Fröhlichen May the 4th Tag, und um ordentlich zu feiern, möchte ich euch dieses Video ans Herz legen, und generell alle Videos dieses Autoren, die immer so angenehm und ruhig erzählt sind und einen schönen Einblick in viele Aspekte der Filmkunst geben.
https://youtu.be/JkuS-JkHd8s
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
Fe contribution to the magnetic anisotropy of $L{1_0}$-ordered FePt thin films studied by angle-dependent x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Goro Shibata, Keisuke Ikeda, Takeshi Seki, Shoya Sakamoto, Yosuke Nonaka, Zhendong Chi, Yuxuan Wan, Masahiro Suzuki, Tsuneharu Koide, Hiroki Wadati, Koki Takanashi, Atsushi Fujimori
https://…
I was reading Lalo Schifrin's obit; - I hadn't realised he wrote so many of the scores for films I know; I bought his Black Widow album because I liked his music in Bullitt - but Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry, Kelly's Heroes, are all ones I grew up on.
Last Thursday, the movers ultimately arrived and did an awesome job, emptying the house and garage in 3 hours. The house sale closed with no issues on Friday at 5pm. Today, Monday the 23rd, our house purchase should close mid to late afternoon. Tomorrow, the moving truck arrives to dump our possessions into various rooms. We're almost there...
#NewBeginnings #FeelinGood
https://youtu.be/Edwsf-8F3sI?si=FDM6ees_yO_DqqCE
IRS needs 11,000 hires to ‘maintain’ phone support for 2026 filing season, plans on 60% cut to IT staffing
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/irs-needs-11000-hires-to-maintain-phone-support-for-2026-filing-season-plans-on-60-cut-to-it-staffing/
Player the #oblivionremastered version yesterday for a few hours. It brought back soo many great memories of how I setup a room with my brother all those years ago with a Xbox and a beamer to play the game for many hours.
Everything looked so amazing back then and the remaster does well at transporting a similar feeling. Though the game world is sometimes a bit bare when one looks …
The Daily Beast says Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling Google referral traffic; Vox CEO says OpenAI is a good partner but still undervalues content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…
maha -another rfk jr thing presumably
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114557815478728541
Inside you are many wolves: Using cognitive models to interpret value trade-offs in LLMs
Sonia K. Murthy, Rosie Zhao, Jennifer Hu, Sham Kakade, Markus Wulfmeier, Peng Qian, Tomer Ullman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20666