Owen Seymour

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It's been a while since I've checked in here. What's new in Mastodon land over the last few months?
Great resource for anybody who maintains or is considering maintaining a Python package: https://learn.scientific-python.org/development/ (doesn't have to be scientific)
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@hellerphant sending good thoughts your way. Give him pets and a treat for me
@at yes! This entertains them for hours

There's yet another "AI will kill us all! It poses a risk of extinction!" letter going around, and I just… Y'all i am just so fucking tired.

CAPITALISM poses risk of extinction (climate change, right the fuck now).

WHITE SUPREMACY poses risk of extinction (genocide, eugenics).

HEGEMONY poses risk of extinction (nuclear FUCKING WAR).

And whatever "risk of extinction" "AI" poses, it poses because it is BUILT FROM THOSE EXTREMELY HUMAN VALUES.

Even if you stopped every "AI" project running, RIGHT THIS SECOND, those values would still kill us. And no matter how long you "pause" your "AI" projects, if you don't address those values? Then when you start your "AI" back up? You'll KEEP BUILDING THOSE SAME VALUES IN.

This is not hard. At this point, as much as it pains me to say it, it's not even novel. And yet you're still not fucking getting it.

I'm so goddam tired.

#ScraperFC has a Discord! Invite is https://discord.gg/C5N8dqCJAq. It's not just for chatter about the package. I want it to be a space where people can talk about the projects they're working on, bounce ideas around, and chat about general going-ons in the soccer world. Come check it out!
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TFW you follow a bunch of Brits for their #football banter and suddenly your timeline is full of #Eurovision chat that you don't understand. #MastodonFC

If you use #ScraperFC to scrape the Big 5 combined league on FBRef you're going to want to update to v2.7.0 or pull the most recent commits from the git repo.

The layout of the squad and player stats is different the the Big 5 and the tables were not being parsed correctly.

@eliocamp The default Anaconda solver is SLOW. Would highly recommend changing to this other one. No clue why it's not the default.

https://www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faster-conda-for-a-growing-community/

Anaconda | A Faster Solver for Conda: Libmamba

conda 22.11 update: The libmamba solver's experimental flag has been removed. To use the new solver, update conda in your base environment: conda update -n base conda To install and set the new solver, run the following commands: conda install -n base conda-libmamba-solverconda config --set…

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@jhonygutierrez what's your take on Bluesky so far? I've been on the waitlist for a week or 2 now