@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2024-03-31 19:15:15
Since it's Easter, let's talk of Gregorian calendar. The calendar was introduced by pope Gregory XIII in 1582, replacing the earlier Julian calendar. It seems like quite a progressive move from such a conservative establishment as the catholic church. However, we should consider two facts.
Firstly, the primary motivation for the calendar reform were… issues with computing Easter date. So it wasn't really about doing something for the sake of science, but rather using science for theological purposes. Would the church undergo a calendar reform if not Easter? In fact, wouldn't it even explicitly oppose any civil reform attempt?
Secondly, the religious character of the change meant conflict with other churches. Perhaps the catholic church was in the best position to enforce a calendar reform throughout much of Europe. Nevertheless, the adoption took a few centuries. Notably, Great Britain resisted until 1752, and Moscow until 1918. And the orthodox church still uses Julian calendar internally.
I'm not claiming that civil rulers were in any better position to introduce a calendar reform. In fact, I don't even know if they would have any motivation to do so. Nevertheless (yep, I love that word), I find it hard to consider the calendar reform as a progressive move — rather as something good that was made for the wrong reasons.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2024-03-31 19:02:22
During a panel titled "Queer Theology," reverend Simon Woodman of London's Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church made the case that Jesus was actually transgender:
"People often cast [washing feet] as being the servant's role; it was the woman's role. And Jesus does it. He defies gender and sexual norms of his day, he’s known for associating with those whose known sexual history or gender identity may be ambiguous."
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2024-03-01 16:21:00
Lenovo-Notebook mit Snapdragon X Elite: Benchmark unter Erwartungen
Einer erster Benchmark, der nicht von einem Qualcomm-Referenzgerät stammt – der Snapdragon X Elite sackt im Geekbench ab.
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@datascience@genomic.social2024-03-01 11:00:01
Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats
@mkarliner@mastodon.modern-industry.com2024-02-01 17:06:02
What is a Senate of the Regions and Nations? #ukpol…
@arXiv_eessIV_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-30 07:34:23
Joint Reference Frame Synthesis and Post Filter Enhancement for Versatile Video Coding
Weijie Bao, Yuantong Zhang, Jianghao Jia, Zhenzhong Chen, Shan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18058 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.18058
arXiv:2404.18058v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents the joint reference frame synthesis (RFS) and post-processing filter enhancement (PFE) for Versatile Video Coding (VVC), aiming to explore the combination of different neural network-based video coding (NNVC) tools to better utilize the hierarchical bi-directional coding structure of VVC. Both RFS and PFE utilize the Space-Time Enhancement Network (STENet), which receives two input frames with artifacts and produces two enhanced frames with suppressed artifacts, along with an intermediate synthesized frame. STENet comprises two pipelines, the synthesis pipeline and the enhancement pipeline, tailored for different purposes. During RFS, two reconstructed frames are sent into STENet's synthesis pipeline to synthesize a virtual reference frame, similar to the current to-be-coded frame. The synthesized frame serves as an additional reference frame inserted into the reference picture list (RPL). During PFE, two reconstructed frames are fed into STENet's enhancement pipeline to alleviate their artifacts and distortions, resulting in enhanced frames with reduced artifacts and distortions. To reduce inference complexity, we propose joint inference of RFS and PFE (JISE), achieved through a single execution of STENet. Integrated into the VVC reference software VTM-15.0, RFS, PFE, and JISE are coordinated within a novel Space-Time Enhancement Window (STEW) under Random Access (RA) configuration. The proposed method could achieve -7.34%/-17.21%/-16.65% PSNR-based BD-rate on average for three components under RA configuration.
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social2024-03-01 18:47:15
#JetBrainsRider found a referencing bug with tag helpers in OrchardCore that's been there for at least four 4 years in the project. It shows there's still room to improve the dev experience regarding #aspnetcore.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2024-03-01 18:00:07
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…
@datascience@genomic.social2024-03-01 11:00:01
Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats
@datascience@genomic.social2024-02-01 11:00:01
{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats…