Tristram Lett

@trislett
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Neuroscientist @Charité Mitte Berlin. github.com/trislett

#neuroimaging #genetics #psychiatry #datascience

Asahi Linux is now shipping the world's first standards conformant GPU driver for Apple M1/M2! 🎉​

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.html

The first conformant M1 GPU driver

Microsoft, Adobe, and others have dropped support for old PostScript fonts

PostScript Type 1 fonts are decades old, but apps supported them until recently.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/microsoft-adobe-and-others-have-dropped-support-for-old-postscript-fonts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Adobe and Microsoft break some old files by removing PostScript font support

PostScript Type 1 fonts are decades old, but apps supported them until recently.

Ars Technica
New Community Page in #PLOSBiology presents the type 1 #diabetes (#T1D) Knowledge Portal, an open-access resource that aims to help address the challenge of translating #genetic discoveries into mechanistic insight https://plos.io/3YrKuQt
Leveraging type 1 diabetes human genetic and genomic data in the T1D knowledge portal

This Community Page presents the type 1 diabetes (T1D) Knowledge Portal, an open-access resource for hypothesis development and target discovery in T1D that aims to help address the challenge of translating genetic discoveries into mechanistic insight.

@moorejh And here’s a response to the recent preprint

https://github.com/gregpoore/tcga_rebuttal

GitHub - gregpoore/tcga_rebuttal: Re-analysis of data provided by Gihawi et al. 2023 bioRxiv

Re-analysis of data provided by Gihawi et al. 2023 bioRxiv - GitHub - gregpoore/tcga_rebuttal: Re-analysis of data provided by Gihawi et al. 2023 bioRxiv

GitHub

Apparently I'm not a maintainer of #LXD anymore and neither is @stgraber. So it seems from now on it's Canonical employees only.

I'd like to point out that before Canonical moved LXD into github.com/canonical/lxd maintainership was completely independent of the company. If you went to work somewhere else you still were a maintainer. As it should be with any well-functioning OSS project.

The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.

https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive

#tech #transport #elonmusk #transportation #hyperloop #trains

Big Tech Is Watching You as You Drive

After years of failed promises on transit, Silicon Valley is loading cars with new technologies to get a cut of the profits—and to collect data on us.

The New Republic
Inigo Montoya has joined the picket line 😊
How 16 colors saved PC gaming – the story of EGA graphics https://www.custompc.com/retro-tech/ega-graphics #retrogaming
How 16 colors saved PC gaming - the story of EGA graphics

The Enhanced Graphics Adaptor cost a huge amount of money and measured over a foot long, but this ISA graphics card upgrade stopped PC games looking terrible.

Custom PC

Happy to announce that the paper introducing our Misinformation Game simulator (led by the amazing Lucy Butler) is out in Behavior Research Methods today: https://rdcu.be/dgCo6
 
It's a social-media simulation for experimental research. Full experimental control, open source, Qualtrics integration, no coding skills required.

Posts can be text, image (incl. gif) or both. You can choose between a feed mode or page-wise presentation.

You can edit source handles and avatars, as well as engagement metrics (e.g. number of likes). There's a source-credibility badge and follower counts. Source-post assignments can range from fully random to fully determined.

Participants can like, dislike, share, or flag content, and they can comment. Their credibility score and follower count changes dynamically based on the choices they make. And all these features can easily be switched on or off.

Note that posts *can* be classified as true vs. false but they don't have to be. We developed the tool with misinformation experiments in mind but it can be used for many other purposes. We hope it'll be useful!
 
Full access here: https://misinfogame.com

The (Mis)Information Game: A social media simulator

There's a volcano-like hotspot on the far side of the moon, that's very likely not a volcanic feature. A mystery.

https://nyti.ms/43qhFEB

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06183-5

#science #nature #physics

Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon’s Far Side

Data from two Chinese orbiters helped a team of scientists explain why a patch of lunar terrain is so much warmer than the surrounding area.

The New York Times