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War and Peas 🧿Book Birthday! Our book "Hi, Earth" is turning one today!
If you want to read it, you can get it from any book store and our online shop (signed even!) :)
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high school computer science teacher interested in alternative grading. Rookie cargo e-biker, hobby seamstress, & veteran soccer player, keen to live a life marked by compassion. Views are my own.
One of the cruelest jokes on autistic people is that we are so frequently misunderstood that a lot of us develop a full on *obsession* with all the nuances of language & then our very carefully nuanced & intentional speech gets misinterpreted *anyway*, & it's like "what do you people want from me? I've spent my whole life constantly thinking about language & how it is used! How is it so hard to understand me?"
Lady Laura 
Can anyone suggest a recipe making use of 413,793 Kit Kats.
Asking for a friend
Matt BlazePhysical security and cryptography can learn from each other, part 11367:
Hotels wisely don't put the room number on guest keycards so if someone finds your card, they'd have to exhaustively search the hotel to find the room it opens.
Some hotels now have elevators programmed to only let you call the floor for which your keycard is coded, preventing guests from wandering to other floors.
But it also means the elevator can be used as an efficient oracle to determine the floor of a found key.
Tee Rex 🏳️🌈🦖Something a bit worrying to note about using Ai in healthcare.
I’ve had two specialist appointments recently, both using ai to transcribe. Both sent report letters with inaccuracies about my diagnoses and past medical history. Even my GP was like, “huh, that directly contradicts what I put in the referrals.”
I have followed up both and requested amendments (which were done) but if I hadn’t, these inaccuracies could have significantly damaged ongoing care, further treatment or insurance claims.
Human error has always been a factor, but both doctors were clearly using the ai software and assuming what it spat out was correct. They made no other notes during the appointments to cross-reference and double check. This is how Very Bad Things can happen.
Alison KiddleToday I'm putting the finishing touches to "The Hidden Maths of Knitting", my talk at Mathsworld in London next Tuesday (https://mathsworld.com/events/Knitting for tickets). I will be demonstrating an actual working knitting machine in my talk, as well as talking about just a few of the ways maths and knitting are intertwined. It would be great to see some Mastodon buddies there, if only so you can nag me and remind me to toot more regularly!
mhoyeWe really, really need to enshrine in law the idea that fines be proportional to the size of the entity being fined. Stop fining near-trillion-dollar companies in the millions and start fining them in percentages of their market cap. Fifty million dollars is shake out the couch money to these guys. Two percent of market cap and you're goddamn right they'll pay attention.
Dorgaldir🇧🇪With world autism day around the corner, it's a good time to post this.
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