Ben Carson
@bencarson.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy
I’m a technical product manager by way of software engineering with interests in cognition, the intersections of neuroscience and AI, AI safety engineering […]
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A mildly random project I released recently to help you find parks near you: https://urbangreenplace.com.
During COVID, I got to know my local parks a lot better. It was hard to work out what features they had though, e.g. do they have a playground, can you take the dog? This site helps with […]
During COVID, I got to know my local parks a lot better. It was hard to work out what features they had though, e.g. do they have a playground, can you take the dog? This site helps with […]
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sigmoid.social
July 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A mildly random project I released recently to help you find parks near you: https://urbangreenplace.com.
During COVID, I got to know my local parks a lot better. It was hard to work out what features they had though, e.g. do they have a playground, can you take the dog? This site helps with […]
During COVID, I got to know my local parks a lot better. It was hard to work out what features they had though, e.g. do they have a playground, can you take the dog? This site helps with […]
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I have the spoons to give you all one or two right now. Americans:
You need to make a risk decision right now about whether to leave the country (particularly if you or family are in a vulnerable group).
Some people do not have the luxury and I deeply respect those who stay to protect them […]
You need to make a risk decision right now about whether to leave the country (particularly if you or family are in a vulnerable group).
Some people do not have the luxury and I deeply respect those who stay to protect them […]
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infosec.exchange
November 6, 2024 at 6:58 PM
I have the spoons to give you all one or two right now. Americans:
You need to make a risk decision right now about whether to leave the country (particularly if you or family are in a vulnerable group).
Some people do not have the luxury and I deeply respect those who stay to protect them […]
You need to make a risk decision right now about whether to leave the country (particularly if you or family are in a vulnerable group).
Some people do not have the luxury and I deeply respect those who stay to protect them […]
Hey folks in the US, as an outsider it feels a little weird to have an opinion about your election. However what happens over there tends to impact the rest of us too.
If you can vote, vote. You have a candidate and party that seems to be openly flirting with a descent into authoritarianism […]
If you can vote, vote. You have a candidate and party that seems to be openly flirting with a descent into authoritarianism […]
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sigmoid.social
November 4, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Hey folks in the US, as an outsider it feels a little weird to have an opinion about your election. However what happens over there tends to impact the rest of us too.
If you can vote, vote. You have a candidate and party that seems to be openly flirting with a descent into authoritarianism […]
If you can vote, vote. You have a candidate and party that seems to be openly flirting with a descent into authoritarianism […]
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![An awareness of the history of p-values might elp deflate their swollen stature and encourage more judicious use. We were surprised to learn, in the course of writing this article, that the p < 0.05 cutoff was established as a competitive response to a disagreement over book royalties between two foundational statisticians. In the early 1920s, Kendall Pearson, whose income depended on the sale of extensive statistical tables, was unwilling to allow Ronald A. Fisher to use them in his new book. To work around this barrier, Fisher created a method of inference based on only two values: p-values of 0.05 and 0.01 (Hurlbert and Lombardi,
2009). Fisher himself later admitted that Pearson's more continuous method of inference was better than his binary approach: "no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects [null] hypotheses; he rather gives his mind to each particular case in the light of his evidence and ideas (Hurlbert and Lombardi, 2009: 316). A fair interpretation of this history is that we use p-values at east in part because a statistician from the 1920s was afraid that sharing his work would undermine his income](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iljjw2bkuvcrugonpazt6p3g/bafkreihpmiazec7nstrszzzmbuzs4aof62jr7j6ujfvr3sykokibsdrd3u@jpeg)
November 1, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Super interesting blog post on creating a WebGL shader to produce a painterly output. I’ve wanted to achieve this in the past, but was never successful.
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-crafting-painterly-shaders/
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-crafting-painterly-shaders/
October 30, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Super interesting blog post on creating a WebGL shader to produce a painterly output. I’ve wanted to achieve this in the past, but was never successful.
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-crafting-painterly-shaders/
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-crafting-painterly-shaders/
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Guys, it's that bad. I don't know how to get it across to anyone who doesn't get it that it is that bad. Even just voting isn't enough. I hope you're doing something else, too.
October 28, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Guys, it's that bad. I don't know how to get it across to anyone who doesn't get it that it is that bad. Even just voting isn't enough. I hope you're doing something else, too.
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Went to a Halloween party last night, so I pulled out my LED plushies, and made a boat from a cardboard box. I was "Disco Jacques Cousteau"
October 27, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Went to a Halloween party last night, so I pulled out my LED plushies, and made a boat from a cardboard box. I was "Disco Jacques Cousteau"
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America needs to read this. Via Rachel Bitecofer, a Thread Reader post:
"The choice for thousands of police, lawyers, judges, journalists, civil servants, and other average Germans was clear: starve or go along to get along.
Very few people chose to risk their own families and fortunes for […]
"The choice for thousands of police, lawyers, judges, journalists, civil servants, and other average Germans was clear: starve or go along to get along.
Very few people chose to risk their own families and fortunes for […]
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mastodon.social
October 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM
America needs to read this. Via Rachel Bitecofer, a Thread Reader post:
"The choice for thousands of police, lawyers, judges, journalists, civil servants, and other average Germans was clear: starve or go along to get along.
Very few people chose to risk their own families and fortunes for […]
"The choice for thousands of police, lawyers, judges, journalists, civil servants, and other average Germans was clear: starve or go along to get along.
Very few people chose to risk their own families and fortunes for […]
Literally nobody: …
Evolution: Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour Jesus Crab?
Evolution: Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour Jesus Crab?
September 30, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Literally nobody: …
Evolution: Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour Jesus Crab?
Evolution: Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour Jesus Crab?
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@exchgr
Dispatch: 911, what’s your emergency?
Citizen: Help, my house is on fire!
Dispatch: Please hold
Automated Voice: Plase note these are minimum starting prices which may go higher. Have your credit card info ready—-
Citizen: (coughing) What the—-
AV: —-Press 1 for AABCO Firefighting […]
Dispatch: 911, what’s your emergency?
Citizen: Help, my house is on fire!
Dispatch: Please hold
Automated Voice: Plase note these are minimum starting prices which may go higher. Have your credit card info ready—-
Citizen: (coughing) What the—-
AV: —-Press 1 for AABCO Firefighting […]
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mastodon.social
September 11, 2024 at 6:23 PM
@exchgr
Dispatch: 911, what’s your emergency?
Citizen: Help, my house is on fire!
Dispatch: Please hold
Automated Voice: Plase note these are minimum starting prices which may go higher. Have your credit card info ready—-
Citizen: (coughing) What the—-
AV: —-Press 1 for AABCO Firefighting […]
Dispatch: 911, what’s your emergency?
Citizen: Help, my house is on fire!
Dispatch: Please hold
Automated Voice: Plase note these are minimum starting prices which may go higher. Have your credit card info ready—-
Citizen: (coughing) What the—-
AV: —-Press 1 for AABCO Firefighting […]
Pretty Power Princess #dog #dachshund
September 9, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Pretty Power Princess #dog #dachshund
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AS the product owner for the enterprise edition of a password manager
I WANT the session duration for our browser plugin to be less than a single work day
SO THAT I can harvest the anguished cries of millions of workers across the globe to fill the dark and empty place where my soul should be.
I WANT the session duration for our browser plugin to be less than a single work day
SO THAT I can harvest the anguished cries of millions of workers across the globe to fill the dark and empty place where my soul should be.
September 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM
AS the product owner for the enterprise edition of a password manager
I WANT the session duration for our browser plugin to be less than a single work day
SO THAT I can harvest the anguished cries of millions of workers across the globe to fill the dark and empty place where my soul should be.
I WANT the session duration for our browser plugin to be less than a single work day
SO THAT I can harvest the anguished cries of millions of workers across the globe to fill the dark and empty place where my soul should be.
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The word "coach" originates from the Hungarian word "kocsi," which means "carriage of Kocs," named after a village in Hungary where these carriages were first made in the 15th century.
The term spread across Europe, becoming "kutsche" in German and "coche" in French.
By the 1830s, "coach" was […]
The term spread across Europe, becoming "kutsche" in German and "coche" in French.
By the 1830s, "coach" was […]
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mastodon.world
August 30, 2024 at 1:25 PM
The word "coach" originates from the Hungarian word "kocsi," which means "carriage of Kocs," named after a village in Hungary where these carriages were first made in the 15th century.
The term spread across Europe, becoming "kutsche" in German and "coche" in French.
By the 1830s, "coach" was […]
The term spread across Europe, becoming "kutsche" in German and "coche" in French.
By the 1830s, "coach" was […]
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NYT Tomorrow: Will Donald Trump’s plan to liquidate the homeless and sell their organs on an open market will completely solve homelessness or the donor organ shortage? Perhaps not. Three economists chatted with us about it over a latte.
August 30, 2024 at 4:25 PM
NYT Tomorrow: Will Donald Trump’s plan to liquidate the homeless and sell their organs on an open market will completely solve homelessness or the donor organ shortage? Perhaps not. Three economists chatted with us about it over a latte.
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type of guy who gets a new water bottle because his old one has the wrong logo on it
August 28, 2024 at 6:13 PM
type of guy who gets a new water bottle because his old one has the wrong logo on it
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As usual, the answer to a headline with a question is No
"Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?"
https://apnews.com/article/ai-writes-police-reports-axon-body-cameras-chatgpt-a24d1502b53faae4be0dac069243f418
#police #ai #llm #chatgpt
"Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?"
https://apnews.com/article/ai-writes-police-reports-axon-body-cameras-chatgpt-a24d1502b53faae4be0dac069243f418
#police #ai #llm #chatgpt
August 27, 2024 at 5:29 PM
As usual, the answer to a headline with a question is No
"Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?"
https://apnews.com/article/ai-writes-police-reports-axon-body-cameras-chatgpt-a24d1502b53faae4be0dac069243f418
#police #ai #llm #chatgpt
"Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?"
https://apnews.com/article/ai-writes-police-reports-axon-body-cameras-chatgpt-a24d1502b53faae4be0dac069243f418
#police #ai #llm #chatgpt
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actually the main reason i wanna run macOS on an iPad is iPadOS is just overall kinda jank
August 20, 2024 at 4:11 AM
actually the main reason i wanna run macOS on an iPad is iPadOS is just overall kinda jank
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Don Quixote
And of course, he starts ranting about windmills again. He really hates those windmills.
August 15, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Don Quixote
I’m seeing a few hype takes about strawberries at the moment. I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but if OpenAI were that close to AGI I don’t think we’d see the high profile departures and sabbaticals. Folks are making investment decisions with their feet.
August 13, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I’m seeing a few hype takes about strawberries at the moment. I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but if OpenAI were that close to AGI I don’t think we’d see the high profile departures and sabbaticals. Folks are making investment decisions with their feet.
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Hi. I was away for a week. Hope everyone is doing well.
There are people who believe the reasons for my absence are shameful and disqualifying for full participation on public life.
Those people can snort my taint.
If you need help, get help. Don’t wait to be in crisis. You can feel better.
/1
There are people who believe the reasons for my absence are shameful and disqualifying for full participation on public life.
Those people can snort my taint.
If you need help, get help. Don’t wait to be in crisis. You can feel better.
/1
July 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Hi. I was away for a week. Hope everyone is doing well.
There are people who believe the reasons for my absence are shameful and disqualifying for full participation on public life.
Those people can snort my taint.
If you need help, get help. Don’t wait to be in crisis. You can feel better.
/1
There are people who believe the reasons for my absence are shameful and disqualifying for full participation on public life.
Those people can snort my taint.
If you need help, get help. Don’t wait to be in crisis. You can feel better.
/1
Microsoft is attempting to draw a very long bow here. https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-blames-eu-rules-for-its-inability-to-lock-down-windows-following-crowdstrike-incident
July 23, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Microsoft is attempting to draw a very long bow here. https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-blames-eu-rules-for-its-inability-to-lock-down-windows-following-crowdstrike-incident