Giampiero B

The 'empty quadrant' is one of the most replicated findings in housing research. There expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs.

@signorina37H Normalmente sono una persona poco loquace e pacata irl e online. Bazzico online dalla fine dei '90 e fino a threads la cosa non è mai cambiata. Quando aprò threads non riesco a resistere dallo scrivere insulti più o meno velati a questi mancati tronisti

Ho aperto #threads per capire quali notifiche mi avessero inviato, ho pensato fossero gli alieni che volevano comunicare con noi, miseri "terricoli". Sia tra le persone che conosco virtualmente e non, sia tra le proposte del feed, c'era una sequela di sofismi filosofici sul rapporto uomo-donna che non avete idea! "Se lei non controlla con chi parli sui social, non ti ama" - a casa mia è mancanza di fiducia, di rispetto e stalking. "Se lui non è geloso, non ti ama" - sempre a casa mia, un po' di gelosia ci sta, ma se conosci la persona sai che non hai niente da temere. "Ma se lui non mi scrive la buonanotte quando è fuori con gli amici, va con un altra?" - ancora a casa mia, non si pone nemmeno questa domanda. "Raga help! L'ho seguito tutto il pome ed era con un'altra!" - a casa mia, e anche alla polizia, si chiama stalking. "Mi confermate che controllare il telefono di lei e tutte le sue chat fa parte del sano rapporto di coppia?" - vedi sopra. I problemi sociali sono aumentati esponenzialmente con l'uso (e l'abuso) dei #social media. Nascono quindi figure improvvisate che si ergono a paladini delle relazioni, con guru specializzati nei rapporti di coppia. È una di quelle follie che il mio cervello rifiuta di capire 🤔 Se non stalkero il Signor Baci non lo amo? Se non legge le mie chat non ci tiene? Se esce con gli amici non va bene? Sono gelosa? Oh sì. Me ne da motivo? No. C'è sincerità? Sì. Non capisco dove siano i problemi, francamente. Però, gente, datevi una svegliata e ripigliatevi o l'evoluzione termina qui! Sostituire "slept like shit" con "opened Threads" per il mood di oggi.

Vado a vedere che si dice su bluesky, statemi bene e non mettete troppi like ai porno, che si diventa ciechi

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“Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly.” My essay on why those looking to create/improve intellectual institutions need to take Rux's rule into account -- with loads of references to Katalin Kariko. writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-weird-ne… Excerpts: "A few weeks ago, a lot of people on academic X quickly forgot about their support for “Women in STEM” and got angry at, of all people, Katalin Karikó, the co-inventor of the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines and 2023 Nobel Prize winner. Her crime? A passage from her book where she laments that academia involved way too much people pleasing and political games for her. Reactions varied from angry: “Who does she think she is”/”We are all Geniuses, not only her, we all deserve funding, why does she think she is special”/”Nooo, she is a jerk” to self-satisfied, cynical: “Well of course this is how it is, why are intelligent people so naive?” [..] A couple of months ago I wrote a piece called “The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia”, in which I argued there is a trend wherein Weird Nerds are being driven out of academia by the so-called Failed Corporatist phenotype. Katalin Karikó is a perfect example of a Weird Nerd. I recently argued that many Weird Nerds (I called them autistics, but people really hated that1), have found a refuge on the Internet, where their strengths are amplified and their weaknesses are less important. There, I make the case for why these people are uniquely suited for creative intellectual endeavours and why they might slip through the cracks in a lot of normal jobs. Judging from a (short) lifetime of personal observations as well as the vitriol launched at Kariko for daring to not be “normal”, I suspect some explicit pro-Weird Nerd norms have to exist in an institution that seeks to properly utilize these people, for the benefit of us all. To formalize this: “Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly.” That is because most people, while liking non-conformism in the abstract and post-facto, are not very willing to actually put up with the personality trade-offs of Weird Nerds in practice. There is an increasing number of people right now who are thinking about how to build better intellectual institutions (e.g. those who study metascience.) Yet surprisingly little attention is given to human capital outside of “Let’s increase immigration” (a good idea, don’t get me wrong.) But if the rule turns out to be true, I think it’s worth thinking about what kind of people one wants to attract in these institutions and how to keep them there. And I believe the conversation here starts with accepting a simple truth, which is that Weird Nerds will have certain traits that might be less than ideal, that these traits come “in a package” with other, very good traits, and if one makes filtering or promotion based on the absence of those traits a priority, they will miss on the positives. It means really internalizing the existence of trade-offs in human personality, in an era where accepting trade-offs is deeply unfashionable, and structuring institutions and their cultures while keeping these in mind. [..] In one of her interviews, Katalin Karikó recalls her mother calling her from Hungary around the time when the Nobel Prizes were awarded and asking her if that year she was going to win it. The question, in its loving naivete, must have stung worse than an insult: not only was Karikó not close to this remarkable feat, she was actually unsuccessful by much less ambitious metrics. Put simply, she had left her family in Hungary to work in the US, but for little actual measurable reward, be it status or pecuniary. Karikó did not get grants. Karikó did not get tenure. What Karikó did was work until late at night on a topic people did not pay that much attention to at the time: mRNA for vaccines. And she did that for decades. Paul Graham talks about an underrated quality one needs for extreme success, namely the willingness to be low status. And Karikó had plenty of that: she lived her convictions, in this case the conviction in the importance of mRNA through rejections, humiliations (her office was vacated without her having received prior notice) and hardship. I would go even further and say: she had intellectual courage. [..] To have so much intellectual courage one has to be a bit mad. It’s hard to believe this needs to be said, but the no trade-off world many people like to pretend is real does not, in fact, exist. It’s reasonable to expect Weird Nerds or anyone else for that matter to be ethical and not become toxic colleagues. And listening to the interviews with Karikó one hardly gets the impression that she was toxic: there is a Jesus-like quality to the way she talks even about the people who had wronged her — for example about a Professor who threatened to have her deported. It’s hard to imagine that coming from a “jerk”, as many have called her. But it’s also hard to believe someone like her could ever become the most pleasant interlocutor at a dinner party, or the most socially adept and organized manager. And that is fine. We need her in the lab, not at fancy dinners. [...] It’s at this young PI stage that Karikó ’s career hit a wall: after she became an Adjunct Professor, she stopped advancing further. Some of it was because of the topic she had chosen and in this regard, diversifying funding and supporting more high risk projects are very good proposals coming from the metascience community that would have helped. But some of it was probably her personality, as she says herself. I suspect selection against Weird Nerds has actually amplified since Karikó ’s time in academia: everything from ever larger collaborations in Biology, to longer times to becoming independent or increase in admin points in that direction. Indeed, as I have argued before, there is some quantitative evidence there are less Weird Nerds in STEM academia than there used to be. So far I have discussed the Hard Sciences, but there is a case to be made that the problem is much more acute in less quantifiable fields like Humanities or Social Sciences. STEM has a higher barrier to entry: there is only so much political game playing that one can do in order to advance themselves if one cannot perform experiments in a lab. It is also somewhat more clear if a scientific piece of work is completely bad. There is feedback from industry, with most start-ups in biotech these days coming out of academic labs: this provides a strong incentive for innovation. Such quality check mechanisms are on much more shaky ground in fields like Humanities, where feedback from society can happen on the order of decades. Arguably, being a Weird Nerd that is intrinsically driven by the truth as opposed to what’s fashionable is even more crucial in the absence of hard metrics that can tell one their work is wrong. But backlash from society does eventually happen, and I think we are in the middle of this right now, with trust in academia plummeting in a bipartisan fashion, as recent Gallup polls show. At least some of the current crisis is, in my opinion, down to academia essentially selecting against Weird Nerds types. A problem with non-STEM topics might sound less problematic than a replication criss in cancer biology. I think that’s not true: after all, we depend on a collective imaginary for a healthy society, a collective imaginary whose pillars might be slowly crumbling. "

@jeremyphoward I'm a big fan of nb and I want to use them for HPC (not related to ML, just old-fashion algebra, fem, equation solving) but I'm not educated on that, so I was thinking to switch to plain python scripts. Any useful resource on notebooks and parallelization for HPC to point out? TY

If you haven't got the time to learn basic notebook-engineering, don't worry, there's a fix: Just record a video, or write a blog post, telling everyone else not to use notebooks. If you're successful, then you'll never have to learn, and no-one need know about your problem.

I don't use Adobe's Creative Cloud because I like keeping my files locally. But seeing how they think they can use anything you upload there for AI training purposes, I'm filling up my entire 20 GB storage with random Nightshade-poisoned images. I encourage others do the same!

What limits missing PSVR2 features in Sony driver: · HDR - PSVR2 firmware · Headset haptics - PC software · Eye tracking - PC hardware/software (some PC USB ports can't open eye tracking endpoint and reset the entire port when attempting to) · Controller haptics - PC software

🎪 #candidatichedavvero 🎪 Ciao, siamo quelli di Candidati che davvero, e ora vi mostreremo i 30 momenti più incredibili di questa tornata elettorale. A thread

@signorina37H Io sono nofat ma non pensavo di offendere nessuno. Ntfs o ext semplicemente mi sembrano funzionare meglio

Dividiamo subito, così i #nofat eviteranno di commentare a sproposito. • Categoria 1 Persone obese che hanno delle patologie conclamate; persone obese che nonostante alcuni tipi di dieta faticano a perdere peso. Persone che hanno bisogno di un aiuto farmacologico per perdere peso. Per loro esistono farmaci specifici, approvati recentemente. A loro auguro di essere costanti nelle terapie e di avere salute, con impegno e perseveranza. • Categoria 2 Persone obese senza una patologia conclamata, persone obese che amano mangiare nei fastfood. Persone obese che non hanno rispetto del proprio corpo. Persone in sovrappeso che non hanno voglia di fare sforzi e cercano soluzioni rapide. Persone normopeso che pensano che perdere 3kg in un mese con una punturina sia la ricetta di bellezza. A loro auguro di non ammalarsi mai, di non dover dipendere dai farmaci per mantenere la salute. Di non dover avere alimentazione controllata, di non dover fare weight training e di non avere complicazioni derivanti da assenza di farmaci. Le stronzette di #RomaNord hanno fatto storia. Vediamo di non ripeterla.

I think sysadmins should be disabling Windows Recall now while impact is minimal, so here’s the GPO: User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows AI > Turn off saving snapshots for Windows You may need to update your Windows 11 ADMX files.

Chi dimentica è complice. #FestaDellaRepubblica #RepubblicaItaliana #2giugno #2giugno2024

@WutheringMedia @EldenRingMedia Full game and DLC on PC

@NZXT Mobo+cpu+ram (probably need to add a hundred bucks or get just 16GB of ram amd upgrade later)

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@bgolus Powertoys has been too good for too long for being Microsoft stuff

Ooo! Update to PowerToys! *reads update notes* "New utility: Advanced Paste, an AI powered tool..." Well, at least I can just not use it... "Paste as Plain Text was removed as a separate utility, since its functionality is now part of the Advanced Paste utility." Nope. Im out

@Clodo76 Spero non finisca censurato come superhot

Non è un indie o un giochino eh, è una produzione AAA, voto metacritic oltre 8. Sinceramente, per me ci sta, è comunque un horror. Ecco forse gli avrei dato un PEGI 18 solo per quella scena. Dico solo che è un caso più interessante di andar a puttane in GTA5.

Videogioco, VR, su catalogo Playstation5 e Steam PC, uscito pochi giorni fa, non dico titolo per evitare spoiler. Per finirlo, bisogna suicidarsi impiccandosi. In realtà virtuale si afferra proprio la corda. PEGI 16. Senza alcun avviso tipico di serie TV. Caso interessante.

@gingasvr It's the main shortcoming that unfortunately meta has non consolidated. Controllers with standard layout and the layout is extremely limited. In my opinion this is something that limits Quest (and whole VR) especially for productivity tasks

I know a lot of people will probably disagree, but index controllers have more versatility than quest style controllers 🤷‍♀️ Yes the joystick sucks, but for games like Skyrim/Fallout VR, there’s a lot more utility (e.g you can just open your hands physically to cast spells) Trying to get the same versatility on quest controllers is awkward