This New Book Reveals the Daredevil Lives of Four Italian Women Who Stood Up to Hitler and Mussolini https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/new-book-reveals-daredevil-lives-four-italian-women-who-stood-up-hitler-mussolini-180986245/ #science
science
If mathematics is functional vision in a cosmos of energy and momentum, what abstract practice is it that allows us to perceive and process the deeper messages woven into what we see through proof & calculation?
The infinities, the limits, the bumpy smoothness, the funhouse symmetries (maybe real?), the utterly confounding illogical puzzles…
NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire
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A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-contracts-seattle-lab?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles
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In 2013, ProPublica reporter David Epstein was contacted by a woman with a wild story and a batch of photos she believed were clues to the mystery of her condition. Turns out, she was right.
https://www.propublica.org/article/remembering-jill-viles-diy-geneticist-muscular-dystrophy-david-espstein?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #Genetics #Science #Research #Health #Disability
Most #LLMs over-generalized scientific results beyond the original articles
...even when explicitly prompted for accuracy!
The #AI was 5x worse than humans, on average!
Newer models were the worst.🤦♂️
🔓 Accepted in #RoyalSociety Open #Science: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.00025
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(1) Generic generalizations (generics). These are present tense generalizations that do not have a quantifier (e.g. ‘many’, ‘75%’) in the subject noun phrase and describe study results as if they apply to whole categories of people, things, or abstract concepts (e.g. ‘parental warmth is protective’) instead of specific or quantified sets of individuals (e.g. study participants). ....
(2) Present tense generalizations. ... When past tense result claims from an original text are turned into present tense in the summary, a broader generalization is conveyed than the author(s) of the original text may have intended.
(3) Action guiding generalizations. ...result claims ... often underlie recommendations ... (e.g. ‘CBT should be recommended for OCD patients’) [that involve] broader generalization than that found in the summarized text because researchers may have deliberately avoided such recommendations due to insufficient evidence to support them.
We tested whether the outputs of the 10 LLMs mentioned above retained the quantified, past tense, or descriptive generalizations of the scientific texts that they summarized, or transitioned to unquantified (generic), present tense, or action guiding generalizations. We defined the latter kind of conclusions collectively as generalized and the former as restricted conclusions."](/proxy/post_attachment/91830/8563bade44.png "\".... Original texts and summaries were coded based on whether their result claims contained one or more of the following three types of generalizations:
(1) Generic generalizations (generics). These are present tense generalizations that do not have a quantifier (e.g. ‘many’, ‘75%’) in the subject noun phrase and describe study results as if they apply to whole categories of people, things, or abstract concepts (e.g. ‘parental warmth is protective’) instead of specific or quantified sets of individuals (e.g. study participants). ....
(2) Present tense generalizations. ... When past tense result claims from an original text are turned into present tense in the summary, a broader generalization is conveyed than the author(s) of the original text may have intended.
(3) Action guiding generalizations. ...result claims ... often underlie recommendations ... (e.g. ‘CBT should be recommended for OCD patients’) [that involve] broader generalization than that found in the summarized text because researchers may have deliberately avoided such recommendations due to insufficient evidence to support them.
We tested whether the outputs of the 10 LLMs mentioned above retained the quantified, past tense, or descriptive generalizations of the scientific texts that they summarized, or transitioned to unquantified (generic), present tense, or action guiding generalizations. We defined the latter kind of conclusions collectively as generalized and the former as restricted conclusions.\"")
Edited 121d ago
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
New #intro!
I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.
My website https://meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.
Some stuff I love:
#musicProduction #videoProduction #books #experimentalMusic #electronicMusic #RandB #earlyMusic #improvisedMusic #science #knitting #history #scienceFiction #horror #alternativeComedy #anarchism #foss #linux #introduction
TOPIC> Clouds
"Dear dev-ops and admins, who are mostly overworked and close to burnout: DON'T PANIC!
These clouds have nothing to do with your work, but quite the opposite, they are supposed to lead you back to the original meaning of the word. So scroll calmly through this thread and let yourself fall into deep relaxation until your state of mind corresponds to a small pink fluffy cloud and breathe serenely in and out again .. in and out .. and now let the clouds in your mind just come and go .. come and go .."
2021 August 11
Mammatus Clouds over Saskatchewan
* Image Credit & Copyright: Michael F Johnston
https://www.instagram.com/beautyandruin/
Explanation:
When do cloud bottoms appear like bubbles? Normally, cloud bottoms are flat. This is because moist warm air that rises and cools will condense into water droplets at a specific temperature, which usually corresponds to a very specific height. As water droplets grow, an opaque cloud forms. Under some conditions, however, cloud pockets can develop that contain large droplets of water or ice that fall into clear air as they evaporate. Such pockets may occur in turbulent air near a thunderstorm. Resulting mammatus clouds can appear especially dramatic if sunlit from the side. The mammatus clouds pictured here, lasting only a few minutes, were photographed over Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, just after a storm in 2012.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210811.html
#space #earth #atmophere #clouds #weather #photography #science #physics #meteorology #nature
Edited 30d ago
Earthjustice President Describes a “Fundamentally Different” Era of Hostility Toward Environmentalists
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Abigail Dillen sees the increase of lawsuits targeting green groups as just one of the growing threats to environmental advocacy organizations — and the people who staff them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/earthjustice-abigail-dillen-q-a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #EarthDay #Earth #Science #Environment #Climate #Trump
Gaussfest, and an electrical day in London on the 7th September @ The London Museum of Water and Steam
https://www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/the-gaussfest/
High voltage, tesla coils, electrostatic machine demonstrations and another Victorian/Edwardian pumping station to look around plus a chance of seeing a working mercury rectifier(s)
I can't think of a better day out :)
Tickets https://lmws.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/68513?catID=65283&
👩⚕️ AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
｢ AI helped health professionals to better detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon, but when the assistance was removed, their ability to find tumors dropped by about 20% compared with rates before the tool was ever introduced, according to findings published Wednesday ｣