Sean Lane @seanlane@mastodon.technology

Info for new users: if possible, please add a quick description to the images you're posting, it helps our friends who user some #Accessibility tools like screenreaders! Most apps have support for it, the webview definitely does, and it doesn't need to be too much info.

Make sure to stick around for a while. It isn't like other sites, so your experience will be way different.

But I promise with time it will be better.

Use Dropbox on Linux? If you use any filesystem than unencrypted ext4, they're dropping support for your system in November: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dropbox-client-warn-me-that-it-ll-stop-syncing-in-Nov-why/m-p/290065/highlight/true#M42255

So, we got to the phase of having papers about sentiment recognition in Mastodon?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05013

https://github.com/cerisara/DialogSentimentMastodon

#meta #crawlers

Feynman technique - a simple and powerful way to rapidly learn and retain new concepts.

1. Write down the name of concept you're trying to learn.

2. Explain it in plain English, as if you were teaching it to a new student.

3. Identify things you couldn't explain well, re-read the source material and research them. Try explaining again until these knowledge gaps are gone.

4. Simplify your explanation, get rid of technical terms and use simple analogies. ELI5.

#learning #rationality

Installing tensorflow with GPU support must surely be the most difficult part of deep learning

2FA all the things.

🔁 RT @sehnaoui@twitter.com

Today we remember Alan Turing (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954). Scientist, mathematician, cryptanalyst, theoretical biologist & the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
#ThankYou

https://twitter.com/sehnaoui/status/1004761049130815488

if internet explorer is brave enough to ask if it can be your default browser than any man can be brave enough to ask a girl out

https://www.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

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So I was wondering about the use of ‘hermanos’ for ‘siblings’, and it looks like latin languages don't have an equivalent.

And then I wondered why the english word didn't resemble the german word [that I know] - ‘geschwister’.

And then it turned out that ‘siblings’ is that rareſt of rarities: An english word that's actually english:

c1000 Ælfric Genesis xix. 12 Hæfst þu suna oððe dohtra on þisre byrig..oððe ænigne sibling?

#language