social.3dots.lv/@pixel

A guest researcher at NIST.

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

I while ago I set up a private @MastodonProject instance and got into the Fediverse. It has this cool feeling of a thing that is not discovered by the masses. Sometimes I even post something, here is a thread on social media https://t.co/u6JUWhCEKc

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

@CarlosMonjeJr @yoyoel Thank you. Now it's clear. I would be nice if the dataset was hosted on a platform like https://t.co/99CljJrKN1 so that versions are easily tracked. I might have to redownaload 300 zip archives...

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

.@CarlosMonjeJr Hi! The 2018 US Midterm Elections Review mentions that Twitter was contacted by an external researcher about 228 misidentified accounts. Do you know whether the details on how these accounts were identified are publicly available? Who contacted you?

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

Thanks!

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

Are these accounts present in the October 2018 IRA dataset? Is it still correct to say that the accounts in the IRA dataset are likely to be associated with the IRA?

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

@ian_soboroff @richardm_ I've suspected this, that's why I decided to base collection first on location, then on media accounts and then on preselected individual accounts.

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

And, you know, I don't miss Twitter at all. I don't plan to have the twitter client on my recently factory reset phone.

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

I while ago I set up a private @MastodonProject instance and got into the Fediverse. It has this cool feeling of a thing that is not discovered by the masses. Sometimes I even post something, here is a thread on social media https://t.co/u6JUWhCEKc

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

@ian_soboroff I remember how sure you were that Caps would get eliminated pretty soon. I had a feeling that it was a kind of a ritual to make Caps win!

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

Putting aside what Zuckerberg says at the grilling sessions, why is he agrees to them? He doesn't provide real answers, the concerned user's are not going to change their mind, maybe even get more sceptical. Who does he target at with the appearance and vague idealised answers?

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

Instagram feels as a series of trailer in a cinema before the main movie, mostly because of ads and algorithmic order of posts.

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

@dimkart @acl2018 Have you talked to @acl2018 They might be able to give some insight.

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

@transkrizis Говорят, что это помогает в часы пик, легче регулировать толпу. В Лондонском метро любят такую практику.

[Jakub Szymanik @Logic_Cognition]

31st European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information - ESSLLI 2019
5-16 August, 2019, Riga, Latvia
https://t.co/RScZiY4gCE
Call for course and workshop proposals

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

@TheMoCoShow These posters are there for almost a year...

[social.3dots.lv/@pixel @dimazest]

@mistersql Just put a docstring instead of `pass` and everything will be allright.

[Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov]

My long piece on what could - and should - be done after the Facebook debacle https://t.co/dkca9LHanc

[Thomas Wiecki @twiecki]

#Pandas tip: Pass functions to .loc[] for flexible indexing: df.loc[lambda x: x.col != 0]. You save an assignment and can keep on chaining.

#Jupyter NB tip: Instead of switching on and off %pdb, just run %debug to get magically dropped into the last exception. HT @aseyboldt

[Jake VanderPlas @jakevdp]

Github pro tip: use "python-traceback" mode to syntax-highlight Python tracebacks. No more ugly red lines!

[Latvian public media @LSM_eng]

With the controversial data company Cambridge Analytica back in the news, here is a piece from our archives about a time they came to Latvia. https://t.co/ZEWPKWwZAR