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Hi there, curious people in the #Fediverse. 👋🏻 Give this please a gentle boost. It's awesome.
#askfedi #fedihelp

What if #DarkMatter is the mass of all of the parallel universes superimposed upon this reality? #Astrophysics #Cosmology

What if Dark Matter Doesn't Actually Exist?
A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong?

Nett, mein Fedi Circle ist voll.
#CyberCircleCreator #FediCircle

Der Morgen ist grau, das muss ein Dienstag sein! Meine Fediverse-Zusammenfassung des #DNIPBriefing heute #AusGründen etwas kürzer.
1️⃣ Ein simpel wirkendes Prompt hat in den letzten Wochen für einige Belustigungen in Teilen der DNIP-Redaktion gesorgt:
"Ich möchte mein …

No they want your DNA to track you.
Folks, have you seen GATTACA?
▶️ U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-bord…

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.

Trotz Diskussion um das Ende der #Einspeisevergütung bleibt die #Photovoltaik wirtschaftlich.
Laut Bundesverband des Solarhandwerks rechnet sich eine typische Hausanlage auch ohne Vergütung, da der

Simple Lösung für billigen Strom: "Die Solaranlage lohnt sich inzwischen immer - auch ohne Einspeisevergütung"
Der große Solar-Boom in deutschen Eigenheimen ist vorbei. Gut so, sagt das Solarhandwerk. Denn nach dem russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine wurde auf deutschen Dächern viel Schindluder getrieben. Die Technik lohnt dennoch, auch ohne Einspeisevergütung. Im Interview verrät das Solarhandwerk, warum.

The States That Will Not Be Commanded
There is a class of human experience that answers to no direct order. You cannot tell yourself to fall asleep. The instruction arrives at a locked door. Sleep refuses the simple transaction of command and execution. Instead, it assembles itself once certain conditions are present, and those conditions include, strangely enough, the act of picturing yourself already inside the state you are trying to enter.

The States That Will Not Be Commanded | David Boles, Blogs
There is a class of human experience that answers to no direct order. You cannot tell yourself to fall asleep. The instruction arrives at a locked door. Sleep refuses the simple transaction of comm…

Der Skandal ist nicht der Angriff, sondern ein System, das daran scheitert, ihn abzufangen. Signal ohne Regeln ersetzt keine staatliche Infrastruktur. Caspar Clemens Mierau hat in mancherlei Beziehung Recht, aber es ist schon bezeichnend, wenn jemand wie Klöckner u.a. auf einen simplen Phishing-Angriff reinfallen. Das zeigt etwas über deren Digitalkompetenz aus.
#Golem

Training data generation for context-dependent rubric-based short answer grading
Pavel \v{S}indel\'a\v{r}, D\'avid Slivka, Christopher Bouma, Filip Pr\'a\v{s}il, Ond\v{r}ej Bojar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28537 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28537 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28537
arXiv:2603.28537v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Every 4 years, the PISA test is administered by the OECD to test the knowledge of teenage students worldwide and allow for comparisons of educational systems. However, having to avoid language differences and annotator bias makes the grading of student answers challenging. For these reasons, it would be interesting to compare methods of automatic student answer grading. To train some of these methods, which require machine learning, or to compute parameters or select hyperparameters for those that do not, a large amount of domain-specific data is needed. In this work, we explore a small number of methods for creating a large-scale training dataset using only a relatively small confidential dataset as a reference, leveraging a set of very simple derived text formats to preserve confidentiality. Using these methods, we successfully created three surrogate datasets that are, at the very least, superficially more similar to the reference dataset than purely the result of prompt-based generation. Early experiments suggest one of these approaches might also lead to improved model training.
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People that "want a phone call" instead of just answering a simple question in email.
➡️ Don't want a paper trail
➡️ Are unable to put their thoughts into written words
➡️ Don't know how or are too lazy to type
#thismeetingcouldhavebeenanemail