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Nytt på bloggen: Utdanning, arbeidslivsrelevans og samfunnsnytte https://filmschoolteacher.info/fredsnotes/2025/08/02/utdanning-arbeidslivsrelevans-og-samfunnsnytte/

Soeben gelernt: Es gibt eine Organisation für "Swissness Enforcement".
Gedacht: Kämpfen die für Erhalt und Verbreitung des Bünzlitums? Helfen die bei der Durchsetzung von Waschplänen?
#schweiz #swissnessenforcement

Scale dependence of segregation patterns in the filling of silos
Shivakumar Athani, Benjy Marks, Fran\c{c}ois Guillard, Alistair Gillespie, Itai Einav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00318

Scale dependence of segregation patterns in the filling of silos
Size segregation in granular flows is a well-known phenomenon: laboratory experiments consistently show that large particles migrate toward silo walls during filling, while smaller particles concentrate near the center. Paradoxically, field observations in large-scale industrial silos often report the opposite pattern, challenging these findings. We demarcate these patterns through a systematic experimental study spanning a range of dimensionless numbers relevant to bidisperse granular flows in…

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Four in five developers use AI tools in their workflow in 2025
—a portion that has been rapidly growing in recent years.
That said, "trust in the accuracy of AI has fallen from 40 percent in previous years to just 29 percent this year."
The disparity between those two metrics illustrates the evolving and complex impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor on the profession.
There's relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or oug…

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.

As part of my #ThinkingOutLoud on #ArtsPedagogy, I’ve written a little (ok, perhaps not so little) pedagogical bio to both help myself organize my thoughts and also make it clear where I am coming from for anyone who might read my ongoing posts.

Ok, enough about my F-Droid rants now where are my pork pies Albion Mastodon Fairy?
The Albion Mastodon Fairy hereby grants 1 pork pie to shoppingtonz.
Me:
1 pork pie, are you kidding me!? Ok I'll take it just to be kind to you fairy! I'll unburden you by taking that pork pie from your angelic fingers, probably burning them since they are too corrupted to be held by a holy being like you!

„Twelve Jokers In A Deck“ by Loonies and The Twitch Elite.
The following records are claimed in this intro:
Widest 4x4 RGB rotozoomer on OCS: 64 columns
Biggest 4x4 RGB rotozoomer on OCS running 50fps
with scroller and music: 64 x 57 = 3648 blocks
Most well-presented rotozoomer on OCS
Note: Released 28th June 2025
at Posadas DemoParty
#Amiga

Tänk er ett samtal där du ställer en fråga, får ett svar och sen lägger personen på. Har den missförstått frågan måste du starta ett nytt samtal, men den som svarar denna gång vet inte varför du fick det svar du fick förra gången och svarar helt sonika någonting annat... och lägger på.
Låter det frustrerande?
Det är det!
Öppnar mitt tredje 'samtal' med denna text - är jag för hård?

På forsommeren kom det nye KI-retningslinjer for Britisk film, og kort tid etterpå hadde det norske bransjebladet Rush Print en artikkel hvor flere aktŸrer etterlyste noe lignende for norsk film. Det har tatt meg litt tid å svare, men her er min vinkling på KI og film, og hvordan vi bŸr samles for å mŸte utfordringen.
KI-retningslinjer for norsk film? – fredsnotes