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doboprobodyne

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Dipping a toe. I have some understanding of the most elementary fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, some practical physics and organic chemistry. I'd like to do a little passive learning if I can, with a view to learning programming later in life. We all see the same truth through a different paradigm, but sometimes math helps us better see and understand and convey the same thing. What a lovely backbone upon which to build a body of communication and thought. I treasure this server.

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glennf, (edited ) to random
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A personal journey on the piano!

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I took a couple of years of violin lessons and played in school to please my grandfather, who I loved, and wasn’t pushy about it. He had learned to play at age 4, helped found the Tucson Civic Orchestra (he was concertmaster for a time), and played until his 80s, when his arthritis made it impossible. As the owner of furniture stores, his inner life was music, all the time.

doboprobodyne,
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@Quinnypig @glennf

May I recommend
Norman Monath's "How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear"?

My father told me, for the piano capability I wanted (high-yield learning, low expectations beyond a wee sing song), learning to read a fake book would be the optimal path. He was right, and subsequently a fee of my friends have learnt from the same book! There are usually some cheap copies on AbeBooks.com

#piano #fakebooks #music #learning #brainplasticity #fun

MikeEL, to Ukraine

#munition issue is about to become a disaster.

The #ukraine Air-War in 2024 - Interviewing Professor Justin Bronk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31hMWs25UI

doboprobodyne,
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@MikeEL

Gold. Thank you!

#war #ukraine #economics #aviation #politics

w7voa, to random
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US Central Command says its forces this morning “shot down three Houthi one-way attack UAV near several commercial ships operating in the Red Sea.” https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/NEWS-ARTICLES/News-Article-View/Article/3685266/

doboprobodyne,
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@kellogh @w7voa

I never understood what was wrong with the term "loitering munition", but I suppose it doesn't sell the newspapers, or whatever the kids are buying these days.

#war #weapons #munitions #armaments #jargon #linguistics

ElleGray, to random
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Someone's trying to tell me this is an explanation of the game of cricket but it's clearly a record of the failed sex positions of English men

doboprobodyne,
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@chris @ElleGray @WendyMsGator

🎶 You can leave your hat on.

ernie, to random
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John Oliver, Thursday-style. https://youtu.be/GE-VJrdHMug?si=ymuE9_6oXT4Q1htT

doboprobodyne,
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@ernie

Wow. I'm not really into that fellow's style of presenting, so I mean it as the highest praise when I say I really hope the text of that contract he offers Thomas is published openly, so there's a hope it might get read/signed.

noelreports, to random
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"Where to stop? I do not know. I think that, taking into account what I said, we will still have to work a lot and seriously. Will it be Kyiv? Yes, probably, it should be Kyiv. If not now, then in some time. For two reasons. Kyiv is a Russian city, and from there comes the threat of the existence of the Russian Federation. It is an international threat, because even though Kyiv is a Russian city by its roots, it is controlled by an international brigade of Russia's opponents headed by the US."

video/mp4

doboprobodyne,
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@noelreports

You had me at "Where to stop? I do not know."

maxleibman, (edited ) to random
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I am always amused by the assertion, when people start to debate the mysteries of conscious experience, that "consciousness is an illusion."

My paraphrase of "cogito, ergo sum”: If consciousness is an illusion, who is being fooled?

doboprobodyne,
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@maxleibman

No worries.

Illusion is a metaphor.

Just like how we think we pass through time, rather than being in all the moments separately; before, now, in the future - time as we perceive it exists because the moments are perceived in sequence.

But like the use of the word "illusion", language is a clumsy tool, and it's hard to lay some things out in words.

Well, also its possible the folks actually thought they meant illusion, in which case you're right and they're silly. Send em to me for reducation.

#philosophy #NationalPhysicsLaboratory #CrystalLatticeAtomicClock #Physics #Consciousness #Cybernetics #NorbertWeiner #Stoics #Stoic #Physiology #Neuroscience

doboprobodyne,
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@maxleibman

You are absolutely spot-on, of course.

I read a marvellous account of this somewhere and I didn't write it down. Very possibly in a medical handbook of ADHD! I will push a message if I am lucky enough to encounter it again.

It pertained to sequencing (in the conscious mind) of perceived events including thoughts.

Great stuff!

#stoic #stoics

(Ironically, they believed the mind is the only place we have any semblance of control!)

NicoleCRust, to random
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If you were to recalibrate, what would you do?

I always suspected I would do something like study those amazing desert ants that navigate via the earth’s magnetic field. But when thinking through the question “How do you want to spend the next 10 years?” more seriously (pretending there are few constraints), that’s not where I actually point myself.

Acknowledging that it’s a tremendously priveleged (and emotional) thought experiment, What would you do with your next 10 years, assuming that thing needs to be useful enough that it’s reasonably supported (and you would continue to get a paycheck)?

doboprobodyne,
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@sfmatheson @NicoleCRust

You may enjoy a UK sitcom called "Black Books", if you haven't already seen it...

the_etrain, to random
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Revamping my vocabulary. Instead of:

"goodbye" -> "stay hydrated!"

Alright, it's been fun! Stay hydrated everyone! Tell Uncle Roy I said "stay hydrated" when he wakes up from his nap!

doboprobodyne,
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@the_etrain
Also it's an easier goal than losing weight.

grumpygamer, to random
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He's talking about the Apple of today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NASGb5m8s

doboprobodyne,
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@grumpygamer
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing this. In the UK, I expect we shall see this over the next ?5 ?50 years as the NHS changes to emergency care only and private healthcare de-facto takes over non-emergency care. A for-profit company will not want to be run by doctors. This can already be observed in dentistry. I had not seen it so well described in other trades though. Thank you!

#nhs #healthcare #medmastodon #medicine #economics #accounting #cybernetics

geonz, to random
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

doboprobodyne,
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@geonz

Thanks!

I'm not into motor-cars, but I do appreciate that they try out their new snoopy tech on the rich before it's offered to the masses ;)

cmconseils, to random French
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Cheating at horse racing by giving the horse an earpiece where I can tell it what to do next (run faster)

doboprobodyne,
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@cmconseils
Had you considered a career in management? ;)

spaf, to Cybersecurity
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This should be widely read, especially by the #cybersecurity community.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

doboprobodyne,
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@oclsc @spaf

At the risk of oversimplifying a problem to pretend there's an easy solution, , no?

chowderman, to random

The Telegraph’s opinion on what the UK needs to do regarding defence spending.

Sobering reading, with concerns that are equally valid for all of Europe.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/02/04/wasteful-britain-buy-new-arsenal-war-russia/

doboprobodyne,
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@chowderman
Thank you, that turned into a very interesting read. Regardless of whether or not I agreed with every point, the thrust of the article was thoughtfully presented.

kellogh, to random
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i have a hard time believing that using terms like “artificial intelligence” are causing people to believe that it’s “thinking”.

you don’t have to explain to people why artificial grass doesn’t grow. the “artificial” part says that on its own

“lab grown” diamonds are a thing now, they avoided “artificial” diamonds because they’re chemically identical to the real thing

besides, there’s far simpler explanations — e.g. the “AI is going to take over the world” messaging

doboprobodyne,
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@mistersql @kellogh

Not sure if it helps but if you'll forgive me lazily trying to coin a descriptor, I try to use the term "meta-algorithm" to describe technologies commonly referred to as AI, to emphasise that it's code is a construct derived from an algorithm and lots of data.

I think both "artificial" and "intelligence" are very poorly defined words. Frankly I'm disinclined to attribute "intelligence" to animals/humans.

#AI #semantics #metaAlgorithm

edited to add: I reserve judgement about Collies; they might be intelligent!

doboprobodyne,
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@kellogh @mistersql

Because "learning" is an anthropomorphisation, and because I'm not sure it describes the way in which the source data is statistically encoded within the resulting algorithm.

Thus I would dispute the assertion that "meta-algorithm" and "machine learning" have nearly the exact same definition.

#AI #ML #language #statisticalModelling #mathematics #science #math

doboprobodyne,
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@kellogh @mistersql

I beg your pardon; I saw only your second toot and pressed reply without looking for a first.

I think we are both right, but I had not twigged that you thought it improbable that folks might anthropomorphise the machines. In my limited experience humans have a low threshold for thinking in terms of analogy, and I suspect this leads to a low threshold for anthropomorphisation.

You're quite right about the dictionary definition of learning. I'm slightly hesitant to agree beyond that but because of my own ignorance rather than anything else: I am disinclined to call a "hard disk drive" "machine-knowledge" because it seems to me to be too close to thinking by analogy, when such is not necessary.

I know, it's a slippery slope to arguing with a reporter about learning by analogy like that famous video of Richard Feynman, or correcting one's grandchildren for being lazy using "car" as a contraction of "motor-car" (thanks Gran :P ), or readjusting one's students for saying "plane" when they mean "airplane".

As much as I wish "meta-algorithm" might be a preferred term, I realise it never will be. Forgive me; I think I replied on an optimistic day xD English teachers, indeed any linguists, everywhere will agree that language is a fickle mistress; perhaps only slightly less fickle than thought herself.

I hope it is some small consolation that I think right and wrong are constructs of the animal mind, that I accept p>0.05 as probably being real, and that we're probably both right.

doboprobodyne,
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@kellogh @mistersql

> i DO think we struggle with realizing when the abstractions leak

This is a most useful phrase - thank you!!

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Over the weekend #KeirStarmer abandoned plans to abolish the House of Lords, and now will merely seek some 'reforms' in the first Parliament of a Labour administration.

I assume that the increasingly narrow, substance-free #election manifesto is part of the remnants of any #green policy.

Its thinness is going to saving them a fortune in printing & paper!

doboprobodyne,
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@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @Fasgadh @fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6

Starmer may be adhering to the maxim "Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself".

Just as many would support abolishing the House of Lords, many other folks would like a House of Lords bursting with erudite experts, motivated solely by the best interests of the UK populace, who they trust more than politicians to write the laws that will govern future generations.

To be sure Johnson's abominable decision to put Lebedev in the Lords ought to put the kibosh on anyone who so believes voting conservative, but the background around Lebedev's wealth received precious little media attention.

Nevertheless; from Starmer's view, courting controversy when he is not required to do so would be a strategically poor choice.

#politics #UKPolitics #strategy #houseOfLords #labour #Lebedev #Russia #UKElection

RSMacKinnon, to climate

Jan 30 EWE: #ClassWar #Capitalism — ‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show. The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called ‘Keeling curve’ that has charted the upward march of the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/fossil-fuel-industry-air-pollution-fund-research-caltech-climate-change-denial #ClimateCrisis

doboprobodyne,
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@RSMacKinnon

https://xkcd.com/2889

;)

#globalWarming #climateCrisis

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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Every time I review any #Linux hardware on the channel, I always get asked « where the affordable options are », so here are 2 #laptops from @slimbook, the « Elemental » line.

They start under 550€, or under 500€ if you don’t have to pay VAT, and they actually give you a really solid device for the cost:

https://youtu.be/3wCexOqw-h4

doboprobodyne,
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@Nuuskis @Natanox @tarneo @thelinuxEXP @slimbook @libreleah

Is it worth mentioning, in this context, Minifree as a supplier of linux laptops? They also sell *BSD laptops too. That's not even their USP, which is that they use (and indeed develop) libreboot - a FOSS BIOS for improved security.

https://minifree.org/

#linux #BSD #hardware #laptop #laptops #FOSS #privacy #security #Qubes

viktor, to opensource
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What's one project you can't live or work without?

❗No distros/OS. Let's make it interesting.

Boosts appreciated 🙏

doboprobodyne,
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@viktor

https://divestos.org/

#divestOS - I had a oneplus Nord telephone and divestOS was the only form of #android that strived to maintain security updates for it (the manufacturer's oxygen OS and the degoogled LineageOS both having deprecated the versions of their OS that RNA on that phone), so it became my daily driver. Since then I've only purchased phones that are supported by divestOS. I don't think I could be persuaded to return to regular android.

The dev who spearheads it also has some terribly useful apps on their f-droid repository

#security #infosec #degoogle #lineageOS #privacy #FOSS #FDroid

doboprobodyne,
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@paiusco @viktor

Argh, sorry!

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@viktor
:D

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