@Techmeme@techhub.socialJohn Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (Liv McMahon/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defaculty_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 …
@poppastring@dotnet.socialVisual Studio 2022 earned trust through stability. VS 2026 rewards that trust with faster builds, snappier search, and an IDE that keeps pace with your code. Here is what staying put costs you. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/its-time-for-a-visual-studio-upgrade
@wraithe@mastodon.socialThis is a great thread about “breaking in”
And here’s the thing; this is applicable to careers/activities in general not just “breaking into comics”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4r4x2pmg7tt2qgblhfu7qb7c/post/3mm5qfxjltk2u
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza
@cdarwin@c.imFirst, 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…
@servelan@newsie.socialRussia has damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites since 2022 — prosecutor general calls Lavra strike deliberate erasure - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/russia-has-damaged-or-destroyed-nearly-2000-ukrainian-cultural-heritage-sites-since-2022-prosecutor-general-calls-lavra-strike-deliberate-erasure/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deat_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Commodore 64 Theremin.
https://www.linusakesson.net/hardware/theremin/
saved 2022-08-31 https://dotat.at/:/4O…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotBack in 2022, after #StormArwen, I rolled up a section of the fence around my wood so that I could haul fallen timber out of the south end of my wood. There's still a lot of fallen timber there, but I think I have hauled out as much as I practically can. So today I decided to get the fence back up.
Of course, brambles had grown through the rolled up fence, so it was far beyond my stre…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyHome Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialElon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle US SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by not disclosing the 5% stake he had in the company (Nicola M White/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@davej@dice.camp
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@cdarwin@c.im23-time Grand Slam champion
Serina Williams will be the most anticipated factor in the women’s draw
as she makes her return to Wimbledon as a
44-year-old wildcard.
Williams last played competitive singles at the 2022 U.S. Open, when she lost to Ajla Tomljanović in the third round, and said she was “evolving” away from tennis.
When she takes the court at Wimbledon,
which runs June 29-July 12,
it will have been over 1,400 days since she last competed i…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caMy water bill came in recently, which is kind of appropriate considering all the pond talk.
Since building it, the front yard #pandemicPond very very rarely is topped up on its own from tap water. Generally we keep it full from rain water, the rain barrel, or as part of the general low-flow spray/water system for the yard in the summer. So our water consumption really is dependant on how much garden watering we are doing. I'm not surprised we were high last year as we watered the new green-driveway and young trees.
The #PoolPond might, or might not, be different given the sheer volume *and* surface area (ie. evaporation). We have a 1000L rainwater barrel in the back yard, but that would only be useful for replacing evaporation losses at best in the poolpond.
I'll have to fill it once or twice in the coming weeks and possibly once a year if I do an annual cleaning at the end of the summer. We'll see. This year will also feature a return of vegetation to the back yard, so we'll likely be watering it more than when it is established in a year or two.
The city splits our bill into 3 periods per year, which is a little weird but ok...
Our household consumption has varied quite a bit since the pandemic due to changes in household composition (kids moving to uni etc) or us being more or less active in the garden.
I am happy that we used very little water this winter/spring, the least since 2022. I expect it to spike in the current April-August period as both kids have returned and I'll be doing all this pond stuff. But if I can keep it under 150,000L ($150) on the August bill, I'll be happy.
In the coming years, if I can use less in the Fall, Winter and Spring to "save up" for Summer, that would be nice but minimizing all seasons will always be the goal. That's why more trees are going to happen in the backyard at some point. Shade=Less watering!
In all, I'm happy with the only modest rise in our water consumption over the past few years.
#Home #PortAlberni #Water #Bills
