Posts by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
(DIR) Post #APcq233vioHtckh6K8 by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2022-11-14T23:14:44Z
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The Ancient Egyptian for "cat" is πππ
±π or "mjw", a consonant-only representation of the onomatopoeic word... miaow.#AncientEgypt #Cats #Miaow #Onomatopoeia #Linguistics
(DIR) Post #AQKkNY4nWPH8312EuO by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2022-12-06T15:11:14Z
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@tiago @academicchatter @cogsci @cognition @machinelearning @complexsystems Can you run Doom on it?
(DIR) Post #AQi1sh2QQ3u6fwRMQq by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2022-12-17T20:22:21Z
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John Mastodon, as imagined by AI. #JohnMastodon #StableDiffusion #AIart #MastodonMascot
(DIR) Post #AR4QfvNSZEGpiOPD7Y by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2022-12-28T13:19:46Z
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@RedGreenLibre Psshh. We don't categorise actors by any other characteristic, like age or race. The pearl-clutching about what to call them is hilarious, as though any profession needs to have gendered terms.
(DIR) Post #ARUsEsDVikohLvDyme by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-01-10T10:18:32Z
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@zleap @Neat_hot Subtooting is talking about someone without using their handle or name.
(DIR) Post #ARohcbAMQArpzN6f20 by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-01-19T23:39:48Z
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They say that two wrongs don't make a right, but maybe they've been thinking too small. What about seven, even eight wrongs?
(DIR) Post #ARwVTTnAp7lyKLpFXE by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-01-23T17:47:25Z
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@clive Cracking the Cryptic's advanced Sudoku puzzles took up an alarming amount of my free time in 2021.
(DIR) Post #ARwdLHmWOThsOU7mRE by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-01-23T18:27:19Z
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@clive The principles of Sudoku are simple, but these puzzles add extra rules that often require pattern recognition and maths to solve. The channel, hosted by Mark and Simon, posts daily videos with a real-time solve and a link to a version you can play online. If you get impossibly stuck, you can see how the resident expert approached it. It's like a fiendish cryptic crossword but with numbers.
(DIR) Post #ARwdLJS2BcVVZWYRma by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-01-23T18:29:52Z
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@clive I'm not the best logic puzzler, but over time I understood some of the solving tricks and gradually got better, chipping away at some of them over several days, and if really stuck I could always see a real expert tackle it.
(DIR) Post #ASeIPPXX4QlCfmDuLI by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-02-13T21:12:16Z
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@SloanLA @simon There needs to be anchoring in verifiable information built in to make these tools of any use.
(DIR) Post #ASeKFvH2QgGK6f6zMO by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-02-13T21:34:34Z
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@simon @SloanLA You can lead an LLM to sources, but you canβt make it think.
(DIR) Post #AUwq1tQ7IMDC0pcf7g by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-04-23T15:29:03Z
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3 of 4 people in my house didn't get the UK #EmergencyAlert today, though we all had our phones on, not in airplane mode, and we'd not changed any settings.Did you get the #UKemergencyAlert? (UK only, obviously!) π¬π§π³π¨β οΈπ
(DIR) Post #AUwr6kF6wbIKx1LtwG by mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz
2023-04-23T15:54:04Z
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@StephZihms Good old Three