otherorb.bsky.social
We need to have as many different perspectives as possible to understand our universe.
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So many. I’m thinking maybe we need a Maximum Overdrive / Trucks like event (probably spurred by AI rather than a comet) to finally push people into doing away with motorized travel for good.
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Asked recently what I think would most improve food and housing accessibility in my city, I responded that we should dig up all of the parking lots and turn them into gardens and small grocery stores.
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I work on housing in my community and one of the things we’ve been working to reform is the idiotic requirement of so many parking spaces per unit of housing. It’s inane.
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I’ve seen some fantastic ideas out there on how to get rid of them, but I’m so defeated right now about progress… :(
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In the future, I may not even use any abstracts hosted by them as “citations” in any work I do in the future. Nothing they have hosted is trustworthy anymore.
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But I and probably others, have run out of steam, and we thought, stupidly, that they wouldn’t do a full data sweep. I’m not surprised. I mean, I am, but this behavior tracks.
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I (along with several other people) have been trying to do both. I have a large set of data for specific meeting that we knew were in trouble, but I didn’t think we needed to back up everything they’ve ever published. Apparently we do.
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Yeah. I’m so done with them.
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What's to stop them from changing the authorship on abstracts they wish they had written?
Whomever made this decision is a coward and should be shunned by the entire community.
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What's to stop that organization from deleting abstracts that disagree with their own funding agendas? What's to stop them from deciding that they can simply end people's scientific careers by removing their contributions?
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There is nothing about what they've decided to do that is justifiable and in my view they cannot ever be trusted with scientific communications of any kind.
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This is a cowardly and short-sighted capitulation to a fascist administration that is going to fail. And I, for one, will never participate in that organization's meetings again.
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I am not the only one to whom this has happened. At least one entire poster session for that year was simply deleted. And the same is true for several other abstracts I've submitted through their system for multiple years.
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Only one does not give a 404 error when I click on the link, and it's the one that's not related to making science better for everyone.
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For example, I was first- or co-author on 5 abstracts for the 2021 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Of those, four were related to making science better for everyone and one was related to a particular scientific project.
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I really want to see an 8-track in this thing.
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It’s like the #ShitCar Revolution. It needs a radio, though. A big, clunky one that accepts both 8-Tracks and cassettes and has an AM/FM dial with the push-button memory.
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The modern concept of self-driving cars depends on ML gathering data from humans driving in real conditions. Humans suck at driving in blizzards. Thus ML-trained vehicles will also suck at driving in blizzards. Without separate roads for ML cars, they cannot train them to drive well in blizzards.
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in a nutshell, AI has zero chance at eradicating disease, because we know what's involved in actually eradicating some of them, and the rate-limiting steps are not compute-bound
disease eradication implies solution of the 'last mile' problem at a global scale
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If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order.
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The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process.
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Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.
This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.
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It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order.
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Chew your food, people.
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This was my insomnia research last night.
I microwaved some meat loaf and it got hot on the inside & the perfect warm temperature on the outside. I didn't chew my food enough and while swallowing. The superheated meatloaf burned my larynx. I now have a small oedema but no obstruction of my airway.
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I missed recent lab work (I love astrochemistry) that finds ways other than life to produce DMS. HT @planetdr.bsky.social ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....
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When I said "all my peers," I really meant I'd send the draft to as many people as possible to give me feedback, to give me corrections, to give me other possibilities. This kind of claim is too big to go through the normal, relatively low-stakes peer review.
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There's good evidence that very small amounts of outlier data drastically change LLM results.
"We find that replacement of just 0.001% of training tokens with medical misinformation results in harmful models more likely to propagate medical errors."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I never said you did. I think you're being especially defensive in this thread that isn't 1) about shatner and 2) isn't about you.
I started this conversation about the press and their dismissal of women going to space as "stunts." Shatner was there as an example of their double standard.
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I also think it's disingenuous to overlook Emily's contributions to real science and exploration.
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And I think your oversimplification is way too dismissive.
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I'm more concerned with the double-standard by the press. An actor w/no science background goes into space and it's praised. A really important educator (Emily) goes and she's treated terribly. Five highly influential women go and it's called a stunt.
I haven't even touched the Bezos stench.
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There are dozens of ways to analyze this flight and the media presentation of it. If it had been a flight run by a publicly-funded entity, it likely still would have been called a "stunt."