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i think i'll forever be obsessed with this picture of my cat when she was a kitten. she looks like an erdtree burial watchdog

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yes, I know the difference between genAI totally generating fake things out of thin air and specific machine learning projects based on a focused dataset. yes, the journalists and the moneybags are intentionally conflating the two things because the public does not totally understand.

my field (very basic ecology and morphotaxonomy, hi) inherently benefits from neither genAI NOR machine learning, and is now essentially dead, as all of the remaining money has been shunted to the former two. I know there are uses for machine learning, and that's great, but you can't use it for my thing, and now my thing is going away in favor of this stuff, whether or not it is "AI" and whether or not anyone wants it or benefits from it (my lab certainly did not lol).

forgive me if I am not mentioning the inherent value of machine learning on other things every time, I'm frustrated. this is now the ONLY science we get to have, and I'm tired of people musing that machine learning will do my thing too someday. no, it won't.

kropotkindersurprise

On April 8 we celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher, and remember all the lives she destroyed.

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July 25, 2024 - This week we celebrate the life of Cathy Rutherford, the amazingly fierce lady with the umbrella in the video above. Your hatred for Thatcher and refusal to be nice about it genuinely remains an inspiration 🫡 [link]