@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-25 03:09:32
What's the difference between Air Raid, West Coast, Run & Shoot, Spread, Triple Option, Single Wing...
▶️ Football Offenses Explained | Air Raid, Triple Option, West Coast, Single Wing, Run & Shoot
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QhgOikf3AnM&si=S1DHj63FTWbNy…
@der_raddler@dresden.network2025-12-24 07:01:04
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange2025-11-25 06:31:09
#COP30 has been, unsurprisingly, another testament to human stupidity.
Every single politician who actively sabotaged human survival (again) should stand in fron…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-23 19:15:47
Jane Fonda: Authoritarianism now in 'every single nook and cranny of our government' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5702383-jane-fonda-authoritarianism-alert/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p73#a260123p73
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-17 10:15:14
I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-11-22 22:23:39
The washing machine is thrumming along in the laundry. First load. I wander out the back door. Outside, it's damp but not raining. A currawong sits on a rock awaiting the morning's largesse. I pour out a small cupful of seed onto the feeder. On my way back, I pause by the sunken bathtub (repurposed as a planter). It is overflowing with luscious mint plants made extra vibrant by the overnight rain. I pick a single leaf and inhale. Its scent is glorious. Another sunday in suburbia.
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2026-01-17 07:21:40
En Iran, une rivière de sang et rien d'autre en vue
https://www.heidi.news/monde/en-iran-une-riviere-de-sang-et-rien-d-autre-en-vue
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-12-22 10:32:30
You Only Train Once: Differentiable Subset Selection for Omics Data
Daphn\'e Chopard, Jorge da Silva Gon\c{c}alves, Irene Cannistraci, Thomas M. Sutter, Julia E. Vogt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17678 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17678 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17678
arXiv:2512.17678v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Selecting compact and informative gene subsets from single-cell transcriptomic data is essential for biomarker discovery, improving interpretability, and cost-effective profiling. However, most existing feature selection approaches either operate as multi-stage pipelines or rely on post hoc feature attribution, making selection and prediction weakly coupled. In this work, we present YOTO (you only train once), an end-to-end framework that jointly identifies discrete gene subsets and performs prediction within a single differentiable architecture. In our model, the prediction task directly guides which genes are selected, while the learned subsets, in turn, shape the predictive representation. This closed feedback loop enables the model to iteratively refine both what it selects and how it predicts during training. Unlike existing approaches, YOTO enforces sparsity so that only the selected genes contribute to inference, eliminating the need to train additional downstream classifiers. Through a multi-task learning design, the model learns shared representations across related objectives, allowing partially labeled datasets to inform one another, and discovering gene subsets that generalize across tasks without additional training steps. We evaluate YOTO on two representative single-cell RNA-seq datasets, showing that it consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. These results demonstrate that sparse, end-to-end, multi-task gene subset selection improves predictive performance and yields compact and meaningful gene subsets, advancing biomarker discovery and single-cell analysis.
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@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-17 10:14:48
I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza2025-11-17 09:53:24
So, the ruling neo-fascit party organized a protest in Rome against bycicle lanes, because of course they did; they though that a protest made of cars could do the trick. They planned for 100 cars (100 people) but 300 people (300 cars) showed up blocking the city completely. 300 people could fit in a single bus. Rome has metro, 300 people in a metro train probably feels empty. 300 cars paralized a city of more than 4 million people.
What a self own, such clowns.
In Italian:
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