Posts by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
 (DIR) Post #B48uIaeWZds9Bsztia by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @ariadne The key is to realise that the average is so low – we can't all be experts at everything, so we are bad at most things – that a model performing slightly above average at one of the tasks we aren't good at means a majority of users will perceive its outcomes as positively better than what they could do themselves.To any expert, the model falls very short, as it performs well below its own ability.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4TtsULjSyJyQrv5PM by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @gutenberg_org "These aesthetics of mathematics, Herzog said, can even touch the sublime. He made clear his love for Euler’s Identity—math’s most beautiful equation which links five fundamental constants—that borders on rapture. “I’m stunned by its simplicity, really,” he said. “Sometimes when I look deeper into it, I get the feeling that I want to cry.”"Herzog is one of us.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ibsXY2grBGY4x3YG by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @ariadne As of the last year I search Wikipedia more and more. Also the internet archive directly.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4wmEgAz0kVBQwnfcG by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @jonmsterling @elduvelle This summer I have to go from Barcelona to Berlin. The non-flight options are ... insane. I wouldn't mind a 24-hour trip by train, but it's not even that*. Many legs, no coordination between providers, subways and buses included. I am not a XIX century naturalist crossing uncharted territory, I am crossing the European Union from South to somewhat North. It's embarrassing.* I was hoping for a 2-leg train, i.e., Barcelona-Paris and Paris-Berlin in the same day, but no, that would require me sleeping in Paris! The lack of coordination is as astonishing as it is appalling.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cyCtP8DX3FyCeKA4 by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       2+2 years position for a software engineer / data scientist with serious programming chops in my lab at the #MRCLMB to develop tech for #connectomics and #neuroscience :https://fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/UKRI-Careers/job/2250Please do share with suitable candidates, and feel free to reach out via email to discuss details.Deadline for application: May 10th.Starting date: any within 2026.Requires Masters plus industry experience, or a PhD in a suitable field – and demonstrable experience in software engineering.Please help disseminate – either here or by copy-pasting onto emails or messages. Thank you!#PhDJobs #neuroscience #SoftwareEngineering #jobs #ScienceJobs
       
 (DIR) Post #B6UDgF42YtUOEd74pU by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @EUCommission While I support this initiative – who doesn't want less pesticides, cleaner waterways, more nature – #WorldBeeDay is about all the other bees, whose numbers are plummeting hand in hand with habitat loss. Honeybees don't need saving; that would be like saying we have to save the birds and we start with the chicken."Keeping hives to save bees is like keeping chickens to save birds"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/keeping-hives-to-save-bees-is-like-keeping-chickens-to-save-birds-1.4023891"The best way to help bees? Don’t become a beekeeper like I did - When I set up my honeybee hive, I had no idea I might be harming wild bee species. Now I’ve found better ways to encourage biodiversity"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/07/help-bees-dont-become-a-beekeeper-honeybeee-hive-biodiversity#bees #biodiversity #EcosystemCollapse #HabitatLoss #honeybees
       
 (DIR) Post #B7XAnlBTz0f3n7Jm9Q by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @ariadne These morons cannot fathom that fishes and frogs, to name a couple of large groups, change sex voluntarily and autonomously when they see the conditions call for it or are favorable. And never mind the massive prevalence of homosexualty among mammals and birds. Explaining the natural world to these people is exhausting.
       
 (DIR) Post #B85ZKg8aCipXmPSFM0 by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @gutenberg_org Quite the argument for anonymous user handles on the internet.
       
 (DIR) Post #B96acR0sBTEvVPd0Hg by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @elise Now imagine you lived in Spain and relied on public transport for everyday life.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAOVLjtXRA66yCUUqW by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @gutenberg_org While the page above is accessible, for some reason the @internetarchive can't access it. And upon attempting to contact the communications team at Glasgow University about this, the email bounces off with a Microsoft error.If anybody here is at the University of Glasgow (like @Katejjeffery ?), would you please notify internally that their contact email doesn't work and their news pages aren't archived.#Glasgow #UniversityOfGlasgow
       
 (DIR) Post #BAOaOtDhipHWX0FFFw by albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz
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       @gutenberg_org @internetarchive @Katejjeffery Thank you, I haven't; I tried this: https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/contact/ which contains a "communications" email that bounces.