Matthew Brown @mbbrown@scholar.social
Biological oceanographer, interested in photosynthesis and algal physiology/genetics.
"Towards an Ethics of AI Assistants", by the always interesting John Danaher.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13347-018-0317-3.pdf
Well, I'm stuck. Half my data makes sense. The other half is giving me fits.
Why is George Santayana not more popular? The man was a hell of a writer and his philosophy seems well suited to the modern age.
cc ~ @Gargron - The EU is planning to squish the #Fediverse, would appreciate a boost to help mobilise Fedifolk
Got edits back on my paper from my PI. I've seen road maps with fewer red lines.
As a fan of Aristotle, I enjoyed this article immensely. Hope you do to.
https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-aristotle-teach-us-about-the-routes-to-happiness
Two years ago, I told my boss that we should run some gene expression experiments for given study. He shot down the idea.
Today, he says to me that we need to run some gene expression experiments for our study. Gee, wish I'd thought of that.
NASA just announced that they have found organic carbon on Mars!
Now, that is emphatically NOT the same thing as finding life on Mars. Still, very cool news.
https://wgno.com/2018/06/07/nasas-curiosity-rover-finds-organic-matter-on-mars/amp/
GitPub: An extension to ActivityPub for web-based Git services federation https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub
In retrospect, building my Ph.D around a piece of equipment that doesn't consistently work was probably a bad idea.
@cathal I've heard that advice summarized as "keep your identity small" after an essay by Paul Graham. It's good advice for people who place an especially high value on having accurate beliefs.
Toot toot! @Mastodon just got a native Linux client! #Tootle is now available in @elementary OS AppCenter.
AppCenter: https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.bleakgrey.tootle.desktop
GitHub: https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle
Ok, so unless Bloomberg are now in the fake news business it's official. Microsoft is buying Github.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github
There is no way that any code I wrote will fall under the dominion of Microsoft.
Therefore in the coming week I'll be moving out of Github. Initially I'll just self-host on Gogs, but I'll also be looking for a secondary host as backup for cases where my own server is down or doesn't have enough bandwidth.
I'm sure that this will be rough for a lot of projects. Many things currently point to Github. Some will side with Microsoft, believing that they are allies of FOSS or just favoring convenience over disruption. When Microsoft is involved this is always a mistake.
I'm really happy to announce that the company I work for has just publicly opened a #Mastodon instance for all its 5000 employees.
This is the result of an initiative @moritzheiber and I have started a year ago and have pushed through with the help of many other colleagues.
So if you want to hear my voice as a #thoughtworker, you can follow me here: @judeswae
Or find others to follow at https://toot.thoughtworks.com
"The Nature of Technology", by W. Brian Arthur.
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📣 PSA 📣
Looks like there is an influx of spam accounts being created on the federverse right now.
If you find any on our instances, please flag them and smush the report button.
I'm keeping an eye on things but may miss a few here and there.
If you know users looking for an account but have been squashed due to the influx of account creations, please let me know and I can send them a registration link.
Photosynthesis is basically magic.
That's my conclusion after 4 years of studying it.
I really need to get better at statistics.
Beginning June 11, no more free API key for Google Maps (now Google Maps Platform) if you don't provide a credit card.
A lot of custom Google maps that have been created over the years will likely no longer work.
Time to use #leaflet and #openstreetmap
https://leafletjs.com/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
