Low-rank Jack (go mathstodon)

"As more people are abandoning X, again, perhaps my short introduction to Mastodon might be of use, if you'd like to share it with your friends?" -- by @stefan@stefanbohacek.online stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-jo… #mastodon #fediverse

@TroncheBiais A propos des biais de X, et de la possibilité de tester autre chose, je vous suis sur Mastodon grâce a bird.makup, mais y avez-vous un compte officiel ?

L'IA de Twitter/Elon Musk était annoncée différente, plus libre, moins bien pensante. Catastrophe ! La machine contredit les certitudes des MAGA, et on suspecte une trahison. En France, c'est Xavier Azalbert de France Soir qui en fait les frais. youtu.be/tBD2cu56iWU

Donate to Wikipedia to help keep sanity.

"Pourquoi les médias devraient créer des serveurs Mastodon maintenant" blogs.mediapart.fr/gaetan-le-feuv…

10/🚨It get's worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady MAGA/Russia ties as well. @cryptadamist/113472115447080382" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/…

5/Bluesky’s most recent funding round was provided by Blockchain Capital LLC. What do those folks want from their investment? I don’t know. But that’s the question to be asking. Crypto money outspent Big Oil in this cycle … to the tune of $200mm.

I’m outta here. You can find me on LinkedIn.

@radastrat Good idea Anna. You could also like to test Mastodon, the astro community seems well represented there, e.g. @CosmicRami@aus.social and an astro instance astrodon.social/public/local. Tell me if you need pointers. More info in my bio here.

@Dirque_L Indeed. Also works for uniform quantization, other ditherings (e.g. triangular), and of great interest to build quantized random embeddings as well as for quantized compressive sensing. Gray and Neuhoff are I guess the first who fully characterized the interest dithering in SP.

Just learned: Adding randomness before quantization helps! One-bit quantization of X is sign(X). If |X|≤c then it's better to store sign(X+Y) where Y is uniformly distributed on [-c,c]! Why? We still have E[X] = E[c*sign(X+Y)] 1/n en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither

"Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brains" theframelab.org/p/algorithm-wa…

The Media and Democracy Project names Elon Musk the “2023 Disinformer of the Year” mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/the-media-an…

📣📣: #conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon & LinkedIn in 2024. conda.org/blog/2023-12-2… You will find us at 🐘 @conda" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fosstodon.org/@conda 🔗 linkedin.com/company/condac… See you there in 2024!

"Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon", by Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello & Andrea Tagarelli nature.com/articles/s4159…

@sylvaingigan @IgorCarron Most things semanticscholar.org can do too btw

@IgorCarron Searching litterature - fast Looking up quickly people : their most recent works, their most cited ones, etc… Following the citations of your own work - very, very useful.

A large fraction of my (and many other's) work rely on using google scholar. But do you know how many people work at google scholar? it grew from 2 people in 2004 when it launched to 9 in 2014 (se below). I doubt it more than doubled since then. (1/2) nature.com/articles/natur…

"Mastodon Is Bigger Than A Twitter Replacement" urbanists.video/w/n7xyeV1kbW8m…

@AndresAlmansaR @TachellaJulian Aussi boosted sur mastodon

Le programme de la journée co-conception du 20 novembre à l'IHP est en ligne. drive.google.com/file/d/1u0ihrk… Un déjeuner (offert par le RT MIA) sera proposé à midi à ceux qui auront rempli ce sondage au plus tard le 12 novembre. framaforms.org/sondage-pour-l…

If you leave Xitter, don't shutdown your account, avoid impersonator who'll use the market opened by Musk forbes.com/sites/alexkonr… #mastodonmigration #johnmastodon

... and destruction theguardian.com/commentisfree/… techspot.com/news/100590-el…

Blackmail... reuters.com/technology/mus…

@AndresAlmansaR @TachellaJulian @InHenriPoincare Retooted on mastodon

Nous organisons une journée sur la co-conception à l'@InHenriPoincare le 20 nov 2023. L'appel à contributions est ouvert jusqu'au 25 octobre. Venez nombreux gdr-isis.fr/index.php/reun…