#scientific programming

[subrage]

Truth speaking on the corporate obsession with AI

Hilarious. Something tells me this person's on the hellsite(affectionate)

[historysurvivalguide]

v1.0.0 release of centerline-width is out!

A Python tool to find the centerline and width of rivers based on the latitude and longitude of the right and left banks

pip install centerline-width

[lilithnepunk4]

what if he's living in Amazonian forests

[swan2swan]

"Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable and even devastating way." --Ian Malcolm

[yb-cringe]

YKNOW WHAT not to throw out an idea to contridict my own idea but it Is interesting that qjaiden starts to panic only after she considers breaking the rules. she cannot do it, she starts to panic and back herself into a corner and sweat and shake and says she feels weird and not right somethings going on and has a pit in her stomach—

i just wonder if she physically CANNOT break the rules. like some part of her knows the consequences, can acknowledge how bad it would be considering just after this she talks about needing a game plan, needing to not fuck up.

its just a sudden switch that i genuinely i dont think she CAN go against cucurucho. like in some way or another she just Cant break the rules

[thecrispier0nion]

reconnecting with destiny 2 because wtf was that art exam

[lurkiestvoid]

I still think Mass Effect's differentiating approach between "Artificial Intelligence" (true sentient sapient learning growing digital Intelligence) and "Virtual Intelligence" ('fake' intelligence, an Advanced Software, a glorified interactive database interface-slash-personal assistant, limited functionality) would be very useful in current AI discourse because it's correct that we do not have AI. We have VI. The problems come from pretending VI is the same as AI, insisting it's the same as AI, expecting it to perform like AI, and expecting it to understand like AI. but I'm just hollerin at walls

[lbhslefttiddie]

me: we should get into hydrology or ecology or something geography related. we are good at geography and love stupid bullshit like that. its a viable career path with lots of options and historically speaking people do tend to be happier when they can afford to eat

also: okay but have you considered. going all-in on creative writing with a focus on programming and music design so that you could spend all your time creating video games in a basement somewhere

me: no i think i would like to have a stable income i think

also me: forsake everything to get into that interactive fiction course right fucking now

[non-un-topo]

Applying for my Master's in gender studies kind of feels like shooting myself in the foot, but then again, it's not a useless discipline if it's being systematically censored and erased.

[historysurvivalguide]

A Python package to access, download, view, and manipulate Cassini RADAR images in one place

A package I have been working on to be able to view images from Saturn’s moon Titan. It is in its early Beta for those curious to see images of the strange moon

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the only world with earth like weather. In 2004, NASA sent a lander to the surface and discovered enormous lakes of gasoline-like liquid that cover the poles

With pydar, easily access and view swaths of Cassini radar images for any time or feature of interest

Example of a pydar result for Titan’s second largest lake Ligeia Mare:

[g1deonthefirst]

wasn't alfred a hedge fund manager? i get where ur coming from re: the class divide post otherwise btw but am somewhat stumped ab this bc he was definitely the one making the most money and likely highly educated as well, and ended up a cav. ig it is STEM/nonSTEM divide?

hi! yes, alfred was a hedge fund manager — he was also augustine's brother and so comes from a similar (presumably very wealthy) background. this exception doesn't really disprove the rule to me: either way, john was disproportionately likely to make people who were highly educated necromancers and people who were not cavaliers. i want to walk through a couple possible reasons for this.

the first possibility is that john (1) believed that people who were more "intelligent" were more likely to be able to understand necromancy and (2) implicitly believed that people who were academically high-achieving like scientists, lawyers, doctors, etc. were more "intelligent." clearly, john and the lyctors all seem to think pretty highly of their own intelligence. john in particular went from being a poor māori kid to being an accomplished scientist, and i don't think it's a stretch to say he probably believed he deserved it on the basis of intelligence.

in contrast, both alfred and cristabel have their own talents and intelligence disparaged — john describes alfred as "useless, but a darling" and augustine describes cristabel as "not hav[ing] the intellect you'd ordinarily find in a sandwich or an orange." additionally, necromancy is talked about in scientific terms, which lends itself to the idea that you might need some scientific understanding to be good at it. i think it's entirely possible that john consciously decided that some people wouldn't be intelligent enough to hack it and made them the cavaliers, a problematic assumption chiefly in that it equates academic achievement with innate intelligence.

the second possibility, and to me the more likely one, is that john simply made the people closest to him necromancers while making people he wasn't as close to (essentially his friends' friends) non-necromancers. it's pretty clear that the people john made necromancers were people who directly worked on john's original cryogenics project with him, while the cavaliers were all people who got dragged into his cult by those original project members. alfred is a perfect example of this — he's there because he's augustine's brother. other people have made posts about the possibility that john did this to intentionally separate his friends from the people they loved.

but either way, i think this demonstrates who john as a character cared about. john, as a successful scientist, surrounded himself by people who were highly educated and successful, predominantly (as you note anon) people in STEM. people who are disproportionately likely to be white, neurotypical, and cis, or at least disproportionately likely to be able to conform to white/european, neurotypical, cis standards. not only is john not as close to people in his project-turned-cult that aren't as highly educated, but poor people aren't present at all. there are no janitors, no retail workers, no manual laborers, no farmworkers. i don't get the sense that john ever really unpacked his internalized biases or questioned why he primarily values people who are highly educated.

"but," i imagine my hypothetical reader who's somehow made it this far protesting, "of course he's surrounded by highly educated people. he's working on a cryogenics project!" well...precisely. tumblr user sophelstien's scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds essay touches on how this project demonstrates that john is not as progressive as some people assume he is, but what i'll say here is simply that john didn't have to make the people in his cryogenics project the leaders of his new society. and by installing the very people who our society rewards into positions of power, john — consciously or not — shapes the new society he's creating with the old society's inequalities.

[lucilleandherrobots]

Look, I know we like to stick to the pre-60s aesthetics in Fallout, but CONSIDER...

The Institute developed synths that can see the world through the style of 90s to early 2000s graphics and interfaces. Information looks like the early Internet and program windows.

All this to say, Nick sees the world like we see abandoned mmos and the windows brick maze. He sees gaudy colored windows with case info pop up when he's recalling info from a case.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

dressing in these rehearsalllls....more instagram takeover from assistant director wesley mouri (pictured with corpse flower), shouting out costume designs by sully ratke, lighting design by allen lee hughes, set design by lex liang

ft. vie boheme (ronnette), gabrielle dominique (crystal), jason clusman (assistant stage manager), erica durham (chiffon), robert dorfman (mr. mushnik), will roland (seymour krelborn), china brickey (audrey), horace (corpse flower (inspiration for reimagined audrey ii puppet, chris lutter puppet designer btw got some vivacious stuff on that website))

[bunnygirlmilk]

do u code

Not well but I took a class in object-oriented programming (using C#) some years ago and I’m currently learning Fortran for work

[exoflash]

the only thing that irritates me as badly as new agers is western christians trying to explain away the spiritual with pseudoscience

[strawhatsufi]

It's not a hill to die on or anything, but acting like a word can't have a different semantic range as a common noun vs. as a form of collective address is really annoying as a guy who is intellectually invested in linguistics as a scientific field.