1/2 “My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there.”
"The TSA has an important job to do. Their actions at airports have been very poor. This creates lots of loss to travelers – waste. And their actions show a disrespect for people and the risks that exist. The security theater is not what we need. We need evidence based security measure while maintaining a focus on the value stream of people flying."
Bose-Hubbard Model on a Honeycomb Superlattice: Quantum Phase Transitions and Lattice Effects
Wei-Wei Wang, Jin Yang, Jian-Ping Lv, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06984
HyperCard was magnificent. Still is.
The HyperTalk language was cool — but even cooler IMO was the way the dev environment mixed code with direct manipulation of the UI. There are lots of problems with that approach for generalized Ui development, yes, but the experience of it was magical.
Unity and the like have a similar editor structure — edit UI objects, attach code to them — but the feeling is totally different somehow.
https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114643259120579546
Interesting idea. I would just like to be able to mine my BlueSky followings to see if they are bridgyfed so I can follow them on Mastodon which is my preferred experience rather than moving though.
https://werd.io/2025/bounce-lets-you-move-your-f…
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
Optimized and regularly repeated lattice-based Latin hypercube designs for large-scale computer experiments
Xu He, Junpeng Gong, Zhaohui Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04582
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03984 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…
Lattice Mismatch Driven In Plane Strain Engineering for Enhanced Upper Critical Fields in Mo2N Superconducting Thin Films
Aditya Singh, Divya Rawat, Victor Hjort, Abhisek Mishra, Arnaud le Febvrier, Subhankar Bedanta, Per Eklund, Ajay Soni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04750
Star decompositions via orientations
Viktor Harangi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05194 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05194