qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
Over the last week or so Ive been messing with Pydio Cells for file sharing. https://www.pydio.com/en/pydio-cells/overview I made it work at home fine but internal only. I redo it with a nginx proxy for external access (basically so I can sync some files work/home with 'cells-sync…
The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan
The Billionaires are the top sociopaths that need to be removed from power and punished to the full extent of the law (even if we need new laws to make it happen) https://mastodon.social/@obrhoff/116001392877482754
A Closed-form Analytical Theory of Nonisobaric Transmission Spectroscopy for #Exoplanet Atmospheres: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3246 -> LMU physicist Leonardos Gkouvelis has found a mathematical solution for investigating the atmospheres of distant worlds: https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/new-theory-for-exploration-of-exoplanets-ad523241.html
The UK CMA proposes measures to let publishers opt out of content scraping for Google's AI Overviews and AI training without losing visibility in search results (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan
Fine tuning the Lego spectrometer more.
Using a maglite as the source eliminates the need for a separate collimating lens.
I also switched away from the very flaky variable slit made of a sliding brick that wouldn't stay in place if you looked at it wrong.
After some failed experiments with aluminum foil, I discovered that the round tree trunk Duplo brick was a tiny bit smaller than a nominal square 2x2 brick. When placed next to a square brick and locked in place with …
If you still have your project on GitHub and think that it is a public project, try this: Log off (eg. using a private tab), go to your project, and try reading 3-4 issues. Chances are you're Too Many Requests'd for a few minutes before you even got a decent overview of the project's state. Is this then still a public project?
([ed:] For comparison, #Codeberg manages crawler load …
A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps