Moving from mastodon.online to a new instance that blocks Threads.

We got an email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the organisation that is responsible for the `.rs` top-level domain.

Looks like they are a big fan of Rust. 😊

I don't understand what is the point of releasing an IDE via #flatpak, when that flatpak doesn't include all the necessary dev tools, and it can't access the ones outside its sandboxing. Honestly. What's the point? I'm looking at you, #Geany.

Personally, I can't stand flatpaks or #snap. #Appimage is nicer just because it's just one delete away from within the file manager and doesn't leave crumbs everywhere. But overall, I prefer #apt, and #dnf.

#linux #vala #gtk

With the most recent updates, mapdata.py provides several means of finding, or creating, candidate keys (potential primary keys) for an entire data table or a selected subset thereof: https://mapdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how_to.html#finding-or-creating-candidate-keys

#MapData #Database #DataAnalysis

The data explorer mapdata.py (https://pypi.org/project/mapdata/) has the following new features:

* Bubble plots that show the relationships between three numeric variables and one categorical variable.

* A scatter plot of the results of a t-SNE analysis.

* A tool to evaluate candidate keys for all or selected data.

* Additional ROC statistics.

* A tool to create a unique row ID in the data table.

#MapData #Python #DataAnalysis #Statistics #Mapping #FOSS

"The exponential enshittification of science" https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-exponential-enshittification?r=8tdk6&triedRedirect=true

@aimless_melissa @Teri_Kanefield

My fact-free opinion about the answer to #3 includes better education in critical thinking. And history, and law.

And more of what @Teri is doing.

@aimless_melissa @Teri_Kanefield

NB: I use "discriminatory disability" to mean 'unable to tell the difference between fact and opinion'.

@aimless_melissa @Teri_Kanefield

The opinionated form of the "doom" judgment aside, if somebody can't tell the difference, then they are also unreliable as an information purveyor.

Which raises questions like: 1) how high a fraction of unreliable information purveyors can a society accommodate and still continue to function (for multiple definitions of "function")?; 2) is obliviousness to the difference self-propagating?; and 3) what are effective counters to this discriminatory disability?

A single session of resistance training leads to measurable improvements in memory: https://www.psypost.org/a-single-bout-of-resistance-training-can-improve-memory-and-alter-hippocampus-function-study-suggests/

#Exercise #Weightlifting

@aimless_melissa @Teri_Kanefield

Is there a title to any online article these days that isn't clickbait? At least, in this case, the word is in scare quotes, which suggests that it is acknowledged to be a little hyperbolic.

But nevertheless, the numbers are pretty dismal.

Are you planning or writing a new article, and thinking about where to publish it?

Skip the musty for-profit journals of yore, and publish your work in an open-access journal. Directory of Open Access Journals, https://doaj.org/, is a great tool to search for OA journals.

I heartily recommend a browse through DOAJ in any case, you can do a keyword search, for example. You might find a nice new scientific community to boot!

#openaccess #DOAJ #anthropology

Postgres is eating the database world

Link: https://medium.com/@fengruohang/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-157c204dcfc4
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39711863

#postgres

This looks like an excellent reason to delete your #glassdoor account

cellio | Time to delete your Glassdoor account and #data
https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2024/03/12/glassdoor-violates-privacy.html

@Teri_Kanefield

47.5% of Americans can't distinguish facts from political opinion: https://www.psypost.org/doomed-startling-study-finds-americans-struggle-to-differentiate-facts-from-political-opinions/

@ionica
Those APC fees paid to Elsevier sure were a guarantee of quality, weren't they?

#TIL (actually, was reminded) that certainty and comprehension are inversely correlated.

@ScienceDesk @TheConversationUS

Hey, what about Prime Day?

@GottaLaff
If you're far away, than distance probably rules this out, but the 'Seneca Guns' phenomenon has been observed with shallow quakes of less than 2.0 magnitude: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/earthquake-booms-seneca-guns-and-other-sounds

@unixroot @bits

In everything, there are more ways to do things wrong or badly than there are ways to do them right or well. I think that concatenative programming suffers from the fact ("fact": my supposition) that there is a larger-than-usual infinitude of ways to do it badly.