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"WTF are we software people doing as an industry that makes us consume so many resources?"
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Join a flock or create your own at #SCaLE 21x. Attend a Birds of a Feather Session or sign up to create your own session. BoFs will run on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, with the first sessions starting at 18:00 on Thursday and Friday and 19:00 on Saturday. The last sessions start at 21:00 on all three nights. BoFs do not have to be about FLOSS topics. Want a Maker BoF? A board game BoF…

Po tym, jak udało mi się rozwiązać problem z ichnim sandboksem, udało mi się uruchomić Firefoksa, zbudowanego ze źródeł, z załączonym wsparciem #JPEGXL. Niestety, wygląda na to, że jest niekompletne.
#Gentoo #Mozilla

WanJuan-CC: A Safe and High-Quality Open-sourced English Webtext Dataset
Jiantao Qiu, Haijun Lv, Zhenjiang Jin, Rui Wang, Wenchang Ning, Jia Yu, ChaoBin Zhang, Pei Chu, Yuan Qu, Runyu Peng, Zhiyuan Zeng, Huanze Tang, Ruiliang Xu, Wei Li, Hang Yan, Conghui He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19282<…

WanJuan-CC: A Safe and High-Quality Open-sourced English Webtext Dataset
This paper presents WanJuan-CC, a safe and high-quality open-sourced English webtext dataset derived from Common Crawl data. The study addresses the challenges of constructing large-scale pre-training datasets for language models, which require vast amounts of high-quality data. A comprehensive process was designed to handle Common Crawl data, including extraction, heuristic rule filtering, fuzzy deduplication, content safety filtering, and data quality filtering. From approximately 68 billion …

1/2 Looking at one of the #xz writeup, this struck my eye: “The release tarballs upstream publishes don't have the same code that GitHub has. This is common in C projects so that downstream consumers don't need to remember how to run autotools and autoconf.” Ah, GNU AutoHell, I remember it well. Tl;dr: With AutoHell, even if you're building for a 19-bit Multics variant from 1988, it’s got yo…

Generalized Pentagon Equations
Anton Alekseev, Florian Naef, Muze Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19138 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.191…

Generalized Pentagon Equations
Drinfeld defined the Knizhinik--Zamolodchikov (KZ) associator $Φ_{\rm KZ}$ by considering the regularized holonomy of the KZ connection along the {\em droit chemin} $[0,1]$. The KZ associator is a group-like element of the free associative algebra with two generators, and it satisfies the pentagon equation. In this paper, we consider paths on $\mathbb{C}\backslash \{ z_1, \dots, z_n\}$ which start and end at tangential base points. These paths are not necessarily straight, and they may have …

Just submitted my talk abstract for @… and I can't wait to tell you all about this project, it has easily 500% more guest appearances by grizzled desert prospectors than anything I've done before
which is really saying something given I work in the Mojave
(Scan from the LA Times archive, dated 15 June 1924)

There’s actually two fundamentally different types of tech hype:
1. Works
2. Doesn’t work
Both normally have in common that they turn out to not be very useful while having serious, dealbraking drawbacks.
For example:
- VR/AR is 1. (isolating and uncomfortable, makes people sick, lack of “killer app”)
- LLM’s are 2. (lying, produce mediocre output, definitely not intelligent, unsustainably expensive to run)

"Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes
Rain used to be rare in the Arctic, but as the region warms, so-called rain-on-snow events are becoming more common. The rains accelerate ice loss, trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wildlife and the Indigenous people who depend on them.

Beyond the random phase approximation for calculating Curie temperatures in ferromagnets: application to Fe, Ni, Co and monolayer CrI3
Varun Rajeev Pavizhakumari, Thorbj{\o}rn Skovhus, Thomas Olsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00477

Beyond the random phase approximation for calculating Curie temperatures in ferromagnets: application to Fe, Ni, Co and monolayer CrI3
The magnetic properties of solids are typically analyzed in terms of Heisenberg models where the electronic structure is approximated by interacting localized spins. However, even in such models the evaluation of thermodynamic properties constitutes a major challenge and is usually handled by a mean field decoupling scheme. The random phase approximation (RPA) comprises a common approach and is often applied to evaluate critical temperatures although it is well known that the method is only acc…