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🗺️ Building routes with 𝐑 𝐎𝐒𝐑𝐌 on 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐌𝐚𝐩 data and tired of switching to terminal and breaking the workflow?
Just use osrm.backend::osrm_start("your_data_folder")
• No need to pre-install 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 or 𝐨𝐬𝐫𝐦-𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 native app — it’s handled for you on macOS, Windows, and Linux automagically
• No manual graph prep (though you can, see options for advanced users)
📘 Get started:

Finally done creating a bookmarklet that lets me do a series of three clean-up #Wikibase edits on #WikimediaCommons files for this notorious user that uploads thousands of files.
The edits replace a creator=<some value> statement into a known value referring to this user’s

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"Ozone layer recovery shows what global cooperation can achieve"
#OzoneLayer #Emissions

Ozone layer recovery shows what global cooperation can achieve | The Optimist Daily
The UN’s latest ozone bulletin finds steady recovery under the Montreal Protocol, a proof point that science-based policy can repair the planet.

🎈 CO₂ as a raw material: Catalyst system makes climate gas usable for the chemical industry
#chemistry

CO₂ as a raw material: Catalyst system makes climate gas usable for the chemical industry
Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Ruhr University Bochum and Evonik Oxeno have developed a novel catalyst system that enables the use of the climate gas carbon dioxide (CO₂) as a raw material for the chemical industry. This breakthrough allows for the more sustainable production of key products such as fragrances and building blocks for plastics.

GRAD: Generative Retrieval-Aligned Demonstration Sampler for Efficient Few-Shot Reasoning
Oussama Gabouj, Kamel Charaf, Ivan Zakazov, Nicolas Baldwin, Robert West
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01165

GRAD: Generative Retrieval-Aligned Demonstration Sampler for Efficient Few-Shot Reasoning
Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks, but their effectiveness often depends on the quality of the provided context. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enriches prompts with external information, but its reliance on static databases constrains adaptability and can result in irrelevant demonstrations. In this work, we propose a Generative Retrieval-Aligned Demonstrator (GRAD), a dynamic demonstration-based approach where an LLM model is trained to generat…

I just learned that Frank Gehry passed away. 😔
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
One of his buildings that I hope to visit is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 🇪🇸. I looked at the list of buildings he designed and the only o…

Good Morning #Canada
We are firmly launched into October, and it's safe to start thinking about #Halloween. So, a new semi regular series on Canada’s abandoned and spooky towns seems appropriate. Today's town is Barkerville in British Columbia, where wolves howl night and day. OK, maybe not, but there's definitely some stalking of tourists in the once bustling gold rush town. After the Caribou Gold Rush ended and town residents drifted away, Barkerville was designated a historic site, and most of the buildings were preserved. Today, it's one of the largest heritage parks and museums in North America. There are hundreds of people in old timey clothes walking about, but they're not ghosts, just park staff. But the prices are scary.
A good ghost town runner-up would be Ocean Falls, abandoned after the pulp mill closed, but a sinister and mysterious Bitcoin operation still utilizes the old hydroelectric dam.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/barkerville