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Steve Conklin
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Cloud stuff, electronics, and home renovation.
Per ThorsheimUS gov asks european suppliers to guarantee they don't do DEI.
Next: we ask US to guarantee they do fair pay, 5 weeks paid annual vacation and 1 year paid maternity leave.
Riker Googlinghow to use civility to stop the borg
Martin JuhaszScience took a major hit today, and most didn’t even notice.
The U.S. govt (or better elons cronies) shut down #PubMed, one of the most important, comprehensive, widely used, free database of biomedical and life sciences.
It provided access to millions of research articles clinical studies and reviews.
PubMed was a cornerstone of modern medical and life sciences research.
Edit: It seems to be an DNS issue that has not been resolved yet (for everybody)
Abraxas3d W5NYVThe citizen advisory committee over at CDC has been nixed.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5304233/cdc-vaccine-meeting-delayed
Any bets for how long until all of us that volunteer our time for FCC TAC are gone?
We are the ones that speak up for #hamradio at the FCC. The committee includes me and Greg Lapin from #ARRL and many other hams.
If you voted for Trump? You wanted people like us gone.
FCC TAC was canceled in his first term, by the way. It took *effort* to restore. TAC is the most effective way hamradio is protected at FCC.
During the process of developing this model, almost all of the papers that we used to skill up said the next step was "getting it to work over the air".
However - none of those teams have published anything along those lines. Getting these models to work in math-land is one thing, but getting them to work over the air is another, and often closely guarded, secret.
We are looking to change that at ORI with an HDL implementation for commonly available SDRs as the next step.
Open Research InstituteAI/ML Success with RTTY: openresearchins.micro.blog
evacide@mattblaze The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.
Jason GormanLLMs are a near-perfect rentier technology. The cost of training them to the point where they're even marginally useful is so prohibitive that only people with very deep pockets can do it. The goal then is to make us all reliant on them, by shoehorning them into as many products as possible.
And it doesn't matter whether or not we actually need them if products won't work without them.
Chuck Darwin"Chesterton's Fence":
Let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road.
The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says,
"I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away."
To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer:
"If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away.
Go away and think.
Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it,
I may allow you to destroy it."
Quoted by Cory Doctorow
-- @pluralistic