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@benb@osintua.eu
2024-03-31 02:41:19

Navy: Russia withdraws 'most valuable' ships from occupied Crimea: benborges.xyz/2024/03/31/navy-

Navy: Russia withdraws 'most valuable' ships from occupied Crimea
The Russian military has withdrawn nearly all its major ships from ports in occupied Crimea following successful Ukrainian strikes on the Black Sea Fleet, Navy Spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said on a Source : kyivindependent.

@datascience@genomic.social
2024-03-30 11:00:01

Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats

CRAN Task View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming
This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages that offer facilities for solving optimization problems. Although every regression model in statistics solves an optimization problem, they are not part of this view. If you are looking for regression methods, the following views will also contain useful starting points: MachineLearning, Econometrics, Robust Packages are categorized according to the following sections. See also the “Related Links” and “Other Resources” sections at the end.

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2024-02-29 18:47:15

Calling Betteridge's Law on this one..
#BetteridgesLaw

Is ChatGPT fuelling hyper-productivity? Since its release in November 2022, OpenAT’s chatbot has helped scientists boost their productivity when it comes to writing papers or grant applications. But increasing the throughput of publications could stretch editors and reviewers even thinner than they already are. And, swhile many authors acknowledge their Al use, some quietly use chatbots to churn out low-value research. “We have to go back and look at what the reward system is in academia,” say…
@jrefior@hachyderm.io
2024-05-01 00:39:04

This is what #cryptocurrency is all about: money laundering for organized crime.
"Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison for looking the other way as criminals used the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and terrorism."

Binance founder sentenced to 4 months for allowing money laundering
Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison for allowing rampant money laundering on the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Tuesday's sentence came after Zhao pleaded guilty in November to one count of failing to take required anti-money-laundering measures. He also stepped down as Binance agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle related allegations. U.S. officials said Zhao deliberately looked the other way as people conducted transactions that supported c…

@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2024-04-29 22:56:00

Have you ever wondered, what if Groundhog Day, but with guns?
What if The Lazarus Project, but without the intelligent writing?
What if Russian Doll, but without the quirky charm?
Then Edge of Tomorrow is the film for you.
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Yes Jessie is away taking to people about writing at Moniack Mhor and I am consequently watching films that I know she would never want to watch. And she has been proved right, yet again.

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2024-02-29 18:47:15

Calling Betteridge's Law on this one..
#BetteridgesLaw

Is ChatGPT fuelling hyper-productivity? Since its release in November 2022, OpenAT’s chatbot has helped scientists boost their productivity when it comes to writing papers or grant applications. But increasing the throughput of publications could stretch editors and reviewers even thinner than they already are. And, swhile many authors acknowledge their Al use, some quietly use chatbots to churn out low-value research. “We have to go back and look at what the reward system is in academia,” say…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2024-04-27 02:50:05

Rams select Michigan RB Blake Corum with No. 83 pick in 2024 NFL Draft nfl.com/news/rams-select-michi

Rams select Michigan RB Blake Corum with No. 83 pick in 2024 NFL Draft
Jim Harbaugh's beloved Michigan running back is following him to Los Angeles -- but playing for the Chargers' roommates. The Los Angeles Rams selected Blake Corum with the No. 83 overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2024-04-27 15:46:08
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It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"They say that when Ariadne wed Liber [Dionysos] on the island of Dia [Naxos], and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus [#Aphrodite] and the Horae (Seasons)."
Pseud…

Red-figure vase painting of Dionysos and Ariadne sitting together, having a good time. Dionysos is holding his thyrsos, a staff tipped with a pine cone in his left arm and a kantharos cup in his right. He has long, curly hair flowing over his shoulders. Ariadne is looking at her husband with a smile, tugging at her transparent dress. She is wearing a crown, possibly the gift from Aphrodite.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-02-19 18:30:38

Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
theverge.com/2024/2/16/2407471

Microsoft fixes Edge browser bug that was stealing Chrome tabs and data
Microsoft has quietly fixed a bug that was stealing Chrome data. Some Windows users had their Chrome data automatically imported into Edge.

@vform@openbiblio.social
2024-03-29 17:28:14

1984 (Orwell):
"There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator."
Versificator - auch nen schöner Name dafür.…