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I think now we know why this Altra Server won't POST.
Gonna see if a shop down the road will try to straighten the pin for us.
Now for the gripe. The reseller slapped a 128core altra max cpu in this thing as an upgrade. When I log into IPMI it can't talk to the motherboard nor initiate power on... And it says the last known configuration was a 80 core Ampere Altra. So that really makes me think this thing was not tested before shipped. And of course the reseller i…

EVOLVE: Efficient Learned Volume Compression with Variable-Rate Encoding on a Cross-Domain Database
Kaiyuan Tang, Maizhe Yang, Chaoli Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18187 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18187 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18187
arXiv:2607.18187v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale scientific simulations generate volumetric data at rates that far outpace advances in storage and network bandwidth, making effective lossy compression increasingly critical. However, conventional compressors often struggle to preserve fine structural details at high compression ratios (CRs), and implicit neural representations (INRs) require costly per-volume optimization and produce models with fixed CRs. To respond, we present EVOLVE, an autoencoder (AE)-based volume-compression framework that targets high CRs for offline compression, with three key contributions. First, we construct a large-scale cross-domain database of 6,376 volumes from 21 scientific simulations, curated via perceptual hashing to ensure diversity, enabling the optimized model to extract features that generalize across volumes within the covered scientific simulation domains. Second, we reexamine the design space of AE-based compressors and incorporate several macro- and micro-designs into a vanilla AE to develop EVOLVE, which substantially improves the expressive power and compression capability. Third, we develop a learnable gain mechanism with a three-stage training strategy to enable variable-rate encoding, allowing a single model to support continuous CR adjustment at inference time. Experiments on multiple unseen scientific simulation datasets demonstrate that EVOLVE achieves substantially higher CRs than conventional compressors at comparable reconstruction quality, while delivering compression speeds that are orders of magnitude faster than INR-based methods, highlighting its promise as a strong alternative for compressing scientific data. The code, model weights, and results are available on our project page at https://evolve-vis.github.io.
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lately been playing "liked music" on shuffle and thinking, yeah I've heard that enough, time to remove it. just dropped a string of 90s hits
of course I need to add new liked music to keep the warp drive from imploding, so I alternate with yt music's "discover mix", which ~20% of the time finds a cowpath that works for me, and ~40% of the time makes me go, ugh this sucks, back to shuffling likes.
sometimes I try a mix from a liked song, but that doesn&…

Sonnet 115 - CXV
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.
But reckoning Time, whose million'd accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;
Alas! why, fearing of Time'…

from my link log —
A desperate plea for a Free Software alternative to Aspera.
https://www.ccdatalab.org/blog/a-desperate-plea-for-a-free-software-alternative-to-aspera
saved 2019-12-28

I've been remote, fully since 2009 and would like to keep it that way.
#fullremote
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@… Hello, for my #ThePlaylistSuggestion tracks this week on the theme of "skint", I'm unashamedly going back to a couple of 1980s "blue-eyed soul" Top Ten hits.
Of course they're both cover versions so you could also play the originals, but for my money these versions are the best.
#ThePlaylist

Dominic Merten bei Kunst in der Kirche singt über alte weiße Männer 🫶#Uckermark

Angels do not leave the holy altar until the end of time. When people have to abandon a church for any reason, angels come to worship there instead.