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On the subject of joys and problems of fieldwork, flight to Antarctica delayed by 24 hours.
At least I'll be able to clear my inbox I suppose ..
#iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:  
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

“Bees can learn a surprising amount of information from observing peers, including which flowers to visit, but also how to solve complex object-manipulation tasks. Accordingly, many complex social behaviors are much more driven by individual problem solving than by a diffuse swarm intelligence, as was traditionally thought.”
- Lars Chittka, ‘The Mind of a Bee’

How testing made vibe coding work for me
Creating complex logic for standing tiebreakers in web app
https://www.jovian34.com/j34/blog/26/
Every year I add features to apps.iubase.com before the start of college baseball season in mid-February. This off-season has been particularly bold as…

The Summerhall complex has been such a focus for linking art and science in #Edinburgh, usually on a shoestring budget, but many thanks due to Robert McDowell et al. since 2011.
Now disaggregation seems to be underway for the collections that were hosted there, like the Artiscience Library and the Demarco archive ... HT @…
At least the brewery and the distillery are keeping up traditional science practices 😉, like the only bar with gin on tap.
➡️ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/15/a-cultural-evacuation-the-demarco-archive-leaves-scotland/

The first and only serious alternative to the #iOS App Store #Setapp is already pulling out of Apple's mobile platforms again. This seems exactly what #Apple was aiming for wi…

Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…

CENTENNIAL ROAR

Git gurus: suppose I have a complex repository structure containing multiple levels of submodules.
We get frequent support tickets on github from users who failed to update one or more submodules when pulling the latest changes from the parent repo and get build issues or just don't incorporate the bug fix they're trying to test.
Is there a good way to fix/detect this in the build system? Like recursively follow .gitmodules and complain if the commit the parent wants isn&…

Viewfinder: completed!
World four turned out to be quite long and complex, and the overall tone of the game turned much darker. Many of the level foundations became purple and grey, which could not be destroyed by laying photographs or photographed themselves. What seemed to be a restriction actually quickly became another puzzle, where (for example) a photo of a battery inside a purple cage could be placed as just the battery.

La última del “genio”: debemos dejar de hablar y comunicarnos con lenguaje humano (para que el tenga un wireshark ubicuo, claro).
De malo de peli serie B.
https://x.com/r0ck3t23/status/2022549367161331783?s=20

Recall the case of Indiana University Bloomington computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang who was abruptly terminated from the university along with this wife, and had his two homes searched by the FBI. The case is ongoing.
He is a co-author of a recently submitted report dated January 23, 2026 entitled "Trojans in Artificial Intelligence", for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the depa…

Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) Final Report
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the TrojAI program to confront an emerging vulnerability in modern artificial intelligence: the threat of AI Trojans. These AI trojans are malicious, hidden backdoors intentionally embedded within an AI model that can cause a system to fail in unexpected ways, or allow a malicious actor to hijack the AI model at will. This multi-year initiative helped to map out the complex nature of the threat, pioneered foundational detecti…

I was fed up with Matrix and tried coming up with my own federated chat protocol. It got really complex really quickly.
In order to resist enshittification it needs to be decentralised. It can't be P2P because that would drain phone batteries. It must be federated. But that means that your admin could read your messages. So it must be federated and encrypted. And that's where it starts to get real tricky.

We've updated the What Uses More app to reflect last week's finding by Luccioni and Gamazaychikov that "reasoning" mode increases energy and water usage by 30x. The study casts doubt on the improved efficiency AI companies are claiming for newer models
https://www.

Spectral evidence for magmatic differentiation within a martian plumbing system: #Mars’ “Young” Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2026/GSA News Release 26-08.aspx

I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

I'm no fan of the the U.S. prison industrial complex or its justice system, but I can't help but think how much better the world would be now if they'd just locked Tim Allen away for life all those years ago

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

Had a fun time talking about my tiny CM system at @…. Lots of good questions and discussion.
It’s pretty well baked now, as ever more to do but keen to find more users for feedback and discussion.
Check out its revamped website:

@… hi Elena! I'm digging deeper into self hosting (I've been doing that for more than 15 years on simple sites, image hosting, and some tools at a web server), but, I'm thinking of using more complex apps. The point, on why I'm writing to you 😃 aren't you afraid of the security side? Thousands of sites are being hacked daily, aren't you afra…

The #WordPress List View isn’t very useful by default with complex blocks. This experiment defaults to expanding 20 items more evenly across block levels, with options to change that number.

Fascist paramilitary invaders break glass to enter apartment complex (Minneapolis, MN - date unknown)
Source:
#politics

Maybe in 2026 we can start to agree that "a complex algorithm selects content" is an editorial stance and platforms should be responsible to a certain degree.

I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected.
This “connected cluster axiom” is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods.
https://skewed.de/lab/posts/connected-

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Serial entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on early-stage building in neurotech https://www.neurofounders.co/post/serial-entrepreneur-hamed-bahmani-on-early-stage-building-in-neurotech

Serial Entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on Early-Stage Building in Neurotech
Few people dare to start a company, and even fewer attempt it in a technically complex field like neurotechnology. Yet Dr Hamed Bahmani has now done it three times. After launching a clinical-stage company focused on myopia and another targeting Alzheimer’s through the visual system, he is doubling down on complexity. His latest venture has just emerged out of stealth, but early hints suggest it draws on decades spent at the forefront of neuro-innovation.Born in Iran, Bahmani studied engineer…

From Chatbot to Checkout: Who Pays When Transactional Agents Play?
https://fpf.org/blog/from-chatbot-to-checkout-who-pays-when-transactional-agents-play/
@…

There's actually a lot we don't talk about related to cars and the military industrial complex. My point that internal combustion engines align the citizens and the military (by forcing citizens to rely on the critical resource at the center or the military industrial complex) remains evergreen. But people also generally don't realize that the manufacturing infrastructure of cars is fungible, and can be shifted to aircraft and tanks when needed.
Car manufacturing capabilities are intimately related to militarism in a way that bicycles aren't. That's also worth thinking about.

Eli Manning got omitted from Pro Football Hall of Fame again: Inside the most complex HOF case ever

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-eli-manning-snubbed-hall-of-fame-again/

QB Stock Market Week 12: Does Sam Darnold Have a Big-Game Complex? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-12-does-sam-darnold-have-big-game-complex

Migrating a large accretion of complex blog post content between platforms is a draining & thoroughly demoralising experience. It turns out that we, as web developers, are capable of creating byzantine platforms which give diligent blog writers the ability to create hours and hours of unrewarding work that is so cryptically & diversely broken that no script can be written to make sense of the mess.
Enjoy your holidays if you're in a cultural context where that sort of thin…

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

The news is a lot more surreal if you choose to read "the Pentagon" as being some dimension-straddling eldritch entity that casts a pentagonal shadow into our realm rather than a boring metonym for the intelligence-military complex

#pywikibot looks very useful and can definitely mitigiate some pain one might have interacting with the mediawiki api. But wow, it appears almost as complex and the docs are equally labyrinthine 🤯
#mediawiki

There is nothing as cursed as gradual text rendering with complex formatting. It makes me want to eat a plateful of hornets

#CensorshipIndustrialComplex
If you know any European legislators or govt. officials, check in with them and make sure they are aware of this. https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a…

Nostrshire panel talking about Adam Curry's podcast2.0 , more tags in your podcast rss for payments, in the hope it can fund producers. Did you know besos takes 75 percent of all Audible money? Actors and writers sharing scraps from Amazon's table.
Hot news is that keysend tags are out of fashion and the bolt11 lnurl invoices are taking over.
Podcast platforms can be bridged through nostr to enable cross platform comments and discovery but making users create key pairs is to complex the fountainfm guy reckons. Wants to hide and shatter l abstract away that complexity.
#nostr #nostrshire #podcasting2.0

I've been playing a few of those Lego games (Lego Star Wars etc.) with my little one. It's fun though navigating 3D space while handling the camera is a lot for him (it _is_ not easy).
Sometimes I try to tell him where to go when he gets lost but it's really challenging to stay patient at times (because it's hard for him to translate the words into the complex actions necessary and because I don't want to do things for him while he's trying things). But it's…

🎬 Rich actions with confirmation dialogs, onSuccess & onError callbacks
👁️ Conditional visibility based on data, auth, or complex logic
📦 Two packages: @.json-render/core (types, schemas) @.json-render/react (renderer, hooks)
🔧 Schema definition with #Zod for type-safe component props
📤 Export as standalone

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

If you are an anti-fascist, you are against petroleum. Petroleum funds fascism globally. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex driving global imperialism, from both the US and Russia. Motonormitivity is fascist, both in it's elitist roots and in it's ties to historical fascism (Hitler hated bikes, just on principle). Oil is militarism.
Oil is the dominant resource which drives war, both in terms of it being the primary spoil wars are fought over and in terms of fueling the military vehicles and weapons that carry out those wars. Practically every war since (and including) WWII has been over oil. Genocides are carried out to secure oil. Gaza is over oil, in more ways than one.
Oil is the absolute enemy, and AI is simply an extension of that: an attempt to atomize us so we can't resist the oil-centric global order, one last grasp at the control over our lives oil has given to those whose power is now threatened by a solar punk future.
"I haven't written for a few weeks now. As I write the closing chapter and begin rewriting previous sections, everything feels both more distant and more immediate. The working title [Kairos] has only continued to feel more and more resonant, both during the writing and during my pause."
Now is the time to resist by making something different, by creating a world fundamentally opposed to these systems of oppression.
This is the last in my Kairos series. From here on out I'll be editing to try and make it more of a book than a series of posts. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. All editing is welcome (typos, spell checks, questions and challenges). Between ADHD and dyslexia, it's always hard for my brain to notice mistakes in my own text so I always appreciate the support of those who can.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/kairos

Tons of updates to my CM tool:
* An agent for continuous management with fast-monitoring features
* JSON Schemas for editors
* Manifests and Hiera now support HTTP(s)
* ccm extendible with appbuilder for custom UIs around manifests (no code needed)
* Pre-, Post-messages to help users use things they installed
* Generic if / unless on every resource
* New docs
Focus is to excel at adhoc, snow flakes, devel VMs, a la carte CM etc, place where other too…

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

Inter-detector differential fuzz testing for tamper detection in gamma spectrometers
Pei Yao Li, Jayson R. Vavrek, Sean Peisert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00336 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00336 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00336
arXiv:2602.00336v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We extend physical differential fuzz testing as an anti-tamper method for radiation detectors [Vavrek et al., Science and Global Security 2025] to comparisons across multiple detector units. The method was previously introduced as a tamper detection method for authenticating a single radiation detector in nuclear safeguards and treaty verification scenarios, and works by randomly sampling detector configuration parameters to produce a sequence of spectra that form a baseline signature of an untampered system. At a later date, after potential tampering, the same random sequence of parameters is used to generate another series of spectra that can be compared against the baseline. Anomalies in the series of comparisons indicate changes in detector behavior, which may be due to tampering. One limitation of this original method is that once the detector has `gone downrange' and may have been tampered with, the original baseline is fixed, and a new trusted baseline can never be established if tests at new parameters are required. In this work, we extend our anti-tamper fuzz testing concept to multiple detector units, such that the downrange detector can be compared against a trusted or `golden copy' detector, even despite normal inter-detector manufacturing variations. We show using three NaI detectors that this inter-detector differential fuzz testing can detect a representative attack, even when the tested and golden copy detectors are from different manufacturers and have different performances. Here, detecting tampering requires visualizing the comparison metric vs. the parameter values and not just the sample number; moreover this baseline is non-linear and may require anomaly detection methods more complex than a simple threshold. Overall, this extension to multiple detectors improves prospects for operationalizing the technique in real-world treaty verification and safeguards contexts.
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I’ve been using Telex to build #WordPress plugins right in the browser, and it makes the whole process surprisingly simple.
https://josvelasco.com/simplifying-wor

There is a massive focus on trying to get Open Source software to the point where governments or big corporations can use them to "increase sovereignty" (which sometimes means a bit of a weird mix of things).
But that can lead to software being pushed towards more and more complex architectures and deployment strategies (think something like a simple collaborative editor needing Kubernetes to be deployable). While governments and certain companies might be able to shoulder tha…

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Experimental insights into data augmentation techniques for deep learning-based multimode fiber imaging: limitations and success
Jawaria Maqbool, M. Imran Cheema
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19072 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19072 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19072
arXiv:2511.19072v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimode fiber~(MMF) imaging using deep learning has high potential to produce compact, minimally invasive endoscopic systems. Nevertheless, it relies on large, diverse real-world medical data, whose availability is limited by privacy concerns and practical challenges. Although data augmentation has been extensively studied in various other deep learning tasks, it has not been systematically explored for MMF imaging. This work provides the first in-depth experimental and computational study on the efficacy and limitations of augmentation techniques in this field. We demonstrate that standard image transformations and conditional generative adversarial-based synthetic speckle generation fail to improve, or even deteriorate, reconstruction quality, as they neglect the complex modal interference and dispersion that results in speckle formation. To address this, we introduce a physical data augmentation method in which only organ images are digitally transformed, while their corresponding speckles are experimentally acquired via fiber. This approach preserves the physics of light-fiber interaction and enhances the reconstruction structural similarity index measure~(SSIM) by up to 17\%, forming a viable system for reliable MMF imaging under limited data conditions.
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PAColorHolo: A Perceptually-Aware Color Management Framework for Holographic Displays
Chun Chen, Minseok Chae, Seung-Woo Nam, Myeong-Ho Choi, Minseong Kim, Eunbi Lee, Yoonchan Jeong, Jae-Hyeung Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14766 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14766 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.14766
arXiv:2601.14766v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Holographic displays offer significant potential for augmented and virtual reality applications by reconstructing wavefronts that enable continuous depth cues and natural parallax without vergence-accommodation conflict. However, despite advances in pixel-level image quality, current systems struggle to achieve perceptually accurate color reproduction--an essential component of visual realism. These challenges arise from complex system-level distortions caused by coherent laser illumination, spatial light modulator imperfections, chromatic aberrations, and camera-induced color biases. In this work, we propose a perceptually-aware color management framework for holographic displays that jointly addresses input-output color inconsistencies through color space transformation, adaptive illumination control, and neural network-based perceptual modeling of the camera's color response. We validate the effectiveness of our approach through numerical simulations, optical experiments, and a controlled user study. The results demonstrate substantial improvements in perceptual color fidelity, laying the groundwork for perceptually driven holographic rendering in future systems.
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collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Proc3D: Procedural 3D Generation and Parametric Editing of 3D Shapes with Large Language Models
Fadlullah Raji, Stefano Petrangeli, Matheus Gadelha, Yu Shen, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Gang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.12234
arXiv:2601.12234v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating 3D models has traditionally been a complex task requiring specialized expertise. While recent advances in generative AI have sought to automate this process, existing methods produce non-editable representation, such as meshes or point clouds, limiting their adaptability for iterative design. In this paper, we introduce Proc3D, a system designed to generate editable 3D models while enabling real-time modifications. At its core, Proc3D introduces procedural compact graph (PCG), a graph representation of 3D models, that encodes the algorithmic rules and structures necessary for generating the model. This representation exposes key parameters, allowing intuitive manual adjustments via sliders and checkboxes, as well as real-time, automated modifications through natural language prompts using Large Language Models (LLMs). We demonstrate Proc3D's capabilities using two generative approaches: GPT-4o with in-context learning (ICL) and a fine-tuned LLAMA-3 model. Experimental results show that Proc3D outperforms existing methods in editing efficiency, achieving more than 400x speedup over conventional approaches that require full regeneration for each modification. Additionally, Proc3D improves ULIP scores by 28%, a metric that evaluates the alignment between generated 3D models and text prompts. By enabling text-aligned 3D model generation along with precise, real-time parametric edits, Proc3D facilitates highly accurate text-based image editing applications.
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