I’m seeing a lot of discourse on the difference between science fiction and fantasy today and as a professional sff book editor I want to clear this up: science fictions grow down from the ceiling and fantasies grow up from the floor. Easy. Next!
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The CfP for the #ARDUOUSWorkshop is online. Submission deadline is November 14 and we are looking forward to interesting contributions on topics addressing data annotation text2hbm.org/arduous/
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Interesting detail about Stable Diffusion that I hadn't considered: a lot of the knowledge it has of artistic styles comes from the original OpenAI CLIP model that was used as part of its training - not just from the LAION images that we described in waxy.org/2022/08/explor
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The reason Greg Rutkowski and many other artists “work” in #StableDiffusion is not actually due to the LAION dataset but the @OpenAI CLIP model (L14) used to teach it language
We don’t know dataset it’s based on (closed) so even if an artist removed from LAION still “knows” style twitter.com/KyrickYoung/st…
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YouTube’s “dislike” and “not interested” buttons barely work, study finds theverge.com/2022/9/20/2335
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I (in contrast?) argue that data is a little like oil in that storing it is dangerous, but mostly it isn't, because basic statistics tells us more isn't really necessarily better. So I argue for data minimalism. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2020/05/big-da 2/3
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i’ve been taking some notes
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Oh look, some smiley's from 1635 and 1741 :)
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Happy Birthday to the 'emoticon'!
Invented today in 1982...
Mind you... they sure do remind me of these from 1881, 1887 ... ;)
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. shows it's possible to demonstrate critical reflection and respect in the same piece of writing. Excellent.
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New York, London, Milan, Paris… and now, the Moon.
This week’s theme for Moon Snaps is Fashion Week and we want to see how you’d rock the lunar runway! Show us drawings, photos—anything that flaunts your Moon-inspired style—with the hashtag #NASAMoonSnap.
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We're at work on our 7th special issue - this time on FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR (very excited about this one) Here's the call for papers; send questions if you have them! #foundfootage
horrorhomeroom.com/call-for-paper
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Today’s poem is called ‘Brie Encounter’.
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“open plan office noise increased negative mood by 25 percent and sweat response by 34 percent…people who work in open-plan offices had 62 percent more days of sickness absence.”
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thank you so much to the anonymous ex-Waterstones manager who forwarded me a copy of the actual snake policy. (this is from 2018 so it may have changed slightly since then, but this consistent with what people have been reporting of their own experiences)
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learning what different languages call the @ symbol just made my day!!! thread of my favorites! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#N
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Fixing badly engineered technology with glitter nail polish: a thread.
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It is peculiarly pleasing that the palindromic town of Paraparap has a comparably palindromic population.
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"let's design places with doors"
And windows that open. Natural light. Places to actually leave your stuff. Humans don't work well made into battery chickens - news at 8.
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The evidence is clear: open offices are bad for people and organizations.
-27% more sick days
-14% lower cognitive performance
-70% less face-to-face interaction
For the sake of health, productivity, and collaboration, let's design spaces with doors.
nytimes.com/2022/09/08/opi
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I hate puns. There ain't a pun in the world I would ever shar...
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Every word of this…
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Wow, no. No it’s not well suited. 👀
A good example of an important principle in data management: what’s designed, created and curated for a single (very often operational) purpose cannot automatically be assumed to be fit for any other purpose (operational or analytical).
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mathematicians: math is important!
also mathematicians:
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Babysitting a 4 year old has me convinced that what video games need is “little buddy mode,” where a kid can have a character that just jogs along with you and can help/get their own encouraging score but cannot be harmed
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MEDIEVAL MERMAID THREAD
White people on the internet: The Little Mermaid can't be black! It's a European legend! She has to be white!
Medieval Europeans:
(Book of Hours, Dutch, f. 67)
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Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French new wave, dies at 91
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physics is the study of how many words you can put "eigen" in front of
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The privacy policy of the 5 billion image dataset that is used to train the generative Stable Diffusion model has their own definition of personal data under the GDPR. Discuss. laion.ai/gdpr/
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git: i resolved conflicts for you!
me: good job
git: and i didn't even need to ask you how to do it!
git: look how good i did!
git:
<picture of two completely unrelated functions mashed together like jeff goldblum in The Fly>
me: *sigh* good job
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‘We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose,’” the 2021 document read.’
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There is no documentation of what happens to your data once it’s uploaded, because that’s just never been something the company does, two Facebook engineers explained. interc.pt/3xB22xp
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Today’s poem is called ‘Alexa, what is there to know about love?’
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Revised conjugation of the verb ‘to spend’ (HM Government, Sept 2022).
I provide fiscal loosening.
You max out the credit card.
He/she robs Peter to pay Paul.
We borrow against future income growth.
They mortgage our children’s futures.
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After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel 😩
Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality.
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This is more a comment than a question
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Building up to #ClassicsTober!🎉 Who's joining us this year? You can post drawings, writing, photos and pretty much anything else in response to the daily prompts, all through October!
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It's the 2nd annual #ClassicsTober next month! We thought we'd post the prompts a bit earlier this year!
It was so inspiring and exciting to see all your writing, photos, artwork and more last year, and @drcorabeth and I can't wait to see what this year will yield...
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