Evan @evanskaufman@fosstodon.org

I don't understand why people are surprised by this. AIs are written by people with bias, tested by people with bias, and trained on data sets that contain biases. Why are we shocked that the AIs end up biased? Seems a foregone conclusion to me until we can figure out a better way for them to work.

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/discrimination-is-not-just-the-domain-of-humans-now-artificial-intelligence-is-showing-gender-bias-too-1.789470

"1,600 Scientists Just Signed A Letter Opposing A Legal Definition Of A Gender Binary" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/azeenghorayshi/scientists-vs-gender-binary

(continued)re: learning to program as a student:

-Stop comparing your learning progress to others.. it's not a race. There will always be someone better and more knowledgeable than you especially when it comes to specialised interests.
-do take a moment to celebrate the small wins, e.g. "look how far I've come since the start of the year!"
-encourage others with their learning progress too.
-avoid coders who are arseholes to newbies
-find role models/mentor other students/join study groups.

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

I like this one.

us-copyright-office-right-to-repair-dcma-exemptions

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/circuitbreaker/2018/10/25/18024332/us-copyright-office-right-to-repair-dcma-exemptions

A friend just shared an awesome game that teaches you how to build circuits

SHENZHEN I/O

https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/

#hardware #gaming

C tells a joke to Java.
Java doesn't get the reference.
C could at least give Java some pointers.

https://github.com/palantir/tslint/issues/4132 We need a new generation of open source licenses, and updates to existing ones, that stipulate specific ethical use cases - such as the kind of ethnic cleansing ICE is doing with Palantir's help - that are beyond the pale and invalidate the right to use.
This will draw a battle line within FOSS and a bunch of white dudes will hop to ICE's side (because this oppression isn't real to them), and we need to fight that battle sooner rather than later.

This is why you always use a standard calendar library. http://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com/

In the twenty-first century censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. We just don't know what to pay attention to, and often spend our time investigating and debating side issues. In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

#InformationOverload
#FilterFailure
#information

Custom lasered keyboards: 20 seconds from blank to read for use! 🤘

#linux #keyboard

https://fckdrm.com

Looks like #keybase might start supporting mastodon soon. (Thanks in part to @Gargron's help)

Great to see Mastodon keeping its momentum up!

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2948

http://brutalist-web.design is an intresting read

I dont think web apps are inherently bad just that most people (including myself) are too lazy to actually optimize the sites enough.

Someone texted this to me and I thought it was an incredibly apt description of bitcoin