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📢 Heute möchten wir euch bei @… zwei Fördermöglichkeiten vorstellen.
1️⃣ Das BMFTR (@…) fördert Forschungsprojekte zum Thema „Kulturerbe als Ressource für eine zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft“. 👉

Anxiety after some people spread fake #AI images of African tigers and leopards roaming the streets of a South Indian city.
And we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the real #danger AI poses. It will soon get very bad and out of control. 😨
#AI_images

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Allt annat än ett frikännande av Joakim Medin vore horribelt, och ett akut hot mot den sorts verksamhet som vi utrikesjournalister ägnar oss åt: att vara på plats, berätta om relevanta ämnen, vara sanningsenliga och noggranna och, inte minst, granska hur maktmissbruk drabbar invånarna i de länder vi bevakar. Det vill säga inte enbart i Turkiet.

Pixie (a scaredy cat) has come to terms with the unusually warm spot that has appeared over Christmas. Though when the logs popped she jumped up!
#catsOfMastodon

RE: https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/115760754448284423
Oh no - I think they knew very well. :ablobcool:

thumbing through used records at underground sounds, found b.b. king's very first LP, a 1957 compilation of hit singles from 1951 to 1956. fifteen bucks. wow.
the recording quality is not great to begin with, and it's pretty scratchy after almost seventy years, no skips, though ... oh wait i take that back, still, a real find!
#nowplaying

Can You Hear Me Now? A Benchmark for Long-Range Graph Propagation
Luca Miglior, Matteo Tolloso, Alessio Gravina, Davide Bacciu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17762 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17762 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17762
arXiv:2512.17762v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Effectively capturing long-range interactions remains a fundamental yet unresolved challenge in graph neural network (GNN) research, critical for applications across diverse fields of science. To systematically address this, we introduce ECHO (Evaluating Communication over long HOps), a novel benchmark specifically designed to rigorously assess the capabilities of GNNs in handling very long-range graph propagation. ECHO includes three synthetic graph tasks, namely single-source shortest paths, node eccentricity, and graph diameter, each constructed over diverse and structurally challenging topologies intentionally designed to introduce significant information bottlenecks. ECHO also includes two real-world datasets, ECHO-Charge and ECHO-Energy, which define chemically grounded benchmarks for predicting atomic partial charges and molecular total energies, respectively, with reference computations obtained at the density functional theory (DFT) level. Both tasks inherently depend on capturing complex long-range molecular interactions. Our extensive benchmarking of popular GNN architectures reveals clear performance gaps, emphasizing the difficulty of true long-range propagation and highlighting design choices capable of overcoming inherent limitations. ECHO thereby sets a new standard for evaluating long-range information propagation, also providing a compelling example for its need in AI for science.
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This week’s #ThursdayFiveList is all about #Children, courtesy of @…:
1. Almost Vinyl, “That's a Fucking Ugly Baby”—

A proud achievement of my half-century IT career happened in 1996 consulting to the #UNDP toward the first published edition of the Humanity Development Library.
It seemed easy enough: "It can be fairly estimated that 1/3, or about 20 million pages of UN, and as much University and NGO material are very useful. Those 20 million pages useful UN publications probably contain about 50% of solutions for major World problems. This information must be released in digital format for non-profit redistribution in all countries."
also portable and accessible to all platforms, everywhere.
Happily, not only did the project live on, but thanks to @… our once-intractable problem of global delivery is now globally solved!
So, whether or not this is timely, I don't know, but should you need to suddenly rebuild some semblance of civilization from scratch…
Humanity Development Library 2.0 CD-ROM 1998 : #HumanityLibrariesProject : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/humanity-development-library-2.0