanation most likely to be correct is the simplest one that does not include factors "beyond necessity."

It's not about making things as simple as possible but wrong, it's about minimizing complexity while still being correct.

Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/contrary-to-occams-razor-the-simplest-explanation-is-often-not-the-best-one/

@academicchatter

[#]AcademicChatter

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-13 at 06:14

For some reason the part time, you-are-expected-to-have-a-second-job leaders of my county decided to put the question of whether our county should transition to a new, significantly more expensive form of more-than-twice-as-many-employees government.

Maybe it's a good idea. Maybe it's needed.

But I am absolutely not going to vote in favor of something they estimate will cost the county an extra $1.5m per year, when all the FAQ says is we need it because "the board voted for it".

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-08 at 17:35

I don't understand.

Hopfield and Hinton aren't physicists, and their work wasn't a breakthrough in physics.

Hopfield is in molecular biology and Hinton is in computer science, and their breakthrough was in computing / engineering.

How are they getting a physics #Nobel?

Physicists doing actual physics shouldn't be overlooked because the committee wanted to give an AI prize and Nobel prizes don't come in "engineering".

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-07 at 19:36

[#]IVoted

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-05 at 11:22

New paper out in Cell @cellpress from #PLRC calling for #LongCovid research!

From: @patientled

https://mastodon.social/@patientled/113251089261217096

@longcovid

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-04 at 16:23

Thread on the new Patient-Led Research Collaborative paper on reinfections!

From: @patientled

https://mastodon.social/@patientled@mastodon.social/113249911218510249

@longcovid

[#]LongCovid #PLRC #MedMastodon

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-01 at 00:57

@KamalaHarrisWin Perhaps it would more effective and resonate more with people if, instead of calling out lies, we treated his speeches like AI-generated content.

Measure for concept drift over the course of an answer to a journalist's "prompt" (question).

Call them "hallucinations" like we do with AI.

Measure trends in "hallucinations" per hour and concept drift.

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-10-01 at 00:47

Trump reminds me of an AI.

• Not only doesn't have a "moral compass", can't imagine what it might be like to have one and has no emotional or intellectual understanding of why not having one might be bad

• Words lack grounding in reality, are selected only for local salience. This leads to constant hallucinations / bullshitting, since factual content is irrelevant.

• Goal is plausibility / emotional manipulation that overrides intellectual assessment.

@KamalaHarrisWin

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-09-25 at 16:13

There's so much commentary about recent Republican news that completely misses what makes their words disgusting:

Saying "make women great again" transforms them into objects that can be "made great" instead of people who can choose to make themselves great.

Terry Pratchett's Granny Weatherwax got it right in Carpe Jugulum:

"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."

@KamalaHarrisWin

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-09-19 at 10:09

It's so frustrating. Editing of human-generated articles has been so bad for so long that I'm not sure anymore whether the terrible or nonexistent editor is failing to catch the human- or the LLM-generated typo-into-the-completely-wrong-word.

Today's example: someone using "demure" for "demur".

I'm leaning AI for this one:

• typo is an extra letter on the end rather than in the middle

• someone using "demur" is likely to also know "demure" and unlikely to mix them up.

We need human editors.

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Written by Robotistry on 2024-09-17 at 12:26

Post (from X):

The Berkeley Repertory Theater (Bay Area, CA) has mandatory masked events on Sundays and Tuesdays.

This is inclusiveness. This is a community care.

Vulnerable people deserve to experience life, too.

Alt text for image: Photo of the audience in a full theater with every patron masked

From: @covidcaution

https://bird.makeup/users/covidcaution/statuses/1835578873586831819

[#]CovidCaution

@longcovid

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