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Indiana's religious exemption from abortion bans is a big deal.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/indiana-abortion-ban-religious-exemption-judaism-faith.html

You’ll Never Guess Which State Court Just Approved Religious Exemptions From Abortion Bans
Some ideas will not be repressed, and in Indiana, the idea that abortion is a matter of religious freedom has broken through in the lower courts.

👻 ExxonMobil accused of ‘greenwashing’ over carbon capture plan it failed to invest in
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/31/exxonmobil-accused-of-greenwashing-over-carbon-capture-plan-it-…

Just updated the convex hull example (and the underlying `clipConvex()` function in https://thi.ng/geom) to support paths (shown in the examples) and complex polygons...
Demo:

Functional, polymorphic API for 2D geometry types & SVG generation

Anteil des Güterverkehrs auf der Schiene wächst nur leicht
Die Eisenbahn hat ihren Anteil am Güterverkehr 2022 ausgebaut – am meisten zulasten der Binnenschifffahrt.
https://www.heise.de/news/An…

Question for #Emacs #elfeed users: what could lead to categories
not being displayed?
My elfeed-feeds is defined like this:
(setq elfeed-feeds '((http://

XAMPLER: Learning to Retrieve Cross-Lingual In-Context Examples
Peiqin Lin, Andr\'e F. T. Martins, Hinrich Sch\"utze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05116

XAMPLER: Learning to Retrieve Cross-Lingual In-Context Examples
Recent studies have shown that leveraging off-the-shelf or fine-tuned retrievers, capable of retrieving high-quality in-context examples, significantly improves in-context learning of English. However, adapting these methods to other languages, especially low-resource ones, presents challenges due to the scarcity of available cross-lingual retrievers and annotated data. In this paper, we introduce XAMPLER: Cross-Lingual Example Retrieval, a method tailored to tackle the challenge of cross-lingu…

Updated, simplified example, and fully commented now! New library releases later today... (Still checking what else might need to be done for updating the https://thi.ng/geom-axidraw package to support complex polygons and paths with holes/sub-paths... Adding support for these shape types has been quite…

Conversion and preparation of thi.ng/geom shapes & shape groups to/from AxiDraw pen plotter draw commands

Zeitreise nach Paderborn: Retro Computer Festival im Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum
Das dritte Retro Computer Festival im weltgrößten Computermuseum bietet beliebte Schätzchen, aber auch exotische Exemplare. Der Eintritt ist frei.

Zeitreise nach Paderborn: Retro Computer Festival im Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum
Das dritte Retro Computer Festival im weltgrößten Computermuseum bietet beliebte Schätzchen, aber auch exotische Exemplare. Der Eintritt ist frei.