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My favorite(?) hobby (after calisthenics): complaint letters.
The English executive summary is, they didn't print my letter to the editor of a week ago, but the letters editor wrote me back privately to commend me for it. I thanked him here and said while I'm not looking for perfection, uh, U.S. political terms aren't *five* years long. Oh, and by the way, can you guys cut it out with hyphenating English words so idiotically, such as what happened recently with Princess &qu…

Hey all. So, likely last post this weekend with this view along a trail that I did last April. I really look forward to going there again.
This tour is - for me - pretty versatile. Forests, alpine meadows, gravel paths, rougher paths, a steep ascent to the summit, a 360° view ... Well. It'll be some time until all the snow has gone away. I guess I'll touch snow there again.

Late-April Solitude: A Solo Alpine Journey
In the quiet majesty of a late-April solo hike, the mountain landscape revealed a subtle beauty in transition. The snow-covered peaks, the muted hues of transitioning grass, and the dance of light and shadow became a testament to the unfiltered allure of nature awakening from its winter slumber.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17970 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Exploring Advanced Methodologies in Security Evaluation for LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) represent an advanced evolution of earlier, simpler language models. They boast enhanced abilities to handle complex language patterns and generate coherent text, images, audios, and videos. Furthermore, they can be fine-tuned for specific tasks. This versatility has led to the proliferation and extensive use of numerous commercialized large models. However, the rapid expansion of LLMs has raised security and ethical concerns within the academic community. This emph…

Wer pflegt denn hier #SKOS-Vokabulare? Da bei uns die Erfahrung zur Verwendung von SKOS notes fehlt, habe ich dazu ein Diskussionsthema aufgemacht: https://metadaten.community/t/communit

High-Redshift Extragalactic Science with the Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies (SALTUS) Space Observatory
Justin Spilker, Rebecca C. Levy, Daniel Marrone, Stacey Alberts, Scott C. Chapman, Mark Dickinson, Eiichi Egami, Ryan Endsley, Desika Narayanan, George Rieke, Antony A. Stark, Alexander Tielens, Christopher K. Walker
https://…

High-Redshift Extragalactic Science with the Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies (SALTUS) Space Observatory
This paper presents an overview of the high-redshift extragalactic science case for the Single Aperture Large Telescope for Universe Studies (SALTUS) far-infrared NASA probe-class mission concept. Enabled by its 14m primary reflector, SALTUS offers enormous gains in spatial resolution and spectral sensitivity over previous far-IR missions. SALTUS would be a versatile observatory capable of responding to the scientific needs of the extragalactic community in the 2030s, and a natural follow-on to…

Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis
Willi Menapace, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Ivan Skorokhodov, Ekaterina Deyneka, Tsai-Shien Chen, Anil Kag, Yuwei Fang, Aleksei Stoliar, Elisa Ricci, Jian Ren, Sergey Tulyakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14797

Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis
Contemporary models for generating images show remarkable quality and versatility. Swayed by these advantages, the research community repurposes them to generate videos. Since video content is highly redundant, we argue that naively bringing advances of image models to the video generation domain reduces motion fidelity, visual quality and impairs scalability. In this work, we build Snap Video, a video-first model that systematically addresses these challenges. To do that, we first extend the E…

Die Plattform Turi2 hat mich zu "KI" interviewed:
"Wir könnten in Deutschland nachhaltige Technologien entwickeln, statt am KI-Rennen teilzunehmen, nur weil irgendwelche Tech-Bros uns sagen, dass wir es müssen. Viele dieser KI-Influencer, die aktuell vor Dax-Vorständen herumturnen, verstehen nicht wirklich, wie die Technik funktioniert oder haben ein seriöses Angebot, sondern behaupten: “Ich habe hier eine magische Box und die löst alle deine Probleme.” Vor allem löst si…

"KI ist keine magische Box, die alle Probleme löst" – Jürgen Geuter über Technik-Religion und KI-Inzest. | turi2
Büchse der Pandora: Informatiker und Philosoph Jürgen Geuter alias "tante" gilt als scharfer KI-Kritiker. Vor allem die Erzählung von der mächtigen Künstlichen Intelligenz, die in Zukunft all unsere Probleme löst, hält er für gefährlich, sagt er im Interview mit turi2-Redakteurin Nancy Riegel. KI sei in vielen Fällen hilfreich, führe aber auch dazu, dass “weniger Leute mehr arbeiten müssen, um weniger gute Qualität zu liefern” – eine “toxische Dynamik”. Medienschaffenden …

About 22 years I read 1571 user guide and saw the chapter about Burst Command Instruction Set. Intriguing! Obviously parts about MFM parameters were meant primarily for CP/M.
Then I thought - what if I would rewrite GEOS 1571 disk driver to use these commands? Would it be faster or better than BSW speedloader?
I wrote some code, ran into problems and left it abandoned in the repository:

Wer pflegt denn hier #SKOS-Vokabulare? Da bei uns die Erfahrung zur Verwendung von SKOS notes fehlt, habe ich dazu ein Diskussionsthema aufgemacht: https://metadaten.community/t/communit

Es gibt jetzt auch eine GND-Kategorie im Forum metadaten.community, die Raum gibt zur Diskussion unterschiedlichster Themen zu GND-Daten und -Schnittstellen: https://metadaten.community/c/gnd/26
Das erste Thema befasst sich mit der Entwicklung eines Workflows zum Triggern von GND-Updates …