Notices by Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es), page 4

wonder sometimes what science would look like if we just... dropped peer-reviewed publications as a metric of achievement. came up with better ways of evaluating merit, more humane ways for choosing who to hire or how to award grants.

maybe the peer review system as it exists could actually be redeemed, if the raging torrent of articles slowed to a trickle because peer-reviewed publication wasn't a matter of life or death for everyone anymore.

very logic. so answer. much helpful. so glad my university encourages everyone to use ChatGPT (ChatGPT-4 in this case) as a research tool.

ChatGPT-3.5 meanwhile has a stroke trying to answer this.

I sometimes think about these norwegian meteorologists in 2018, registering the first ever tropical night in tromsø—well past the arctic circle—and celebrating the event with buns and currant juice, posing for a photo in the national news. like complete fucking morons.

https://www.nrk.no/nordland/her-feirer-meteorologene-historisk-varmerekord-1.14145892

not gonna lie, the schismatic beef between jack dorsey and bluesky is making me a lot more favourably inclined towards the latter.

"very, very common people" is an incredible line.

the full interview is here, in all its ridiculousness. https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

heh. reply from jay who heads bluesky: "with all due respect... we’ve carried out the work in a way I don’t think he fully understands."

I chortled.

https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3ks3uplto5c2r

every year this city gets a few weeks of grace between the last of the snow melting and the blazing horror of summer. as of yesterday I think those weeks are over, and I mourn them.

@artcollisions it was nice in april. april is the new may, may might be the new... july?

@artcollisions need a new name now for the month that used to be july because it felt like july but now it just keeps getting hotter and hotter and there is no frame of reference. scorchtober, maybe.

I swear this network has some of the most irritating drive-by commenters. the level of snide, dull, misguided stranger condescension is like nothing I've ever seen.

"the researchers say that deepfaking real humans is not their intention."

oh well goody, that's fine then. if it's not their intention. that means they're absolved, right?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/microsofts-vasa-1-can-deepfake-a-person-with-one-photo-and-one-audio-track/

man. the idea that intention defines the moral significance of your actions has a lot to answer for.

@aehdeschaine @tokyo_0 this was the measurement at the end of the session. it just kept rising at a steady rate for four hours because apparently there is no ventilation.

@tokyo_0 none of the windows open. it's so energy efficient.

ventilation just isn't a thing at my university. this is the room where I'm teaching my first four hours today.

half an hour later.

"abrupt critical transition." feels like there's a few of those happening at the moment, doesn't it.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears-of-catastrophe

@tokyo_0

for sure. there's almost too much of it, which makes it hard to navigate for a newbie.

did you find online materials useful? I had a live teacher for a short time, more than a quarter century ago, but as things stand at the moment I'd rather train without other people around.