
2025-08-09 19:28:01
AI and Art – Stepping Back Into Humanity #technology https://muz4now.com/2023/ai-and-art-stepping-back-into-humanity
AI and Art – Stepping Back Into Humanity #technology https://muz4now.com/2023/ai-and-art-stepping-back-into-humanity
from my link log —
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19
By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing #nutrition
Lite förenklat tror jag att jag kan påstå att matavfall bidrar till Sveriges energimix med 0,2% 2023.
Total energitillförsel 2023: 507 TWh
- Varav biobränslen: 149,6 TWh
Total biogasanvändning: 4,1 TWh
- Varav matavfall 24%, dvs 1 TWh
Har jag missat något här? Eller räknat uppåt väggarna? #energipolitik
Analysis: 12 Chinese tech companies have applied to list in Hong Kong so far this year, the most since 2023, after rules allowed lossmaking companies to float (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/31212a34-d8be-491c-9236-f4743e27f64f
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…
Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
#dreams #inspiration
https://muz4now.com/2023/exploring-eac
T CrB - overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling: #TCrB are mounting, initiated by the discovery in 2015 of a new enhanced mass-transfer phase (SAP), which is reminiscent of the one preceding the last recorded outburst in 1946. [...] SAP has been caused by an inside-out collapse of the disk, during which the mean accretion rate onto the WD has been ~28x larger than in quiescence. SAP ended in April 2023, but from May 2024 mass-flow has intensively resumed at disk inner radii while the collapse wave reached the outer portions of the disk; the consequent revamp in mass accretion could fill the gap inherited by the fainter 2015-2023 SAP and eventually lead the WD accreted shell to ignition."
Attention nerds: For God's sake, can we PLEASE get Dungeons & Dragons 2 already?
▶️ Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Official Trailer (2023 Movie)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IiMinixSXII&si=LlSaWnz1qAKrRmxc
A term sheet shows Ant will sell its remaining 5.84% Paytm stake via block deals that could total ~$433.72M; Ant sold a 4% stake in May and 10.3% in August 2023 (Ananta Agarwal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ant-group-e…
Number of Texans receiving out-of-state abortions quadrupled between 2021 and 2023 (Christopher Adams/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5432293-texas-out-of-state-abortions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p80#a250801p80
#NowPlaying - really great live album by horse lords, 2018-2023. music to make you feel like you're spinning around fast & getting giddy, but without leaving the couch (plus some space zones). https://
Can Mac Jones revitalize his career with 49ers? One coach believes he's 'capable of being a starter'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-m…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
The Python-based data-exfiltration utility used by the Cl0p ransomware group (commonly distributed as part of the toolset during the 2023 – 2024 MoveIt campaigns) constructs operating-system commands by directly concatenating attacker-supplied strings without input sanitization. An authenticated endpoint on the Cl0p operators’ staging/collection host passes file-or directory-names received from compromised machines straight into a shell-escape sequence. No official patch or cooperation from …
Yes, it’s absurd.
LLMs don’t scale to reach “AGI”. That is mathematically proven[1], so it doesn’t matter how large your data center is.
But that’s not the main reason why this is absurd—as a society we shouldn’t spend these enormous resources and lasting environmental damage on this _even if it would work_.
[1] https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/
A couple years ago I made an accordion showing common message colors for applications:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/qBLNYBe
Some details:
When JD Vance arrived in the Senate in 2023, he backed a raft of proposals that were characterized as reflecting a new brand of economic populism for the Republican Party.
He championed higher taxes on some businesses, increased support for families and a willingness to interfere in free markets that bordered on the heretical in the modern GOP.
Two years later, the now-vice president’s distinctive policy ideas are hard to find in the tax legislation now advancing through Congres…
Memo: HFPA members voted to oust President Helen Hoehne from her role and also ejected her from its board, as members aim to reverse HFPA's 2023 dissolution (Benjamin Lindsay/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/hfpa-ousts-president-helen-hoehne/
Settle–Carlisle line! ❤️ Did it in 2023, stopped at Ribblehed to go and admire the viaduct more closely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGbtl3i5WBI
Preview videos of the final DreamState suite #inspiration #music #musicvideo
Sources: CapitalG and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Vast Data, which could value the AI infrastructure provider at ~$30B, up from $9.1B in 2023 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-…
Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage
According to my napkin estimations, and also assuming (unreasonably) that we will have cracked 100% fusion efficiency of E=mc² within the next few weeks, humans will have burned up the entire mantle of the Earth in approximately 2200 years.
This is using the 2023 figures for present use (15000 Mtoe, ie about 7 tonnes annually) and its 2.2% growth rate which, while suddenly up from the long standing 1.5%, is largely pre-LLMs.
2021: There is no #AI, I'm doing my own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. I'm still doing my own laundry.
2027?: I'm doing the AI's laundry.
from my link log —
There is no software maintenance.
https://henrikwarne.com/2023/01/07/there-is-no-software-maintenance/
saved 2023-01-08
Decrease in Milky Way rotation curve revisited
Jozef Kla\v{c}ka, Michal \v{S}turc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23551 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23551
Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/banks-bet-big-on-fossil-fuels-boosting-financing-in-2024-report-finds/
Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632 057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
Jaegeun Park (Chungbuk National University), Hongjun An (Chungbuk National University), Chanho Kim (Chungbuk National University), Natalie Matchett (University of the Free State), Kaya Mori (Columbia University), Brian van Soelen (University of the Free State), VERITAS Collaboration, :, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, Y. Chen, A. J. Chromey, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Es…
Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
Ich empfehle gerne noch mal Thomas Hettches „Sinkende Sterne“ von 2023. Neben aller anderen Grossartigkeit zeigt er sehr treffend, was im Wallis passiert, wenn es sich durch Naturgewalt teilt — erst Verkehrswege, dann Gesellschaft. Quasi an den immer noch vorhandenen „natürlichen“ Bruchstellen. In anderen Gegenden sicher ähnlich möglich, aber das ist schon sehr Wallis, meinem Empfinden nach
#ThomasHettche
Die ePetition 160749 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Datenschutz mit dem Titel
Webbasierte schriftformersetzende kostenlose Signaturlösung für Privatnutzer
kann bis zum Dienstag 15. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird eine gesetzliche Regelung dahingehend gefordert, dass eine webbasierte Signaturlösung für Privatnutzer durch Anmeldung mit dem Online-Personalausweis bereitgestellt werden kann und damit signierte Dokumente für alle Behör…
Cosmic Axions Revealed via Amplified Modulation of Ellipticity of Laser (CARAMEL)
Hooman Davoudiasl, Yannis K. Semertzidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24022
Ravens to extend Lamar Jackson? GM says team has had 'introductory' contract talks with two-time NFL MVP
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…
Several demonstrators were set on fire in an “act of terror”
Sunday afternoon on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder
during a gathering to raise awareness about people taken hostage during Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel.
A suspect has been arrested.
Officers responded to an area near 13th and Pearl streets at about 1:30 p.m.,
after receiving reports of people being set on fire.
Police said there are “reports of several victims.”
Redfearn said the victi…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10188 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…
A Comparison of Relativistic Coupled Cluster and Equation of Motion Coupled Cluster Quadratic Response Theory
Xiang Yuan, Lo\"ic Halbert, Lucas Visscher, Andr\'e Severo Pereira Gomes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22905
DC Circuit orders EPA to review 2023-2025 biofuel standard for environmental harms | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-orders-epa-to-review-2023-2025-biofuel-standard-for-environmental-harms/
DreamState - Awakening
The final release in the DreamState series
- #DreamState #NowPlaying -
https://
A profile of sports journalist Pablo Torre, who launched his podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out in 2023 under Meadowlark Media, focusing on "adversarial journalism" (Zak Keefer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6329507/2
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
Mehr zu
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08161 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…
Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tiny-ai-erp-startup-campfire-is-winning-s…
Temperature Sensitivity of Residential Energy Demand on the Global Scale: A Bayesian Partial Pooling Model
Peer Lasse Hinrichsen, Katrin Rehdanz, Richard S. J. Tol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22768
Linguist Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Common Dreams writer C.J. Polychroniou on the subject of ChatGPT in this May 2023 piece. Chomsky's stance on LLMs is that as long as we're not able to atomically understand what goes on in the statistical black box that currently is an LLM, linguists won't be able to benefit from being able to see whether it learns language like a human does, or not.
"Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For"
T CrB: overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling
U. Munari, F. Walter, N. Masetti, P. Valisa, S. Dallaporta, A. Bergamini, G. Cherini, A. Frigo, A. Maitan, C. Marino, G. Mazzacurati, S. Moretti, F. Tabacco, S. Tomaselli, A. Vagnozzi, P. Ochner, I. Albanese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.233…
Working on the #perl 5.42 update for #nixpkgs - unfortunately perl-cross hasn't been released for 5.42 yet which is a bit of a blocker. In general it feels like the declining interest in maintaining #CPAN packages are going to be a problem over time. For instance EV hasn't had a release since 2023 and needed a patch to work with 5.42
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- 2023 BBC Proms: Sibelius Symphony No 1
The BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor John Storgårds are joined by Canadian violinist James Ehnes in Walton’s fiercely direct Violin Concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ftxh
… found only 8% of articles in 2023 shared ANY Open data, consistent with previous reports for psychiatry and psychology research.
In our bioscience sample that year, only 8% of articles shared no Open data. Many factors underlying this difference, of course.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301333
👇 CMHN is our analysis of articles from researchers in the MRC-funded "Circadian and Mental Health Network". 3/3
A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://
(2023) The True Costa Dairy #AnimalRights #milk
Establishment of global phase coherence in a highly disordered fractal MgO/MgB2 nanocomposite: Roles of interface, morphology and defect
Iku Nakaaki, Aoi Hashimoto, Shun Kondo, Yuichi Ikuhara, Shuuichi Ooi, Minoru Tachiki, Shunichi Arisawa, Akiko Nakamura, Taku Moronaga, Jun Chen, Hiroyo Segawa, Takahiro Sakurai, Hitoshi Ohta, Takashi Uchino
https://…
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1060581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https:/…
from my link log —
Servo revival 2023-2024.
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/
saved 2025-01-07 htt…
According to the TidBITS article “A Roundup of Vertical Tab Support in Mac Web Browsers” <https://tidbits.com/2023/06/05/a-roundup-of-vertical-tab-support-in-mac-web-browsers/>, Safari supports vertical tabs since version 16.
I did not know it!
I don’t seem to be able to get the Safari vertical tabs to work though.
I can see the list of tabs in the Sidebar.
I also have the tabs displays horizontally at the top of the window (in both Separate or Compact mode).
I was expecting no tabs at the top when using vertical tabs. Is that not what you’d expect when thinking about vertical tabs?
Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
Sergii Skurativskyi, Sergiy Mykulyak, Yuliya Semenova, Kateryna Skurativska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22829
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…
Two years ago I took 7 `<blockquote>` variations (W3C & WHATWG HTML) and reported their output across 7 screen readers, for a measly 49 variations:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/07/blockquotes-in-screen-readers.html
I made one anti-…
Constraining the Origin of FRB 20121102A's Persistent Radio Source with Long-Term Radio Observations
Mohit Bhardwaj, Arvind Balasubramanian, Yasha Kaushal, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23861
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-openais-rocky-path-gpt-5
Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…
Trotz der UN-Vereinbarung von 2023, die globale #Energie aus #Erneuerbaren bis 2030 zu verdreifachen, haben nur wenige Länder ihre Ziele angepasst.
Laut Analyse bleibt die Welt deutlich hinter dem 11-TW-Ziel zurück. Vor allem große Emittenten wie die
Overall, 77% of Americans said they did not feel “completely financially secure,”
and 32% said they did not think they ever would.
Based on the latest census data, the median U.S. household income in 2023 was roughly $80,000,
but that is the midpoint on incomes, meaning half of U.S. households made even less.
A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-second-tea-breach-reveals-users-dms-about-abortion…
The Washington Post names Adam O'Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, as its new opinion editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-economists-oneal-to-become-washington-post…
from my link log —
The yaml document from hell.
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
saved 2025-04-11
Rashee Rice will be 'ready to go' for Chiefs training camp: What does his return mean for Kansas City?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rashe…
Seeking Joy
- in spite of all the ruckus, we seek joy -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/seeking-joy-nowplaying/
Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse
from my link log —
Phil Rogaway on radical computer science.
https://csrc.nist.gov/Presentations/2023/radical-cs
saved 2025-01-14
from my link log —
Implementing dependent types in pi-forall.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02129
saved 2025-06-06 https://dotat.at/…
Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBook (Brunella Tipismana Urbano/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
DreamState - Awakening
- the final album in this series of releases inspired by dreaming -
#DreamState #NowPlaying
https:…
A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…
Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says it emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first rise in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/a…
Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…
Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse