Nicholas Bauer PhD

@bioturbonick

Computational biology and superresolution microscopy. Tech and politics nerd. Progressive. Somerville, MA Signal: BioTurboNick.24

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Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Jul 12

"coordinated the delivery of over 2.5 billion units of inventory. 2.5 billion, Darryl? 2.5 billion units of what?"

Screen clips from The Office of a scene where Jo Bennet is reading Darryl's resume, where he exaggerated the numbers by counting pieces of paper.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Jun 29

I'm so glad I'm using Tidal. New Anti-AI policy.

Our stance on AI-generated music

Hi Nicholas Bauer!

AI music generation tools are changing how music is created and distributed. As this technology evolves, Tidal is introducing platform standards to protect artists, their craft, and inform listeners.
Here are the highlights of our new AI Policy:

Tidal will identify and tag AI-generated music in our app. Listeners will see an "AI" badge next to music we detect as wholly AI-generated.

Tidal will not tolerate AI-generated music that impersonates an artist or group, or that facilitates fraudulent activity. We're implementing automatic tools to remove these releases immediately and on an ongoing basis.

Tidal will not allow music that is 100% AI-generated to be monetized. No royalties will go to such releases, nor will AI-generated uploads be eligible for direct-to-fan sales.

We will expand these policies to music that is substantially AI-generated when AI detection technology is sufficiently reliable to do so.

You'll start seeing these changes from July 15.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Jun 24

Just tried "Hyperlapse" auto-timelapse feature on my Samsung phone, it's pretty cool. I'll need to play with it more.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Jun 18

Ok, sure, why not. (Accuweather, this REALLY should not be red to confuse it with a warning.)

Accuweather Tornado cautionary note for Boston

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Jun 14

A friend posted this on Instagram, and I can't find fault with the logic.

A post on Twitter from @buggirl: "in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas"

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Jun 13

Interesting view except... this big believer in AI is clearly using AI to generate figures and not checking the results. The six "modalities": two are identical, one of them is an administration route, not an agent type, and the other is a placeholder. And the subtitle doesn't relate to the image.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· May 23

We just live in such the dumbest of times. Might as well read tea leaves. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

You can read into that as a sign of progress. This also shows the importance the president places on this region: Any deal he would obviously want to let them know about.

He told Axios earlier that he was “50/50”: 50 percent considering going back to war and 50 percent agreeing to the proposal.

It’s important to remember that Donald Trump said he was an hour away from relaunching military strikes against Iran, but then told reporters he stopped after requests from leadership in the Gulf because they wanted to see if a peace deal could be reached.

So, it’s very notable who he’s not speaking to – and also notable who he’s not speaking to. We’re going to be waiting to see if he reaches out to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· May 17

What do they think the fucking point of the VRA is?

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· May 17

I can't help but notice one big problem with this framing.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· May 8

What in the Facebook algorithm is this.

Springer ad showing books titled "Normal and Abnormal Scrotum" and "Bioware's Mass Effect"

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Apr 29

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Apr 28

When you read this ad Trump put out calling for the execution of the Central Park Five... Trump was always this way.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Apr 22

Just LinkedIn things.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Apr 19

No, actually they haven't. What are you smoking?

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Apr 18

I can feel my argumentative college atheism re-emerging. I don't mind people who have faith in a religion generally, but I very much mind when they claim to have strong evidence that their religion is true, or engage in special pleading by dismissing science.

The Atlantic

IDEAS

The Evidence That God Exists

Searching for scientific proof for faith misunderstands faith.

By Elizabeth Bruenig

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Apr 16

I'm loving the new self-care feature

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick· Apr 16

Looking at the marine traffic maps over the last few weeks has been interesting. - An exodus of yachts from the Americas to Pacific islands. - Patches of the Pacific have hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels supported by tankers, cargo craft, refrigerated carriers