"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" đŠ, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Update wertet PS-VR2-Grafik merklich auf
Die neueste Beta von Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 beschert der Playstation-VR2-Version einen QualitÀtssprung, den in dieser Form niemand erwartet hÀtte.
40 Prozent des deutschen Mittelstands nutzt KI
Der Anteil der mittelstĂ€ndischen Unternehmen, die KĂŒnstliche Intelligenz einsetzen, ist seit 2024 um 118 Prozent angestiegen. Rund 40 Prozent nutzen KI.
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Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicherân pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 DatensÀtze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthÀlt unplausible DatensÀtze.
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Verschobene Siri: Apple will 250 Millionen US-Dollar an KlÀger zahlen
Apples bereits im Sommer 2024 angekĂŒndigte verbesserte Sprachassistentin ist immer noch nicht umgesetzt. In einem US-Klageverfahren gibt es nun eine Einigung.
BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorĂŒbergehend wiedereingefĂŒhrten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederlĂ€ndischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschlieĂlich zum 30.06.2026 Hannover / Bad Bentheim (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzĂŒberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorĂŒbergehend wiedereingefĂŒhrten Binnengrenzkontrollen. FĂŒr Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...
A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
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New bike day. I'll be bringing this new 2024 Royal Enfield Super Meteor home this afternoon. I wanted the Classic 650, but we couldn't come to terms on financing. This saves on my monthly payment and cuts a year off the loan, and I've ridden these bikes and loved them.
#motorcycles #royalenfield
Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.
«Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte â Windows-Updates werden immer gröĂer
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.»
Sorry, wirklich nötig fĂŒr ein Betriebssystem ist dies nun nicht aber dies fĂŒr die unnötige DatenĂŒberwachung (KI) die als nötig deklariert wird.
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Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicherân pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 DatensÀtze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthÀlt unplausible DatensÀtze.
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Here's my blog post on how to make a mosquito bucket. Has a dozen or so tips, plus a video of mosquito larvae in a jar that looks like a lava lamp. https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/
Running a TOR snowflake proxy
#tor
I added a PDF to my page about mosquito-killing buckets in case anyone wants to print something off to give to neighbors. Link to the file is near the bottom. #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/
Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it âprominence allocationâ. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @… for the hint!)
Amsterdam â A10 Zuid
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@rfceditor/116660055140888488
huh, RFCs are published more frequently (on average) than i thought!
first RFC was 7th April 1969
20 000 days after that was 9th January 2024
looks like RFC 10 000 will be betweeâŠ
Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024, GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund (The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/
Amsterdam â Maasstraat - Mini Cooper S
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Designing single-layer PDMS devices for micron to millimeter-scale deformations
Leon Valentin Gebhard, Alexandre S. Avaro, Gabriel Amselem, Charles N. Baroud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17402
arXiv:2605.17402v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The elasticity of PDMS has played a central role in advancing important microfluidic technologies, ranging from early valves to sophisticated organ-on-a-chip systems. However, most deformable microfluidic devices are based on geometries that require complex multi-layer PDMS architectures and include thin membranes, leading to difficult microfabrication and poor stability. Recently, Jain, Belkadi et al. (Biofabrication 16.3 (2024): 035010) introduced a single-layer device in which a wide and long microfluidic channel was deformed by controlling the pressure in two independent and adjacent air chambers. While they demonstrated the ability to deform the channel ceiling to compress biological materials, the design parameters remain unexplored. Here, we perform a numerical study on 14,336 variants of this device and identify the height of the PDMS layer, the width of the microchannel and the width of the air chamber as the main features that determine the ceiling deformation. Three deformation modes are observed as the geometrical parameters are varied: A U shape with a central minimum, a W shape with two minima and a central maximum, or an inverse U shape with an upward-bulging single maximum. The numerical results are validated in experiments that reproduce the three shapes for the predicted geometries and demonstrate vertical ceiling deformations ranging from a few microns to the millimeter scale. The generality of this approach is demonstrated for two example applications: A fully closing single-layer microfluidic valve and an optical lens of controllable anisotropy. This work leverages the rapid prototyping enabled by 3D printing or micro-milling to open new perspectives in microfluidic actuation.
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Amsterdam â Maasstraat - Mini Cooper S
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