I've had enough. The new ownership of Twitter has demonstrated that they are anti-web, anti-user-choice, and have nothing but contempt for their users. I will not be posting, engaging, or responding to DMs on this platform any longer. Mastodon link in my profile. Farewell.
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Michael Hanson
@michaelrhanson
Hacker, scientist, maker of Internet things, husband, dad. Formerly Cisco, Mozilla, CTO Ozlo, FRL/Oculus. @michaelrhanson@hachyderm.io
Joined July 2009
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This is madness. Twitter has become an enemy of the web, and cares only about controlling and capturing users. To hell with that. twitter.com/TwitterSupport
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The juxtaposition of ChatGPT's power with its lack of common sense can be amusing.
Here ChatGPT repeats the widespread misconception that hashing is not invertible... in the same sentence in which it correctly inverted the example hash that I gave it!
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It's not the same thing as Twitter. Discovery is very hard, and it's harder to dive into a community by following replies and branching outwards. But there are narrow and deep conversations, which are great. Learning. (oh, and: @michaelrhanson@hachyderm.io)
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Quietly moved some of my time over to the fediverse and it's been interesting. Not the same feel as Twitter; more long-form, more clustering into communities of interest. Feels like an evolution of late 2000's forum culture, made much more efficient and hyper-specific. 1/2
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I have to admit, “Las Vegas saves American democracy” was not on my bingo card.
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This is a genuinely wonderful post by Blaine, a founding engineer of Twitter and an important developer of key behind-the-scenes web technology.
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While everyone's being nostalgic about what Twitter means to them, I may as well add my two cents.
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The Bay Area earthquake was on the Calaveras fault. The largest quake in the Bay Area since the 2014 Napa quake M6.0
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev
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This is beautiful.
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new little song:
"The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"
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Even if you're not in the habit of reading amicus curiae briefs, the one The Onion filed in Novak v. Parma today is a fabulous bit of writing:
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2
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Unpleasant reminders of 2020 from the Lake Tahoe webcams this afternoon. Be safe out there, everybody, and be ready for rapid evac if you're in a warning zone.
alertwildfire.org/region/tahoe/?
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Coming up in just under two hours! Feat and hopefully ! It's the Wayback Machine for decentralized social networking!
Background watching: youtube.com/channel/UCsUEs
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Tomorrow we're bringing a core Social Web 2.0 tribe back together — set reminder for 9pm EST/6pm PST tomorrow! Should be 
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twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNxa
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If you like to know what is happening (and has ever happened) in NLP at a high level, I recommend this new article by . It’s awesome when a good writer is also a true expert in the field. (You typically get only 1/2 … or zero!)
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in @americanacad’s Daedalus: Human Language Understanding & Reasoning. I tried hard to write a short, approachable piece with examples giving the history, current abilities, and likely near future of #NLProc—with a bit on models understanding meaning.
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On Friday I participated on a panel about the National AI Research Resource. NAIRR (pronounced "nayer") is a proposed computing and data resource for academic AI researchers. I argued that NAIRR should exercise ethical oversight of the datasets it hosts:
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Like Boston, SARS Co-V2 in Santa Clara's (just south of SF) wastewater now plateaued & falling. Very hopeful this means we've reached Peak Covid in Bay Area. covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wast Remember: risk still⬆as we descend curve; not time to let down guard. h/t
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Ahem, taps mic: VotingWorks is the only non-profit building the only open-source voting system in the US. Here's a few reasons you might consider donating.
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Hi friends.
It's holiday season, so maybe you're thinking of donating to some non-profits.
We hope you'll consider VotingWorks and we've got 7 tweets to tell you why.
voting.works/donate
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San Francisco County has been at the forefront of the movement towards voting machines where everyone can see the source code.
We're incredibly proud to be working with SF to implement this vision in 2022 using our open-source voting system.
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Great opportunity for an ML engineer here, doing important work. twitter.com/chrisalbon/sta
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from NANOG, on the Facebook outage: they meant to drop BGP peering to one network, accidentally dropped *all* of them, and now can't get back in to un-drop them. Other difficulties.
This is a normal IT fuckup, just a very public and spectacular one.
mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nano
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Okay, folks. Unfortunately, the news has officially come: evacuation warning (not an order, yet) for #SouthLakeTahoe proper all the way to the CA/NV stateline due to #CaldorFire. These could escalate over next 24 hours. Note that Hwy 50 is closed to all traffic. #CAwx #CAfire
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Really fascinating archive of product shots from UK-based Sainsbury grocery. Some of the 60’s design looks like it could be on Instagram today (so much Helvetica!) while the early 80’s stuff does... not.
sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/sear
Important data, and consistent with US serosurveillance, UK REACT study, and other epidemiological studies that look beyond symptom-based ascertainment. Children usually experience mild illness but are able to become infected and transmit SARS-CoV-2. h/t
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This CDC presentation of yet-to-be-published data shows kids:
* transmit as efficiently as adults
* are infected at rates similar to adults.
It's not getting the attention it deserves perhaps because it's only available as video. I've done my best to faithfully transcribe it.
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If you haven't heard, there will be a lunar eclipse late tonight. Here is some information from our friends at .
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Marshall McLuhan saw Craigslist (and Facebook) coming in 1964...
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But also …
▶️ A CHALLENGE TO OTHER LEADERS IN TECH ◀️
It should be easy to raise $100M from software/internet/tech. Many of us had banner years. No one was profiteering, but a strange side effect of a terrible global pandemic happened to be faster growth in our businesses.
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EasyNMT Release version 2🎆
Easy-to-use (3 lines of code), state-of-the-art neural machine translations.
Changes:
- All models are now based on transformers
- Any translation model from the hub can be used
Release notes:
github.com/UKPLab/EasyNMT
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HELLO SF: There are many, many vaccines sitting here.
No one is using them. GO USE THEM. spread the word.
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If you live in the Mission, Excelsior, Bay View, Vis Valley or elsewhere in SE San Francisco today, they have a ton of vaccine at the walk-up clinic and not enough people to give them to
SFGH Building 5 before 3pm and the vaccine is yours!
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Common Crawl gave us permission to release Google's C4 dataset in processed form! If you have a hankering for 800GB of clean English text, head over to github.com/allenai/allenn for more details!
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Stanford is offering its popular computer science intro course for free—and you can help teach it. (By )
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Great use of interactivity in this immunity explainer. The design is especially touch-friendly.
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. has a good, albeit very pessimistic, thread on what I was calling the “accidental restaurant“ problem a few days ago. I’m less pessimistic than he is, for two reasons. twitter.com/glyph/status/1
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I still have my original copy of this book. It was hugely important to my start in programming! Love this idea.
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What if.. we re-built these two books, with the programs rewritten and rearchitected into well written examples of Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and VB.NET versions of each game? And of course we'd "publish" it through a website, with permission?
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ICYMI: What started as a joke from is now an actual -style song about treasury secretary @JanetYellen. Thanks to for making this come to life!
And if you've been trying to memorize the lyrics, we've got you covered.
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This is a superb statement by . Come for the soaring rhetoric, stay for Conan’s sword.
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My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.
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Some reassuring news.
In a cohort of >11,000 healthcare workers, prior #SARSCoV2 infection (PCR or IgG+) is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection for at least 6 months.
Well done and team!
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Just accepted!
Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with protection against symptomatic reinfection journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-
Great team effort @aidanth @viraldoc @davidashprice @ParejaCebrian @OhsNewcastle @MatthiasUK @jayneh0202 @YusriTaha @NewcastleHosps + many others!
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Smart use of efficient float encoding in custom silicon...
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Microsoft's floating point format for efficient inference is very exciting, promising near-float32 accuracy in just 4 bits per value: microsoft.com/en-us/research
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Just diagnosed the weird app launch hang in MacOS as an OCSP timeout in trustd - and naturally there's already a thread about it. For the record, turning off OCSP updates forever is not a great workaround for this.
Can anybody at Apple provide an ETA for fixing the OCSP server?
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Hey Apple users:
If you're now experiencing hangs launching apps on the Mac, I figured out the problem using Little Snitch.
It's trustd connecting to ocsp.apple.com
Denying that connection fixes it, because OCSP is a soft failure.
(Disconnect internet also fixes.)
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After some conversations with a trainee, I've recognized at least 7 "academic phenotypes" based on underlying core professional goals.
A thread, aimed primarily at junior researchers learning to navigate the academic world.
Take-home: know your phenotype, know your superiors'.
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