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| Skills | Information Retrieval, Machine learning and NLP |
Try soot - search for toots http://smart-cactus.org:5000
Follow my public feed at [email protected]
| Profession | CS Professor |
| Skills | Information Retrieval, Machine learning and NLP |
I found this statement and it resonated with me. I am not sure about the comment regarding big commercial companies though...
"""When people have good intentions they tend to assume that others also have good intentions. The very early computers and Internet had very little in the way of security. Most people had only good intentions and assumed that everyone else had them as well. Why secure things if you are sure that no one will misuse them?"""
http://blog.acthompson.net/2018/04/idealism-and-computer-science.html?m=1
So here's something I've been very, very bad at self-promoting: http://fractive.io/
Fractive is my open-source tool for writing hypertext games using Markdown!
It's a little bit like Twine, but for people who'd rather just write straight-ahead instead of fussing with the node graph.
@[email protected] @[email protected]
You said you guys moved to Western Mass -- where did you end up?
You mentioned something about DH and then academics and programming. I am curious to hear more...
I'm no fan of Facebook, but the #infosec trend of blaming consumers for giving away information, or saying we should all live in a hole doesn't help. Mozilla's trying to mitigate FB's worst habits, so people can keep using it. It's an idea worth exploring, and one I'm happy to see.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/360079/mozilla-stops-facebook-tracking-with-a-firefox-add-on
Stream of consciousness #Introductions I'm Stephen. I wrote a blog post about running your own Mastodon instance that gets about 45 views per week. I'm a full-stack developer and general technologist. Love FOSS. Contributed to the Mastodon CSS codebase. Ghey. Writer. Musician. Visual Artist. Photographer. Cat lover. Volunteer. Right now a big mood in my life is incorporating more empathy into all my online interactions. I want to be a better ally to disadvantaged folx. Feel free to say hi. 😁