#Classification

emptywheel

emptywheel

A reminder that even Billy Barr said a pardon in these circumstances might be obstruction.https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1281685070235856897 For those asking, yes, I expect a commutation, not a pardon. Trump is incompetent on

Dr. Banana García-Bastidas (PhD)

Ferchucky

#CarlLinnaeus assigned the scientific name Musa sapientum for dessert #bananas & Musa paradisiaca for plantains. However, he did not know that the two species he described were in fact hybrids

Kathryn 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨

TransSalamander

Fucking know-nothing cishets posting screenshots of the dictionary definition of lesbian as if I'm gonna immediately say "omg you're right! My years of queerness and learning about our long history

Santiago

svpino

11 key concepts of Machine Learning.— Supervised Learning Edition — Before starting, remember that, if you follow me, one of your enemies will be immediately destroyed (and you'll get to

🎗⏳The Solitary Reaper🕉🍀

YonSolitary

Rest In Peace, #AaronSwartz A brilliant mind & a beautiful soul taken away too soon by a vindictive University six years ago #TheDarkSideOfMIT https://youtu.be/Dv6t21xXogY @aaronsw @AaronSwartzDay @wikileaks @xychelsea @Snowden @Su

Elders and Ancestors

EldersAncestors

Did you know that Nazi researchers were sent to America to study Jim Crow laws & America’s racial caste system; and they were shocked by the “one drop rule” calling

SUCH

Such

Abolish African-American from your vernacular.It erases cultural ties Black people have to their respective ancestral homelands. Africa is a whole continent. Do you ever hear European-American? It’s just another way

🚩Shepherd🏴

NeolithicSheep

So hey, not-LGBTQ+ friends, c'mere a sec, there's some confusion going around. Have a seat."cis" is short for "cisgender" and means you identify with the sex you were assigned at

René D. Flores

rd_flowers

According to the NYT, some European-Americans are non-White. In their analysis of the most powerful people in the U.S. today, the paper classifies Europeans from the Iberian Peninsula like Spaniards

Petina Gappah

VascoDaGappah

For those who (naturally!) tend to doubt any Zim govt voice and prefer to listen to “the international community”, please be assured that the Harmonised System Of Tariff Nomenclature dIstinguishes

Johannes Rieke

jrieke

Really impressed with CLIP, @OpenAI's recent model for image classification. I think it could change a LOT about how we train models.Little summary CLIP is a new* image model

Fidel Ca$hflow$ 🔨🔨💰💰

rafaqazi

It’s Monday and I am bored so for all you $VLDR $LAZR & $CFAC junkies here’s a technical thread on how LIDAR works and why $CFAC's Aeye tech *could* be

Jonathan Engler 😀

jengleruk

I just had another thought about this (and the other vaccine candidates).Maybe it's a bit "niche" but I thought it was interesting!https://twitter.com/jengleruk/status/1335925357141176324 For months now, various people like my

Abhishek Murarka 🐂💹

abhymurarka

"Nothing tells you more about a stock than its price." ~AnonymousDoing some data exercise this weekend to understand what the market is upto. Some observations in this thread: 1/ The

Joseph Baker

ParadoxOfBelief

New research. If you are a quantitative social scientist who ever uses a category for non-religion in your analyses (which is most of us), then this chapter will hopefully be

oudi

theyloveOudi

[ thread sur les langues songhai] Le songhai est une langue parlée par environ 3 millions de locuteurs. Principalement dans le nord du mali, le niger, mais aussi plus au Nord

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