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kim_harding , to random
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Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai
Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year.

NatureMC ,
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@kim_harding Important for @writing ⬆️

tek , to technology
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Bots can now solve CAPTCHAs better than humans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWUHv3S8JVI

@technology

Ad4mWayn3 ,

Do it slowly and don’t be consistent, sometimes I select the tile with 3 pixels of the thing its supposed to contain, sometimes I leave 2 or 3 tiles that clearly contain the thing, sometimes I just select a tile that doesn’t even match. Idk, it always works, I suppose the erratic behavior is what shows them I’m human or smth

conciselyverbose ,

They’re training for a car.

The passenger and their equipment are part of the hazard.

skinnylatte , to random
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Just read John Rennie Short’s ‘Insurrection’, a good overview into what happened before and during and after Jan 6. Short and concise.

I didn’t need to feel more depressed, but I also felt I needed to know more

RunRichRun ,
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@skinnylatte
"Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on the Capitol Reveals about America and Democracy"; John Rennie Short
— reviewed by Scott McLemee in "Inside Higher Ed":
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/intellectual-affairs/2024/05/17/review-john-rennie-shorts-insurrection-opinion
@bookstodon

glasspusher ,
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@RunRichRun @skinnylatte @bookstodon thanks. I put it on my list

tek , to technology
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Google faces Italian Antitrust Probe over Bundled/Linked Services

https://en.agcm.it/en/media/press-releases/2024/7/PS12714

@technology

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cian , to random
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If the ultimate purpose of memory is to guide our actions in future, what is the point of episodic memory?

Why do we remember details of our past experiences?

RossGayler ,
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@cian @cogsci
Just off the top of my head (speculation alert)

"1) assume we have a limited storage capacity so aren't good at raw memorisation"
Maybe everything gets encoded and stored, but we aren't so good at retrieval/recall of specific episodes.
Maybe that poor exact episodic retrieval is a consequence of generalisation at retrieval.

"2) even after learning something, we tend to forget details over time."
Assuming we store new episodic memories over time, the accumulation of new memories might make it harder to retrieve specific old episodes through a generalisation at retrieval mechanism. (Also, even if parts of old episodes were to randomly disappear over time, that wouldn't necessarily stop a generalisation at retrieval mechanism. A good generalisation mechanism should be able to cope with partial records of episodes.)

"Neither of these really apply to ANNs?"
Well, you could include weight decay in an ANN and there is the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting. However, I take the relevance of most current ANNs (feedforward, weight optimising networks) to cognitive concerns with a fairly large pinch of salt.
IMO the theoretical conceptual framework of most current ANNs doesn't make contact with cognitive concerns so you can't really ask these questions of them.

RossGayler ,
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@cian @cogsci

Plus there are cognitive science people who argue that analogy is the core of cognition.

Analogy is a mechanism for generalisation at retrieval and the stored episodes are the input to the analogical mechanism.

NEW1_ , to fediverse
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slazer2au ,

Yep, that sure is a moon.

cabbage ,
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Nice natural satellite. Here it is spinning around. Cross your eyes to see it in glorious 3D.

Source: https://social.librem.one/@sab/109593170715381505

elonjet , to random
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Landed in Austin, Texas, United States. Apx. flt. time 2 h 19 min.

elonjet OP ,
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~ 1,174 gallons (4,442 liters).
~ 7,865 lbs (3,567 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $6,572 cost of fuel.
~ 12 tons of CO2 emissions.

NEW1_ , to fediverse
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@fediverse ch 1 mas 2 lem

sethabrutyn , to random
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So, You Are Assigned Classical Sociological Theory in the Fall…

My best advice: RUN! Of course, this is tongue-in-cheek. This is the first of two essays I am writing on teaching theory. It's been some time since I put words to paper on this (here, here, and here), and my thinking has evolved and changed. This essay is largely devoted to what I think is a nasty hangover in the guise of inertia: the insistence that we teach classical theory as required.

http://sethabrutyn.com/2024/07/17/so-you-are-assigned-classical-sociological-theory-in-the-fall/

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ILoveSelfHosting , to asklemmy French

Hey Ya'll! I was thinking of hosting my own Mastodon Instance, but noticed that it's pretty big as in software, I'm looking for something a bit more light. I'm preferably looking for something that runs in docker, as I have that installed on my Linux book, Yes, I am using Linux as if I attempted to use Windows, MacOS I wouldn't have a great time.

Anyways, I was going to choose lemmy, but I think that's also heavy, not sure though!

@asklemmy

_ed ,

I’m running pleroma with bdx-town/mangane ui. Does the trick looks slick. Could have moved to akkoma but haven’t. Been running for ~ 3 years.

underscores ,
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GoToSocial is designed for small / single user instances. There’s more with similar goals like snac, seppo, pub, ktistec, tapir, shuttlecraft, activities.next, and microblog.pub, but I haven’t really looked into them so I’m not sure on the status of each. There’s a nice list of activitypub software at delightful fediverse apps if you want to look at more options.

wildncrazyguy138 , to showerthoughts

Looking on a relief map, the Iranian plateau and the Himalayas look oddly similar

someguy3 ,

worldle and globle

What’s this?

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mimarek1 , to random
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The guest star on DS9 this evening is Salli Richardson-Whitfield. She was on Eureka and Stitchers.

socprof ,
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@mimarek1 She's switched to directing and has been working as such on The Gilded Age on HBO. @allstartrek

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