Chris Schaller

Oh gosh, I didn't even catch the title! It's perfect.

Long rectangular painting of a star-forming region in the Eagle Nebula

Yessss everyone plz buy my painting of this next week 😆

15x30” oil painting on easel of a nebula painting. It’s a long spire in brown with a lavender, pink, and orange background giving the appearance of a leviathan or dragon skeleton.

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Oh that's a space dragon right there.

🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

2021, MSFT claimed a Teams app could read emotional affect & I's like "holy shit this will fuck over so many Black & autistic & otherwise neurodivergent & women & non-binary ppl & ppl w/ chronic pain & … like Everybody at any of those intersections."

This PainChek thing is that, but a doctors' tool

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Brown rejected the compact!

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Same… we moved to the back of my hand to get it, but we got it.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) threatened legal action if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) delays swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (Ariz.).

Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles.
#JWST 🧪🔭✨

My god.

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

4️⃣ Unplanned scientific opportunity ahead ☄️

Beginning of November, Juice will attempt to observe comet #3I/Atlas over a period of four weeks. The team plans on using several instruments, including cameras, spectrometers and a particle sensor. 6/8

Fuck this.

(*) Two that I've seen, one here in Pima Country that got run out of town once it became known and another up near Duluth, MN, in Hermantown.

I don't know, even if public officials signing NDAs is normal, it shouldn't be. Really suspicious behavior.

I also note a lot(*) of data center plans are being done in secret with NDAs being signed by our public officials. Seems like if they're signing NDAs about just planning a data center, maybe they should reconsider it… Or reconsider their jobs.

It's "funny," but the "guessing they don't have a lot of data centers" part I anticipated as being a positive there. But ya, the outsourcing. Ugh.

Oh no. Their COVID plan was terrible, too.

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

Could this be aliens?

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

Basebalk

You all know we're an American English Dictionary, right?

It may be pronounced differently in your country, but that's not our jurisdiction.

I think that's how the person behind you picks their way through a mine field…

(I do 100% get this, by the way!)