Notices by Sam Levine (srlevine@urbanists.social)

@RickiTarr Wave/particle duality. I'm a chemist. I've taken more than one quantum mechanics class along with various classes on spectroscopy. I understand it intellectually, but in my heart of hearts it's a big nope.

@caseyhansen I'll second the follow hashtags to start with so you can find people to follow.
US based emergency response, weather, and alerts: @ai6yr
Sports: @emarktaylor , @CityHoosier and the hockey crowd uses hnom@a.gup.pe as a repeater (though there isn't much chatter in the off season) so you can follow #HNOM, people use the same hashtags the teams use on twitter for the most part

Follow lots to start with, you can always unfollow later.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Might want to preserve them in lime to keep the get off my lawn factor but limit the smell.

@HauntedOwlbear @AnarchistFederation Their email response was excellent.

My comment: "If this is the sort of content regularly provided by "Lipsticksocialist.com" maybe they shouldn't be included in sites you aggregate from, because the TERF is strong in this one."

Their response: "Thank you for letting us know about this. The article was deleted as soon as the team read your email. We do not support TERF bullshit and this article was nasty."

If anyone is thinking about the off season it looks like the buyout window will start Thursday night (48 h after the end of tonight's game).

@hockey #NHL

@memerman @BE @StillIRise1963 @WarnerCrocker Thanks for the heads up that the paper was now available (looks like it wasn't until sometimes yesterday). Link if anyone else wants to read it: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2321170121

(if it's behind a paywall and someone reading this wants a copy let me know, I can't tell since UCI pays for journal access for me anyway)

@StillIRise1963 @WarnerCrocker Thanks, that link works, but it's the press release. I'm looking for the PNAS paper itself, which they link to but the link is broken, which I'm assuming involves a silly typo in the DOI, but I'm not going to figure it out by guessing.

@WarnerCrocker If anyone reading this has a working link to the paper can you post it? The one in the press release is giving a DOI error.

@DeliaChristina I think for most people no. If the person is an admin and knows what they are doing I think they could maybe look at requests via activity pub to see what servers and what users on those servers are viewing their posts, but I doubt anyone is regularly doing it?

@kristinHenry @seachanger The scientists working on this stuff are still making progress, but it's not flashy when you have to do all sorts of comparative tests against current methods suitable for peer-review publication so it doesn't make the news. My field has people using ML for drug discovery and it's changing the field in good ways, but it's also not sexy. You still need multiple scientists to interpret and use the data, it's not going to make the field accessible to someone at home.

@kristinHenry @seachanger Also I think unless we are trying to spin it for the public most of us are pretty careful to call it machine learning (ML) since it's not AI, it's a method of pattern recognition on a scale that the human brain can't replicate, not a form of consciousness.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Non-zero chance that whole "instance" is. It's some sort of weird set-up and they have a white paper about crypto. 🙄
(I made the unfortunate decision to read the replies on your comic post, hoping for people posting additional funny comics, my bad)

Ha! The whole headlight placement thing is real (and not just in my head) and does cause problems!

https://laist.com/news/transportation/wondering-why-headlights-seem-brighter-placement-is-part-of-the-problem-experts-say

Also 🤬 to this comment (on new adaptive driving beams) "“It allows the vehicle to have high-beam basically everywhere, except where there are other cars,” Aylor said. “So it uses that [front-facing] camera and the technology to sort of track where other cars are on the road, and the headlights can turn off LEDs in those areas so that you're not glaring cars, but you’re getting high-beam visibility in all the other areas.”

Because only people in cars matter.

#AltText

Every cyclist should support separated bikeways* or keep their mouth shut so drivers can't use their opinion as a wedge. If you want to bike in the street anyway I'm not stopping you.

*I'll include physical barrier protected bike lanes in this category since they are a reasonable solution where there isn't space for a fully separated bikeway/MUP/cycletrack whatever you call it.

https://streets.mn/2023/09/22/top-10-questions-for-bicyclists-part-5-separated-bikeways/

#SorryNotSorry #BikeTooter

Do I keep the NYR/NJD game on or switch to Avs/Kraken?

@hockey