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This looks very cool.
'OpenAIRE in collaboration with Area Science Park organizes a hands-on workshop titled “Where LEGO Meets FAIR Data,” designed to introduce the principles of FAIR data through a creative, interactive simulation using LEGO metaphors.'
https://www.

It's less than 6 months to Xmas, you might as well vote for the Lego Idea
"National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Griswold House"
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/4e51e9fe-f325-4ae6-a835-45cac06da106
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Griswold House | LEGO® Ideas
Are you serious Clark? - It’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year! LEGO is the world’s most iconic toy and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is on…

(From yesterday)
Happy Birthday to #PHP, in Lego form!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmsKDVAvrbw

LEGO is officially doing a Godzilla set- this one's gonna be tough to avoid wanting to grab. I usually don't go for new LEGO (too pricey). But I already have a bit of a zilla collection. And wow, damn.
More: https://www.fangoria.com/official-godzilla-lego-set-d…

An Official GODZILLA LEGO Set Is Coming Our Way
The LEGO Ideas team has confirmed that a fan-created GODZILLA set is becoming an official product that you will soon be able to get your hands on.

Logging in here or the first time in a while to wish @… a very heartily fuck you for inviting a racist to give a keynote at #RailsConf.
What a way to sully your legacy and that of the conference, putting a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
There's a German expression for this—a "Griff ins Klo" (reaching into the toilet and pulling something out).
I hope y'all step on Lego bricks daily.

Nice to see them do Firefly...
'X-Files' and 'Wallace & Gromit' Are Getting Their Own Lego Sets
https://gizmodo.com/lego-x-files-wallace-and-gromit-ideas-sets-price-release-date-2000620172

LEGO-Compiler: Enhancing Neural Compilation Through Translation Composability
Shuoming Zhang, Jiacheng Zhao, Chunwei Xia, Zheng Wang, Yunji Chen, Xiaobing Feng, Huimin Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20356

LEGO-Compiler: Enhancing Neural Compilation Through Translation Composability
Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to revolutionize how we design and implement compilers and code translation tools. However, existing LLMs struggle to handle long and complex programs. We introduce LEGO-Compiler, a novel neural compilation system that leverages LLMs to translate high-level languages into assembly code. Our approach centers on three key innovations: LEGO translation, which decomposes the input program into manageable blocks; breaking down the complex compilation p…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19990 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

LEGO-Puzzles: How Good Are MLLMs at Multi-Step Spatial Reasoning?
Multi-step spatial reasoning entails understanding and reasoning about spatial relationships across multiple sequential steps, which is crucial for tackling complex real-world applications, such as robotic manipulation, autonomous navigation, and automated assembly. To assess how well current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have acquired this fundamental capability, we introduce LEGO-Puzzles, a scalable benchmark designed to evaluate both spatial understanding and sequential reasoning …

⛽ Europe's biggest 'green' methanol plant opens in Denmark
#energy

Europe's biggest 'green' methanol plant opens in Denmark
Europe's largest "green" methanol plant opened in Denmark on Tuesday, boosting the continent's emissions reduction efforts—with customers ranging from shipping giant Maersk to toymaker Lego and pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk.

I was handed a bucket full of lego worm gears https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=4716 a few weeks ago and came up with this model:

@… fair, and same. Building lego also helps

I'm not procrastinating. You are procrastinating!

ever wanted to play lego island in your browser? well now you can (for some reason) https://isle.pizza/

LEGO® Island - Online Web Port
Play the classic 1997 PC game LEGO® Island directly in your web browser!

ever wanted to play lego island in your browser? well now you can (for some reason) https://isle.pizza/

LEGO® Island - Online Web Port
Play the classic 1997 PC game LEGO® Island directly in your web browser!

Please share this link about the EIGHT (STEM / coding / design / engineering summer camps Shelly Fryer and I are teaching in June and July 2025 through "Summer at Providence Day School!"
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/summer-2025

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Summer 2025
Students: Come have FUN this summer and develop your STEM / coding / design skills with Dr. Fryer and Mrs. Fryer at "Summer Day School at Providence Day School!" All week-long classes are open to BOTH current PDS students and students attending other schools! Direct links to register for each camp

Only late in the development cycle did NASA realize they could use giant cats to transport the shuttle instead of a 747

#Iceland is reminding me, heavily, of _Everything is Awesome_ from The Lego Movie.
#Eurovision

recap from my weekend distro hopping (that was severely limited by the good weather):
- tried Hyprland: cool but I still don't care about tiling window managers; terminals have tabs, emacs is its own window manager, the rest can be full screen or half screen.
- cool to learn about "new" things like Universal Kernel Image, a bit about UEFI, etc.
- I don't like the LEGO approach to build a Desktop; I care about this as much as 10 years ago: 0

Imagine waiting 15 years for your first podium and then getting a Trophy made out of Lego...
#BritishGP #F1 #Hülkenberg #Hulk

@… @… Cool! Is there an item list file we can import into lego.com or bricklink?

The Upward-Driven Disk, a Steadily Forced Chaotic Pendulum
Leo Maas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17957…

The Upward-Driven Disk, a Steadily Forced Chaotic Pendulum
An "upward-driven disk" is a novel mechanical device built from LEGO parts. A circular disk is suspended from the point where it is sandwiched between two wheels, making it free to oscillate as a pendulum, but the location of that suspension point on the disk changes with time due to a steady upward driving force applied by rotation of one of the wheels. The pendulum can dynamically flip between hanging downward and being inverted. Depending on the upward drive and the initial conditions, the d…