Pore-C was super helpful to bring a good Victoria cruziana genome sequence assembly to chromosome-scale: N50 increased from 44 to 300 Mbp.
#bigdata
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THINKING MACHINES: THE CONNECTION MACHINE
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@gerrymcgovern In the colonial world where #IndigenousPeoples have been pushed into #poverty, now the push is to take the #water and make marginalized people and #ecosystems complicit in their own demise. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-indigenous-data-centre-abandoned-power-plant-1.7586072
CBCIndigenous-led data centre in Alberta slated for development amid AI infrastructure boom | CBC NewsWoodland Cree First Nation is in the process of acquiring an abandoned power plant site for its data centre. If successful, it would be one of the first Indigenous-led data centres in the province.
Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet
https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/07/14/user-defined-parquet-indexes/
#HackerNews #Embedding #User-Defined #Indexes #in #Apache #Parquet #ApacheParquet #UserDefinedIndexes #DataFusion #BigData #Analytics
datafusion.apache.orgEmbedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet Files - Apache DataFusion Blog
Fortschritt: Google Android spioniert jetzt noch brutaler.
Google informiert seine Nutzer/innen, dass sie ab sofort durch die KI Gemini unterstützt werden - ob sie es wollen oder nicht. Gemini erhält dafür Zugang zu allen Apps, auch zu verschlüsselnden Messengern. Lokal liegen die Inhalte ja im Klartext vor, und darauf will Gemini zugreifen. Ist das der Anfang von Quellen-TKÜ (vulgo Chatkontrolle)? Googles Vorstoß riecht ziemlich streng nach Salami-Taktik in diese Richtung.
www.pc-fluesterer.infoFortschritt: Google Android spioniert jetzt noch brutaler. | pc-flüsterer bremen
AI Chatbots Are About to Get a Huge Boost—From Libraries
https://www.inc.com/associated-press/ai-chatbots-are-about-to-get-a-huge-boost-from-libraries/91201600
Inc · AI Chatbots Are About to Get a Huge Boost—From LibrariesBooks and other documents from Harvard University and Boston's public library could be a data bonanza for AI chatbots.
‘Suspicion by Design’
Our new report ‘Suspicion by Design: What we know about the #DWP's #algorithmic #BlackBox and what it tries to hide’ details the massive expansion of #AI, algorithm supported decision-making and #biases in the #benefits system.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/welfare-data-watch/#report
Welfare Data Watch — Big Brother WatchWelfare Data Watch — Big Brother Watch
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@NatObserver @canada-s-national-observer-NatObserver #Canada's Corporate Conservative Party, bought and paid for by Trump, #BigOil, #BigTech #BigData, #BigBanks
The GDELT project taken down by Google in June 2025. Google shares no effort to restore it! Save the GDELT Database to allow others to track down how democracy under GOP/Trump vanished over the last 10 years.
Share their database (it will take me time to upload the 42GB for all zipped CSV data from 2025 to 2010 - will note): https://1024terabox.com/s/1Hs0sSKCNt-Oy4tZ3LFTYWA
Support https://web.archive.org/web/20250526014208/http://gdeltproject.org/
Support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDELT_Project
Cath This is not a conspiracy theory: Many of the devices living in your home are quietly collecting towering heaps of information about you.
Your TV, your speakers, your doorbell, your security system, your thermostat, even your earbuds — all of them are involved. Some of that data may be shared, analyzed, and then sold to the highest bidder, hundreds of times a day, by organizations you’ve never heard of.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/advice-smart-devices-data-tracking/
Archive:
Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real WorldYes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here’s What They Know.Devices in your home are quietly collecting information about you. Some of that data may be shared, analyzed, and sold by organizations you’ve never heard of. Maybe it’s fine. Maybe not.
https://www.europesays.com/2201995/ Top Big Data Development Services Providers — KHTS Radio — Santa Clarita Radio #BigData #Data
#Job alert! Fully funded 4-year #PhD position on the #philosophy of #DataScience in relation to #psychiatry and #psychopathology at the department of #TheoreticalPhilosophy in #Groningen.
All details here: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000BDMP
Deadline: 10 July 2025
University of Groningen · Job opportunities at the university
Our NGO is excited to be a member of Project Tidal.
This NIH-funded project is training early-career researchers in the use of big data analytics and digital health tools to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) among pregnant / post-partum women.
The inaugural cohort are at Emory this week for in-person training. Yesterday, I was honored to teach them about theory and application of digital health games for violence prevention.
It's very encouraging to talk with these bright and enthusiastic researchers about ways technology can be used to prevent violence!
https://www.project-tidal.org/
#publichealth #datascience #IPV #games #mhealth #research #prevention #education #violenceprevention #bigdata #science #health #trauma @stopTDV @publichealth @datascience
www.project-tidal.orgProject TIDALMission Statement
Palantir: Deutsche Ermittler nutzen Big Data auch bei kleinerer Kriminalität
Die Software Gotham der US-Firma Palantir soll die Polizei etwa bei der von Anschlägen unterstützen. Doch eingesetzt wird sie sogar bei Eigentumsdelikten.
heise online · Big Data: Deutsche Polizisten nutzen Palantir auch bei Eigentumsdelikten
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Important facts to remember:
* During the #2024Election , #BlueSky went viral on #Xitter , which pulled a lot of liberals there. Unlike the times when #Mastodon trended for migration, #Elon never tried to silence those tweets.
* #BlueSky has no ads, but tracks user data even more than #Meta or #Xitter, and uses a manipulative algorithm. Why pay so much money to do all of that data manipulation, if you don't use it for your own profit?
#JayGraber is one of the #BigData billionaires who manipulated the last election--by dividing the left, and suppressing the vote. So many on there were made to believe they could "protest" for #Gaza by withholding their vote-- just as so many on the DIVIDED left refused to vote for #Hillary in 2016.
You can expect they will manipulate the next ones, subtly but effectively, by dividing the left in 2026 & 2028. #DontTrustBlueSky
How to delete your 23andMe data
if you previously agreed to 23andMe and third-party researchers using your genetic data and sample for research, you can withdraw consent from the Research and Product Consents section in your account settings.
#Regeneron #BigPharma #23andMe #DNA #genetics #business #bankruptcy #infosec #data #bigdata #privacy #biotech
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/23andme-files-for-bankruptcy-how-to-delete-your-data/
TechCrunch · How to delete your 23andMe data | TechCrunch23andMe holds millions of customers' genetic information. Here's what you can do to protect your data.
I was informally (mis)diagnosed as "probably psychopathic" by my supervisor when I did my Social Psychology postgraduate at the University of Leicester psychiatric teaching hospital back in 1989. Now I realise that I was really diagnosed with adult autism by a psychologist who didn't have the tools to differentiate.
It's interesting because it started me on my path to computerising the psychiatric investigation part of the DSM (well, initially Hare PCL) evaluation for my Master's degree. The psychometric question-and-answer model and demo I came up with had me firmly psychopathic in PCL's diagnostic terms, whereas these days it would be easily diagnosed as autism.
I went on to expand the idea from psychometrics, to behaviour analysis in virtual worlds, which I figured would be a better capture than psychometric questions - Would the person co-operate to attain a goal, would they show altruism, would they be quick to anger - There's a lot you can measure in the virtual world as we know very well now, but didn't in 1991. Sadly, the lack of modern technology and the need to feed myself brought this PhD to an end without a write-up - But it's no wonder I ended up working for OkCupid, I guess :D
The sad thing about that is that although it didn't impact my life at all, other than having an interesting topic to discuss at parties, the PCL is used as a tool by US prisons in their parole calculations. A PCL diagnosis is a heavy weighting against parole, even though Hare himself has said that isn't the way this should be used. I dread to think how many autistic people are stuck in prisons for evermore because of misdiagnosed psychopathy.
The psychopathy test puts a lot more emphasis on masking and social interactions than on kidnapping people and putting them in wells to skin them later, I feel.
I can't be bothered to write a blog post about this, so I will scream into the #Mastodon #Void instead - Except now I have to think of some other #Hashtags which is always the hard part, I get carried away, autism you see!
Dozens of states sue to block the sale of 23andMe personal genetic data
Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data by 23andMe without customer consent. The lawsuit comes as a biotechnology company seeks the court's approval to buy the struggling firm.
#Regeneron #BigPharma #23andMe #DNA #genetics #business #bankruptcy #infosec #data #bigdata #privacy #biotech
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5429041/23andme-states-lawsuit-genetic-data
I propose the term #nogai to refer to a NOn-Generative ARTificial Intelligence.
Alternatives : #nogarti or #ugai (Un-Generative #AI).
The family of AI applications that are *presumably* useful (medical image or network flow analysis, voice recognition, GPS algorithms, #bigData handling...) and often less resource-intensive (graphics card [GPU], processor [CPU], RAM, water, electricity, land...).
Prononciations: [nog-a-i] ; [nogarte] ; [ug-ai].