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Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and former Protein Crystallographer and Enzymologist. Hobbyist C++ programmer and electronics hack. Married, two adult children, and two cats
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Why is knowingly lying and spreading misinformation not a federal crime? Surely, the first amendment was not intended to encourage the subversion of democracy.

“Most of the folks crying the loudest about TikTok were the same people that created the policy environment that lets TikTok (and anybody else) play fast and loose with consumer data in the first place.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/21/forget-a-tiktok-ban-we-need-to-regulate-data-brokers-and-pass-a-real-privacy-law/

Forget A TikTok Ban, We Need To Regulate Data Brokers And Pass A Real Privacy Law

We’ve noted for a while now how the great TikTok moral panic of 2023 is largely a distraction. It’s a distraction from the fact we’ve refused to meaningfully regulate dodgy data b…

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Andrew Walpole - Web Developer

Principal Web Developer and Engineering Manager

Hey, I just want to share how proud I am of Hetal Patel, a former student and now alumna. https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/helix/winter-2023/family-pharmd/
#PharmacyEd #Pharmacy #rural
Family PharmD

A graduate of the College of Pharmacy at Rosalind Franklin University owns and operates the first pharmacy in the State of Tennessee to be named a provider for the federal Vaccines For Children (VFC) program, which offers vaccines at no cost to ...

Rosalind Franklin University

When it comes to protecting my kids from predators, I’m most afraid of priests, coaches and other authority figures.

LGBTQ people don’t even make the list.

Drag queens? Gimme a fucking break.

745 billionaires now hold more wealth than HALF of American households.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

This young network engineer at Project Waves is doing amazing things in Baltimore

My story here on how Devin Weaver designed, built, and operates a #communitybroadband network that brings free gig speed #Internet service to low-income apartment buildings in one of the nation's most disconnected cities

#DigitalEquity #BlackMastodon #broadband #equity #DigitalInclusion

https://communitynets.org/content/making-waves-baltimore-community-driven-connectivity

Making Waves in Baltimore with Community-Driven Connectivity | Welcome to Community Networks

Profile on the people behind Project Waves, a non-profit organization founded in 2018 to bring broadband to mostly low-income households in Baltimore City.

@rasterweb agree. New cars in general are ridiculously priced; $18,000 for a new Kia Rio for C**t sake. If you have the scratch for any new car, I can see how an EV looks like an obtainable value.

Why was the GOP allowed to insert earmarks into the spending bill for members who voted against it anyway (and who supposedly oppose the practice of earmarking itself)?

As G.O.P. Rails Against Federal Spending, Its Appetite for Earmarks Grows https://nyti.ms/40p1G9P

As G.O.P. Rails Against Federal Spending, Its Appetite for Earmarks Grows

While Democrats claimed a larger share than Republicans of the nearly $16 billion in earmarks in the latest federal spending bill, G.O.P. projects jumped by 85 percent.

So OpenAI just released a detector of AI-generated text, I assume because of concerns in education / homework.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

Maybe this is good?

No, it's very bad.

They claim 26% true positives, 9% false positives. Assume 10% of submitted homework is chatgpt generated, you get the classic counterintuitive outcome of poor predictive power: if a homework is flagged, there's a 3:1 chance it's *human* generated.

This is going to cause a lot of harm. It should be immediately recalled.

New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

We’re launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text.