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Autism spectrum, feelings and (against all odds) a Witcher quote
"""
[…] Because you're a witcher and you can't feel any emotion. You don't want to fulfill my request, because you think that you care about her, you think that… Geralt, you are with her only because she wants that, and you'll be with her for as long as she wants to. What you're feeling is a projection of her emotion, her interest in you. To all demons of the Pit, Geralt, you're not a child, you know who you are. You're a mutant. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying this to offend or disdain you. I'm just stating a fact. You're a mutant, and one of the basic features of your mutation is your full immunity to emotion. You've been made like this so that you could do your job. Do you understand? You can't feel anything. What you're taking as emotion is actually cell memory, somatic memory, if you know what that means.
"""
(Andrzej Sapkowski, Miecz przeznaczenia, Okruch lodu, Istredd's words, my own translation)
However the context is different, it made me think of my own problems with emotions.
Am I capable of love? Or perhaps I can merely project somebody else's feelings, return them at the best. Or perhaps just intellectually be aware of what I am supposed to feel.
Was perhaps that, what I used to take for "love", actually gratitude that somebody was nice to me, or that she showed interest?
Or perhaps was it that she fitted into an unrealistic model that I've engraved into my personality as a child?
Or just an attachment, a feeling of safety, stemming from a large data set. A conviction that unpleasant surprise is no longer that likely.
Or just desperation, a need that's been forced into me since I was a child and that now I'm trying to attain based on what the media, books and personal stories tell me about it.
Or even something resembling a Stockholm syndrome. "At least she's paying attention to me. I know the worst she could do to me."
#ActuallyAutistic

Listening to RNZ talking about 'Field days' I'm really feeling that our country - especially those in primary industry and they gov't they've bought - are dragging us backward at a disastrous rate. It's very depressing. These misguided, entirely self-interested people, seemingly devoid of anything resembling a conscience, really really depress me.

Good morning and happy Thursday #Fediverse
How are we all feeling today and what do we all have planned before the day ends?
For me, it's already been a TON of work stuff due to the Discord release of Nova 8.1.0 yesterday that introduced Smart Folders and Nova Now. I'm still not quite caught up.
Work meeting at 12pm today that will likely be sort of long, but ho…

Well, this explains quite a bit.
(Taken from an article discussing the newly released Apple AI program, in which we discover the source of corporate interest in AI.)

Great 🧵 about Apple’s Private Cloud Compute system to handle tasks beyond what can be done on device. I have mixed feelings about so-called “artificial intelligence”. I don’t like how data gets scraped without permission, and is displacing jobs. But, when it comes to using large language models as a tool, like better organizing my inbox, I’m okay with that. Obviously, when the rubber meets the road, I’m likely to change my mind.

Interesting and thrilling 13-part read:
"The Time I Built an ROV to Solve [[Missing Person Cases]]" - The [[Anttidote]]:
https://suanto.com/2024/06/06/the-time-I-built-an-ROV-01/
(h/t Hacker News)

The Time I Built an ROV to Solve Missing Person Cases - Part 1
Introduction

Inspiring #TNC24 Opening Keynote this morning from Paul Iske (Maastricht University, Institute of Brilliant Failures).
“Failing is not only inevitable, but also an essential learning process. Why do projects fail? Are there underlying patterns? The Institute of Brilliant Failures recognised a method involving 16 archetypes and tools to extract lessons learned and allow us to develop ‘Failure In…

CONNECT Interview with Professor Paul Iske, Maastricht University | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Brilliant Failures: fostering creativity and pushing boundaries We met with Professor Paul Iske who will be giving the opening keynote at TNC24. Professor at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, Paul works on service and social innovation and his mission is to make organisations smarter and more innovative. He is also a

You know that feeling – using software or services that do not work for you but use you?
You know you want to get out of this situation but don't know how?
The Internet has lots of advice – good and bad – and I am proud to say that I just helped revive one of the better advice portals: @… at

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06280 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Optimal sensing policy with interference-model uncertainty
Assume that an interferer behaves according to a parametric model but one does not know the value of the model parameters. Sensing enables to improve the model knowledge and therefore perform a better link adaptation. However, we consider a half-duplex scenario where, at each time slot, the communication system should decide between sensing and communication. We thus propose to investigate the optimal policy to maximize the expected sum rate given a finite-time communication. % the following qu…

A survey on the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki invariant for closed 3-manifolds
Benjamin Enriquez, Anderson Vera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06857 https://

A survey on the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki invariant for closed 3-manifolds
We review the original approach to the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki (LMO) invariant of closed 3-manifolds (as opposed to the later approach based on the Aarhus integral). Following the ideas of surgery presentation, we introduce a class of combinatorial structures, called Kirby structures, which we prove to yield multiplicative 3-manifold invariants. We illustrate this with the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants. We then introduce a class of combinatorial structures, called pre-LMO structures, and prove that…