Zen Faulkes

Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

In Iceland we have a word for feeling really guilty for staying inside on a sunny day, because they are so rare and precious. We call it "sólviskubit" and it sounds a lot like "samviskubit" which means having a guilty conscious. And I am suffering from a sólviskubit right now.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

Artist Shantell Martin wants you to to make something cool with her typeface, Shantell Sans:

shantellsans.com/process

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:36 UTC

“Uncanny valley”: Unease from viewing a computer-generated figure that is almost but not quite realistic. “Trash crevasse”: Disgust from viewing generative AI artwork that looks sloppy, plagiarizes from artists, and sucks back more water and power than a small country.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 19:15 UTC

As someone who has to process form inputs… I know exactly why that is there.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 22:47 UTC

Much like Freddy Mercury, all I hear is radio gaga

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

Sorry, got distracted by the second skeet and paid insufficient attention to the first. 😞

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

Almost certainly priced for video rental stores rather than direct to consumer. It was common business practice for a while to price tapes out of the range of (most) consumers. The home market centered around rentals for a long time.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

Surprising talk from company that releases Impact Factors: “We can no longer assume that the ‘best’ journals are the most highly cited(.) High quality can no longer be equated with high impact – instead quality should now be equated with trustworthiness.” www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 23:15 UTC

King crabs more than 20 years, dang it, not 29

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

There has to be fishery data about lifespan on commercially fished crabs… Blue crabs estimated to live three years Alaska King crabs estimated to live more than 29 years

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

It’s been a long standing and MAJOR criticism of Impact Factors that people could NOT reproduce the results. Even motivated editors with full knowledge of everything they published in their journal couldn’t duplicate the calculated Impact Factor.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

New Impact Factors out today with this change:

“Full transparency into data underlying the citation statistics for each journal enables you to see each and every article and citation that has contributed to a journal’s scholarly impact.”

This seems important. 🧵

clarivate.com/blog/journal...

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 22:43 UTC

Taylor and Francis rolled this out a while ago: neurodojo.blogspot.com/2022/08/list...

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 05:44 UTC

I created a Data Science course at McMaster that people seemed to like. I can send you syllabus, slides.

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