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@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-18 20:04:20

First, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-09-17 08:00:04

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 18 nodes and 113 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022). 18 nodes, 113 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/dom#Sullivan_1982
@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2026-08-09 22:31:15

can we talk about the fact that billionaires already built shock collars to keep guards in check for when society collapses and they retreat to their tiny little islands
theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-09-15 14:03:04

So far I’ve written two posts this month:
“Support for `headers` Attribute” which looks at complex HTML tables:
adrianroselli.com/2026/09/supp
“Evaluating a Success Criterion” for when you need to know the W3C’s…

Support for `headers` Attribute
This post only covers the headers attribute in HTML tables (ARIA has no headers equivalent). My 2022 post Accessible Cart Tables? showed headers attribute support was poor. In my 2023 post Avoid Spanning Table Headers I didn’t use headers because I knew support was poor. For this post I merged…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-07-14 04:24:04

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Los Prisioneros:
🎵 Tren al sur
#LosPrisioneros
cybersoundelectronicmusiclabel
open.spotify.com/track/2p29vsR

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-08-13 14:42:04

from my link log —
Implementation strategies for mutable value semantics.
jot.fm/contents/issue_2022_02/
saved 2026-08-12

JOT — Contents
Journal of Object Technology

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-04 10:01:18

Source: Apple passed $10B in annual sales in India for the first time in FY 2026, up from $9B in 2024-25 and $6B in 2022-23, as it expands its retail footprint (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-07-10 13:00:59

"Heat waves: Expert tips on redesigning UK homes to cope with hotter temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Heat waves: Expert tips on redesigning UK homes to cope with hotter temperatures
As the UK prepares for the third heat wave of 2026, most people will be hoping to keep cool at home. Building regulations to protect homes from overheating were introduced in 2022. These require all new homes to be checked at the design stage to see if they might be at risk of overheating. If the overheating risk is high, the architect has to make changes to the design.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-11 01:05:51

SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacex

SpaceX’s Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter’s Ad Business
When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk’s predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be. Indeed, the failure of Twitt…

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-03 03:21:25

Resource page gathering most currently-online information pertaining to the unique Chernobyl-influenced Orthodox icon designs.
cumaasalomong.wordpress.com/20

jesus and shooting star and dead tree and medical workers and cloaks
radioactive symbols by the virgin and child
@anneroth@systemli.social
2026-07-01 19:02:14

„Drei Jahre lang - von 2022 bis 2025 - hatten die Forscher das etwa 3.500 Quadratkilometer große Einzugsgebiet der Unteren Spree zwischen Spreewald und Berlin untersucht.
Laut dem Bericht zählt die Region zu den wasserärmsten Gebieten Deutschlands. Die Grundwasserstände seien lokal seit dem Jahr 2000 um bis zu drei Meter gesunken.“
Genau hier baut Schwarz-Digits ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum

Das raten Experten gegen den Wassermangel in der Spree
Seit Jahren gibt es im südlichen Brandenburg einen Wassermangel - die Spree führt nicht mehr so viel Wasser wie früher. Forscher der TU Berlin haben nun Lösungsmöglichkeiten entwickelt und gesammelt. Auch die Landwirtschaft wird in den Blick genommen.

@dawid@social.craftknight.com
2026-08-04 10:08:53
@… obczaj alternatory samochodowe na złomie - są w sumie zaprojektowane do tego ;)

Do tego akumulator samochodowy i jakaś mała przetwornica 12v->230v i masz prądnicę.

Zobacz jeszcze https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-31 08:42:04

from my link log —
Histogram vs empirical cumulative distribution function (eCDF) for dataviz.
brooker.co.za/blog/2022/09/02/
saved 2026-07-31

@avstockhausen@fedihum.org
2026-06-20 16:35:04

New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “Patristisches Textarchiv. Ein Open Access-Archiv Antiker Christlicher Texte” (Zenodo, 14 October 2022), doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199196.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-05 11:00:04

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022). 3284 nodes, 15982 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faculty_hiring_us#domain_social_sciences
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-08-28 14:42:02

from my link log —
The original social network: other people’s websites.
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/othe
saved 2022-08-04

The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-08-31 04:20:40

Shein raised $1.7B in its Hong Kong IPO, giving it a $26B market cap, far below its ~$100B valuation in 2022, as growth slows amid tariffs and competition (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2026-08-19 06:10:04

Heute vor 62 Jahren: Am 18. August 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Alva". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Whetstone Salmon, 5.3kt. Autor: USDE - https://www.sonicbomb.com/v1.php?vid=content/atomic/US/salmon&h=360&w=480&ttitle=Salmon%20%7C%20Whetstone&d=Date:%2022/10/1964%20@16:00%20UTC%20%7C%20Type:%20Sub=surface%20@-830m%20%7C%20Yield:%205.3Kt Lizenz: Public domain
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-07-05 13:00:04

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022). 3284 nodes, 3360 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/faculty_hiring_us#field_microbiology
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-08-26 17:42:04

from my link log —
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth.
resilience.org/stories/2022-02

Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth
For the twentieth century, The Limits to Growth book changed the world in the same way On The Origin Of Species did in the nineteenth.

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-09-04 20:28:02

In 2022 I installed my archive copy of 1Password 4.1 on a new machine. It would not honor my 2016 license key (1Password killed its license server killed when it went SaaS).
1Password support tried very hard to move me to the SaaS model (3 free years!), but I repeatedly declined.
I eventually got 1Password support to give me an _older_ version that didn’t talk to a license server.
And I feel much better about standing firm now that 1Password has gone full fash.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-23 03:00:04

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 15 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022). 15 nodes, 58 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/dom#Bonanni_2017c