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eliocamp

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I study the ocean of air we live in. I aspire to live a life inspired by love and guided by knowledge. I use #Rstats a bunch.

I post images created with #StableDiffusion on https://pixelfed.social/@eliocamp

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eliocamp, to random
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I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.

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eliocamp, to random
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I've just learned that Doom on the SNES used precomputed lookup tables to compute trigonometry functions because the processor was to weak to compute them in real time. I wonder if modern games couldn't use that trick to eek out a bit more performance.

eliocamp,
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@BeAware Yeah, I would think that. On the other hand, modern videogames also perform a lot more trigonometry computations so even a small speed-up might get you a couple of extra FPS. Or maybe there are more complex computations that could be cached!

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History lesson 2nd of April of 1982

(which will probably cost me Argentinean followers)

43 years ago, after almost 6 murderous years in power, the Argentinean dictatorship found itself in dire straits (not the band).

The formerly pampered Argentinean middle class had started to turn their back on them, not so much because of the thousands of killed, disappeared and tortured persons, but because they had run out of international credit and the debt fuelled Sweet Money party had ended, …

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eliocamp,
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@mina Buen hilo. Estoy de acuerdo con la cuestión de hecho, pero creo que el pedido no es sólo folklore sino una posición política y diplomática. Los estados en general siempre tienen que tener posiciones maximalistas en su territorio. Argentina tiene que insistir con las Malvinas Argentinas para que exista la mínima posibilidad de tener ese territorio en el futuro. Tipo las marcas que defienden su trademark ridículamente porque si no lo hacen, es evidencia de que no es de ellos.

eliocamp,
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@mina Lo que nunca supe es cuál era la posición Argentina (tanto del estado como del pueblo) con respecto a las Malvinas antes de la guerra. ¿Existía ese fervor patriótico o eso fue algo nuevo instigado por los mIlicos?

eliocamp,
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@eco_amandine @mina Claro, el problema es lo de "empezar a reclamar". Si México ya reconoció el territorio de EEUU, ya no puede reclamar nada, pero si hubiera reclamado desde el principio, seria otra historia.

eliocamp,
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@eco_amandine @mina Lo de la autodeterminación tampoco lo veo tan absoluto porque sino tenés cosas como Israel armando pueblos en donde se le canta y reclamando territorio de esa forma.

eliocamp,
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@eco_amandine @mina Es un equilibrio dilotmatico que todos pidan lo máximo y se negocia. Cómo pasa entre Chile y Argentina y demás. Si Argebtina no tenía una posición maxinalista, perdía grandes cachos de la cordillera y Patagonia. Obviamente siempre bajo diplomacia y nada de guerra.

eliocamp,
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@eco_amandine @mina Y lo de las Malvinas no fue colonización? Caídos del barco del otro lado del mundo que llegan y declaran que el lugar es de Inglaterra. Toda América fue colonizada.

eliocamp,
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@eco_amandine @mina No creo. Por lo que sé, los ingleses cayeron y lo colonizaron, después se fueron porque no tenían guita, y ahí aparecieron los españoles, que después se fueron, y así hasta que los ingleses volvieron con barcos de guerra para meterse de nuevo.

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"Yes, inflation is a ‘monetary phenomenon’ — as is anything to do with prices. But more importantly, inflation is a power struggle over who can raise prices the fastest." https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-about-inflation/

eliocamp,
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@gvwilson As someone living in a high inflation economy for almost two decades, I cannot take this article seriously. The notion that inflation is not reported differentially is just silly; in my country government and private consulting firms punish several price index that measure slightly different areas of the economy and it's absolutely obvious that some sectors increase more than others. It's also obvious because inflation is not the only driver of price change.

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Vancouver may soon see a dramatic addition. It's called Sen̓áḵw, and it consists of 11 tall towers holding 6,000 apartments. It’s being built by the Squamish First Nation. Since it's on land they own, they don't have to follow Vancouver’s zoning rules. And they've chosen to build bigger, denser and taller than anywhere else in Canada.

Predictably, this rubs against a widespread belief that the Squamish, as an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast, are living fossils with a duty to embody a romantic vision of life before Europeans came here:

City councillor Colleen Hardwick said “How do you reconcile Indigenous ways of being with 18-storey high-rises?” And Gordon Price, a Vancouver urban planner and a former city councillor, said “When you’re building 30, 40-storey high rises out of concrete, there’s a big gap between that and an Indigenous way of building.”

Neither of these people are members of the Squamish First Nation. Sen̓áḵw existed as a city of cedar longhouses long before Vancouver was built. Its Squamish residents saw their land carved up for railways. Then their houses were burnt down, and they were loaded onto a barge and shipped away. Now they're back.

Much of my text was paraphrased from this article by Michelle Cyca, which has more cool pictures:

https://macleans.ca/society/sen%cc%93a%e1%b8%b5w-vancouver/

eliocamp,
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@Pashhur @johncarlosbaez From what I read in another article, since this is indigenous land, it's not subject to the city's zoning laws. Which is kind of weird and makes me suspect that some rich investor is using the native community to bypass zoning laws. But I'd need to read more to have an informed opinion, so take this as the random though of an ill-informed random in the internet.

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Anyone know of any good books to get a college sociology student up to speed on #R? For someone who is tech savvy but a non programmer.

eliocamp,
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@joncruz Have you looked into Learning Statistics with #RStats by @djnavarro ? https://learningstatisticswithr.com/

eliocamp, to random
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Boost this toot if in your house there's a bag or drawer full of mysterious keys that you don't know what are for but are too scared to throw out.

eliocamp, to random
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My morning today. #RStats

eliocamp, to random
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Pretty unenforceable and abusive-prone rules. A lot of work is hard to attribute or doesn't require attribution (will I get banned if I post the Gioconda without attributing it to the artist?) and a blanket ban on (pure) "AI" content irregarless of harm and intent is silly, hard to enforce and, honestly, pretty exclusionary.

Https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112118260677357857

eliocamp,
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I remember my drawing teacher, who makes incredible acrylic paintings. Acrylic is much easier to use than oil and was shunned by her teachers, who said it wasn't proper art.
I can't shake my sense that the backlash against #AIArt is just the latest manifestation of these gatekeepy attitudes. I know it's not about artists getting payed, because they also lash against artists getting payed if they use or are accused of using #AI.

eliocamp,
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This exactly. Probably every single new technology applied to art has been rejected at first. Also probably photography (I'm not an art historian, although I dated one). And different art styles, like street art, graffiti. Or non-hegemonic music forms; I remember people complaining about cumbia villera (myself included, mea culpa).
The history of #art is so full of gatekeeping and it's sad to see the same attitude even today from people who should know better.

https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/112119706280706218

eliocamp, to random
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How much did Elsevier charge for publishing this without even reading the first sentence of the abstract?

https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/112088494660142768

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    eliocamp,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs I fondly remember trying to teach my dog to bring me different toys. He was pretty good at it and was super exited to train. We had a lot of fun. He sadly passed away. The next dog I had also loved being trained, but she wasn't as good at learning names 😂.
    I always find interspecies communication kind of magical.

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    Anthropic just released Claude 3 Haiku, their least expensive model - cheaper than GPT-3.5-Turbo ($0.25/million tokens of input, $1.25/million of output compared to $0.50/$1.50 for 3.5) but with good quality scores, excellent speed and it supports image inputs too!

    I just released an update to my https://github.com/simonw/llm-claude-3 LLM plugin adding support for the new model (though not image inputs just yet)

    llm install --upgrade llm-claude-3
    llm -m claude-3-haiku 'fun facts about armadillos'

    I run the prompt 'fun facts about armadillos' - Claude 3 Haiku outputs text at a pretty snappy rate: Here are some fun facts about armadillos: 1. Armadillos are the only mammals that have a protective shell. This shell is made up of bony plates covered with leathery skin. 2. Armadillos can jump 3-4 feet into the air to scare off predators. When threatened, they also have the ability to roll up into a ball, protecting their unarmored stomach. 3. Armadillos are excellent diggers and can burrow into the ground quickly to escape danger. They use their sharp claws to dig dens, search for food, and create a network of tunnels. 4. Armadillos are the only living mammals that can contract leprosy. This is due to their unusually low body temperature, which is ideal for the leprosy bacteria to thrive. 5. Armadillos have excellent night vision and a keen sense of smell, which helps them locate their food sources, such as insects, larvae, and small vertebrates.

    eliocamp,
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    @simon I cannot find sources confirming that armadillos are a national symbol of Brazil. The closest I found was the 2014 world cup mascot. 🤔

    ada, to YerbaMate
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    I forgot my yerba mate today!

    This is going to be a long day!

    eliocamp,
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    @ada Noooooooooo!

    eliocamp, to random
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    This is... concerning.
    https://press.coop/@BBCWorld/112079136518256298

    eliocamp, to random
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    New display name 😁😁

    cheeaun, to webdev
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    Does anyone use the "g" + letter combination keyboard shortcuts? I'm wondering where its origin are from. Also made a quick comparison table of them for Pinafore, Mastodon, X and Elk (Phanpy doesn't support them).

    eliocamp,
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    @cheeaun I almost never use these kinds of keyboard shortcuts because I don't have the patience to memorise them. I also don't really like them that much, because they tend to lead to accidental actions as I start writing without realising that another window had focus or one of my cats sits on the keyboard.

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