Tootfinder

Verified GoPro hero7 in timelapse photo mode is writing a sequence of jpeg images to sd card with gps coordinates embedded in the exif data.
#mapillary #osm

What do ya mean, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poot isn't a word??

November 17: State of Palestine Flag, 10 a.m, Toronto City Hall.
🇵🇸 ✊
#palestine #toronto

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Daniel Avery:
🎵 Haze
#DanielAvery
https://danielavery.bandcamp.com/track/haze-w-ellie
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pmOVNGWu1lRBWVpYTcKH1

The bakery didn't have any pizza buns, just cheesy bread. But I dumped some tomato sauce and oregano on them and it's good. #food

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayFeature
- The Great Egyptian Music Mystery
Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts. Do they hold the key to the oldest musical culture in the world?
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m0p8

How do people record images for Mapillary while on a bicycle? GoPro stuck to a helmet? Is that stable enough? Does something in the pipeline do post-processing to correct for camera tilt?
#biketooter #mapillary #camera

I've somehow managed to get the Android Studio ide bits to find all the imported packages/classes but the compiler can't. Aka the exact opposite of how life in Eclipse went 20 years ago. Such a troubling toolchain.
Added #Android

Time to watch all the WardiTV 2025 games. And cheer for Scarlett.
#starcraft2

Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy's Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/201664/vivek-ramaswamy-turning-point-racism-ohio
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p146#a251010p146

Great ending - I was nervous that they were going to put Ellie back in the box. #strictly

Dotfile manager on Mac; chezmoi or rcm?

Well, the clouds look nice and gloomy, I guess. #aurora #ontario

Sometimes I wonder whether EMS folks end up performing a scene survey continually in the background whether something's going on or not.

The landscape here would look super different if people drew cycling highways on the map first, and then tried to fit automobile routes around/over them.
#BikeTooter #bikeon #onpoli

How Do Language Models Compose Functions?
Apoorv Khandelwal, Ellie Pavlick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01685 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01685

How Do Language Models Compose Functions?
While large language models (LLMs) appear to be increasingly capable of solving compositional tasks, it is an open question whether they do so using compositional mechanisms. In this work, we investigate how feedforward LLMs solve two-hop factual recall tasks, which can be expressed compositionally as $g(f(x))$. We first confirm that modern LLMs continue to suffer from the "compositionality gap": i.e. their ability to compute both $z = f(x)$ and $y = g(z)$ does not entail their ability to compu…

C2AL: Cohort-Contrastive Auxiliary Learning for Large-scale Recommendation Systems
Mertcan Cokbas, Ziteng Liu, Zeyi Tao, Chengkai Zhang, Elder Veliz, Qin Huang, Ellie Wen, Huayu Li, Qiang Jin, Murat Duman, Benjamin Au, Guy Lebanon, Sagar Chordia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02215

C2AL: Cohort-Contrastive Auxiliary Learning for Large-scale Recommendation Systems
Training large-scale recommendation models under a single global objective implicitly assumes homogeneity across user populations. However, real-world data are composites of heterogeneous cohorts with distinct conditional distributions. As models increase in scale and complexity and as more data is used for training, they become dominated by central distribution patterns, neglecting head and tail regions. This imbalance limits the model's learning ability and can result in inactive attention we…

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
#HorizonForbiddenWest #BurningShores

I can see it as a conversation starter, and what's bad about that?
Maga is in meltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men. So, what exactly is the problem? | Ellie Violet Bramley | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/23/maga-meltdown-pink-sweater-men-masculinity-fragile

Badass grandmas are evolutionarily advantageous. And awesome. 😎

Trump Shares More Than 150 Brainrot Posts in Late-Night Rampage (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/203835/trump-shares-150-brainrot-posts-late-night-rampage
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p79#a251202p79

Is the Holocene done yet?

Forbidden granola. #pooptoot

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Ellie O’Neill:
🎵 Little Sister
#EllieONeill
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://ellieoneill.bandcamp.com/album/little-sister
https://open.spotify.com/track/70sAF0LKlyGKPnhZiJQhmn

Lakeshore West service is cancelled many weekends of December for bridge construction in Etobicoke. And it's seriously harshing my attempts at plans.
#gotransit #Metrolinx

Efficient Online Large-Margin Classification via Dual Certificates
Nam Ho-Nguyen, Fatma K{\i}l{\i}n\c{c}-Karzan, Ellie Nguyen, Lingqing Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19670 htt…

Efficient Online Large-Margin Classification via Dual Certificates
Online classification is a central problem in optimization, statistical learning and data science. Classical algorithms such as the perceptron offer efficient updates and finite mistake guarantees on linearly separable data, but they do not exploit the underlying geometric structure of the classification problem. We study the offline maximum margin problem through its dual formulation and use the resulting geometric insights to design a principled and efficient algorithm for the online setting.…

Via Rail is better than driving an automobile. Quieter, faster, more legroom, don't need to store it somewhere. But that's like the absolute bare minimum for a rail service. It needs to come as frequently as an automobile too. And have bicycle racks.
#viarail

Downtown Fake London (Ontario) is weird. Some of it is exactly the automobile-infested hell that @… routinely describes. But there's still quite a few people out here walking and biking in spite of the inhospitable conditions.
There's some recently-built protected cycle tracks that make me wish I could bring a bicycle here on Via and toot around for an afternoon of coffee shops. The network is super not-complete though. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️
#BikeTooter #londonon

End of the harvest season. Pulled the last of the tomatoes and peppers from our victory garden. I'm going to dehydrate about a kilogram of jalapeños and grind them into a powder.
#gardening

From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?
Thomas Serre, Ellie Pavlick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17280 https://a…

From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?
Generative pretraining (the "GPT" in ChatGPT) enables language models to learn from vast amounts of internet text without human supervision. This approach has driven breakthroughs across AI by allowing deep neural networks to learn from massive, unstructured datasets. We use the term foundation models to refer to large pretrained systems that can be adapted to a wide range of tasks within and across domains, and these models are increasingly applied beyond language to the brain sciences. These …

It Sure Looks Like Kash Patel Used the FBI's Jet to Go on a Date (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202430/kash-patel-fbi-private-jet-wrestling-date
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p150#a251029p150

I've never written anything with React, but I run a bunch of public-facing software that might. Do they also use React Server Components? No idea! Ffs.
#CVE-2025-55182

Ellie is a bit excited. #strictly

Estimating high-resolution albedo for urban applications
David Fork, Elizabeth Jane Wesley, Salil Banerjee, Vishal Batchu, Aniruddh Chennapragada, Kevin Crossan, Bryce Cronkite-Ratcliff, Ellie Delich, Tristan Goulden, Mansi Kansal, Jonas Kemp, Eric Mackres, Yael Mayer, Becca Milman, John C. Platt, Shruthi Prabhakara, Gautam Prasad, Shravya Shetty, Charlotte Stanton, Wayne Sun, Lucy R. Hutyra

Estimating high-resolution albedo for urban applications
Implementation of cool roofs is a high-impact pathway for mitigating heat at both global and city scales. However, while albedo estimates derived from Sentinel-2 are free and globally-available, the 10 m resolution is insufficient to resolve individual roofs. We present methods for increasing the resolution of Sentinel-2 albedo using high-resolution satellite imagery to produce albedo inferences at a 30-cm scale. Validating against high-resolution aerial albedo measurements over Boulder, CO we …

RLBFF: Binary Flexible Feedback to bridge between Human Feedback & Verifiable Rewards
Zhilin Wang, Jiaqi Zeng, Olivier Delalleau, Ellie Evans, Daniel Egert, Hoo-Chang Shin, Felipe Soares, Yi Dong, Oleksii Kuchaiev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21319

RLBFF: Binary Flexible Feedback to bridge between Human Feedback & Verifiable Rewards
Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) are the main RL paradigms used in LLM post-training, each offering distinct advantages. However, RLHF struggles with interpretability and reward hacking because it relies on human judgments that usually lack explicit criteria, whereas RLVR is limited in scope by its focus on correctness-based verifiers. We propose Reinforcement Learning with Binary Flexible Feedback (RLBFF), which combine…

@… you mentioned that you were publishing some code for inferring LTS mapping from OSM metadata. Probably based on https://github.com/BikeOttawa/stressmodel . Is that public now?

Reminder, it's the biannual anniversary of discontinuity stupid time today. Don't trust any clocks.

Burlington's no-drop all-ages community bike rides with city councillors are back! Next one is November 8th; @…
#BurlOn #BikeTooter

"F***ing Insane": The Move That Ruined Jack Smith's Case Against Trump (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202294/jack-smith-donald-trump-classified-documents-cannon
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p140#a251027p140

How is Claire Danes's hair so perfect in this movie, when everything else is so bonkers?
#TheFamilyStone2005

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Ellie O’Neill:
🎵 Bohemia
#EllieONeill
https://ellieoneill.bandcamp.com/album/bohemia
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ze7bQ1JNAwOdr5toMiApa

Hey wait, the new TTC Line 6 uses standard gauge (1435mm), not Toronto gauge! Have they also finally escape the tyranny of single-point switches??
#toronto #ttc #rail

I'm rooting for a us-east-1 outage today.

Bwahahahaha! 🤣
From: @…
#trashfire

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Eric Whitacre, Kantos Chamber Choir & Ellie Slorach:
🎵 Sleep
#EricWhitacre #KantosChamberChoir #EllieSlorach

GOP Rep Rips Trump and Kash Patel for Covering Up Epstein Files Case (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/200750/gop-rep-thomas-massie-donald-trump-kash-patel-epstein-coverup
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p135#a250922p135

#biketooter #ontario #complain

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
TSHA & Ellie Goulding & Gregory Porter:
🎵 Somebody (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #TSHA #EllieGoulding #GregoryPorter
https://tshamusic.bandcamp.com/album/somebody

Logseq (the Electron app on MacOS) uses the dugite library to interact with git, which ships its own copy of git, but doesn't include a git-credential-osxkeychain. And my normal auth to GitHub uses credential.helper=osxkeychain. Sigh.
export PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH ...

I never saw #movies #askfedi

Burlington publishes a PDF of both sides of the foldable cycling route map (same one given away at community centres and street events) - it was last updated in 2022.
* #BikeTooter #OnPoli

It's getting really difficult to keep track of all the penalties in this hockey game.
#pwhl #OttawaCharge #NewYorkSirens

But that's how I found out one of our busses last trip on Sunday is at 1700h. Which is utterly bonkers. How are drunk people getting home from the bar when their bike is broken? Driving??
#bustooter

We broke a pin in a chain link on a bike ride today. Never had that happen before. The chain was getting kinda old so it'll probably be replaced (not patched/shortened).
#BikeTooter

@… I really don't understand why everyone on big instances like mastodon.social don't just silence/limit mastodon.social by default.

Seattle Torrent has the most minty fresh logo. Not sure whether toothpaste or dishwasher detergent yet though. #pwhl #pooptoots #SeattleTorrent

Flu and Covid immunization upgrades installed! Let's heckin' go! 💪🏻

Current #Pyanodons Status: There is too much stone.

Better futile than passive.

Living on the wild side: dumping nutmeg in with coffee grounds.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Grace Williams, BBC Singers & Ellie Slorach:
🎵 Ave maris stella
#GraceWilliams #BBCSingers #EllieSlorach

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
TSHA & Ellie Goulding & Gregory Porter:
🎵 Somebody (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #TSHA #EllieGoulding #GregoryPorter
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

I'd really like to find a way to migrate a domain (and existing account & posts) between two pieces Fediverse server software, keeping all post urls.
Not the existing Move feature - that assumes new & old servers are running in parallel at different urls.
I want to take a backup from Mastodon, stop the server, convert all the toots to some common format, start up GoToSocial, and import. Without losing reply glue on old toots or spamming.
#mastodon #gotosocial #fediverse #migration #software

Toronto wins game 1! #pwhl #TorontoSceptres #MinnesotaFrost

Heading to another ghost ride today, to pay respects to another fallen cyclist.
Today we honour David Alexander Wilson Niblett.
#biketooter #ghostride #ghostbike #memorial #oakville