Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Did you know that you can customize the css on Wikipedia? You are even allowed to change the logo to your favorite submission to the official 2003 Wikipedia logo contest if your heart so desires (mine did)

one of the libraries underpinning the Linux graphics ecosystem is called the GNU is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit. It is primarily used by GNU is Not Unix Network Object Model Environment. GTK's primary competitor (qt) was created by a company called Trolltech, and qt is the primary library of the Kool Desktop Environment.

All of these bind to the X window system, which is named that way because it's the successor to the W window system, which was the window system of the V operating system. It is currently being succeeded by a window system named after a town in Massachusetts.

This applies to all current publicly available AI generators, not just those producing images.

Imagine if all the collective money spent of “self driving cars” had been spent on public transport.

As in, not cars - which are ultimately bad solutions for most of the world - but punctual and pervasive clean-energy public trams, trains, and buses.

It’d have cost less and been far more useful for far more people. Including non-drivers. And actually be here. Today. Working.

Man. First review of my paper from last night contains *multiple* instances where the reviewer just says they are “tired” of the “here’s what we did” style of writing. No substantive issues identified.

I’m not going to stop writing these easy to read papers. Papers looking hard to satisfy some idiot whose grad students have been doing all their work for years isn’t a priority. If folks think a paper is too basic because of a genuine novelty concern, they can find substantive issues, but the fact that your work has to *look hard* is just such a fucking rebuke. No wonder everyone thinks CS is worthless.

Anyway, I am angry at this attitude. Not at any person, but the attitude at top venues that values hard looking work with irrelevant bullshit.

Back when my last student was graduating, they had killer results with one of their recent innovations. They wrote up the work. It was nice but boring. Then I told them to add a formalism. They argued, this is irrelevant, it adds little, it doesn’t guide our understanding. And yet, after adding the formalism the paper got rave reviews, because it *looked* like a contribution. But the formalism was something we hacked on at a whiteboard in three days, quite far away from the months of genuine innovation that it took to get to the real kernel of the idea…

Let the machines take over eh…

@NicoleCRust "Academic power structures as they currently stand are toxic - as evidenced by the outcomes" - Kay Tye

As relatively junior scientists, some of us have talked about academic toxicity in the past only to be harassed, silenced, ignored, or forced to leave. I'm glad that someone in a position of power acknowledged the toxicity. I hope that the toxic hierarchy collapses sooner than later.

Us choosing a cooperative form of governance at neuromatch.social, instead of a typical top-down hierarchy, is our attempt of trying a different power structure. I hope that we see more of such experiments permeate throughout academia.

hey anyone around here have a CPU with more than 32 cores

I feel like the gameplay teams behind most AAA open world games don't have a good handle on why walking around in nature is intrinsically enjoyable in real life

Pro tip: Every time you see the word “inflation” in the news, just replace it with “record-breaking corporate profits”.
#CorporateGreed #notInflation

there is no sign that says "you must be this androgynous" to be nonbinary. you can be nonbinary right now, as you are.

We gotta bring back the word "whelmed" for when you're not quite overwhelmed but also you've got enough going on that you don't really know what to do with yourself and yet you're still managing even if just barely.

So I know you’ve all seen that “tired Oompa-Loompa” photo from that #WillysChocolateExperience disaster. Please know that there is a human being behind that meme, and she is not enjoying the attention.

These are actors, and they showed up for a job. They got screwed along with the ticket-buyers.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7340997397910211873