Mitch Skinner
79 posts
I climbed to the top of a nearby hill which had a clear view to the Northwest and I could see the trunk burning up
English
At some point, someone in the Trump admin gets found in contempt of court, then -
gets a presidential pardon, presumably? then -
the end of the rule of law?
How does this go?
Hugo Lowell@hugolowell
New: The Trump admin has been ordered by chief US district judge James Boasberg to show up to a 4p ET hearing today and clarify whether they defied his court order compelling the return of deportation flights of suspected Venezuelan gang members
English
@StevenSalzberg1 I just want people to agree on whether there's a "chr" prefix or not!
English
So we ought to re-number the chromosomes, but of course that will never happen–there's a huge biomedical literature built on the current numbering scheme. So don't worry, chromosome 21, even though you're the smallest, you won't be demoted to 22nd! 6/6
English
The human chromosomes are numbered incorrectly (The fourth in an irregular series of threads about #Bioinformatics.) As most people know, 22 of our chromosomes are numbered from longest to shortest, plus we have X and Y... 1/6
English
Mitch Skinner ری ٹویٹ کیا
For a sense of what that looks like, here's a video of Chinese police harassing a Chinese student living in Australia. They summoned her father in China to the station, called her on his phone, and demanded she delete a Twitter account that mocked Xi Jinping.
English
@gwern @misha_saul I just assumed that a sensitive sense of smell made it harder to live in large groups. And that large-group living had some survival benefit around that time.
Poor dogs! Imagine being bred for a sensitive nose and also having to live in close proximity indoors
English
@__justplaying Happy Q4! Have a seat, you're just in time for the copying over of the OKRs from last Q
English
@Meaningness How do we represent knowledge for a retrieval-only LM? Don't tell me we have to dust off all that GOFAI machinery?! 😱
English
AI labs should compete to build the smallest possible language models, which “know” as little as possible—and retrieve “knowledge” from a defined text database instead. LMs are a very expensive and unreliable way to store “knowledge.”
We already know how to do this.
English
Mitch Skinner ری ٹویٹ کیا
On this day in 1938, Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. "It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe," the Nazi leader assures the world.
English
The hottest girl I know is dating a fat dude who makes a lot less money than she does. I also know a dude who for years thought he was unattractive and resented girls, until he got recruited to be a professional model.
Most of what we think we know about attraction is wrong.
English
@balajis “‘Hallyu’ is the term that Asians use to describe the tsunami of South Korean culture that began flooding their countries at the turn of the twenty-first century. […] The Korean government has promoted hallyu, using it as a form of ‘soft power’”
newyorker.com/magazine/2012/…
English
Was K-pop a government op?
Not my area at all. But this piece claims (with citations?!) that K-pop was backed and nurtured by the Korean government to boost their soft power.
If so, it worked.
tripzilla.com/korean-governm…
English
mentally chilling, to reduce the annealing temperature after a very hot week.
English
I’m pillpilled and maxxmaxxing. I’m going mode mode. In my “in my arc” arc.
English
@MOCDA_ @fi_lor @KnownOrigin_io I’m not the artist; from a quick google, looks like it’s @kak_dc
knownorigin.io/surrealization
English
Surrealization is an artist in search of the whimsical. His work suggests a great interest in AI and a keen attention to details.
From #DigitalTrends Ep. 83
youtu.be/vzMg5aFh7ug
Artist: @surrealization
Words by: @fi_lor
In collab w/ @KnownOrigin_io
YouTube
English
Saw this picture of Russian radar decoys near the Kerch bridge and thought of the video explaining corner retro-reflectors from @MouldS
youtu.be/z5cR6EA2jGY
YouTube
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
A Russian Project 436 target barge equipped with a large number of radar reflectors near the Crimean Bridge. This is most likely intended to serve as a decoy for any terminal radar guided missiles aimed at the bridge.
English
Necrobiotic spider gripper by @ProfDanPreston at the Rice University Department of Mechanical Engineering.
English
@anshulkundaje @dana_peer @dagarfield Is the tooling you’re wanting more a matter of visibility (showing you what you’re spending on what) or of setting limits (project x has a budget of $y this month)? Or something else (e.g. detect idle instances)?
English
@dana_peer @dagarfield Yeah I have started investing once again in our local clusters as well. I am done with the cloud for the proximal future, unless & until I see strong cost management tools built to SAVE $$s for the average academic lab.
English
2021 was an "interesting" financial year for the lab. We started off with a nice surplus (have been lucky to have healthy finances from 2014-2021). Then 2 things change 1/
English
@emollick @Noahpinion It lowers the initial budget request. You sell a short mission for $X million to congress. Then, when that’s complete, you say “well, the rover/telescope/etc. is already out there. We might as well spend another $Y million keeping the program running.”
English
A reason that NASA continues to seem so impressive is that many missions consistently crush goals: Opportunity was a 90 day mission that lasted 16 years. Hubble was supposed to last 15 years & will do 45.
Anyone know if this a policy of under-promising? Genuine over-performance?
English
@ianholmes @monimunozto @scottjcain @apollo_bbop @usejbrowse Thanks Moni and Ian! Hearts and appreciation to both of you. That is the latest (ha) code link, yeah. The demo is still up:
arctur.us/demos/spinteny…
English