Thomas Lumley @tslumley@wandering.shop
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music.
plants. birds. pastiche.
product of more than one country.
may contain nuts.
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Joined Nov 2017
Random thought: from the user's viewpoint it's more like fenestrate/defenestrate than federate. Open a window to the wider discussion.
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There's a group of fossil bivalve mollusk with genus name Megalodon.
There isn't much online about them, but ask GPT-3 to write a press release about them and it will generate lots of "details" about how it's a giant terrifying predator.
https://www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-get-ai-to-confuse-a-shark-with-a-clam/
One Less PhD Student!
(She successfully defended her thesis on predicting kidney decline in diabetes)
Kia ora #nztwits
I'm the same username here as on the bird site. I've been an intermittent mastodont for about four years.
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mastodon web interface top tip: the option to turn off notification noises isn't in Preferences, it's at the top of the Notifications tab in the little sliders icon 
That's for remembrance: ANZAC Day
https://notstatschat.rbind.io/2019/04/24/that-s-for-remembrance/
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Scented candles from a neural net trained on 1000 existing candles
The neural net is based on math, so it is infallible. This is the future.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/611219307217797120/smells-like-the-future
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Dogflowers and geyserdogs: exploring the latent space of #BigGAN using ganbreeder.app
http://aiweirdness.com/post/182322518157/welcome-to-latent-space
Got me a fancy new e-bike. The 3-year-old one will go to a loving new home.
First thoughts: torque sensing is nice, but acceleration from stationary isn't as good as with a throttle. I like the motor in with the pedals. Having lights powered from the battery is a no-brainer. The higher top gear is a big improvement.
E-bikes: cheaper and healthier than steroids.
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New blog post: When Visual Chatbot is wrong, it just keeps digging itself a hole.
Visual Chatbot is so much fun.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/175110257767/the-visual-chatbot
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The score for the THX “Deep Note” sound, made public for the first time after 35 years:
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How do you deal with #uncertainty when #visualizing data?
Submit a talk pitch to speak at #VisInPractice 2018 (an event at @ieeevis, Oct 22 in Berlin, one day after @InfoPlusConf).
See our call for participation at http://visinpractice.org. Submit your talk title and abstract by June 30 #cfp
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Tfw a metro station uses github more than you.
Auckland zoo. Yes, plants as well as animals.
https://wandering.shop/media/shleotNxTqWq_WUXAjI https://wandering.shop/media/7o6qGtsegdtxbS3f2UY https://wandering.shop/media/OSPH8vPhJA3roEtZtEA
Sydney is still pretty, in case you wondered https://wandering.shop/media/6F2rbfBHRxdEj1HVkDg https://wandering.shop/media/shzJieXKBYwKgEQ1bXI
Having a relaxing and productive Easter holiday in Sydney.
Sometimes it's easier to do something complicated if you don't have to do anything at all than if you have to do a lot of things.
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this was a huge digression from what I was supposed to be doing today, but I think these plates of waveforms from recorded speech made by Théodore Rosset in 1911 (using a weird photographic method?) are gorgeous (source: https://archive.org/details/recherchesexpr00ross)
You will not go to space today -- but maybe tomorrow.
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music.
plants. birds. pastiche.
product of more than one country.
may contain nuts.
notstatschat.rbind.io
Joined Nov 2017
