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Raiders mailbag: Will team sign veteran wide receiver before camp? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-mailbag-will-team-sign-veteran-wide-receiver-before-camp-3379463/

Strongest yet from #JohnMcDonnell
How long will he give it though, flogging this dead horse.
Starmer and co are trashing Labour’s legacy. We must take back control of our party – before it’s too late | John McDonnell | The Guardian

Northern Powerhouse / Northern Way and now Northern Arc.
Not the answer. Needed is a proper constitutional settlement with devolution to coherent English regions, on a model of re-localisation of decisions and economic weight, where practical.
We prefer bioregions as the regional level.
Third time lucky? Andy Burnham makes his pitch, but we've heard it all before - Manchester Evening News

Third time lucky? Andy Burnham makes his pitch, but we've heard it all before
This idea has come back three times for a reason

the first time i needed a lawyer an AI chatbot picked up... it was actually a good one who understood me and used my deranged ramblings of what happened, and basically filed a very complex form for me, right then and there, on the phone. It was a random law firm in cologne my legal insurance automatically forwarded me to. I was impressed, as I had not seen such a technology before, and my hatred towards AI Chatbots mainly stemmed from my experience with chatbots, and my hatred towards AI. Th…

Meta says it has cut US content removal mistakes by half since its January policy changes, without broadly exposing users to more offensive content than before (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-content-moderation-changes-decrease-r…

Meta’s ‘Free Expression’ Push Results In Far Fewer Content Takedowns
Meta says loosening its enforcement policies earlier this year led to fewer erroneous takedowns on Facebook and Instagram—and didn't broadly expose users to more harmful content.

A new best-speller
https://apnews.com/article/scripps-national-spelling-bee-2025-champion-70f6767e4f30a29b52dfc3dfc77eb553

Faizan Zaki wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, was runner-up last year after he lost in a lightning-round tiebreaker. He ousted eight other accomplished spellers to win the title on Thursday night, including two that he let back into the competition after his own careless flub. Told to take a deep breath before his final word, “eclaircissement,” he didn’t ask a single question before spellin…

Portnov reportedly met controversial Zelensky staffer, Ukraine's investigations chief before being killed in Madrid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/portnov-reportedly-met-controversial-zelensky.html

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Carl Ingebretsen, Bryce T. Bolin, Robert Jedicke, Peter Vere\v{s}, Christine H. Chen, Carey M. Lisse, Russet McMillan, Torrie Sutherland, Amanda J. Townsend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23736

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Pre-impact detection asteroids (PIDAs) may be detected only a few hours before their impact with Earth, providing a brief opportunity to characterize them before impact. We describe the characterization of PIDA 2024 RW$_1$, which was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on 2024 September 4 at 05:43 UTC, before it entered the atmosphere near the northern Philippines at 16:39 UTC. We observed 2024 RW$_1$ with the Astrophysical Research Consortium Telescope Imaging Camera on the Apache Point Astr…

Finished the SFP28 carrier board. Still waiting on final design review before I send it out to OSHPark, but it's done-enough that I could export a STEP and pull into the enclosure model.
Placement of all the front panel stuff is pretty definite at this point, the power supply and PDU are likely to move.
Logic board hasn't even started schematic capture yet.
There will probably be at least a couple of fans but I haven't figured out where or how many yet.

The collapse of the volume of cars in London is pretty boggling, but even moreso to me, a person who was in London recently and couldn’t get over how jammed the streets were with cars.
What must it have been like before the reduction?
https://masto.ai/@bovine3dom/114590440884405052

Boundless, which bought crowdfunding publisher Unbound in March, tells authors that royalties accrued before March won't be paid until Boundless is cash stable (The Bookseller)
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound…

Unbound authors will not receive unpaid royalty payments until new publisher Boundless 'is cash stable'
As founder John Mitchinson leaves, Unbound authors learn they will not receive historic royalty payments for sales of their books unless Boundless "survives and thrives".

Portoroz coastline by night. Tomorrow, ESWC 2025 will start with 2 days of workshops & tutorials, before the main conference with the "official" opening on June 3rd. Looking forward to a great conference! :)
https://2025.eswc-conferences.org/about/

@… Indeed, and before everything pivoted to statistics, it looked like it could be equal parts linguistics and engineering. But with the rise of statistics and “language independent” methods, any interest in language rapidly disappeared.

@… Indeed, and before everything pivoted to statistics, it looked like it could be equal parts linguistics and engineering. But with the rise of statistics and “language independent” methods, any interest in language rapidly disappeared.

As a security community we have to make sure that people know about this vulnerability. Right now it's pretty easy to thwart, _don't keep your keys near the front door_. It's a simple countermeasure, but people have to see footage like this to understand. The threat is real and the gear to do this is pretty cheap.
https://www.

Police issue warning after Breckland keyless car theft
Footage shows one thief in a balaclava approaching the house before the car engine starts.

Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters -- by making it harder to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives.
In #Missouri, the 2025 legislative session was dominated by Republican lawmakers trying to reverse two major measures that voters had put on the ballot and approved just months before;
one made

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power to partisan legislatures.

"Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years"
#Climate #ClimateChange

from my link log —
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…

“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

Lovely day in Canberra today - we went for a bit of a suburban amble and a coffee stop this afternoon before the wee one descends upon us again. He was here from Sunday to Wednesday night and he's due back in an hour or so (another unplanned visit). We love him but a 2 year old in the house for days at a time is exhausting for us 60 year olds. 😍😩😍

"The Christian right has its own version of events: Innocent Christian worshippers were mobbed at a city park by anti-Christians and the city endorsed their persecution. But this was not the story they were telling on social media before the protest. In their words, the rally was intended to be a battle in a spiritual war. Against the child “butchers,” the demonic forces, the unholy."
Invading “Antifa-Land” - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/05/30/80080084/invading-antifa-land

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"As Trump flirts dangerously with authoritarianism, Europe needs to save itself. If it can, Europe might also someday play a role in saving the United States."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/europe-trump-nato-russia/6…

@… reminds me of a minitel (french only, internet before the internet computer)

TL;DR: Before the US bullied the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor its office was about to submit international arrest warrants against racist Israeli government members Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
"ICC reportedly weighed arrest warrants for Ben-Gvir, Smotrich before prosecutor's leave"

My #linux box just works. It is a very old HP (before they went full enshittification) that originally had Windows 7. I wiped that out and installed #mxlinux as it was moderately light weight and the live USB stick recognized all the hardware without a problem.
Machine boots up to a wor…

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

DEAF PRESIDENT NOW was excellent and I’m glad it’s already been picked up by Apple so friends will be able to see it before too long #IFFBoston

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21432 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Hume: Introducing System-2 Thinking in Visual-Language-Action Model
Humans practice slow thinking before performing actual actions when handling complex tasks in the physical world. This thinking paradigm, recently, has achieved remarkable advancement in boosting Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve complex tasks in digital domains. However, the potential of slow thinking remains largely unexplored for robotic foundation models interacting with the physical world. In this work, we propose Hume: a dual-system Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model with value-guided…

Raiders Predicted to Swing Trade for $72 Million Star Before Start of Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jalen-ramsey-trade-prediction/?adt_ei=[email]

If your users need an API that returns different fields for different use cases - do you need GraphQL? Read my post before you decide (spoiler: no, REST was literally designed for this) #rest #api

Let's be controversial: In modern #PHP, you should never type-hint an array.
https://peakd.com/php/@crell/php-never-type-hint-on-arrays

I love food, I love sex, I love MUSIC but there's a special thrill about discovering that you love an author's work that you have never read before.
You look at all the books they've written that you're gonna binge and it's like.... mmmmmm... like a whole stack of the sexiest pancakes in your bed.

Really not a fan of this watch. I sort of hate it a bit. I knew I wouldn't like it before I bought it. I actually bought it mainly to check on some things and see how #Skmei is progressing in certain areas. However even with my low expectations it is disappointing.

Speeding up Model Loading with fastsafetensors
Takeshi Yoshimura, Tatsuhiro Chiba, Manish Sethi, Daniel Waddington, Swaminathan Sundararaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23072

Speeding up Model Loading with fastsafetensors
The rapid increases in model parameter sizes introduces new challenges in pre-trained model loading. Currently, machine learning code often deserializes each parameter as a tensor object in host memory before copying it to device memory. We found that this approach underutilized storage throughput and significantly slowed down loading large models with a widely-used model file formats, safetensors. In this work, we present fastsafetensors, a Python library designed to optimize the deserializati…

As a security community we have to make sure that people know about this vulnerability. Right now it's pretty easy to thwart, _don't keep your keys near the front door_. It's a simple countermeasure, but people have to see footage like this to understand. The threat is real and the gear to do this is pretty cheap.
https://www.

Police issue warning after Breckland keyless car theft
Footage shows one thief in a balaclava approaching the house before the car engine starts.

Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…

Unlocking the Future of Energy: How UK Flex Markets Are Reshaping the Grid
With more renewable energy—especially wind and solar—being integrated than ever before, maintaining balance between supply and demand in real time is a growing challenge. That’s where flex markets come in - and everyone from business to consumers is invited to have a seat at the table.

Ruling that the law should be applied is a coup, apparently.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/may/29/donald-trump-tariffs-court-elon-musk-us-politics-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url

Switched my most updated #Django project to #uv this morning. I was using vanilla pip and venv and building #Python from source before.
—That was it? —
Seemed crazy too easy. It all just w…

Trying to come up with something for Furality Somna! Of course, less than a week before it begins :neofox_think_googly:
#3DArt #3DModeling #Art

Random PR of the day https://github.com/pbzweihander/fediday.org/pull/16

Fix carousel scroll on small screens by cheeaun · Pull Request #16 · pbzweihander/fediday.org
Before: The first post is cropped and can't be scrolled to After: The first post appears and scrollable Solution is using safe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/justify-content...

I've seen #POTUS47 use the phrase "tapping me along" a couple of times in the 2 weeks regarding Putin. I've never heard that phrase before, but from context, it sounds like he means "leading me on".
I did a quick web search "tapping me along", and 2 of the top ranked results are web forum posts where people are asking what Turnip means when he says it. Th…

I had to put down and then revisit today’s #Connections a couple times before I finally recognized the purple pattern.
#Connections717
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So far the 9th #Starship flight test is going close to nominal - the SuperHeavy booster was lost a bit early before its planned ditching, the Starship reach its suborbital trajectory without problems.

Waiting for issues (read them :-) to be resolved in 0.2.1 before I curl | sudo sh
https://unix.family/@farrokhi/114584340700417951

Testing my new LLM, "#CrokAI":
Q. Explain why the 9th full test of the Starship was a resounding success.
A. Before we can get to Mars, we must perfect the needed technology by colonizing a target that is closer to us. While some think that the Moon could serve this purpose, the Earth is a much more convenient (if challenging) target. In test #9, Starshit, sorry, Starship managed t…

So it's been an even more hectic afternoon than usual, preparing kit, including 2 new and rather complex instruments we've never used before, for departure tomorrow morning. We managed to get most things ready, but it's been quite the introduction for my colleague Abraham who has never been to Greenland before! But who seems very at home in the snow practicing with the EM which will measure sea ice thickness (we hope). #FieldDiary

#DIAMAS project final ouput before next week's conference:
DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS RECOMMENDATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR INSTITUTIONS, FUNDERS, SPONSORS, DONORS, AND POLICYMAKERS. #DiamondOA
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I feel like I've made this joke before, but...
Sometimes ceci est une pipe.

When it comes to the degradation of our collective critical faculties, I am not sure if naming #socialmedia as the sole cause really explains it. I'd like to read a study exploring the detrimental effect of #realitytv in the decade before the 2010s on this...

"What is different, is that before what were largely fringe anti-Semitic and white supremacist theories floating around the far corners of the Alt-Right, have now become the backbone of the Republican party. 'The Great Replacement,' once a conspiracy pushed by only hardline neo-Nazis and white supremacists, is now being touted by everyone from pharma billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, Swason frozen foods heir and Twitter troll Tucker Carlson, to the billionaire backed Turning Point US…

On different platforms, I see at least one post per day of someone willing to switch to #Linux. While seeing our community growing is nice, my first reaction is always: why didn't you take 3 seconds to read the post just before yours?
I may just become too old and grumpy but, generally speaking, I don't understand people who immediatly ask a question that has been answered thous…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15081 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_…

Can Large Language Models Be Trusted as Evolutionary Optimizers for Network-Structured Combinatorial Problems?
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in language understanding and reasoning across diverse domains. Recently, there has been increasing interests in utilizing LLMs not merely as assistants in optimization tasks, but as active optimizers, particularly for network-structured combinatorial problems. However, before LLMs can be reliably deployed in this role, a fundamental question must be addressed: Can LLMs iteratively manipulate solutions that consistently adhere to p…

Video:
#Hawaii Kilauea #Volcano Eruption 26th March 2025
https://youtube.com/shorts/6KBMlELWxwk …

Random PR of the day https://github.com/pbzweihander/fediday.org/pull/16

Fix carousel scroll on small screens by cheeaun · Pull Request #16 · pbzweihander/fediday.org
Before: The first post is cropped and can't be scrolled to After: The first post appears and scrollable Solution is using safe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/justify-content...

I've seen #POTUS47 use the phrase "tapping me along" a couple of times in the 2 weeks regarding Putin. I've never heard that phrase before, but from context, it sounds like he means "leading me on".
I did a quick web search "tapping me along", and 2 of the top ranked results are web forum posts where people are asking what Turnip means when he says it. Th…

Although it offered excellent arch support, the tree planted in it didn't last more than 20 years before falling over.

Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.

"Capital has been here before with chintz—by which I mean real chintz, an artisanal craft from India. “Chintz” is originally a Hindi word, and if you’re like most people, you’ve probably got the term all wrong."
Informative, sweet, a great read. Re #aislop #ai

Accidental character design (wet spot from where I had placed my umbrella)
#FacesInPlaces

Let's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
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This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM

“Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.” ― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations #quote

Fans were already gathering outside venue as Shakira & #Wyclef Jean concert cancelled in #Boston over #structural issues found at #FenwayPark

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19134 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Hua-Chen New Theory of Economic Optimization
Between 1957-1985, Chinese mathematician Loo-Keng Hua pioneered economic optimization theory through three key contributions: establishing economic stability's fundamental theorem, proving the uniqueness of equilibrium solutions in economic systems, and developing a consumption-integrated model 50 days before his death. Since 1988, Mu-Fa Chen has been working on Hua's theory. He introduced stochastics, namely Markov chains, to economic optimization theory. He updated and developed Hua's model a…

6.14 mainline out on Arch. Compiled and running well. RC series seemed to do just fine with the AMD GPU suspend issues I was encountering before, no lockups upon resuming.
I use a separate USB4 NVMe drive enclosure with Ubuntu for work stuff (keep 'em separate), same result.
I never found the actual commit, so assuming it was done, or something else fixed it 😆
#linux

Insights on structure and influence from the adjacency and Laplacian eigenspectra of intersecting ring networks
Agathe Bouis, Ruaridh A. Clark, Malcolm Macdonald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21294

Insights on structure and influence from the adjacency and Laplacian eigenspectra of intersecting ring networks
Synchronisation is a pervasive phenomenon of emerging collective behaviour observed to develop spontaneously across both natural and engineered systems. The process and patterns of synchronisation are highly influenced by initial conditions and network topology. Synchronisation follows a network's hierarchal structure; developing first at a local level before conglomeration of local clusters typically drives synchronisation at a global scale. The structure and influence of global and local feat…

If Western leftists really “treat all warmongering nations equally”, why haven't I heard of russian, belarusian, Iranian, Chinese, Ethiopian, Sudanese, Myanmar, Indian diplomats being assassinated downtown?
Yes, the assassin shouted “#FreePalestine”.

DECA: A Near-Core LLM Decompression Accelerator Supporting Out-of-Order Invocation
Gerasimos Gerogiannis (Intel Corporation,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Stijn Eyerman (Intel Corporation), Evangelos Georganas (Intel Labs), Wim Heirman (Intel Corporation), Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
https://

DECA: A Near-Core LLM Decompression Accelerator Supporting Out-of-Order Invocation
To alleviate the memory bandwidth bottleneck in Large Language Model (LLM) inference workloads, weight matrices are stored in memory in quantized and sparsified formats. Hence, before tiles of these matrices can be processed by in-core generalized matrix multiplication (GeMM) hardware engines, they need to be dequantized and de-sparsified. This is currently performed in software with vector operations. Unfortunately, this approach delivers only modest performance. Moreover, it is hard to unders…

A lot to celebrate in the lab at the end of the school year — students at commencement, and a campus award for our paper presenting a reconstruction of Joshua tree flowering activity since the early 20th century
https://lab.jbyoder.org/2025/05/22/com

#WrestleMania 42 is no longer in New Orleans. Rumours are that it is moving to Las Vegas.
It has been announced tonight that Money in the Bank #MITB will be held in New Orleans on August 29th 2026.
This will place the event after SummerSlam where it traditionally is held before it.
#wwe

Be sure to vote our Election Night Edition this upcoming Monday, as the polls close at 9:30 PM. Then, come for the pizza and stay for the tech discussions. We don’t know if the venue (Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W.) will turn on the TVs for election results. We usually adjourn before that time, anyway. The festivities start at 6 PM!
Got a hardware demo? Cool! Those are the best! The more you believe in free and open software and hardware in service of a free and open society, the more …

Just before the show!

Trees Can Warn Us When Volcanos Are Ready to Erupt–and NASA Satellites Can Read Their Signals https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/trees-can-warn-us-when-volcanos-are-ready-to-erupt-and-nasa-satellites-can-read-th…

Trees Can Warn Us When Volcanos Are Ready to Erupt–and NASA Satellites Can Read Their Signals
Before a volcano erupts, rising magma squeezes out emissions of carbon dioxide visible from space, but trees might be a better hint.

This magpie is pictured here just before a daring raid on a slice of cake inside a little shipping container cafe.

Ugh, I almost folded before solving today’s #Connections. I got purple just because it was the only hand I had left to play.
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More Jams and Experiments
I got tired of creating basslines that didn't fit with the chords I had in mind, so this time I played the synth part before the bass. It's just an Am-G vamp. The guitar is my Epiphone ES-175 Premium. They only made these in 2014, but of course the original Gibson ES-175's date from 1957, I think. The synth is Yoshimi, an old synth that works in Linux.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15081 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_…

Can Large Language Models Be Trusted as Evolutionary Optimizers for Network-Structured Combinatorial Problems?
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in language understanding and reasoning across diverse domains. Recently, there has been increasing interests in utilizing LLMs not merely as assistants in optimization tasks, but as active optimizers, particularly for network-structured combinatorial problems. However, before LLMs can be reliably deployed in this role, a fundamental question must be addressed: Can LLMs iteratively manipulate solutions that consistently adhere to p…

Germany in a nutshell:
There is no law that regulates how old tires on a normal car can be before they have to be replaced. Meaning: You can drive 300km/h on the Autobahn with 12 year old tires as long as they have enough profile.
BUT: If you have a trailer which is licensed to be towed with up to 100km/h you have to change tires every 6 years, else you are only allowed to tow it with 80km/h

@…
"… I had already ran a script that 'over organized' my project files and made it too complicated for me to access simple files, so I asked ChatGPT
"Can you write me a script that will retrace our steps to how it was organized on my desktop before we ran the last script? Rather than have over organized session folders like they …

Wer jetzt „geile Sache“ denkt, vergisst, dass andere Bots auch radikalisieren können.
Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them https://www.404media.co/student-makes-tool

Feds: Just change your State's whole way of doing things and make your ID's "Real ID". That way we can be sure they aren't fake.
Also Feds: This "Real ID" looks fake, we're deporting you!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-ci…

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed in Alabama immigration raid and held before release
A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday.

Comparative analysis of financial data differentiation techniques using LSTM neural network
Dominik Stempie\'n, Janusz Gajda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19243

Comparative analysis of financial data differentiation techniques using LSTM neural network
We compare traditional approach of computing logarithmic returns with the fractional differencing method and its tempered extension as methods of data preparation before their usage in advanced machine learning models. Differencing parameters are estimated using multiple techniques. The empirical investigation is conducted on data from four major stock indices covering the most recent 10-year period. The set of explanatory variables is additionally extended with technical indicators. The effect…

I left ESC right before the final points, afraid of how the mood in the hall might change. A shouting match between Israel and Austria supporters had already started.
I think the right singer won.
#esc2025 #eurovision2025

“Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.” ― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations #quote

I wish I knew how to read Linear A (writing system used in Ancient Greece, before the Greek language). I feel that this Linear A writer may have been trying to invent the spreadsheet.
https://mastodon.social/@lineara/114536979045278956

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
From: @…

This is the first time it ever happened. Just browsing around GitHub I exceeded a "secondary rate limit".

TIL in 2017 the UK Payments Administration renamed themselves "Pay.UK" but have not obtained the domain registration for pay.uk
(This isn't a "forgot to register" situation - open .uk registration between 2014 and 2019 was reserved for equivalent co.uk holders. The domain was registered by the holder two weeks before it would have been available.)

Reminder to people who drive motor vehicles on streets in the city. Street driving is generally allowed, except where signs give notice it is prohibited. But it must be done with due caution and reasonable speed, and the motorist must yield to all other traffic, including pedestrians, cyclists, and trams, and must give an audible signal before overtaking and passing. Learn more in our 90-second training seminar, "DRIVING ON STREETS, Being A Polite Guest".
#BikeTooter #FootTooter

"On Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at precisely 20:14:19 UTC, just a mere three minutes before touchdown, the voice of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. confirmed the “Go for landing” order received from Mission Control together with a phrase nobody wanted to hear at that moment: “Program alarm – 1201.”"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/margaret-hamilton/

Also just a warning: If you use this post as a chance to criticize Go because of some opinion about its technical shortcomings, I've heard it all before and have no desire to hear more. I will simply block you.

Early in my career my CIO, although not the title at the time, asked "Why would anyone want to connect two LANs together?" He also said "All computers will cost around $100 in about a year and you'll be able to get them at a grocery store."
His deputy report would say it is impossible to conduct commerce over HTTP.
These were relics of the mainframe world, and made these statements before the Internet went commercial. I knew they were absurd and wrong, and…

Curious about CGMs? Check this short about them and theb check her full video!
https://youtube.com/shorts/SDlWi0ppNU4?si=MXW7VLhZudCage82

For this week my playlist is more varied, starting with some Power and Gothic Metal for tonight. 🎶
Then a bit of Progressive, Traditional Heavy Metal/Hard Rock, Symphonic Metal, more Gothic and speedy Power Metal for the weekend. 🤘
YT Music: https://music.youtube.…

Hello there.
I, or maybe we, intend this to serve both as a diary and a reference.
We are a jack of many trades. As such, it is hard to squeeze into 1.5k symbols, and it is by no means comprehensive. Still, sometimes labels are helpful.
Here is about IT, interconnections between technologies (Fullstack, Data Science... sometimes even AI and ethics of it). Politics, because our life is inevitably tied to it (especially with

Continuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b
Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Yann Carteret, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Jared Splinter, Dhvani Doshi, Michael Radica, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Romain Allart, Vincent Bourrier, Nicolas B. Cowan, David Lafreni\`ere, Lo\"ic Albert, Lisa Dang, Ray Jayawardhana, Doug Johnstone, Lisa Kaltenegger, Adam B. Langeveld, Stefan Pelletier, Jason F. Rowe, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Jake Taylor, Jake D. Turner

Continuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b
The detection of helium escaping the atmosphere of exoplanets has revolutionized our understanding of atmospheric escape and exoplanetary evolution. Using high-precision spectroscopic observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRISS-SOSS mode, we report the detection of significant helium absorption during the pre-transit phase of WASP-107b (17$σ$), as well as in the transit and post-transit phases. This unique continuous helium absorption begins approximately 1.5 hours before th…

Today’s #Strands puzzle takes kind of a novel approach — I’m not sure I’ve seen it use this particular construction style before.
#Strands450
“A strange new world”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵

*IT* was already delivered today. 5 days before FedEx ETA and just on time to illuminate my week-end :)

“I, Harry the Hake, do solemnly declare that I will live and die British. I would rather be left to rot on the jetty than be fed to some Frenchie or Kraut. God save the queen. Sorry, king.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Foundational rule of settings management in UI design:
Make sure the only thing anyone ever wants to change is in the Advanced Settings submenu, and make that as difficult as possible to discover. If it can actually be discovered, put in place a short timeout to prevent the user making the change before the option disappears.