Tootfinder

Feel it necessary to post this again after our game posts are getting spam reports
We normally post one post per day that players across the Fediverse play from their own instance. That is not spam
We don't control the game trending in your instance's Explore algorithm, nor can we moderate your instance for game plays that should contain a CW or other tag
99.99% of game players DO use the universal hashtag

Just set up a self-hosted instance of FormBricks (https://formbricks.com) as a Google Forms alternative, to have a look... so far so good... but they're trying to sell a 'premium' version even on the self-hosted instance, and that doesn't sit well with me... Another option is LiberaForms (

Is it me, my instance, federation issues or why does @… doesn't have a profile image for me? The profile links aren't shown as verified as well so something is off!

Apparently Megalodon thinks my instance isn't a Mastodon instance...😳🤨
First app that's given me this issue, which sucks cause I enjoy Megalodon quite a bit.

Is it true that to use search on Mastodon via the API, you can only query your own instance? And that you should have a login for each instance you'd like to query? #mastodon #api #search
Has somebody build &…

I loved this paper by Jordana Goodman & Khamal Patterson. Check it out! https://ip.jotwell.com/the-white-person-of-skill-in-the-art/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10535 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

ProMIL: Probabilistic Multiple Instance Learning for Medical Imaging
Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a weakly-supervised problem in which one label is assigned to the whole bag of instances. An important class of MIL models is instance-based, where we first classify instances and then aggregate those predictions to obtain a bag label. The most common MIL model is when we consider a bag as positive if at least one of its instances has a positive label. However, this reasoning does not hold in many real-life scenarios, where the positive bag label is often a c…

Sometimes I would like an option to get access to a single post of a private account. Often because someone I follow replied to it. I don't want to request follow access, which wouldn't give me access to older posts anyways because of my tiny instance. Just a button to ask if I may see this post and the author can allow or decline or turn off requests for that post or in general.

Mozilla is "scal[ing] back its investment in its mozilla.social Mastodon instance" in addition to a bunch of other projects.
Who is surprised? Mozilla, for years and years now, has started projects, made big promises, and then killed them again. Remember the phone? Persona? IoT? These are just the ones I'm remembering.
And now they chase AI instead. Send help.

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product

I am increasingly more on bsky, so if you are on an instance that doesn’t block it and you are so inclined, you can now follow my blue sky posts on mastodon through this handle: @duhe.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

AllThingsTech.social is looking for a moderator for the instance. We'd like someone that has previous mod experience of some sort, is enthusiastic, active and energetic and willing to help grow the community, the instance, our Discord and more. Someone that is willing to help #ATT be the best it can be!
If you feel you have all of these qualities, then please reach out to myself or

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08142 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

On the Instance Dependence of Optimal Parameters for the Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm: Insights via Instance Space Analysis
The performance of the Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA) relies on the setting of optimal parameters in each layer of the circuit. This is no trivial task, and much literature has focused on the challenge of finding optimal parameters when the landscape is plagued with problems such as "barren plateaus". There are many choices of optimisation heuristics that can be used to search for optimal parameters, each with its own parameters and initialisation choices that affect performa…

Uhh @… our (fully patched 4.2) instance is showing the "critical security update" banner, recommending 4.3.0a1, which links to 4.2.5 in GitHub. Something's amiss with the update service, it seems.
#mastoadmin

Hey everyone!!! I just need to shout out this great Mastodon web client that has so much nicer UX. Seriously, check out @… at Phanpy.Social. It'll change how you interact with Mastodon.
Much nicer notification and interaction UX. Notification consolidation per post, so you have 6 people like post X for instance. Also comments on a post show the OP etc. Just …

what was that bot detector thing on twitter a while back? it also had an extension?
there was a mastodon instance that I think went on its own island and had it built in?

wut
Does this work in a client app like @… ?
From: @…

Infosec Exchange
A Mastodon instance for info/cyber security-minded people.

Since trickplay images look like they're going to be a big pain, I decided to do a quick pivot over to lyrics.
Here's the work in progress for getting lyrics into #Atse from #jellyfin. Step 1 was getting the file read, and the data onscreen.
In this instance I simply added an…

Is there any programs that monitor your mastodon follows and followers, and notifies you if one of them stops existing? The idea would be being notified of broken connections in case your instance is defederated from somewhere or if your instance defederates someone.

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://

There is another #Mastodon instance by a #PublicBroadcaster, and it's the second biggest: I added the accounts on https://social.np…

So you come into my replies on my instance and then block me.
This is what you think happens:
“Haha, everyone will see my reply and he can’t respond.”
Here’s what actually happens:
- You piss me off
- I suspend your account and delete your data from my server so it no longer distributes your reply
- I post a screenshot of your reply so everyone can see the mental gymnastics you have to employ to defend Israel
- You learn something new

And it's not like there's much to do before just "starting" the instance....so where could I have went wrong? It says to edit 2 files and I did that and there was no errors so.....🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
I'm pretty dumbfounded and don't know where to go from here...😩

N-QR: Natural Quick Response Codes for Multi-Robot Instance Correspondence
Nathaniel Moore Glaser, Rajashree Ravi, Zsolt Kira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05815

N-QR: Natural Quick Response Codes for Multi-Robot Instance Correspondence
Image correspondence serves as the backbone for many tasks in robotics, such as visual fusion, localization, and mapping. However, existing correspondence methods do not scale to large multi-robot systems, and they struggle when image features are weak, ambiguous, or evolving. In response, we propose Natural Quick Response codes, or N-QR, which enables rapid and reliable correspondence between large-scale teams of heterogeneous robots. Our method works like a QR code, using keypoint-based align…

@… and myself have decided to add a new rule to the #AllThingsTech instance.
That rules is: Accounts are no longer allowed to make posts related to cryptocurrency in any way.

Uhh @… our (fully patched 4.2) instance is showing the "critical security update" banner, recommending 4.3.0a1, which links to 4.2.5 in GitHub. Something's amiss with the update service, it seems.
#mastoadmin

Animation, rooted in imagination, has long had the power to amplify human feelings and heighten reality.
But in “Particle Ink,” animation enters our reality,
as #Particle, for instance,
leaps from wall to pillow,
dashes across a bed curtain
and cries into a physical bucket.
“I wish I was 3-D,” Particle scrawls at one point on the wall,
but the show makes us beli…

'Particle Ink' in Las Vegas: Animation enters its live-theater era
Think of "Particle Ink," an exploration-focused production that invites guests to wander from room to room, as a sort of next-generation “Sleep No More.”

Rethinking Generative Large Language Model Evaluation for Semantic Comprehension
Fangyun Wei, Xi Chen, Lin Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07872 https://

Rethinking Generative Large Language Model Evaluation for Semantic Comprehension
Despite their sophisticated capabilities, large language models (LLMs) encounter a major hurdle in effective assessment. This paper first revisits the prevalent evaluation method-multiple choice question answering (MCQA), which allows for straightforward accuracy measurement. Through a comprehensive evaluation of 24 models across 11 benchmarks, we highlight several potential drawbacks of MCQA, for instance, the inconsistency between the MCQA evaluation and the generation of open-ended responses…

I feel this might send me on a path that goes deep; a very deep 🐇🕳️ https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@Neblib/112255120859116684

Analyzing Prompt Influence on Automated Method Generation: An Empirical Study with Copilot
Ionut Daniel Fagadau, Leonardo Mariani, Daniela Micucci, Oliviero Riganelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08430

Analyzing Prompt Influence on Automated Method Generation: An Empirical Study with Copilot
Generative AI is changing the way developers interact with software systems, providing services that can produce and deliver new content, crafted to satisfy the actual needs of developers. For instance, developers can ask for new code directly from within their IDEs by writing natural language prompts, and integrated services based on generative AI, such as Copilot, immediately respond to prompts by providing ready-to-use code snippets. Formulating the prompt appropriately, and incorporating th…

Side affect of AWS' way on public IPv4 is that ssh access evolves to using Instance Connect with private sub nets.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-using-amazon-ec2-instance-connect-for-ssh-access-to-your…

New: Using Amazon EC2 Instance Connect for SSH access to your EC2 Instances | Amazon Web Services
This post is courtesy of Saloni Sonpal – Senior Product Manager – Amazon EC2 Today, AWS is introducing Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, a new way to control SSH access to your EC2 instances using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). About Amazon EC2 Instance Connect While infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Chef and Puppet […]

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Scientific Evidence:
Numerous studies have highlighted the diverse health benefits of EPA. For instance, a landmark study published in the "Journal of the American College of Cardiology" (2019) demonstrated the cardioprotective effects of EPA supplementation, showcasing its ability to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events and improve heart health. #HeartHealth #CardiovascularHealth

Impact of Training Instance Selection on Automated Algorithm Selection Models for Numerical Black-box Optimization
Konstantin Dietrich, Diederick Vermetten, Carola Doerr, Pascal Kerschke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07539

Impact of Training Instance Selection on Automated Algorithm Selection Models for Numerical Black-box Optimization
The recently proposed MA-BBOB function generator provides a way to create numerical black-box benchmark problems based on the well-established BBOB suite. Initial studies on this generator highlighted its ability to smoothly transition between the component functions, both from a low-level landscape feature perspective, as well as with regard to algorithm performance. This suggests that MA-BBOB-generated functions can be an ideal testbed for automated machine learning methods, such as automated…

⚗️ Researchers 3D print key components for a point-of-care mass spectrometer
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-key-components-mass-spectrometer.html

Researchers 3D print key components for a point-of-care mass spectrometer
Mass spectrometry, a technique that can precisely identify the chemical components of a sample, could be used to monitor the health of people who suffer from chronic illnesses. For instance, a mass spectrometer can measure hormone levels in the blood of someone with hypothyroidism.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10048 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Shape Optimization of hemolysis for shear thinning flows in moving domains
We consider the $3$D problem of shape optimization of blood flows in moving domains. Such a geometry is adopted to take into account the modeling of rotating systems and blood pumps for instance. The blood flow is described by generalized Navier-Stokes equations, in the particular case of shear-thinning flows. For a sequence of converging moving domains, we show that a sequence of associated solutions to blood equations converges to a solution of the problem written on the limit moving domain. …

Benchmarking multi-component signal processing methods in the time-frequency plane
Juan M. Miramont, R\'emi Bardenet, Pierre Chainais, Francois Auger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08521

Benchmarking multi-component signal processing methods in the time-frequency plane
Signal processing in the time-frequency plane has a long history and remains a field of methodological innovation. For instance, detection and denoising based on the zeros of the spectrogram have been proposed since 2015, contrasting with a long history of focusing on larger values of the spectrogram. Yet, unlike neighboring fields like optimization and machine learning, time-frequency signal processing lacks widely-adopted benchmarking tools. In this work, we contribute an open-source, Python-…

Alez! Er is een botje wakker geworden. Nu volledig Mastodon powered: https://masto.nu/@dcrrspndnt
er zal de komende dagen nog wel aan geschaafd gaan worden, ook aan de website

phpc.social is now running on Mastodon v4.2.6, ~14 minutes after its release on GitHub.
For those of y'all who call this instance home, thanks for trusting us! For those of y'all who donate to cover our (slowly increasing) server/storage costs, thank you for your patronage!
For other #mastoadmin folks, this is a security release, so you'll want to avoid delaying on this on…

Apparently this isn't gonna be as easy as the docs make it seem...😬
Set all the settings "correctly" I thought. But then when I went to start the instance, it seemed to work, but then disconnected me from SSH and refused to let me reconnect.
Oh well, I killed the droplet and will start again tomorrow. Maybe it'll just "work" next time but I highly doubt it....🤦‍♂️
I feel like my Linux ignorance is hindering me here...🤷‍♂️
#Sharkey #FediAdmin #Fediverse

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01446 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Finding Regions of Interest in Whole Slide Images Using Multiple Instance Learning
Whole Slide Images (WSI), obtained by high-resolution digital scanning of microscope slides at multiple scales, are the cornerstone of modern Digital Pathology. However, they represent a particular challenge to AI-based/AI-mediated analysis because pathology labeling is typically done at slide-level, instead of tile-level. It is not just that medical diagnostics is recorded at the specimen level, the detection of oncogene mutation is also experimentally obtained, and recorded by initiatives lik…

En Tunisie, l’instance chargée de superviser les élections va coopérer avec la Russie
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2024/04/04/en-tunisie-l-instance-chargee-de-supervis…

En Tunisie, l’instance chargée de superviser les élections va coopérer avec la Russie
A l’occasion de la prochaine présidentielle tunisienne prévue à l’automne, Tunis se rapproche de Moscou en signant un accord électoral.

Sampling Space-Saving Set Sketches
Homin K. Lee, Charles Masson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08604 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.08604

Sampling Space-Saving Set Sketches
Large, distributed data streams are now ubiquitous. High-accuracy sketches with low memory overhead have become the de facto method for analyzing this data. For instance, if we wish to group data by some label and report the largest counts using fixed memory, we need to turn to mergeable heavy hitter sketches that can provide highly accurate approximate counts. Similarly, if we wish to keep track of the number of distinct items in a single set spread across several streams using fixed memory, w…

it seems the writefreely instance i used once so far to write a thing about age has given up on moderation and is overrun by seo bots. oh well. i could keep using it, after all, their feed doesnt matter to me, but i decided to make an account on another instance as well and probably post there in the future if i do ever feel like it again.
i imported my one post to the new instance: https://paper.wf/stella/age
you can follow through the magic of fedi here: @…
how do i keep being able to use just my name as a handle, surely there are more stellas in this world
anyway uh see you when that one collapses too and i look for another place to put my hypothetical future posts in

The emotional stress of being a #Mastoadmin... Maybe adopt a cat instead of starting a Fediverse instance if you can.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05777 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_…

IA2: Leveraging Instance-Aware Index Advisor with Reinforcement Learning for Diverse Workloads
This study introduces the Instance-A}ware Index A}dvisor (IA2), a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach for optimizing index selection in databases facing large action spaces of potential candidates. IA2 introduces the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient - Temporal Difference State-Wise Action Refinery (TD3-TD-SWAR) model, enabling efficient index selection by understanding workload-index dependencies and employing adaptive action masking. This method includes a com…

… slowly wondering which additional instance to join …
<https://earthstream.social/tags/Environment> could have been good for <

N-QR: Natural Quick Response Codes for Multi-Robot Instance Correspondence
Nathaniel Moore Glaser, Rajashree Ravi, Zsolt Kira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05815

N-QR: Natural Quick Response Codes for Multi-Robot Instance Correspondence
Image correspondence serves as the backbone for many tasks in robotics, such as visual fusion, localization, and mapping. However, existing correspondence methods do not scale to large multi-robot systems, and they struggle when image features are weak, ambiguous, or evolving. In response, we propose Natural Quick Response codes, or N-QR, which enables rapid and reliable correspondence between large-scale teams of heterogeneous robots. Our method works like a QR code, using keypoint-based align…

Gradient-flow adaptive importance sampling for Bayesian leave one out cross-validation for sigmoidal classification models
Joshua C Chang, Xiangting Li, Shixin Xu, Hao-Ren Yao, Julia Porcino, Carson Chow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08151

Gradient-flow adaptive importance sampling for Bayesian leave one out cross-validation for sigmoidal classification models
We introduce a set of gradient-flow-guided adaptive importance sampling (IS) transformations to stabilize Monte-Carlo approximations of point-wise leave one out cross-validated (LOO) predictions for Bayesian classification models. One can leverage this methodology for assessing model generalizability by for instance computing a LOO analogue to the AIC or computing LOO ROC/PRC curves and derived metrics like the AUROC and AUPRC. By the calculus of variations and gradient flow, we derive two simp…

I feel this same way. I want to go back to Florida, but it would be illegal for me to use the restroom of my gender for instance. Not frowned upon, literally illegal.
https://flipping.rocks/@loren/112067630227110495

phpc.social is now running on Mastodon v4.2.6, ~14 minutes after its release on GitHub.
For those of y'all who call this instance home, thanks for trusting us! For those of y'all who donate to cover our (slowly increasing) server/storage costs, thank you for your patronage!
For other #mastoadmin folks, this is a security release, so you'll want to avoid delaying on this on…

Something that I still can't get my head around on Mastodon... when I click on an account’s "Followers" or "Following" list, I can only see my own profile, maybe a few others if they are on the same instance. Is there any way around this? I feel that it's quite a barrier to finding interesting content 🤔
I'm using Ivory, but I assume it's the same on other clients?

Instance-Conditioned Adaptation for Large-scale Generalization of Neural Combinatorial Optimization
Changliang Zhou, Xi Lin, Zhenkun Wang, Xialiang Tong, Mingxuan Yuan, Qingfu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01906

Instance-Conditioned Adaptation for Large-scale Generalization of Neural Combinatorial Optimization
The neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) approach has shown great potential for solving routing problems without the requirement of expert knowledge. However, existing constructive NCO methods cannot directly solve large-scale instances, which significantly limits their application prospects. To address these crucial shortcomings, this work proposes a novel Instance-Conditioned Adaptation Model (ICAM) for better large-scale generalization of neural combinatorial optimization. In particular, …

Rethinking Generative Large Language Model Evaluation for Semantic Comprehension
Fangyun Wei, Xi Chen, Lin Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07872 https://

Rethinking Generative Large Language Model Evaluation for Semantic Comprehension
Despite their sophisticated capabilities, large language models (LLMs) encounter a major hurdle in effective assessment. This paper first revisits the prevalent evaluation method-multiple choice question answering (MCQA), which allows for straightforward accuracy measurement. Through a comprehensive evaluation of 24 models across 11 benchmarks, we highlight several potential drawbacks of MCQA, for instance, the inconsistency between the MCQA evaluation and the generation of open-ended responses…

Every new Mastodon update, I look for changes to the moderation system and have been accustomed to be disappointed...🤦‍♂️
Before anyone says "the mobile dev is different than the main dev". Yeah I know this is probably the case, but it doesn't change the fact that there could be better moderation options.
I shouldn't need to VIEW illegal content to make it not exist on my instance...
#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin

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:

Investigating the Effect of Noise on the Training Performance of Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks
Muhammad Kashif, Emman Sychiuco, Muhammad Shafique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08523

Investigating the Effect of Noise on the Training Performance of Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks
In this paper, we conduct a comprehensively analyze the influence of different quantum noise gates, including Phase Flip, Bit Flip, Phase Damping, Amplitude Damping, and the Depolarizing Channel, on the performance of HyQNNs. Our results reveal distinct and significant effects on HyQNNs training and validation accuracies across different probabilities of noise. For instance, the Phase Flip gate introduces phase errors, and we observe that HyQNNs exhibit resilience at higher probability (p = 1.0…

Disk Harmonics for Analysing Curved and Flat Self-affine Rough Surfaces and the Topological Reconstruction of Open Surfaces
Mahmoud Shaqfa, Gary P. T. Choi, Guillaume Anciaux, Katrin Beyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07001

Disk Harmonics for Analysing Curved and Flat Self-affine Rough Surfaces and the Topological Reconstruction of Open Surfaces
When two bodies get into contact, only a small portion of the apparent area is actually involved in producing contact and friction forces, because of the surface roughnesses. It is therefore crucial to accurately describe the morphology of rough surfaces for instance by extracting the fractal dimension and the so-called Hurst exponent which is a typical signature of rough surfaces. This can be done using harmonic decomposition, which is easy for periodic and nominally flat surfaces since Fourie…

❯❯ limactl start
? Creating an instance "default" Proceed with the current configuration
INFO[0013] Starting the instance "default" with VM driver "qemu"
INFO[0014] QEMU binary "/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-aarch64" seems properly signed with the "com.apple.security.hypervisor" entitlement
INFO[0014] Attempting to download the image arch=aarch64 digest="sha256:1072e90dd339fd7ba1e82b6c1c3b03183287ca4a6da52c04eaeb0e5653a59bc7" location="https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/23.10/release-20240125/ubuntu-23.10-server-cloudimg-arm64.img"
Downloading the image (ubuntu-23.10-server-cloudimg-arm64.img)
682.69 MiB / 682.69 MiB [-----------------------------------] 100.00% 5.80 MiB/s
INFO[0132] Downloaded the image from "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/23.10/release-20240125/ubuntu-23.10-server-cloudimg-arm64.img"
INFO[0133] Attempting to download the nerdctl archive arch=aarch64 digest="sha256:4bf3e05c7203a1b86c84a506d022f7f4d2727143c8031cd5e4b78ef03f0fdcda" location="https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/releases/download/v1.7.3/nerdctl-full-1.7.3-linux-arm64.tar.gz"
Downloading the nerdctl archive (nerdctl-full-1.7.3-linux-arm64.tar.gz)
208.61 MiB / 208.61 MiB [-----------------------------------] 100.00% 5.36 MiB/s
INFO[0173] Downloaded the nerdctl archive from "https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/releases/download/v1.7.3/nerdctl-full-1.7.3-linux-arm64.tar.gz"
INFO[0176] [hostagent] hostagent socket created at /Users/faucherd/.lima/default/ha.sock
INFO[0177] [hostagent] Using system firmware ("/opt/homebrew/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd")
INFO[0177] [hostagent] Starting QEMU (hint: to watch the boot progress, see "/Users/faucherd/.lima/default/serial*.log")
INFO[0177] SSH Local Port: 60022
INFO[0177] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 4: "ssh"
INFO[0194] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 4: "ssh"
INFO[0194] [hostagent] The essential requirement 1 of 4 is satisfied
INFO[0194] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 2 of 4: "user session is ready for ssh"
INFO[0194] [hostagent] The essential requirement 2 of 4 is satisfied
INFO[0194] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 3 of 4: "sshfs binary to be installed"
INFO[0216] [hostagent] The essential requirement 3 of 4 is satisfied
INFO[0216] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 4 of 4: "/etc/fuse.conf (/etc/fuse3.conf) to contain \"user_allow_other\""
INFO[0219] [hostagent] The essential requirement 4 of 4 is satisfied
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Mounting "/Users/faucherd" on "/Users/faucherd"
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Mounting "/tmp/lima" on "/tmp/lima"
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Waiting for the optional requirement 1 of 2: "systemd must be available"
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Forwarding "/run/lima-guestagent.sock" (guest) to "/Users/faucherd/.lima/default/ga.sock" (host)
INFO[0219] [hostagent] The optional requirement 1 of 2 is satisfied
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Waiting for the optional requirement 2 of 2: "containerd binaries to be installed"
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Guest agent is running
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Not forwarding TCP 127.0.0.53:53
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Not forwarding TCP 127.0.0.54:53
INFO[0219] [hostagent] Not forwarding TCP [::]:22
INFO[0222] [hostagent] The optional requirement 2 of 2 is satisfied
INFO[0222] [hostagent] Waiting for the guest agent to be running
INFO[0222] [hostagent] Waiting for the final requirement 1 of 1: "boot scripts must have finished"
INFO[0235] [hostagent] The final requirement 1 of 1 is satisfied
INFO[0235] READY. Run `lima` to open the shell.
❯❯ lima
faucherd@lima-default:~$ pwd
/home/faucherd.linux
faucherd@lima-default:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=23.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=mantic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 23.10"

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Scientific Evidence:
Numerous studies have highlighted the diverse health benefits of EPA. For instance, a landmark study published in the "Journal of the American College of Cardiology" (2019) demonstrated the cardioprotective effects of EPA supplementation, showcasing its ability to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events and improve heart health. #HeartHealth #CardiovascularHealth

Distribution Estimation under the Infinity Norm
Aryeh Kontorovich, Amichai Painsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08422 https://arxiv.org…

Distribution Estimation under the Infinity Norm
We present novel bounds for estimating discrete probability distributions under the $\ell_\infty$ norm. These are nearly optimal in various precise senses, including a kind of instance-optimality. Our data-dependent convergence guarantees for the maximum likelihood estimator significantly improve upon the currently known results. A variety of techniques are utilized and innovated upon, including Chernoff-type inequalities and empirical Bernstein bounds. We illustrate our results in synthetic an…

@… Howdy, honoured sysop! Is there any technical limitation imposed from your end that would limit my ability to post with a Mastodon.py-based bot on this instance using API creds generated from the Developer UI here? (I'm not actually intending to Run A Bot on this server, but just wanted to test that my code was working with a couple of experimental toots.)<…

Looking at Akkoma a bit.
Install was pretty persnickety, editing nginx config files by hand and having to stop Nginx while fetching ssl certs.
Apparently it needs to recompile at the slightest tweak of the config files? Strange decision.
Not really clear why I have to use pleroma.instance in the middle of the config. Initialy tried changing that to the name of my new test instance but apparently it isn't that. I guess "pleremoa.instance" is some kind of legacy config template from before Akkoma forked? Maybe?
Media-uploads apparently not working without further configuration. Wasn't sure why it insisted I put that in a different domain-name and then never told me how to configure to use that.
Doesn't seem likely this is the easiest activitypub server to manage after all.

Remember to support your instance admins…
For astrodon.social that person is @…, and you can buy him a coffee… or a few cloudless nights 😉
https://www.buymeacoffee.com…

Kwestie van tijd ...
https://www.wattagnet.com/poultry-meat/diseases-health/avian-influenza/article/15666658/us-has-first-instance-of-avian-influenza-in-goats

US has first instance of avian influenza in goats
The affected livestock shared a pasture and pond with backyard poultry that had previously been infected.

"git.mirkodi.eu", my Gitea instance, has finally shut down! It will now redirect to #Codeberg.

Rate-independent continuous inhibitory chemical reaction networks are Turing-universal
Kim Calabrese, David Doty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07099 https://<…

Rate-independent continuous inhibitory chemical reaction networks are Turing-universal
We study the model of continuous chemical reaction networks (CRNs), consisting of reactions such as $A+B \to C+D$ that can transform some continuous, nonnegative real-valued quantity (called a *concentration*) of chemical species $A$ and $B$ into equal concentrations of $C$ and $D$. Such a reaction can occur from any state in which both reactants $A$ and $B$ are present, i.e., have positive concentration. We modify the model to allow *inhibitors*, for instance, reaction $A+B \to^{I} C+D$ can oc…

The gradient's limit of a definable family of functions is aconservative set-valued field
Sholom SchechtmanSAMOVAR
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08272 htt…

The gradient's limit of a definable family of functions is aconservative set-valued field
It is well-known that the convergence of a family of smooth functions does not implythe convergence of its gradients. In this work, we show that if the family is definablein an o-minimal structure (for instance semialgebraic, subanalytic, or any compositionof the previous with exp, log), then the gradient's limit is a conservative set-valued fieldin the sense introduced by Bolte and Pauwels. Immediate implications of this resulton convergence guarantees of smoothing methods are discussed. Final…

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a cryptographic one-way function that can serve as a counterfeit-proof way of certifying the authenticity of valuable objects such as works of art and tracing raw materials and industrial products.
If DNA sequencing becomes easier, it could also become a way to check passwords.
But, "A little more thought has already gone into the idea of using the technology for the forgery-​proof certification of works of art. For instance, if there are ten copies of a picture, the artist can mark them all with the DNA pool – perhaps by mixing the DNA into the paint, spraying it onto the picture or applying it to a specific spot."
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/04/protecting-art-and-passwords-with-biochemistry.html

The idea of the fediverse as an embryonic @…- -ite #infomocracy returns
Here (PB), an instance is even more clearly a proto-centenal

Weird error message from your colima?
errors inspecting instance: [failed to get Info from "/Users/fabian/.colima/_lima/colima/ha.sock"
TL;DR colima stop -f fixed it for me.
https://winkelwagen.de/2024/02/22/coli

Colima: errors inspecting instance: [failed to get Info from „[…]/.colima/_lima/colima/ha.sock“
As you might already recognized a lot of our blogposts look trivial. If not we are very happy you learn! My motivation to write blogposts is to Find an answer when I google it in three months, beca…

Dzisiejsza #PolecajkaMuzyczna: przyjemny #FolkRock z Jaworzna.
Zdrawica — Drogowskaz
"""
Ciągle pytasz mnie,
czy wiem gdzie jest cel.
Sens życia — to spacer
W ciszy, pośród drzew.
"""

So the @… is going to be jumping to another instance as they cannot maintain/fund their own server.
Their Mastodon and PeerTube server will close on May 18th.
I'm sure the EU Commission to spend a few euros for a Masto.host instance, no? (Even if it means to have a single user instance... idk)
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112338626558805977

Correctness of Flow Migration Across Network Function Instances
Ranjan Patowary, Gautam Barua, Radhika Sukapuram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07701 https://<…

Correctness of Flow Migration Across Network Function Instances
Network Functions (NFs) improve the safety and efficiency of networks. Flows traversing NFs may need to be migrated to balance load, conserve energy, etc. When NFs are stateful, the information stored on the NF per flow must be migrated before the flows are migrated, to avoid problems of consistency. We examine what it means to correctly migrate flows from a stateful NF instance. We define the property of Weak-O, where only the state information required for packets to be correctly forwarded is…

Heterogeneous Nucleation and Growth of Sessile Chemically Active Droplets
Noah Ziethen, David Zwicker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08555 https://

Heterogeneous Nucleation and Growth of Sessile Chemically Active Droplets
Droplets are essential for spatially controlling biomolecules in cells. To work properly, cells need to control the emergence and morphology of droplets. On the one hand, driven chemical reactions can affect droplets profoundly. For instance, reactions can control how droplets nucleate and how large they grow. On the other hand, droplets coexist with various organelles and other structures inside cells, which could affect their nucleation and morphology. To understand the interplay of these two…

Beyond Multiple Instance Learning: Full Resolution All-In-Memory End-To-End Pathology Slide Modeling
Gabriele Campanella, Eugene Fluder, Jennifer Zeng, Chad Vanderbilt, Thomas J. Fuchs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04865

Beyond Multiple Instance Learning: Full Resolution All-In-Memory End-To-End Pathology Slide Modeling
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has great potential to improve health outcomes by training systems on vast digitized clinical datasets. Computational Pathology, with its massive amounts of microscopy image data and impact on diagnostics and biomarkers, is at the forefront of this development. Gigapixel pathology slides pose a unique challenge due to their enormous size and are usually divided into tens of thousands of smaller tiles for analysis. This results in a discontinuity in the machine learn…

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://

upgrading a shared architecture
vs upgrading a customer to a solo instance
weird symmetry
platform upgrade:
- new instance, backfill data, cutover, delete old
customer upgrade:
- new instance, backfill, cutover, not deleting shared
customer downgrade:
- no new instance, backfill, cutover, delete solo instance

Fun Maximizing Search, (Non) Instance Optimality, and Video Games for Parrots
J\'er\'emy Barbay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06547 https://

Course there's also no chance at all that I'll be asking users of this instance to upload sensitive ID documents or pay staff to verify they're live on camera.
There is also no chance at all that I will scan ID and upload it and peer into a live-cam to get access to Facebook or Twitter.
I mean I already quit those things anyway.
I wonder what proportion of my friends still using them will do so?
Less than half i reckon.

Rate-independent continuous inhibitory chemical reaction networks are Turing-universal
Kim Calabrese, David Doty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07099 https://<…

Rate-independent continuous inhibitory chemical reaction networks are Turing-universal
We study the model of continuous chemical reaction networks (CRNs), consisting of reactions such as $A+B \to C+D$ that can transform some continuous, nonnegative real-valued quantity (called a *concentration*) of chemical species $A$ and $B$ into equal concentrations of $C$ and $D$. Such a reaction can occur from any state in which both reactants $A$ and $B$ are present, i.e., have positive concentration. We modify the model to allow *inhibitors*, for instance, reaction $A+B \to^{I} C+D$ can oc…

Editing Conceptual Knowledge for Large Language Models
Xiaohan Wang, Shengyu Mao, Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Yunzhi Yao, Yue Shen, Lei Liang, Jinjie Gu, Huajun Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06259

Editing Conceptual Knowledge for Large Language Models
Recently, there has been a growing interest in knowledge editing for Large Language Models (LLMs). Current approaches and evaluations merely explore the instance-level editing, while whether LLMs possess the capability to modify concepts remains unclear. This paper pioneers the investigation of editing conceptual knowledge for LLMs, by constructing a novel benchmark dataset ConceptEdit and establishing a suite of new metrics for evaluation. The experimental results reveal that, although existin…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01764 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Photonic entanglement with accelerated light
Accelerated light has been demonstrated with laser light and diffraction. Within the diffracting field it is possible to identify a portion that carries most of the beam energy, which propagates in a curved trajectory as it would have been accelerated by a gravitational field for instance. Here, we analyze the effects of this kind of acceleration over the entanglement between twin beams produced in spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Our results show that acceleration does not affect entang…

Dear instance admins,
Please set your account sign-ups to manual review. Your instance doesn’t need to grow at any cost.
Remember: Quality, not quantity.
#fediverse #mastodon #spam

Heterogeneous Nucleation and Growth of Sessile Chemically Active Droplets
Noah Ziethen, David Zwicker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08555 https://

Heterogeneous Nucleation and Growth of Sessile Chemically Active Droplets
Droplets are essential for spatially controlling biomolecules in cells. To work properly, cells need to control the emergence and morphology of droplets. On the one hand, driven chemical reactions can affect droplets profoundly. For instance, reactions can control how droplets nucleate and how large they grow. On the other hand, droplets coexist with various organelles and other structures inside cells, which could affect their nucleation and morphology. To understand the interplay of these two…

Het aantal gebruikers dat in Mastodon 'settings -> Public profile -> [tabblad] Privacy and Reach' Het vinkje 'Include public posts in search results' aan zet is schrikbarend laag.
Hoe laag? If I only knew.
Antwoord op een eerdere mastodonvraag, search zoekt in elk geval in alle op jouw instance beschikbare posts. Dat is dus niet het complete fediverse, maar meer dan alleen de eigen instance.

After 11 months of being here, I decided to do a very small reflection.
When I first arrived, I didn't have any expectations or goals I'd like to achieve. Matter of fact, the main reason I left Twitter is because of all the bots that followed me and how I almost never got any real interaction.
Over time, things got a little rocky here and it seemed as though, personally, I wasn't going to be enjoying it any further at that time and contemplating shutting the instance down completely and just "disappearing".
However, several months on from that, I'm VERY glad I didn't. I like it here and I like having my "own little space" where nobody can tell me what I can and cannot discuss nor what I can and cannot see.
Something I've just recently realized though, is how important a good bit of you have become to me, personally and my Fedi experience would be very lacking without some of you here. What I didn't expect, was getting that same sentiment back when I discussed it with those few of you. I really appreciate knowing that for some of you, I have been consistently a "good" addition to your timelines and everyday online life.
Those types of comments and feelings they give me, keep me here and sane on those wilder days. To each and every one of you that have followed me for so long, through all the craziness, slight drama, wild opinions, and more, THANK YOU.
If I hadn't been almost universally accepted with such open arms and returned the same energy I try to put out, then I doubt I would still be here to this day.
I'm 11 months in and I think I'm ready to "give back" to those few folks that I consider friends and am on the cusps of creating something new and hopefully something good for Fedi as a whole.
I'm going to keep it very limited for specific reasons I'll lay out later. But, this is new ground for me and I have to figure some things out and hopefully not make too many missteps and learn some things along the way.
Thank you Fedi. I wouldn't be who I am right now, without you.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01764 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Photonic entanglement with accelerated light
Accelerated light has been demonstrated with laser light and diffraction. Within the diffracting field it is possible to identify a portion that carries most of the beam energy, which propagates in a curved trajectory as it would have been accelerated by a gravitational field for instance. Here, we analyze the effects of this kind of acceleration over the entanglement between twin beams produced in spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Our results show that acceleration does not affect entang…

Don't forget, #AllThingsTech has our own Discord server for those that are looking to hang out and chat outside of Mastodon.
We feel that there are often times that longer, more in-depth conversations are wanted/needed and Discord is a great place to have those conversations.
It's a great place to give us feedback about our server to help make it a better place.…

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08488 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

A PnP Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Pose Estimation
We propose a PnP algorithm for a camera constrained to two-dimensional motion (applicable, for instance, to many wheeled robotics platforms). Leveraging this assumption allows accuracy and performance improvements over 3D PnP algorithms due to the reduction in search space dimensionality. It also reduces the incidence of ambiguous pose estimates (as, in most cases, the spurious solutions fall outside the plane of movement). Our algorithm finds an approximate solution by solving a polynomial sys…

Soooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.

Don't forget, #AllThingsTech has our own Discord server for those that are looking to hang out and chat outside of Mastodon.
We feel that there are often times that longer, more in-depth conversations are wanted/needed and Discord is a great place to have those conversations.
It's a great place to give us feedback about our server to help make it a better place.…

Another #LastWeekInAWS gem: https://ec2.shop/. Does what it says on the tin, with an API. h/t @…

@… I did miscategorize your instance, so there's proof in the sauce right there that I know nothing.🤣🤦‍♂️

@… hope you don't mind me tagging you for Fedi help on Threads. I'm sure you're way more knowledgeable than me with instance suggestions and such.🤷‍♂️

So....I want to migrate from Mastodon to Sharkey. The catch is, I would LIKE to end up back on my current domain....is this possible at all?
I have a domain I could park a Sharkey instance to migrate to, but if I make a new Sharkey instance on my current domain after I shut the Mastodon instance down, will I be able to migrate back with little issue?🤔
#Fediverse

@… do ya'll shut the instance down when you're not using it?
I keep getting errors in Sidekiq related to your instance. Usually the type of errors I'm seeing are related to the instance being down, but I can visit your instance in my browser fine, so it's really strange....