cabbage @ cabbage @piefed.social

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What an amazing site.

We won't ask why you would want to glue ceramic and leather together - we just give gluing info.

• Make car out of stainless steel
• Glue it together

Econometrics has basically taken over for statistics in a lot of social sciences, for some reason. You rarely see a social scientist team up with a statistician - they team up with an economist, and they apply econometrics to whatever it is they are studying.

There could be a couple of reasons. Economists might be perceived as having a better understanding of "the real world", as they are used to building predictive models around real world societal affairs, which is not really the job description of a statistician. Alternatively, it could be because they themselves are social scientists more than mathematicians, and they therefore "speak the language" of social sciences and are capable of interdisciplinary co-operation.

I think it's a problem. More social scientists should learn to think critically of their methods and to do their own empirical research.

I used find it easier to be enthusiastic about these innovations if I could think of a single realistic use that isn't terrifying.

People say they prefer food cooked by professional chefs over fast food, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true

Likewise, poorly performing intelligence in a human or animal is nevertheless intelligence. A human does not lack intelligence in the same way a machine learning model does, except I guess the babies who are literally born without brains.

They are stating that the problem with AI is not that it is not human, it's that it's not intelligent. So if a non-human entity creates something intelligent and original, they might still be able to claim copyright for it. But LLM models are not that.

It's farmland, you see the plowmarks in front and in the back there are fields.

It has clearly been used as farmland already. And in most places where farming is common we could traditionally rely on rain, though I guess climate change is making everything funky.

There's no following of users in PieFed, so in that sense it's more like Lemmy.

The archive link should work?

I've been seeing Mike McCue and his projects around a lot, and listening to him quite a bit in !dot_social@flipboard.video, but I never really understood how he had the resources to do all his stuff.

He started Paper Software to make it possible to visually display 3-D information in web browsers and then sold the company to Netscape for $20 million in 1996.

In 1999 he co-founded Tellme Networks, a pioneering effort to create what had been described as a “voice browser” and make it possible to receive internet information via the phone. That company was sold to Microsoft in 2007 for a rumored $800 million.

Gosh.

This is a piece of alleged technology that is based on basic physics that has not been established.

That does sound like a problem.

I never managed to touch type on qwerty, so I guess I had nothing to lose in that sense.

I made the change in my late 20s, just before I started writing my PhD thesis. I figured if I was going to do a lot of writing, I might as well make it as efficient as possible.

I taught myself Dvorak. Didn't buy a new keyboard or anything, just practised a little every day in some app I installed on my computer.

Took me maybe a week before I switched to Dvorak full time, and maybe a week more before my writing was as fast as it had ever been on Qwerty. It's absolutely worth making the change.

Referring to the song Sweetheart Like You:

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king

As the headlins in the article I linked earlier kindly informs us, half of all active satellites are now from SpaceX. And it's increasing fast. If other companies enter the scene and start competing, the earth will be orbited by a shitload of useful satelites launched into space by billionaires with a penis complex.

Governments are supposed to provide services for their population. Some of these needs might justify launching satellites. It is not unproblematic, and I would rather see it being governed by an international organization, but at least it's being done on behalf of people.

Companies launch them to make a profit for the fat wallets of their stakeholders and CEOs.

They are not the same. Pretending they are is, as you so nicely put it, weird.

It's incredible it took them this long, considering how obvious it is. But good - it's nice to see at least one thing getting less and not more shitty for once, however tiny.

They just need to capitalize the surveillance capabilities. Find a way to convince users they need access to everything on their phones in order to sell them first class convenience. Once you've done that there's plenty of money to be made.

You can do that all by yourself, no AI needed!