arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es

There's an #alttp #randomizer mode I've wanted to play except it broke in a way that defeated the point. I fixed it!

The point is to put progress items only in dungeons, so you don't have to search the overworld. Sometimes the logic would get tangled and it would be unable to put an item in a dungeon, so it would fall back to somewhere random in the overworld, so you _did_ have to search for it.

My fix is to put it somewhere obvious, like Link's house.

Trying it: https://twitch.tv/arborelia

I focus on the "shutting down Google Scholar" option now, more than the "listening to trans people" option.

We know by now Google is terrible at listening to trans people that aren't Google FTEs, but they're very good at shutting things down.

@chloe From most preferred to highest recall:

- something specific to your field (as an NLP researcher, I use aclanthology.org)

- Internet Archive Scholar (scholar.archive.org)

- Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org)

#introduction: my name

(I think this is the last of four introduction posts)

I got rid of one name a while ago, and replaced it with more names.

You can call me Elia if you know me, or Robyn if you know something I wrote. Neither of those is my deadname.

If you know a #Google employee, ask them what they are doing to shut down Google Scholar.

It is one of the few places on the Internet where calling a trans person by their deadname is standard and expected. The other places are hate sites and the New York Times.

#introduction: my battles

I was the first trans person to change my name on already-published research papers. I didn't think I was the first when I did it, which helped.

I'm part of the Name Change Policy Working Group (https://ncpwg.org) to make this easier for others. Many journals now allow name changes.

Google Scholar refuses to call trans authors by their names, or even talk to trans people. I made https://scholar.hasfailed.us. Google should either listen to us or shut down Scholar.

#introduction: my joys

I am poly, married, and not actively dating. My wife and my girlfriend bring light to my life.

I play randomized video games, particularly Link to the Past Randomizer. Modes that require glitches are fun.

I enjoy #pinball almost as much as my wife does. I have a Twitch stream series, Silver Ball Century, where I am playing virtual versions of pinball tables in chronological order.

I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my #bike. I like to ride it where I like.

#introduction: my work

I do natural language processing. I hope for a future where NLP code can still be run by individuals, not just by hitting the expensive, opaque, harmful APIs of the same three companies. ChatGPT is a demo of a bad future.

I was the lead developer of the multilingual semantic network ConceptNet from 2006 to 2020. I don't run it anymore but it's still there (https://conceptnet.io).

I made "ftfy", the Unicode-fixer used everywhere: https://ftfy.readthedocs.io

It's the end of the '70s on Silver Ball Century, my chronological stream of virtual #pinball: https://twitch.tv/arborelia

@mcc I love this idea and I submit the string "+d,+6t,+vu8-", an erroneous UTF-7 string that Python used to happily convert to erroneous Unicode and even erroneous UTF-8.

Python 2 gist from 2014: https://gist.github.com/rspeer/7559750

my misreading of https://tiny.tilde.website/@astrid/109513858613829664 reminded me of this outstanding Radiohead cover from 2008, on a ZX Spectrum and several other pieces of obsolete hardware

the scanner plays a killer bass line

I skipped the first minute of loading time for you, you're welcome

https://youtu.be/pmfHHLfbjNQ?t=61

Doors Dungeon Dive -- progress items are only in dungeons, and the dungeons are randomly generated with Door Shuffle. https://twitch.tv/arborelia