Tootfinder

Hš praí uns 10 anos que andamos nisto e ainda ninguém me conseguiu explicar que vantagens tem um ebook reader sobre um comum tablet. Além da maior duração da bateria.
É que tirando isso, tudo o que o ereader faz o tablet também faz, e faz muitas outras coisas que o ereader não faz.

This is probably more down to my own psychology than anything else, but when a podcast or video I regularly consume has sponsored ads that are voiced by the presenter(s) themselves, I have a really bad reaction to it and I'm pretty sure it makes me less likely to investigate the product than if it was an inserted ad.
My instinctive reaction to it is a voice in my head screaming FAKE THIS IS FAKE FAKE DO NOT BELIEVE

Shifting the ISAC Trade-Off with Fluid Antenna Systems
Jiaqi Zou, Hao Xu, Chao Wang, Lvxin Xu, Songlin Sun, Kaitao Meng, Christos Masouros, Kai-Kit Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05715

Shifting the ISAC Trade-Off with Fluid Antenna Systems
As an emerging antenna technology, a fluid antenna system (FAS) enhances spatial diversity to improve both sensing and communication performance by shifting the active antennas among available ports. In this letter, we study the potential of shifting the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) trade- off with FAS. We propose the model for FAS-enabled ISAC and jointly optimize the transmit beamforming and port selection of FAS. In particular, we aim to minimize the transmit power, while sati…

I think I really dislike the term “technical debt”.
Sometimes you definitely need to upgrade things e.g. because of failing hardware or software no one can fix anymore; however if something is working fine and can be reasonably expected to not fail anytime soon, there’s simply no reason to spend time and money to replace it.

Detecting AI fakes is a losing battle.
Instead, we should assume everything is fake unless proven valid, using tools optimized for proving provenance. Anything else is at minimum suspect.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deepfake-detection-…

Deepfake Detection, A Lost Cause
Lately, there’s been a ton of buzz about deepfakes in the news. Honestly, I’m not sure if they are going to destroy democracy and all that, but I am convinced of one thing: trying to detect them is a lost cause.

Sometimes when people do the right thing, it's "too little, too late"
When that comes after they hurt us, we often react from reasonable anger. Anger isn't wrong, and we shouldn't have to hand out cookies
What's missing is explaining that they're missing the other 5 parts of the anatomy of an apology. In particular, they haven't acknowledged the hurt, pain, and other impact they caused, nor done the work to fix past harm.
https://youthrex.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Anatomy-of-An-Apology-Rania-El-Mugammar.pdf

BTW, if I ever find out which one of my Mastodon followers are reporting my actions back to my ex-wife, you should know something.
You better hope I *never* find out who you are. Because if I do, I will hunt you down and beat the ever loving SHIT out of you.And I’ll have a smile on my face as I do it.
If you know anything about me, you know I’m not afraid of going to jail for beating the hell out of someone. Just ask Jay Nelson. 🤬

Advanced Channel Coding Designs for Index-Modulated Fluid Antenna Systems
Elio Faddoul, Ghassan M. Kraidy, Constantinos Psomas, Ioannis Krikidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06839 <…

Advanced Channel Coding Designs for Index-Modulated Fluid Antenna Systems
The concept of fluid antennas (FAs) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance the spectral efficiency of wireless networks, achieved by introducing additional degrees of freedom, including reconfigurability and flexibility. In this paper, we investigate the use of index-modulated (IM) transmissions within the framework of FA systems, where an FA position is activated during each transmission interval. This approach is motivated by the common characteristics exhibited by FAs and IM transmis…

The response of the Moon to gravitational waves
Xiaoming Bi, Jan Harms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05118 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05…

The response of the Moon to gravitational waves
The response of the Moon to gravitational waves (GWs) is used by some of the proposed lunar GW detectors like the Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna (LGWA) to turn the Moon into an antenna for GWs. The deep connection between the lunar internal structure, its geophysical environment and the study of the Universe is intriguing, but given our limited understanding of the Moon today, it also makes it very difficult to predict the science potential of lunar GW detectors accurately. Lunar response mod…

Missing from progressive movements is a thread of understanding how justice and the anatomy of an apology fits into both individual and societal experiences of systemic oppression
Honestly, I think folks are just burned the fuck out and don't have bandwidth for that. I feel ya. But it's still important to bring that back into the picture when we can.
And important to consider the realism that sometimes we just need to give them some fucking cookies as a damned Pavlovian conditioning cycle. Not because we have to, not because we should, but because it fucking works.
Sometimes we have to do things not for our ideals but for our survival.