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Nick Anderson, PhD, FAMIA

@extrapolation.com.bsky.social

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, UC Davis. Practicing positive pessimism, creative tech, data advocacy, data, data, data. Constantly aware of the time

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BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

NIH to resume issuing grants - which will still include previously negotiated indirect rates. For now. popular.info/p/breaking-n...

12.02.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Everyone knows your location How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

โ€œEveryone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app adsโ€ - a very interesting hands-on blog post about contemporary location data flows and sales timsh.org/tracking-mys...

02.02.2025 18:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 99    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

I had been wondering how or when the effects of the latest government would directly affect my academic and professional life- but I was surprised how the immediate consequences were to have many of my online meetings for the next two weeks be suddenly canceled. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.

23.01.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Muskโ€™s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.

โ€œChinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets โ€ฆ put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Muskโ€™s social media platform.โ€
www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2024/bluesky-boom-worries-chinese-media

08.12.2024 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7385    ๐Ÿ” 1469    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 357    ๐Ÿ“Œ 135
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05.12.2024 22:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amiga was sort of the Raspberry Pi meets Steamdeck of its day

28.11.2024 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for โ€˜trainingโ€™ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for โ€˜trainingโ€™ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.

17.11.2024 03:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11370    ๐Ÿ” 2919    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 191    ๐Ÿ“Œ 237

Standing room only in the Epic and AI section - I remember when Epic didnโ€™t attend AMIA. They must need us more now #AMIA2024

10.11.2024 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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