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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌼🐝<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statstab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statstab</a> #322 Understanding spline transformation and regression coefficientsThoughts: Spline seemed very intimidating at first, but they're just a bunch of lines! Stack Exchange is a cool source.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spline</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/regression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#regression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonlinear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonlinear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/models" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#models</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stackexchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stackexchange</a><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/638916/understanding-spline-transformation-and-regression-coefficients" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/638916/understanding-spline-transformation-and-regression-coefficients</a>

Todd A. Jacobs | Pragmatic Cybersecurity<a href="https://mastodon.social/@elementary" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@elementary</a> tl;dr I support your objectives, and kudos on the goal, but I think you should monitor this new policy for unexpected negative outcomes. I take about 9k characters to explain why, but I’m not criticizing your intent.While I am much more pragmatic about my stance on <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/aicoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aicoding</a> this was previously a long-running issue of contention on the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/StackExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackExchange</a> network that was never really effectively resolved outside of a few clearly egregious cases.The triple-net is that when it comes to certain parts of software—think of the SCO copyright trials over header files from a few decades back—in many cases, obvious code will be, well…obvious. That “the simplest thing that could possibly work” was produced by an AI instead of a person is difficult to prove using existing tools, and false accusations of plagiarism have been a huge problem that has caused a number of people real <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/reputationalharm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reputationalharm</a> over the last couple of years.That said, I don’t disagree with the stance that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/vibecoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vibecoding</a> is not worth the pixels that it takes up on a screen. From a more pragmatic standpoint, though, it may be more useful to address the underlying principle that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/plagiarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plagiarism</a> is unacceptable from a community standards or copyright perspective rather than making it a tool-specific policy issue.I’m a firm believer that people have the right to run their community projects in whatever way best serves their community members. I’m only pointing out the pragmatic issues of setting forth a policy where the likelihood of false positives is quite high, and the level of pragmatic enforceability may be quite low. That is something that could lead to reputational harm to people and the project, or to community in-fighting down the road, when the real policy you’re promoting (as I understand it) is just a fundamental expectation of “original human contributions” to the project.Because I work in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/riskmanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#riskmanagement</a> and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> I see this a lot. This is an issue that comes up more often than you might think. Again, I fully support your objectives, but just wanted to offer an alternative viewpoint that your project might want to revisit down the road if the current policy doesn’t achieve the results that you’re hoping for. In the meantime, I certainly wish you every possible success! You’re taking a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/thoughtleadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thoughtleadership</a> stance on an important <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AIgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIgovernance</a> policy issue that is important to society and to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> right now. I think that’s terrific!

davecyklOh dear, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StackExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackExchange</a> seems to have fallen over… And just before their status website •also• fell over, it was showing a fateful message from yesterday: “Migration to GCP completed successfully”. Good luck in getting things back online, folks! 🤞

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coding</a> help on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackOverflow</a> dives as <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> assistants rise Developer Q&A platform StackOverflow appears to be facing an existential crisis as volume of new questions on the site has plunged 75% from the 2017 peak and 60% year-on-year in December 2024, according to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/StackExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackExchange</a> Data Explorer figures. <a href="https://devclass.com/2025/01/08/coding-help-on-stackoverflow-dives-as-ai-assistants-rise/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://devclass.com/2025/01/08/coding-help-on-stackoverflow-dives-as-ai-assistants-rise/</a>

Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TIL</a> that <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@JasonPunyon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@JasonPunyon</a> curated and compiled a whopping archive of answers from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackOverflow</a> and assorted <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/StackExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackExchange</a> Q&A sites in a minimal sqlite format, where they can be downloaded and analyzed offline:<a href="https://seqlite.puny.engineering/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://seqlite.puny.engineering/</a>Amazing effort and great idea. Reminded me of the archives that <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Kiwix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kiwix</a> kept of it (alongside Wikipedia and similar projects), but more streamlined and cross-platform. Nice.

Ross of OttawaIs it <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/petpeeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#petpeeve</a> time? *checks watch* Oh, my watch says it's always pet-peeve time. Perfect.When someone posts question to a discussion board (eg <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stackExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stackExchange</a>) like:Q: "How can I fritz a doodad with C++" and the replies are… A: "Why not just use JibbleFritz?" Instead of saying "You can do that with a tool called JibbleFritz, here's a link" Anyway - that's it, that's the toot.

Michal Bryxí 🌱Q: How does one change the *default* locale for newly created <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/GoogleSheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GoogleSheets</a> in <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/GoogleDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GoogleDrive</a>? I did a long-ish research and none of the advices on internet forums seem to help. I did change my preferred language & country for whole <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Google</a> account, but still see "Locale: United Kingdom" and "Time Zone: nothing" when creating new sheets.(One of the) related <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/StackExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StackExchange</a> questions: <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/142006/how-does-one-set-the-default-locale-for-each-new-spreedsheet-in-google-sheets" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/142006/how-does-one-set-the-default-locale-for-each-new-spreedsheet-in-google-sheets</a>

digitalRightsNinja<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@strypey</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/@zeh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@zeh</a> <a href="https://floss.social/@alcinnz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@alcinnz</a> Indeed mojeek.com is not the only non-tech-giant <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/searchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#searchEngine</a> (+crawler). From strypey’s mentions + some of my notes:* <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/Mojeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mojeek</a> ← does their own crawling * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/Metager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Metager</a>.org ← does their own crawling * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/SearchMySite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SearchMySite</a>.net ← avoid (Cloudflare) * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/Searx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Searx</a> ← just proxy software, many instances * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/4get" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#4get</a> ← another proxy software, about a dozen instances: <a href="https://4get.ca/instances" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://4get.ca/instances</a> * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/Gigablast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gigablast</a> ← does their own crawling, but what happened?.. they were dissolved last year & seem to now be www.alltheinternet.com * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/Ombrelo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ombrelo</a> ← a proxy but more advanced than the others (filters/downranks Cloudflare sites)<a href="https://fedi.at/tags/YaCy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YaCy</a> is notable because it’s a crawler that you can install and operate yourself. YaCy instances can be public-facing and they can also share indexes with each other fedi style apparently. Some Searx instances tap YaCy instances.I would love to find a searx or 4get instance that rejects the tech giants, but aggregates from YaCy, mojeek, gigablast, metager, maginalia.nu, frogfind.com, & wiby.me.And I would love it even more if it would make replacements:* <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/StackExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackExchange</a> → <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/AnonymousOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnonymousOverflow</a> * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> → <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/Invideous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Invideous</a> * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/Medium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Medium</a>.com → scribe.rip * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BBC</a> → BBC’s onion site * <a href="https://fedi.at/tags/NYTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NYTimes</a> → New York Times’s onion site * etc.search.fabiomanganiello.com makes some of those replacements.

Evan CarrollThe Moderator Strike is the best thing to happen to StackExchange. First <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@codinghorror</a> retires to a lifetime of yahcting. Then all the moderators go on some absurd and silly "strike" over totally immaterial things. If you told me I'd get everything I wanted 10 years ago, I wouldn't have believed it.Glorious. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/StackExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StackExchange</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/stackoverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stackoverflow</a>

tc@carcharadon You think that's something, check out my post and subsequent self-answer four months later on <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/stackexchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stackexchange</a>: <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3305125/is-it-true-that-for-any-two-integers-with-the-same-least-prime-factor-there-mus" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3305125/is-it-true-that-for-any-two-integers-with-the-same-least-prime-factor-there-mus</a>I conjectured that any two <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#numbers</a> with the same least <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/prime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prime</a> factor must have a larger lpf in between. Looked solid enough.I found what I'm pretty sure is the smallest counterexample at \( n=724968762211953720363081773921156853174119094876349 .\)

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