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Textbook definition of taking something out of context. The full sentence is: > ‘If America attacks Iran,’ I said, ‘won’t people be killed?’ > ‘They don’t kill people. Our own gove…

I donno, I've come across or read about fair number of people who worked on a crazy idea for a very long time, as if they were planning to throw their life away chasing that idea. …

There is no way to access the Internet from inside Iran, not for private citizens, nor for companies, or even many server hosts. Just very very few places, directly linked and cont…

To those argue that LLMs might cheat by using EXIF, I saw a post recently on twitter ( https://x.com/tszzl/status/1915212958755676350 ) and out of curiosity, screen-captured the ph…

The original comment says "their mentality about open-model is wrong, evident from their post". Does not say it's shady! Why to be cynical?

This is one: https://x.com/JohnDSailer/status/1883648993974169641 I have friends in faculty positions at well-known universities who were very unhappy about these practices, but co…

If you are interested in this topic, I suggest watching the conversation between Edward Gibson and Lex Fridman. In the middle of the conversation [1] Edward talks about how there i…

Thanks for the links. I watched some of his videos where he explained how DataColada did their forensic investigation in data manipulation. What amazes me is how simple was the fra…

It seems the site is not accessible. Either it times out, or shows "An error occurred", or 404, for the past 15 minutes.

When I look back at the early days of using social media (Facebook, Orkut, even Instagram), it was a very positive experience: seeing recent photos of friends, planning social acti…

I did it on mac without any issues. Are you using Mac or Linux? what is the issue?

Amazing work. Thank you. I have a set of PDF files, and this week was thinking how I can link them to an LLM and be able to ask questions about them. So this was very timely. I did…

I agree, but I think they are more outlier than normal tweeter users. I've been also trying to find these people and follow them on tweeter, but it's hard to find. Mostly either do…

I don't think tweeting and blogging can be compared really. I would see tweeting as a form of "talking to a group of people". You often don't research, proofread, and rewrite yours…

Our startup is planning to hire a new employee with expertise in data science. The main responsibility is to work with our existing and incoming data, and extract some meaningful i…

I believe it comes from here: https://blog.google/documents/72/Exposure_Notifications_Serv... Section 3.c.i

Me and some of my colleagues are also Iranians living abroad, and this morning our account was deleted! We were already thinking to move to a self-hosted solution (rocket.chat like…

Most of the human-subject research done in public health, sociology, and similar domains uses data collected in a similar way. They basically ask people to take notes on specific b…

Are you sure it wasn't a scam to rip you off? I'm born and raised in Tehran and numerous times I had gone out for dinner passed mid-night, and I simply walked into a restaurant, or…

There are a few other efforts towards this goal as well, and Apple ResearchKit is one of them, Funf is another one. Two difference between Ethica and ResearchKit: 1. ResearchKit be…

I wish, we are very small, and very limited resource from few research projects we are contributing to, so we cant really afford. Sorry

I started data modelling as student back in 2009. I was working on a model where you could feed the contact pattern of a population and it would predict infection spread. I always …

All the figures in this book is missing (or at least up to the end of first chapter that I've read). Anyone knows where I can find the figures?