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"Whatever is going on right now, give yourself something to look forward to. It doesn’t have to be big."
Every Day, Look Forward to a Really Good Sandwich
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/05/happiness-tip-loo…

There’s a Trick That Can Make Every Single Day a Little Better
Look forward to something—no matter how small.

Some good news, it’s 6 months to the election and in our rural-suburban interface area in Arizona there’s not a single Trump flag on any of the hundreds of houses I can see (we’re on a hill).
And yes, I can check because I'm a creeper with access to several telescopes.

Single-Channel Robot Ego-Speech Filtering during Human-Robot Interaction
Yue Li, Koen V Hindriks, Florian Kunneman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02918 https:/…

Single-Channel Robot Ego-Speech Filtering during Human-Robot Interaction
In this paper, we study how well human speech can automatically be filtered when this overlaps with the voice and fan noise of a social robot, Pepper. We ultimately aim for an HRI scenario where the microphone can remain open when the robot is speaking, enabling a more natural turn-taking scheme where the human can interrupt the robot. To respond appropriately, the robot would need to understand what the interlocutor said in the overlapping part of the speech, which can be accomplished by targe…

From Greenpeace
Ahead of the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) meeting for a Global Plastics Treaty that will be held in Ottawa April 23-29, a Greenpeace International report revealed that 73% of respondents in Canada say cutting plastic production is necessary to stop plastic pollution. The poll was conducted across 19 countries and indicates strong public backing for measures aimed at ending single-use plastics and promoting reuse-based solutions.

Testing/debugging the dynamic tessellation feature of the upcoming thi.ng/geom-webgl interop package... This will provide a single polymorphic function to convert https://thi.ng/geom shapes into WebGL binary data & model/attribute specs, with lots of options for memory layout, indexing, instancing and other…

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

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Not A Single Bother
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Not A Single Bother | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Not A Single Bother Host: Aislinn Dowling Category: Comedy Sub-Category: Comedy Interviews & Chats First Episode: 2020 Originally from Kerry and based in Sydney, NASB is hosted by Aislinn and…

Shitposting as code...
"Generic POSIX printf itself can be Turing complete as shown in Control-Flow Bending. Here we take printf-oriented programming one step further and preset a brainfuck interpreter inside a single printf statement."
https://github.com/HexHive/printbf

Defect of irreducible plane curves with simple singularities
Piotr Pokora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03341 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404…

Defect of irreducible plane curves with simple singularities
In this note we focus on the defect of singular plane curve that was recently introduced by Dimca. Roughly speaking, the defect of a reduced plane curve measures the discrepancy from the property of being a free curve. We find some lower-bound on the defect for certain classes of irreducible plane curves admitting nodes, ordinary cusps and ordinary triple points. The main result of the note tells us that reduced simply singular plane curves with sufficiently high Arnold exponents are never free.

Shitposting as code...
"Generic POSIX printf itself can be Turing complete as shown in Control-Flow Bending. Here we take printf-oriented programming one step further and preset a brainfuck interpreter inside a single printf statement."
https://github.com/HexHive/printbf