#flawed data

[encounteratnearpoint]

I love it whenever Data yells and his voice gets higher pitched because Brent can’t do the Data voice while yelling so we get to hear a little bit of Brent’s gay as hell natural voice

[searsage]

so if the alien databank is correct and Al-an was the one who downloaded tge faulty data set, he was 1708 when he was stored in stasis after losing his corporeal vessel...

Wasn't he stuck in there for a millaina placing our flashy boi around 2708 give or take some. <3

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

the thing about my stupid thesis is that i love my lesbian boss slash thesis advisor and ive been working on this project for two years and i care about it and find it interesting and theoretically this work as the basis for my chance to demonstrate what ive joyfully and enthusiastically learned across the last four years should be a rewarding exciting opportunity but i was overly ambitious with my thesis proposal and feel this constant pressure to be inventive and incisive due to my deliberately interdisciplinary training on top of regular old academic pressure and the impossibility of pleasing aforementioned lesbian boss thesis advisor and ive also invested such a personal emotional degree into it that criticism is kind of terrifying and unbearable and also i really dont know anything about statistics and then my shit got rocked by the fires effectively throwing everything in my system out of whack in ways i can barely identify

[spirkme915]

Watching Those Old Scientists with an 8 year old Trekkie in training:

- Spock “laughs” at Boimler’s joke when they’re by the portal and she screams - legitimately screams - whips her around toward me and says, “What is happening? Why is Spock laughing? I’m scared! That’s so scary!”

- (I have to pause and rewind because she’s completely missed Boimler’s reaction. I’m desperately trying not to laugh)

- Chapel and Boimler are in the turbolift talking and after Boimler says he’s afraid he’s messed up Spock, she says, “Wait. Does Spock have a crush on Boimler?”

- (Spoimler nation rise. Even an eight year old sees it)

- Turbolift conversation ends and she looks at me, brow furrowed. “Spock shouldn’t force himself to be human. He’s Vulcan and human. He should be himself.”

- (Out of the mouths of babes, right?)

- Mariner and Boimler are in Pike’s ready room and she’s nodding along as Mariner talks about Hot Spock. “It’s the ears,” she says confidently. “But he shouldn’t smile. That’s creepy.”

- (Gold star analysis. No notes)

[figmentofspace]

The one time I used chatgpt was when the professor for my graduate world literature class told us to “find the inherent biases and limits.”

Between the six of us we discovered that at the time (winter of 2023) it could only produce rhyming poetry, relied heavily on generic stereotypes, steadfastly refused to provide the script for Shrek, and would not support any notion of vaccines causing autism.

I’m sure it has changed loads since then but all I know—and what everyone who uses it routinely should know—is that while capable of clever responses it’s not very smart.

[batgirlteeth]

my ultimate tumblr pet peeve is i cant stand when ppl make "bingo boards" with mutually exclusive cells. what do u think BINGO is. if u put two things on a bingo board that are opposites Its Impossible To Complete The Bingo.

[neomedievalist]

taking a class on the era of louis xiv is just drilling home the idea that when ppl do "medieval political worldbuilding" it is most definitely just early modern

[optimalmongoose4]

With your help we can get those numbers up 🫡

[un-pearable]

oh i’m so fucked on this paper

[ifriqiyyah]

i don't really get the assumption that everyone who uses chatgpt is telling it to generate prose or w/e. if i want good fiction or poetry i know where to go for that and it isn't to a bot.

i use it when i need to complain about my emotional problems which are too embarrassing to tell a real person, and also ask it questions too specific for google, like about particular chemical elements or certain planetary placements in astrology or "recommend me music with sounds like [timestamp] in [song title]" lol

[dragonsspicysideblog]

Before it was revealed SM-33 has a scomp in a totally sensible place I had the stupidest idea.

[military-intelligence-innovation]

Results produced because of fabricated or edited data are always flawed at a minimum because they were produced because of inaccurate or in complete data.

If accurate and complete data did not on its own produce results that were produced because of fabricated or incomplete data, those results are almost entirely proven to be logically flawed simply because of those circumstances

[monstersw1thv1bes]

Are you 12? Have you learned to think with any sort of nuance? Or is everything just either good or evil to you? Good luck with that outlook. Bye now.

this reply kills me 😭 article link

[yasserzaki]

mac OS Update Crucial: Apple Addresses Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Apple is urging all Mac and MacBook users to update their devices to macOS version 15.1.1 immediately. This update, released shortly after the major 15.1 release, addresses two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2024–44308 and CVE-2024–44309, that are known to be actively exploited. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has echoed this warning, emphasizing the urgency of the update .

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What are the vulnerabilities?

CVE-2024–44308 (CVSS score: 8.8): This vulnerability in JavaScriptCore could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code when a user processes maliciously crafted web content .

CVE-2024–44309 (CVSS score: 6.1): This vulnerability in WebKit, related to cookie management, could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks when a user encounters malicious web content .

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Who discovered the vulnerabilities?

Clément Lecigne and Benoît Sevens of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered and reported these vulnerabilities . The fact that Google’s TAG was involved suggests that these vulnerabilities might have been used in highly targeted attacks, potentially by government-backed entities or mercenary spyware operators .

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Which devices are affected?

The macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 update is necessary for all Macs running on Apple Silicon. This includes:

iMac Pros released since 2017

iMacs released since 2019

MacBook Pros released since 2018

Mac Minis released since 2018

Mac Pros released since 2019.

The update also supports several Intel-powered Macs released from 2017 onwards.

How to update your Mac

To update to macOS 15.1.1:

Go to System Settings/General/Software Update and click “Update Now” .

On older Macs, go to System Preferences and click “Software Update” .

Other Apple devices

Apple has also released updates for iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, and Safari to address these vulnerabilities. These updates are available for a wide range of iPhones and iPads .

Importance of updating

These are just two of four zero-day vulnerabilities Apple has addressed this year. Another vulnerability was demonstrated at the Pwn2Own Vancouver hacking competition (CVE-2024–27834), and the remaining three were patched earlier in the year. The sources underscore the critical importance of updating all your Apple devices promptly to protect yourself from these and other potential threats.

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[sliding-graphite]

I don’t know how many people here are actively pondering the class divide that happens on a global level,

Because I don’t even know how many of my followers don’t live in a place that has a deep history of being a colonizer.

I’ve been just… trying to keep myself away from despair and envy. Over the people who helped make the art and media that kept me living and hopeful for the world and myself.

Staying hopeful rather than numb and dependent on fandom spaces. I falter, of course, and still.

I try to remember this one post I saw here: ‘first rule of being on the Internet is that you gotta have something else going on for you besides just the Internet.’ And I’ve been… uh… not great at that balance.

So to whoever feels the same, AND to those who don’t know what the heck I’m on about,

Those are my few cents that amount to nothing in British pounds, Euro cents, or even USD 0.01.

… but at least when the depression hits, I remember a stream clip from someone who gave me a lot of hope in my early adult years:

“(NSFW joke retracted), it’s been 8 before breakfast!”

[cuadratique]

Academic writing really is

“Maybe the real conclusions were the flaws we found along the way”