Generative AI is as inevitable as subscription based services like heated car seats or printer cartridges are. They aren’t. But they are still pushed ahead by greedy corporations and billionaire CEOs.

I anyone else seeing a whole bunch of accounts posting identical content to the #science hash tag?

I think it’s unacceptable that left leaning political pundits accuse the left of abandoning working people in favour of diversity quotas.

Working people were abandoned in favour of profit for the few, not diversity quotas.

When was the last time there was any meaningful policy addressing DEI?

Ignored and then blamed all the way through…

#DEI

With headlines like this, the Onion will soon go out of business…
“Top AI Company Anthropic Pleads With People Seeking Jobs There Not to Use AI for Job Applications”
https://futurism.com/ai-company-job-applicants-ai

I'm not on Facebook anymore (not since 2020) but when I was on there, content moderation was non-existent and their reporting system was useless - nothing I reported ever breached their community guidelines. It's a pretty low bar to begin with.

Be wary of people who argue that content moderation infringes on freedom of expression, and that offensive content will be called out by the community. These people will never call out offensive content and will accuse people that do of censorship.

@mike I’m not on facebook but I’m on WhatsApp. I can’t just delete it. That’s where all my kids-related communities are

@dalias That's what more and more research grant/award panels are trialing. Studies actually show that there is no correlation between reviewer scores/ranks across reviewers (above a certain threshold), meaning that if you meet the baseline criteria reviewers don't do any better than random!

There is nothing wrong with striving for excellence and rewarding excellence. In fact I am all for it. But the problem is that we tend to reward only the highly exceptional, leaving no room for the rest that are still excellent but not "exceptional". Those exceptional few that make it to the top then justify it that they are the only ones worthy of staying in the game, and reinforce it for the next generation.

Nothing beats physical objects. I've got a 3D printed dinosaur skull and I would never be able to fully appreciate the 3D geometry, in terms of the actual physical anatomy, no matter how many hours I'd spend spinning and zooming in and out of digital models. I just can't get that. 3D images on screens are just 2D representations of 3D objects and no amount of spinning is going to convey the physicality of complex anatomical structures.
#zoology #dinosaurs #Palaeontology #science

@dalias Frankly I don't care. They're online retailers that sell things.

Despite all it's problems, Amazon still offers superior service when it comes to timely delivery and quick cancellation/refunds. Wayfair is terrible at both.

"In her latest study, the researcher demonstrated that producing a high-definition image using artificial intelligence consumes as much energy as fully rechar­ging the battery of your cell phone."

- AI is ‘accelerating the climate crisis’, expert warns
https://www.dawn.com/news/1859284

Drivers that don’t slow down for pedestrians or cyclists must be confusing themselves for Totoro riding the cat bus.
“Wow - the trees are making way for us!”

@rotan @thomasfuchs I see - thanks. Wouldn't a boxplot of the number of days per city across the years be a more faithful representation of the data?

@thomasfuchs ...LOL - but the "Clone Wars" was mentioned in Star Wars 1977 already so it surely predates these?

I'm not on #Twitter anymore (and neither are a lot of you on #Mastodon ) so maybe it's pointless to be posting it here, but if you are still on Twitter, you might want to think a bit about that...
I'm actually concerned so many scientists still use Twitter.
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-pro-trump-custom-hashtag-icon

Unsolicited advice and I appreciate the irony here, but this is something from my bitter experience: Be careful about who you take advice from. The wrong early advice can derail a project and setting it on a path of most resistant - and at the end of it the person that advised you will criticise you for going that route (or at least comment something like, you could have done something else) despite the fact that you followed their advice.

@steffen @fla Me too!