Tootfinder

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator.
To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
-- Submitted by Alan Blackwell on Thu, 09/11/2023
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit

Might move Home Assistant to another device. It's getting memory hungry and has started to chew CPU a bit more with all my sensors. I have a Pi5 8GB with a Waveshare NVMe sidecar that's been sitting unused since I bought it in 2023, which seems like a fine target. Now is not the time to be investing in hardware!

2023 war ich in Wien bei der #Regenbogenparade. Jetzt wurden die drei Männer veturteilt, die die Veranstaltung sptengen wollten.

How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/busines

Welcome to the Luxury City Built by Taiwan’s A.I. Boom
Fortunes, luxury buildings and birthrates are rising in the city at the center of Taiwan’s chip supply chain.

LwM output! 'We present a dataset of text from English-language newspaper articles that describe some sort of accident involving machinery. The articles were annotated by volunteers on Zooniverse between 2019 and 2023. The articles were selected from over 20 newspaper titles published between 1835 and 1920.' https://doi.org/10.23636/xrk4-45…

from my link log —
32 MiB working set on a 64 GiB machine.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/10/01/32-mib-working-sets-on-a-64-gib-machine/
saved 2023-10-02

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. Ho…

#TuneTuesday (Jul 7)
The Netherlands’ 🇳🇱 entry for #Eurovision 2023 was “Burning Daylight” by Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper. Maybe it’s because it’s not the usual kitschy Eurovision song why I like it a lot (and why it wasn’t in the final), but it actually reminds me of “Arcade” by Duncan Laurenc…

@… @… have you not paid attention to all the borderline racist abuse David Tolnay and his enablers poured on JeanHeyd Meneide in 2023 after trying to demote his RustCon 2023 keynote and he decided to withdraw instead?

Climate alarm!
This is NOT within normal bounds for the Netherlands: the second half of June is now forecasted to become the warmest in 126 years, beating June 2023 by a margin of over 3°C!
24-hour average of 23.4°C, in this forecast.

from my link log —
How we knew space is a vacuum.
https://sky-lights.org/2021/06/14/qa-how-we-knew-space-was-a-vacuum/
saved 2023-03-12

from my link log —
No vehicles in the park: a game about content moderation.
https://novehiclesinthepark.com/
saved 2023-06-24 https://dotat.at/:/1BJCD…

UPLOAD-ANYON: Progress Towards an Optimised Twisted Anyon Cavity with High-Sensitivity AM-Noise Detection for an Ultralight Axion Dark Matter Search
Robert Crew, Emma Paterson, Maxim Goryachev, Eugene Ivanov, Pashupati Dhakal, Tugrul Talha Ersoz, Michael Tobar, Jeremy Bourhill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.19225
arXiv:2608.19225v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a superconducting single-mode microwave haloscope based on helical cavity resonators for the detection of ultralight dark matter axions over the mass range $10^{-18}$ to $10^{-13}\,\mathrm{eV}$. Building on the single-mode helical-cavity concept introduced by Bourhill et al. [Phys. Rev. D 108, 052014 (2023); arXiv:2208.01640], we use an inverse-design framework to develop practical resonator geometries compatible with superconducting niobium fabrication. The optimisation employs a figure of merit derived to minimise the measurement time required to achieve a fixed experimental sensitivity. Relative to the heuristic M\"obius-geometry benchmark, the best subtractively manufacturable bulk-niobium design achieves a figure of merit more than three orders of magnitude larger. An experimentally informed microwave interferometric readout model, incorporating measured electronics noise and active suppression of pump amplitude noise, is used to project the sensitivity of the proposed experiment. For an acquisition time of three months, the haloscope is projected to reach $g_{a\gamma\gamma}<10^{-11}\,\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ across more than four orders of magnitude in axion mass. The projected sensitivity extends approximately one order of magnitude below the current exclusion limits set by CAST, providing a practical pathway towards a high-sensitivity direct search for ultralight dark matter axions.
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"look, he ran a hedge fund on his own from 2017 to 2023 that went from $5 billion in assets to $577 million, lost 18 of his 20 investors during that period. "
Bessent's spotty history of financial management dredged up over new proposals - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/bessent-failures/

Vanaf zaterdag geen scheepvaart op Twentekanaal vanwege droogte | Transport Online
https://www.transport-online.nl/133012/vanaf-zaterdag-geen-scheepvaart-op-twentekanaal-vanwege-droogte/ (2026)
Weet u het nog? Paar jaar geleden vond iemand t nog een goed plan om er een SMR neer te zetten.... 🙃
Kleine kerncentrales in Twente? Klimaatminister legt bal bij gemeenten en provincie - 1Twente
https://www.1twente.nl/artikel/3242978/kleinschalige-kerncentrales-in-twente-klimaatminister-legt-de-bal-bij-gemeenten-en-provincie (2023)
(Dat gelijk duidelijk was dat de locatie totaal niet geschikt was, was geen reden om gelijk te stoppen met dat plan..)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Avalon Emerson & the Charm:
🎵 Hot Evening (6 Music Session, 3 Jul 2023)
#AvalonEmerson #theCharm
https://avalonemerson.bandcamp.com/track/hot-evening
https://open.spotify.com/track/1A0Cw6bYJirHpsxqbcun5d